Welcome to jtes.net, the personal website and blog of John Slade (johnteslade).
Currently, I ..
- live in London, England
- work as a Senior Software Engineer and Architect developing network security products for Thales e-Security in Crawley
- run a video game website at SimRacingWorld.com - written in Perl and MySQL
- am developing VGtap – a news aggregator using Python, Django and Google AppEngine
- organise hack days with friends at my flat – Python (Feb 2012), Android (Jun 2012)
- contribute to some open source projects on GitHub - pycharacterize (Python test case generator), Azulejo (arrange windows in Linux), Vimeo Downloader
- attend weekend hackathons/entrepreneur events – AngelHack London (Nov 2012), Hackathon London (Mar & Jun 2012), Launch48 (Feb 2012), Startup Weekend EDU (Nov 2011)
- love sports – Golf, Squash, Cycling and Volleyball
Previously, I..
- worked for QinetiQ in Malvern
- lived in Brighton, Redhill, Cheltenham, Worcester, York
- gained a Post Graduate Certificate in Management from University of Bath
- studied MEng Electronic Engineering at the University of York
- grew up in Brentwood, England





