I love challenges, particularly solving problems in technology and optimising to make software work faster. I'm self motivated and enjoy working towards a target on my own or in a group.
My IT skills are entirely self-taught, stemming from experimentation and interest in computers and programming at an early age.
I am an open source advocate, but a pragmatist. I realise that proprietary software has its own place in the world. I like to put my efforts to helping closed projects realise the benefits of being open and to help them become the best OSS citizens they can.
Go ahead and contact me! I look forward to hearing from you.
Current PositionOwner, Burchell Software(September 2011 - Present)Passionate consultant software engineer, specialising in mobile applications and platform development and Qt. You may be familiar with some of the work I've done, for instance, the contacts application on the Nokia N9. | SkillsI have a very broad base of knowledge, and am quick to learn new things.
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Passionate mobile software engineer, working on mobile applications and platform development, specialising in Qt.
Strongly interested in creating the best quality software with excellent teams of people.
Highly talented at picking up new skills and talents at rapid pace.
Great familiarity of the wider open source community and related best practices.
Development on a large online website written in PHP with a MySQL database backend, in conjunction with a team of other developers consisting of both fulltime staff and volunteers.
Additional responsibilities:
Saesu is a framework for enabling distributed data storage for applications, especially mobile applications. It provides a document based datastore, which incorporates additional metadata to enable synchronisation, both online and healing after being offline, with an unlimited number of devices on an unlimited number of local networks, using zeroconf for discovery.
It will (soon) also implement file synchronisation using directory and file hashing and block based differencing for minimal transfers.
Qt is a development framework for applications and platform software.
Qt gained my interest in 2008 as a good platform for fast, efficient development of high performance, high quality software.
I have since started contributing time to write patches and offer code review to Qt, as well as working on helping Qt become a more open project through such initiatives as creating my own community build/constant integration system.
I have contributed to the MeeGo project by offering my knowiedge of Qt, git, and other subjects to the MeeGo developers and community at large through chat, mailing lists, and forums, as well as creating my own projects such as Facebrick, a Facebook client for MeeGo.
InspIRCd is an extensible, high performance (over 80,000 connections in a single threaded daemon), chat service, written in C++.
My involvement was with public relations management, coding, development, triaging bugs - whilst working with a team including many other developers and nontechnical people.
InspIRCd is the second most popular server software of its type in use today, deployed on hundreds of servers.
I left the project (in good hands) in 2010 in order to seek out new challenges.
I have contributed patches to many pieces of software over the years, for more information on some of them, please see my Ohloh profile, my github account, and my Gitorious profile.