About Me
My name is Stuart Leitch but I'm known to most as Stevie for reasons I don't need to go into right now. At the time of writing, I'm 29 years old and employed as a software developer. I live in Shawlands, Glasgow with my fiancee Sacha and I wouldn't trade places with anyone!
I spent four wonderful years at the University of Glasgow studying Computing Science, often distracted by beer and Science Fiction. I took a masochistic interest in Functional Programming, eventially writing a compiler program in Haskell. The many late nights paid off when I graduated with an upper second class honours degree in 2001.
I made many dear friends in those four years, particularly through Io - the Science Fiction and Fantasy society. I have been an active member of Io since I started at university and have held three committee posts (including president in 2001-2002), written for the erstwhile fanzine TBD, and written (bits of) and appeared in (bits of) two Christmas pantos.
Since graduating, I have worked as a Software Engineer for Dynamic Knowledge Corporation, a Business Associate (debt management) of the Royal Bank of Scotland and now a Java Developer for IDOX, another knowledge and information management business.
Despite the website, geek job and many geek friends, I have a healthy scepticism of technology. I am now just about friends with my mobile phone, but the video recorder remains an inventively slippery foe.
I am a music lover, obsessively collecting the works of (now split up) Guided By Voices and Robert Pollard. I am also a fan of many Post Rock bands (or avant garde wank if you prefer), particularly Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky. I also try to play guitar on occasion, and I would be a collector of vintage analogue synths, if one counted as a collection.
Stuart Leitch, January 2009