Jessica Smith

Jessica Smith

@mintopia

Gamer / Geek / Software Engineer

Hi, I’m Jessica, a software engineer, tech person and gamer from the UK.

During the day I work for DigiCert as a Senior Principal Engineer and when I’m not doing that I’m working on cool projects like LanCache, UK LANs and sometimes helping resurrect an MMORPG.

I also sometimes do freelance event network and broadcast engineering and have worked at events like EGX, Bafta Games Awards and I’m a co-founder and former Technical Manager of Epic LAN – responsible for writing their tournament and game server management platforms.

When I’m not coding, reading about tech, running events or working events, I like to do outdoors things like rock climbing (although mainly indoors), sailing (definitely outdoors)m high rope courses and cycling. Inside I like to run games of D&D, play board games, mess about with 3D printing and obviously, play games.

Currently

activities
Rock climbing, sailing, high-ropes courses
playing
Factorio, Blur, Golf with Friends
speaking
Next talk: PHPDay.it, May 2026
tinkering
Homelab, Agentic AI
working on
Infrastructure, DNS, Monitoring, DevOps, Platform Engineering

Elsewhere