Software developer living and working in London, England.

Background

Currently working for Metaswitch Networks.

25 years experience in low-level, high-performance, low-latency software development:

• graphics adapter device drivers
• low-level networking software
• remote control and application sharing software
  • designed and implemented Microsoft NetMeeting
  • lead developer for Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) and RDP protocol
• telephone media gateway design and implementation
  • lead developer for 3 generations of telephone Universal Media Gateways
  • high-reliability, fault-tolerant, carrier-class software and hardware development
  • multicore, multi-threaded control processors
  • high-performance network processor implementation
  • large DSP farms (up to 180 cores)
  • hardware device drivers
  • bleeding-edge hardware integration and debugging
  • embedded system diagnostics – collection and display
  • Python test frameworks

Interests

• Real-time event processing, graphical diagnostics
  • D3.js Javascript graphics library
• Game development, 3D space and planet rendering
  • Unity 3D game engine
• Oculus Rift VR headset
• iOS mobile software development
• Loom 2D game engine
• MaKey MaKey
• Raspberry Pi

Currently eagerly awaiting my Oculus Rift developer kit so I can integrate it with my Unity Solar System simulator and fly to the Moon!

Why bluntbody?

You have to admire brilliant unconventional solutions to difficult problems.

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