About

Hi, I’m Tim Abell (one of many, but not the actor or the other software dev).

I build software.
I like helping our government do better digital things.
I like building things in smart, agile teams who don’t take any shit and get things done.
I also like working solo.
I created SQL Schema Explorer and ef-enum-to-lookup nuget package.
I’m learning to be an entrepreneur.

More stuff in my world

Books I’ve been reading (goodreads)
I love podcasts and audiobooks, here’s my pocast subcriptions.
Random public code and forks on github
Even more random gists
If we’re besties you can find me on telegram or Signal but definitely not WhatsApp because facebook has enough data already.

I occasionally speak at events.

Some of the speaking/teaching I’ve done:

22 Feb 2017 -Internal “brown bag” lunchtime teaching session on git for Solidsoft (~35 attendees) - educating the team on git usage
22 Jan 2020 eSynergy tech event - Digital Delivery at Department for Education (~60 attendees)
5 Feb 2025 - OpenUK Conference, Panel discussion on Rust memory safety (published on youtube)
24 Feb 2024 dotnet reading - outside-in testing (last minute stand-in for unavailable speaker so not listed on meetup) (~40 attendees)
17 June 2025 - dotnet oxford lightening talk - Rust intro for C# devs

As well has hosting my own show(s), I’ve appeared on a couple of others: