Giles started his professional career as a lawyer. Web design, however, had always been a hobby since his days at university, creating sites on Geocities armed with nothing but Notepad.
In 2008, after leaving the law, he fixed a bed company's website for £25, and it was then that he realised that people might pay him actual money for doing something he enjoyed doing anyway.
He never looked back. He hung out his shingle as a freelance developer, and rapidly built up a specialism in e-commerce websites powered by Magento, Wordpress and Drupal.
Over the years, he developed a specialism in Laravel, building dozens of sites for companies big and small using the TALL (Tailwind, Alpine, Laravel and Livewire) stack, but kept his hand in with Magento, as it moved to Magento 2, and with Wordpress as it continued to grow.
What little spare time he has he spends playing boardgames with his wife and two sons, walking their two greyhounds, learning to draw and having piano lessons for the first time in 35 years. He also bought a sailboat, intent on refurbishing it and learning to sail. His wife hasn't spoken to him since.