My name is Randolph West, and I am an actor, filmmaker, musician, author, and technologist based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. You can find out what I’m thinking on my personal blog, or SQL Server blog.

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Filmmaker

I make things to entertain people. Here are links to my IMDb page, my actor reel, and my voice reel.

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Before the pandemic, I was part of the Voice Acting Power Squad, and we met every Monday and live streamed on Twitch and Facebook.

In Calgary I’ve appeared on stage with Morpheus Theatre, and directed for the stage with Confederation Theatre. In Johannesburg I was heavily involved with Franklin Players until emigrating in 2010.

This is an incomplete list of things I’ve done for the camera:

Year Title Format
2025 The Bride of Bo-Bo Feature film
2024 Night Call Short film
2023 Dino Girl & Panda: Project Q Feature film
2022 Hypnotic Sessions Short film
2021 Land Feature film
2020 The Ghost Tank Feature film
2019 Suburban Trauma Short film
2018 The Nandi Bear Tenants Voice
2017 Fargo (Season 3) Television
2016 Night of the Shadow People Feature film
2015 Sancha’s Cause (Is Coming To Town) Short film
2015 The Winner Short film
2015 Imitative Magic Feature film

Technologist

Since January 2022, I work full time at Microsoft in the SQL Docs team. Prior to that I was an independent technology consultant, specialising in the Microsoft Data Platform with a focus on performance tuning, disaster recovery best practices, and data recovery. I was a five-time recipient of the Microsoft Data Platform MVP Award between 2017 and 2021.

I have written some free stuff that you can see at GitHub. I also write software in C#.

I sit on the boards of several companies in Canada and South Africa, designing and building systems for companies you’ve never heard of.

Author

Find out more on my Books page.

Musician

I love music of almost all genres, and I often say there are at least two songs from any popular performer that I like.

In 2016 I started playing with Garage Band loops, and eventually composed some tracks that are available on SoundCloud. I’d personally classify these under Electronic Dance Music (EDM), but there are trance, house, and other influences in there.

I have released two singles:

Year Title Link
2018 Turkish Lick Apple Music & Spotify
2025 Driving Rain Apple Music & Spotify

More about me

In the 1990s, people visited this site for my Humour page. For a while I was known for a Windows-based application called ShutOff 2000. I also created South Africa’s first short URL generator, several months before Twitter was invented.