Carol is, as she's too often been told, not your typical IT techie. And if you look at the subset of technical workers who spent the nineties playing grunge violin by night while stringing together PC networks by day, who became obsessed with the arcane specialisation of Identity and Access Management in the noughties, and who ended up writing a memoir about it all in the twenty-twenties, then she's certainly not typical. But of course, that's not what all those informants were referring t...

In the 1990s, long before “Women in Tech” was a hashtag, Carol forged her technical career in server rooms and offices where she was the only woman.In this memoir, Carol looks back on a 35-year, globe-crossing IT career that took her through the dawn of the internet, the machinations of the commercial sector, a celebrity dot-com, and an eye-opening job as a technical gun-for-hire.In an industry known for both gender and age bias, Carol still has her hands on the tech well i...