### About Me
Looks like you found my website. I suppose introductions are
in order.
My name's Tristan, I'm an avid Dutch-South African software
consultant working in the UK. You probably either met me at an
open source conference, a hackathon, a badminton session or at
a roleplaying table.
If not, well, this is also a great place to "meet" me. Have a
nosey!
### This Website
There is not a whole lot here at the moment.
You may find the following interesting though:
### My Work
I'm a software consultant working for
[Codethink](https://www.codethink.co.uk) in Manchester,
UK. Our specializaiton is open source software, so this has
allowed me to directly contribute to a number of open source
projects, notably
[BuildStream](https://www.gitlab.com/buildstream/buildstream),
an integration tool for large software stacks.
I've given a couple of talks on it, as well:
- Build meetup 2017
- Build meetup 2018
- Build meetup 2019
Outside of work for Codethink, I'm generally interested in
things such as NixOS and other tools that assist maintaining
Linux systems - mostly born out of my pursuit of the perfect
Linux desktop (feel free to have a browse through my
[dotfiles](https://github.com/tlater/dotfiles)).
I also just enjoy Programming, my core languages currently are
Rust, Python, Lisp and JavaScript (including a number of
frameworks and tools for these), although I have hopes to
eventually reduce these to just Rust ;)
If you're interested in seeing these things for yourself,
visit my [Gitlab](https://gitlab.com/tlater) and
[GitHub](https://github.com/tlater) pages.