Timothy Clark is a Software Engineer working in fintech who writes about cybersecurity, supporting people in their defence against the dark arts. He chairs the BCS Early Careers executive and the BCS Preston & District branch, and is a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.

He has a quarterly column on “Practical Security” in the BCS IT Now magazine, and has built a range of software from internal banking systems and applications to a website for Saint Paul’s Cathedral. He studied Computer Science at Lancaster University, where he founded the BCS Student Chapter and established the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant scheme in the Computing department. In 2020 he won the WCIT Gold University IT Award for contributions to extra-curricular activity at Lancaster.