When I was about 12 I was exposed to the wonderful world of The Sims, I remember being sad at the lack of fashion in the game so I went looking around for a way to personalise, I found a random folder in C:/Program Files where the clothes were stored as image files, I opened Photoshop and I altered them, with like hearts and stars and general pink-ness. I put them back in the folder and I booted up the game wondering if this would work - and it worked! My crazy creations were IN THE ACTUAL GAME. I found this incredible and absurd and started to try to make clothes that were even more elaborate. I then decided that the world needed my fashion?? So I built a geocities website called Gina Fashion where I hosted my creations as downloadable files where people could download them and put them into their own game. Of course nobody did, I was 12 and the people that were doing this were doing it a lot better than me. But still, my love of web development, games, fashion and general hackery was born.

I work full time as a junior software engineer for BBC News, and the rest of my time is spent with my dog, building games, making content and wishing my way back to being 12 at my computer.