Brendon Allan Email & Phone Number

Petersfield, England, United Kingdom

Petersfield, England, United Kingdom

Leader of the embedded software team responsible for developing real-time video processing hardware solutions.Noteworthy achievements include: • Developed proxy for exposing internal control protocol over SNMP using C++ and YAML • Introduced Agile software development to the embedded software team using Scrum • Improved embedded software team efficiency by implementing Kanban process management • Streamlined the recruitment process by introducing remote skills assessments • Improved product quality by introducing continuous integration using Jenkins • Identified and fixed memory leaks in difficult to diagnose Python applications using tracemalloc, address sanitizer, valgrind and custom tools • Developed high-performance low-power web server for exposing internal control protocol over HTTP using C, libsoup, websockets, Mustache templates and HTML

Petersfield, England, United Kingdom

Senior member of the embedded software team responsible for developing real-time video processing hardware solutions.Noteworthy achievements include: • Developed bare-metal real-time video processing solution using C and ARM assembly for the ARM Cortex A9 CPU, including multi-CPU bring up, custom memory segmentation using page tables, interrupt handlers and timers • Developed multi-channel hardware box front panel using C++, GTK CSS and YAML • Developed network manager using C and Netlink Protocol Library Suite (libnl) • Developed both local and remote backup solutions using a combination of Raspberry Pis and rsnapshot, all built using Yocto • Developed password manager accessible via the command line and web using C, FastCGI, Mustache templates, GnuPG and PostgreSQL • Deployed IRC server to support remote working • Superseded monolithic use of a single Yocto layer for building multiple products with a modular collection of layers consolidated and separately versioned using Git submodules, as well as a totally reproducible release procedure • Guided junior engineer in the development of a tool for manipulating FPGA registers using C++ • Guided junior engineer in the development of a video processing amplifier using C • Guided junior engineer in the development of a logging daemon using C and SQlite • Guided junior engineer in the development of a sensors daemon using C, Devicetree, udev and JSON • Migrated organisation to Microsoft 365, including synchronisation of mailboxes using mbsync

Petersfield, England, United Kingdom

Member of the embedded software team responsible for developing real-time video processing hardware solutions.Noteworthy achievements include: • Developed a hardware box remote control solution using C++ and Cairo • Took on IT responsibilities for the organisation • Deployed previously hand-crafted internal services to a fleet of Raspberry Pis using Yocto, making them both scalable and easily reproducible • Extended the lifetime of end-of-life development tools that were no longer compatible with modern systems using Docker

Petersfield, England, United Kingdom

Member of the software team responsible for developing real-time video processing software solutions capable of running on CPUs and in the cloud.Noteworthy achievements include: • Developed C++ application for demonstrating software platform capabilities • Integrated 3rd-party licensing C libraries into software platform • Integrated 3rd-party transcoding C libraries into software platform • Organised the Portsmouth University Stenography Challenge • Supervised student internship recruitment • Took part in the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) Network Media Incubator (NMI) project as the first team to successfully broadcast live video over IP