I'm Mark Simpkins — a Senior Technical Programme Manager and certified security professional (CISSP, CompTIA SecurityX) based in London. Over twenty-five years I've delivered complex technical programmes for the BBC, AKQA and MRM, been CTO and CPO at startups building digital identity and payment systems, and done applied security research at Royal Holloway on attack modelling and anomaly detection.
Alongside the day job I build things. Current projects include MediaWatch, an open-source tool for tracking recycled and misattributed media across social platforms; CultureBlocs, a small hardware-and-software system for capturing and sharing memories of cultural experiences; and SEAM, a graph-native cyber risk and compliance platform.
If any of that sounds like something you need help with — programme delivery, security and compliance, AI/LLM workflow automation, or just getting an ambiguous technical thing shipped — have a look at my CV or get in touch.
MediaWatch
Open-source media provenance tracking. ISCC fingerprints and vector search to catch recycled footage being recirculated with false context during conflicts and crises.
Read more →CultureBlocs
Hardware and software for capturing memories of cultural experiences — a pocket totem that mints "memory beads" at galleries, gigs and screenings, and a federated data spine for keeping and sharing them.
Read more →SEAM
A graph-native cyber risk and compliance platform — modelling organisations, their controls and their findings as a living graph rather than a pile of spreadsheets.
Read more →The most recent strand of memory beads published from CultureBlocs.
Every Conflict Produces the Same Footage — Twice
Building MediaWatch, an open-source tool to track recycled media across social media using ISCC fingerprints and vector search.