Software engineer for Opera Software ASA – working in the
Mantle team, whose remit is to smooth the path between core developers
(implementing and refining support for open standards) and delivery teams
(ensuring users get the best internet experience on any device). I've
previously had technical responsibility for most of Opera's Unix (and GNU/Linux)
code-base and am still heavilly implicated in its ongoing evolution.
2000/March/27 to 2001/July/10:
Software engineer for Zeus technologies, developing the world's
fastest and most webmaster-friendly web
server. Working within a young and vibrant team, I
completed and maintained the infrastructure enabling the server to exploit
specialist hardware to accelerate SSL's cryptography,
developed the infrastructure for content negotiation and for registration
of websites with cryptographic certification authorities,
made installation work more robustly across the many Unixes,
wrote man pages and a test suite for ISAPI,
helped colleagues prepare training materials and
developed automatic test programs.
1996/July to 2000/March:
Software engineer at Laser-Scan (since re-named 1Spatial) in Cambridge, working on their
object-oriented GIS kernel, Gothic. Aside from large amounts of time hunting
down and fixing obscure bugs, I
designed and implemented an OO query language unifying existing low-level
query functionality,
consolidated and improved the in-house tool-set which supported
Laser-Scan's ISO 9001 QA process
and my colleagues learned to consult me on a wide variety of technical
issues.
1995/December to 1996/June:
Web site setup and management for
Metro Internet Ltd. and system administration for User Interface Technologies, in Cambridge.
1994/November to 1995/May:
Development and evaluation, in
conjunction with Oxford and Cambridge Compilers and the Fysisk Institute,
Universitetet i Bergen, of The Shepherd, an evolutionary algorithm library. I
was then the volunteer who managed a café for a
few months while looking for more suitable employment. Concurrent
with …
1994/November to 1995/November:
Consultancy follow-up contract,
part time: enabled the Encyclopædia of Drosophila project to make use of
my work for FlyBase, which it assimilated.
1993/November to 1994/October:
Coercion of data from a
relational database (FlyBase) to an
object-oriented database/display package (ACeDB) customised to the needs of
geneticists. I achieved this by designing and implementing a language which
packaged SQL queries with formatting directives in a general and robust manner.
The project involved extensive collaboration with colleagues on either side of
the Atlantic, in which the new medium of the web was a great help –
running our server fell under my system management
duties, which also embraced modest amounts of user support.
1991/February to 1993/October:
Mathematical and
software research for NA Software. My work was directed towards the development
of high-speed software to process images corrupted with a severe class of noise
called coherent speckle. I had primary control of
the research project to develop a program to segment
such images (cut them into regions, each of which has constant visual
texture – a concept whose formalisation lay at the heart of the entire
project). I had overall editorial responsibility for regular progress reports
for our customers on my work and that of four colleagues; this stretched from
getting reports written, via typesetting to detailed proof-reading.
1988/October to 1991/January:
Solid modelling for Shape Data of
Cambridge. Work spanned all phases, from design through coding and testing to
user documentation, of modifications to the mathematical modelling core of a
fully three-dimensional CAD (Computer Aided Design) system. My work extended to
the training of recruits and trouble-shooting work on a suite of in-house
software tools customised to the needs of the development and maintenance teams.
1985/Summer:
Prototyping work on a user interface for FEGS Ltd of
Cambridge, under the sagacious guidance of Malcolm Sabin.
1982/January to June and 1983/Summer:
Computer programming and
mathematical support for a team of engineers working for Britain's National
Nuclear Corporation, testing the design of safety systems for nuclear power
plant. This mostly revolved around the modelling of mixed-phase flows in
boiling water.
Written by Eddy.