Donald Carr Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

https://shapertools.com/

San Francisco Bay Area

Operating Linux/Qt consultancy company

San Francisco Bay Area

- Consultancy: Device Architect for a 3rd party Qt based Linux appliance (OS, updates, lifecycle, Qt apps)- Sales Engineer representing the company and interfacing with technical resources at prospective customers, both locally and abroad- Training teams and producing/giving technical presentations

San Francisco Bay Area

- Working with the Chromium (Webkit/Blink) code base on a daily basis- Chiefly responsible for implementing the GTK/GLib backend for Sencha Desktop Packager support on Linux, working in both C and c++ - Small team ensures everyone touches all platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows).- Designing, implementing and extending additional Javascript APIs extended within Sencha Desktop Packager

– Core skills exercised on a day to day basis include Qt, C++, QML, Linux, git– Involved in identifying, communicating and bridging the gap between customer requirements,common/likely Qt pain points and the inherent capabilities/limitations/quirks of a variety of em-bedded boards/devices from vendors such as Broadcom, Sigma Designs, Intel, TI, Freescale,Trident, Nvidia and AMLogic (all of whom I have worked directly with)– Directly responsible for Qt bring up, debugging, optimization and hand off on a subset of theabove devices– Heavily seasoned with embedded Linux (across all its manifestations) development, system in-tricacies, cross compilation and toolchain related complications– Experienced at building any part of the Linux stack for a prospective embedded device andfamiliar with many broadly available platform solutions and vendor specific Linux platforms– Responsible for Qt advocacy and architectural justification at customer meetings, trade showsand global developer events– Responsible for conceptualizing, pioneering and then actively developing Qt Media Hub as partof a three man development team

Part of a small team actively developing (planning, speccing, designing, implementing, testingand debugging) and deploying a cross platform video enabled XMPP chat client targeting theeducation sector (product URL: http://www.wimba.com/products/wimba pronto/)– Product comprises a large Qt C++ codebase and a large set of associated 3rd party libraries thatneed to be actively maintained– Directly responsible for several key modules in product and comfortable with the general de-sign/implementation of functional modules from first principles– Responsible for build system (qmake) and extending project with accessibility and international-ization support– Developing with mac/vs2005/mingw development toolchains– Responsible for NSIS and DMG installer configuration scripts– Release Manager responsible for automated deployment scripts and all deployed releases– Responsible for setting up and maintaining an automated Buildbot based build system

– Intermediary role between internal and external developers– Qt/X11, Qt/MinGW and Qtopia Core (Qt/Embedded) specialized support engineer– Troubleshooting, assessing and debugging foreign (external) and internal code– Expert with the GNU/X11 development environment and the associated tools– Experience with cross compiling and deploying Qt/Qtopia applications to embedded targets– Example design & creation using Qt/Qtopia Core (Rapid proof of concept design, live coding)– Training customers (developers), demoing Qt and dealing with large technical audiences in QAsessions– Managing a dynamic task list under solid time constraints

Bachelor Of Science Honours Degree; Bachelor Of Science Degree, Computer Science And Physics

distinction in both Computer Science and electronics ∗ Best Short Paper: “Extending reinforcement learning to Tetris” ∗ Best Computer.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science And Electronics

Physics/Computer Science Honours program