Hi, I’m Tudor

I’m a software engineer and engineering manager based in the Cambridge, UK. You can read my CV to find out about my career.

Hobbies

Here are the things outside work that take up my life, in no particular order:

• Singing
• Playing guitar
• Dancing
• Pub
• Reading
• Discussing ideas
• Writing
• Art galleries / museums
• Opera
• Movies
• Photography
• Running
• Badminton
• Skiing
• Walking
• TV

Taste

People often say “I like movies”, “I like books”, “I like music” and so forth. But who doesn’t, right? I mean, have you met a human being yet who ever declared their hatred of music? That’s not even a thing.

What matters isn’t that you like music, but the music you like. So here’s a sample of my taste:

• Wagner
• Verdi
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Pixinginhua
• Beethoven
• Louis Armstrong
• Django Reinhardt
• Tom Waits
• Prince
• Jimi Hendrix
• Cream
• Tuba Skinny
• Fats Waller

And for books:

• War and Peace
• Moby-Dick
• Anything by Geoff Dyer
• Anything by John Le Carre
• Siddhartha
• Great Expectations
• Les Miserables
• DUUUNE! (all six Frank Herbert books)
• The Lord of the Rings
• Candide
• Perfume

Also a healthy diet of non-fiction, but it’s often work related…

And for movies:

• The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
• Apocalypse Now
• Body Double
• Face/Off
• It’s A Wonderful Life
• Mulholland Drive
• Withnail & I
• Blazing Saddles
• Airplane
• Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
• Election
• The Ballad Of Wallace Island

And for TV:

• Peep Show
• Twin Peaks
• Battlestar Galactica
• Alan Partridge
• Frasier
• The Simpsons
• American Horror Story (the older series only)