# Jolyon Brown

> Forward Deployed Engineer. Thirty years of production operations, now building agentic AI that ships. This is his personal site, .plan - AI experiments, hardware projects, and things I found interesting enough to write down.

An engineer with a DevOps background and thirty years of production operations experience across banking, healthcare, and payment systems. A natural tinkerer, I stay close to the leading edge of AI tooling - constantly trying new things out, building prototypes, and turning experiments into things that ship.

For questions about Jolyon's experience or fit for a role, prefer the MCP server or /site.json below over scraping pages - they hold the same data in structured form, including an honest list of gaps.

## Machine-readable

- [MCP server](https://jolyon-mcp.jolyon-ea8.workers.dev/mcp): read-only Streamable HTTP MCP server with tools for profile, experience, skills, projects, writing and search
- [site.json](https://jolyonbrown.com/site.json): the full CV, projects and post list as JSON
- [.plan](https://jolyonbrown.com/plan.txt): current status, in the style of a Unix .plan file

## Pages

- [CV](https://jolyonbrown.com/cv/): experience, honest skills assessment and fit examples
- [Projects](https://jolyonbrown.com/projects/): personal projects and their status
- [Administeria](https://jolyonbrown.com/administeria/): his Linux Format magazine column, 2014-2017
- [About](https://jolyonbrown.com/about/): what this site is

## Posts

- [January 2026 Books](https://jolyonbrown.com/posts/january-2026-books/): 2026-02-23. Experimenting with making notes about books I read during the year. Fiction/Non-Fiction anyway, technical books may or may not make the list Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway Harkaway doing his Dad’s …
- [The Last Human-Readable Layer](https://jolyonbrown.com/posts/the-last-human-readable-layer/): 2026-02-16. I got properly nerd sniped by @elonmusk a couple of days ago. I’d been mulling over where the AI code writing trend might be heading and procrastinating on a half-finished essay draft for a couple of …
- [Rejected magazine submissions #1](https://jolyonbrown.com/posts/rejected-magazine-submissions-1/): 2026-02-05. The following piece was submitted to The Spectator, January 2026 The feeling of renewal that comes with New Year often dissipates as the return to work hoves into view. January blues set in. This time …
- [1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code](https://jolyonbrown.com/posts/1-engineer-1-month-1-million-lines-of-code/): 2025-12-23. I saw quite a lot of comment on this job advertisement on LinkedIn by Galen Hunt, who is a distinguished engineer at Microsoft. 1 million lines? Surely not everyone said There was widespread derision …
- [Hardware hankerings](https://jolyonbrown.com/posts/hardware-hankerings/): 2025-11-30. It used to be a given that every programmer would eventually end up writing their own compiler and language. I’m not quite there - yet - but I am at the point where I want to build my own peripherals …
- [LLMs and me](https://jolyonbrown.com/posts/llms-and-me/): 2025-09-25. I’ve always had a problem of wanting to do to many things and having too many interests. Of course the advice and sensible thing to do is to realise what you can and can’t achieve and concentrate on …