I’m a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft – which basically means I spend my time helping students and young people do amazing things with technology.

My time gets spent making sure people have the software & tools they need, supporting events and hack-a-thons, offering advice and opportunities to young entrepreneurs, and working to get more young people excited about technology.

In various other lives I’ve done work in digital media, software development, network infrastructure and broadcasting; and I love speaking on my various areas of interest – come and say hi next time I’m at an event near you.

If you prefer to talk in 140 characters or less, you can follow my antics and chat with me on Twitter or other social networks under the name @bennuk. I can also often be found playing incredibly poorly on Xbox LIVE under the gamertag SumoWombat, so feel free to join me for a game sometime.

I write for the Microsoft UK Student Blog, Ubelly, and the UK Student Facebook Page – but you can also check out the odd personal note and observations on life here, too.