started out in electronics at an early age, dragging discarded TVs and radios on his way home from public school. In high school he developed a fascination for programming the IBM 1130 computer, which resulted in a career plan change to software development. After attending Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, he has enjoyed a software developer career for over 35 years, programming mainly in C/C++. Warren has been programming Linux since 1994 as an open source contributor and professionally on various Unix platforms since 1987.

Before attending Ryerson, Warren built an Intel 8008 system from scratch before there were CP/M systems and before computers got personal. In later years, Warren earned an advanced amateur radio license (call sign VE3WWG) and worked the amateur radio satellites. A high point of his ham radio hobby was making digital contact with the Mir space station (U2MIR) in 1991.

Warren works at Datablocks.net, an enterprise-class ad serving software services company. There he programs C++ server solutions on Linux back-end systems.

has followed his interest in computers from an early age, fascinated by the magic of computers and digital electronics in general. Self-described as too curious for his own good, he would spend many of his early years tinkering with the building of computers and the programming of software. This led naturally to undertaking a degree in computer science, which was completed in 2007. Since then Martin has pursued a career in education and is currently employed as a senior lecturer at The University of Central Lancashire. His thirst for knowledge and need to satisfy his curious nature have led to a healthy obsession with maintaining active self-development.

Martin would like to thank the Raspberry Pi Foundation in general for their efforts and their Pi Academy program for helping to inspire digital making in schools and hopefully helping more of the current generation of younger makers to become fascinated, also, by the magic of computing.