London
Technology solves problems.
People need solutions.
I'm Sam Clare, a technologist working where customer service meets innovation. From electronics retail to blockchain consulting, IT support to NFT projects, I translate complex systems into human experiences and technical capability into real value. Now pivoting into cyber security, I built this site to showcase my experience, technical abilities and projects, and to give visitors some genuinely useful cyber security tools to try.
- 25+years IT, web & design
- 17+years Linux / Unix
- 13+years crypto & Web3
- $100m+NFT trading volume
01 About
Smart, methodical and logical, I work quickly and accurately under pressure and I'm an effective problem solver. I've supported thousands of people with their IT issues, trained hundreds of people in Google Workspace, won a Rising Star award at Hackney Council, and helped transition 4,000+ staff to remote work during a pandemic, all while recovering from open-heart surgery.
Today I build with AI and automation: a personal AI agent that runs my daily schedule, a complete automated job-search system saving 10+ hours a week, social automation across every major platform, and even a Cyber Security news bulletin that publishes to my LinkedIn once a day. I build and manage this website with my AI Agent. Looking to build a career in AI, automation, cyber security or robotics.
In 2022 I co-created V1 Punks with developer FrankNFT. We revived the “lost” original CryptoPunks contract from 2017, building a wrapper that made the abandoned V1 punks tradable again, plus a dedicated fee-less marketplace. It became a genuine piece of NFT history, and the project sparked a very public dispute with Larva Labs along the way.
Read more: CryptoPunks V1 wiki · Decrypt · Rarible · OpenSea collection · CryptoPunks money move again (AInvest, 2025) · OpenSea delists V1 (Forkast, 2024)
02 Skills
KEY SKILLS
- Extensive customer relations experience in various environments
- Highly IT literate including support, training and emerging technologies
- Rapid and accurate problem solving
- Logical and methodical in approach
- Learn new applications and programs extremely fast
- Self managed and effective time management
- Advocate for diversity and inclusion
- Great communicator verbally, digitally and visually across all major technologies
- Proven resilience: returned to full-time work during a global pandemic while recovering from open-heart surgery
- Calm and accurate under pressure; thrives in fast-moving, high-stakes environments
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, MacOS
- Web Development: HTML, Wordpress, CSS
- Creative Software: Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Premier, After Effects), Affinity Suite, Davinci, Audacity
- 3D Design & Printing: Blender, TinkerCAD, Luban, Cura, Chitubox
- AI & Automation: OpenClaw, Later, Postly, IFTTT
- Cloud Computing: AWS, Digital Ocean, Remote Access (GUI, Terminal) & Virtual Machines
- APIs: Twitter, Google, Brave, AI models
- Blockchain: Data Analysis & Forensics
- Robotics: Tracked robots, Unitree Go2
- Additive Manufacturing: Kossel, ANYCUBIC Resin, Snapmaker Artisan
- Electronics: Drones, RC, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP32
03 Career journey
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2022: Present
Founder, consultant & builder
Launched a top-50 NFT project ($100m+ volume), opened a digital art gallery in London for a year, and ran a Crypto/Blockchain consultancy. Built social automation and a personal AI agent with a fully automated job-search system.
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2018: 2022
London Borough of Hackney: ICT Support
ICT Support Apprentice, then Junior ICT Support Analyst. Consistently topped a team of 16 for calls closed; trained staff on GSuite; spoke to audiences of 100+. Won Rising Star 2020; finalist for Apprentice of the Year at the Hackney Star Awards.
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2016: 2018
Maplin: Customer Service Advisor
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2013: Present
Cryptocurrency: Trader, investor & project lead
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2001: 2012
Earlier roles
Sainsbury's, Kuehne & Nagel, freelance web development & startup work, St Mungo's fundraising coach, charity team leader, ICAEW digital communications.
04 Meet my AI twin
PsyborgAI 🤖
I built an AI agent that runs on my own infrastructure. It handles my schedule, hunts jobs, writes my briefings and (increasingly) sounds a lot like me. Ask it about my work, skills and projects right here.
It's a filtered version of me: personal questions get politely declined and pointed at LinkedIn. A quick bot check runs before each message. Be nice. 😏
05 The lab
Building and tinkering has been the thread throughout. In 2013 I built and flew drones when commercial models were prohibitively expensive, an F550 platform and a 250-class racer, assembled from parts. In 2015 I built a Kossel Delta 3D printer, then a 3D scanner from a repurposed Xbox 360 Kinect camera, scanned and printed my own head, and contributed parts to an InMoov robot for London Hackspace.
Since then: resin printing, a Snapmaker Artisan, radio communications, tracked robots and a Unitree Go2. If it can be opened, programmed or fabricated, I've probably tried.
06 Cyber security news
A live feed of the cyber security headlines I'm tracking, pulled straight from the sources I read every morning for my own news bulletin. It keeps itself up to date.
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The Hacker News · BleepingComputer · Krebs on Security · SecurityWeek · Infosecurity Magazine, refreshed every 30 minutes.
07 Take a break
A little arcade game I built with PsyborgAI, because the quickest way to learn a thing is to make something daft and ship it. Tap, click or hit Space to fly.
Personal best: 0
🕵️ Mini CTF: find the flag
Three small stages, one hidden flag. A playful nod to how an attacker pokes at things, and a warm-up for basic hacker intuition. Your browser's DevTools are fair game.
08 Live threat map
Real attack traffic reported to the SANS ISC Internet Storm Center. Each dot is a source hotspot; the lines trace reported attack origins in toward London. Refreshes every few minutes.
09 AI attack activity
How fast is AI changing the attack landscape? Nobody publishes an hourly count of attacks driven by AI, so this chart is honest about what is real. The live line tracks attack pressure: intrusion reports against the top attacking networks seen by the SANS ISC Internet Storm Center, sampled hourly and kept as a rolling history that fills in over time. The headline figures below are real published statistics on attacks enabled by AI. No invented numbers. 😉
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10 Password strength analyser
Type a password to see its estimated entropy and a rough crack time. All of this runs in your browser, nothing is sent anywhere. Use a throwaway, not one you actually rely on. 😉
Entropy scale 0 → 128 bits: 28 weak · 40 fair · 60 strong · 90 very strong
11 Phishing URL inspector
Paste a link (full URL inc https://) to see how it breaks down and whether it looks like a phishing attempt. Everything runs in your browser, the URL is never sent anywhere. Avoid pasting links that contain private tokens. 😉
12 Get in touch
Open to roles and projects in AI, automation, cyber security and robotics.