Dr David Cutting is Reader (Education) at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast. He completed his PhD studies Software Engineering at the University of East Anglia and holds an MSc in Advanced Computing Science from the same institution. He is a Senior Fellow of AdvanceHE (SFHEA), a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a 2024 National Teaching Fellow (NTF). Dr Cutting's current teaching is around the topics of cloud computing, parallel processing and distributed systems. His research spans education including authentic project experiences and student success as well as software engineering focussing on evolutionary traits and patterns of systems.