- 2013/April/2 onwards
Senior Development Engineer
at Tandberg Data in Oslo.
- 2002/April/3 to 2012/September/28
Software engineer
for Opera Software ASA – working in
several teams on varied projects, identifying and resolving obstacles to
development as I go, and helping keep core developers (implementing and refining
support for open standards) and delivery teams (ensuring users get the best
internet experience on any device) working in harmony. Along the way,
I
- Championed portability, including the final 64-bit skunk-work.
- Drove the modularisation of the Unix-specifc porting layer –
improving the POSIX-based portions thereof, which Mac now shares, and
the make-files – to facilitate re-use between divergent
projects.
- Took the initiative to ensure timely review of programming test
responses by job applicants.
- Was the trouble-shooter called in to develop an improved process,
when integration of development work into the core
team's mainline failed to scale.
Towards the end, a large proportion of my work time was given over to
providing advice and reviewing code-changes by others.
- 2000/March/27 to 2001/July/10
Software engineer
for Zeus technology,
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 (whose
relevant parts have since
become 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 object-oriented 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
Institutt, Universitet 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 designed and implemented a domain-specific language which
packaged SQL queries with formatting directives in a general and robust manner;
colleagues later found further uses for it. 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 Parasolid, 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
language (of a style we would now call
object-oriented
) 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 (Sizewell B). This mostly revolved around the modelling of
mixed-phase flows in boiling water.
Written by Eddy.