Senior Software and Systems Architect/Engineer with a wide
range of experience. Excellent interpersonal/group communication
and teamwork skills. Highly self-motivated, with first-class
analytical, design and problem-solving skills. Particular passion
for design, building and application of automation tools and
methodologies which rapidly accelerate processes and optimize
environments whilst maintaining strict quality standards.
| July 2022 to present |
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| April 2021 to present |
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Heavy involvement in protocol design, including cryptographic
and Zero Knowledge Proof elements.
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Instrumental in shaping product strategy, and assisted with
marketing (including
whitepaper).
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Acted as interim Product Manager until a full-time replacement
was found.
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Instrumental in tech team hiring, formation, and leadership.
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Research and analysis of related technology (foundational,
complementary, and competitive).
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Technical partnerships with other web3 projects.
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| 1995 to present |
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| 2019 to present |
CTO, architect, and tech lead for Swap My Vote, a non-partisan platform
for legally promoting more effective voting in democracies without
non-proportional representation.
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| 2018 to 2021 |
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CTO and architect / tech lead for a proof of concept blockchain-based
financial project for a leading global development bank (under NDA).
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Conducted market research into the roles of Trusted Execution Environments
and other wallet technology in digital asset custody.
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Senior architect and presales consultant for major
layer 1 protocol and ecosystem based in Asia.
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Co-founder of CO2ken, a project
to bring carbon credits onto Ethereum.
The team won
an award at
EthLondon 2020,
three
awards at
Blockchain
for Social Impact 2020.
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Won a Zero Knowledge Proof hackathon with a project performing
point
doubling on an elliptic curve using
ZoKrates.
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Won a developer grant from Zilliqa and
contributed enhancements to the compiler of
Scilla
(functional smart contract language).
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| 2012 to 2019 |
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| June 2011 to December 2011 |
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| August 2009 to June 2011 |
Senior Software Consultant,
Systems and Resource Management Product Engineering,
Novell Inc.
Engineering and architecture of
PlateSpin Orchestrate,
a Java- and
Jython-based, HPC-enabled
data centre automation platform providing the core
orchestration backend component of
Novell Cloud Manager,
which manages the lifecycle of virtual/physical assets within heterogeneous data centres.
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Remote working member of core engineering team, largely
self-trained on a huge codebase (over 4 million lines) due
to timezone differences and travel budget limitations.
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Primary owner and developer of the product's fully
automated build/test framework. Author and primary owner of
the product's automated testing strategy roadmap.
Introduced a modernized approach to unit testing of legacy
code involving TestNG,
Mockito, and
PowerMock.
Designed and implemented a heuristic recognition algorithm
for tracking frequencies of integration test failure
scenarios.
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Helped analyse and resolve issues during major upgrade
of the product's customized Jython engine from 2.1 to 2.5
(e.g. heap dump analysis to identify
PermGen memory leaks).
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Introduced git and
decentralized development and testing workflows to the team,
which resulted in 100% passes on the first test run after
merging the Jython 2.5 upgrade back into the trunk.
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Acts as primary contact point for third-line support of
all EMEA customers and partners, and has represented the
product at EMEA-wide and global conferences. Built a
showcase demonstrating how the product can be used in a
Green IT scenario to dynamically optimise thermal airflow
within a data centre, via automated physical relocation of
virtual workloads according to policies based on temperature
sensor data.
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| December 2006 to July 2009 |
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| November 2005 to December 2006 |
Sole UK architect on the team, operating on many
strategic and SSO-oriented tactical projects within the UK
and across EMEA.
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Active in many major named UK accounts, particularly in the
financial and telco verticals. Engaged directly
to help large clients relate to Novell's data-centre
vision and existing product range, handling
introductions to new technology, specific technical
objections, business process issues etc.
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Close technical collaboration with other LST
architects on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server / Real
Time / Desktop / Point of Sale, Xen hypervisor, High
Availability Storage Foundation, etc.
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Provided support on deep technical issues, PoCs,
benchmarks etc. to area/geo Technical Specialists and
Consultants.
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Acted as area's primary technical
interface/escalation point into R&D and Product
Business Unit for
Linux and FL/OSS
issues, both internally and for clients/partners.
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Supported Client Executives/Managers in their
understanding of many topics, e.g. specific
technologies/products, the FL/OSS community,
patent/license issues, GTM models, industry
trends/sweet-spots, partnering processes, etc.
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Participated in key marketing events,
e.g. LinuxWorld, SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 launch,
Gartner conferences.
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Technical collaboration with and training of key
IHV/ISV partners.
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Primary EMEA technical contact for SUSE Linux
Enterprise Real Time.
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| September 2002 to November 2005 |
Originally recruited as primary EMEA Linux specialist to
a team responsible for engineering, deploying, and
maintaining builds of Linux on x86 hardware (including
Egenera BladeFrames) for
use with mission-critical, highly-available production
applications stacks migrated from Solaris/SPARC.
Subsequently merged with UNIX team, and later chosen as
founder member of European Infrastructure and Architecture
Engineering team.
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Primary EMEA representative of tightly-knit virtual
team responsible for global Linux builds.
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Designed, implemented, and maintained sophisticated
OO engine and toolset for parallelized
scheduling/execution of arbitrary jobs (including
components for Kerberos-/ssh-based remote
distribution).
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Designed, implemented, and maintained a host-grouping
database, facilitating automated administration of
large machine clusters defined by flexible rules
based on Boolean set logic.
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Designed, implemented and maintained a complete,
centrally administered, policy-based
rpm distribution
system, which successfully controlled synchronisation
of all software installed (from OS-level to
application-level), and additionally controlled all
site-specific configuration. Coupled with
PXE/DHCP/KickStart booting technology, allowing any
system to be completely rebuilt to its previous state
within minutes, much faster than any restore from
backup tape.
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Took part in a long-term project reviewing
architecture of all tier 1 European applications
specifically with regards to high availability and
disaster recovery. Played a key part in designing
and implementing automated server-based test suite to
improve review turn-over.
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Heavy involvement with engineering of roll-out of
Opsware and
related custom tools/infrastructure for
workflow-based deployment and configuration of custom
in-house applications.
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Built several task automation and verification tools
including shell-based domain language facilitating
configuration management and test suites.
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Worked closely with vendors on many issues at the
hardware, application, system, and kernel levels.
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Assisted with a cost-cutting server consolidation project.
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Lead engineer on team responsible for certifying,
supporting and maintaining highly customised
firm-wide production builds of Perl (including
several hundred CPAN modules).
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Worked with storage management team on enablement of
SAN/NAS connectivity from Linux machines to
EMC /
Network Appliance
systems, from cabling/driver configuration to
volume manager software etc.
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Established intranet web-based solution for issue
tracking, knowledge base building, and
process/procedure documentation. Provided full suite
of procedures to SA teams relating to Linux
builds and support thereof.
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Provided support to developers involved in porting
applications from Solaris.
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| 1999 to September 2002 |
guideguide (formerly known as
mediaconsult) develops customer-driven
"e-publishing" websites for high-profile partners in
specific sectors of German market. Technologies used
included traditional LAMP stack, XML, Java, NAS.
- Performed and supervised design, implementation and
maintenance of many complex
object-oriented (OO) class
hierarchies within a large code base
(~275,000 lines).
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Promoted use of eXtreme
Programming (XP) methodologies, e.g.:
- Established code quality guidelines and review
process.
- Developed comprehensive test suite in
conjunction with PerlUnit
testing framework.
- Performed extensive refactoring of problematic
legacy code.
- Created/maintained several CPAN
modules in conjunction with project.
- Built several automation tools to increase
efficiency of development (e.g. automatic
configuration of complex in-house Apache/mod_perl
setups, tools for code integration, mysqldiff).
- Ensured increased reliability of production servers
via automated online testing.
- Administered and optimized MySQL databases
(~40,000 users).
- Administered bugzilla
bug-tracking database, and integrated it with existing
source control systems.
- Compiled, installed and supported many development
tools.
- Built and administered powerful subsystem for
dynamic image generation to improve customer-based
customizability.
- Set up a shared documentation system on the
intranet.
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| 1999 |
W3 WebSolutions Ltd. designed, implemented and hosted
dynamic websites for clients with a wide range of
required applications.
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Replaced problematic old servers with completely new
Red Hat Linux systems.
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Installed, configured and maintained services including
MySQL,
Apache with
PHP and
SSL extensions,
wu-ftpd,
sendmail, and
bind DNS server.
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Built CGI interfaces
in Perl for DNS and sendmail virtual domain
configuration, giving customers control of their own
domains.
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| 1996 to 1998 |
Was offered this post as a result of the college's
recognition of the substantial improvement to the quality
of their IT facilities through my voluntary work during
the last two years of my degree
there.
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Administration of UNIX (in particular Linux)
systems, the college's web server and website, and
services for scientific-oriented students:
sshd,
sendmail,
qmail,
IMAP, POP3 and FTP daemons,
Apache,
MySQL etc.
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Installation and maintenance of a UNIX-based
request tracking database to keep on top of all the
technical support requests received from students and
administrative staff.
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Supervision of and participation in installation of
college-wide Cat 5 ethernet cabling, including
router/switch/firewall configuration.
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IT budget responsibility.
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Complete installation and management of a
Novell Netware network for
~700 users integrated with Windows and Mac
clients.
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University-wide collaboration with other
departmental and collegiate IT professionals to improve
the university's IT infrastructure.
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| Summer 1996 |
The Mayo Clinic is the largest private health clinic
in the world.
- Enabled fast, site-wide access to various nuclear
medicine imaging techniques and static content via the
clinic's intranet.
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Available on request.