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Salzburg, Austria

Salzburg, Austria

Salzburg, Austria

C++ language parsingWearable app development for Tizen based devices (Samsung smart watch).

Contributor to the Open Source ecosystem: C++ standards compliance improvements (template handling) for Open Watcom C++; HTML5-based map application for Firefox OS; scalability improvements for jabberd2; testing and debugging for PowerDNS; RSS notificaton service for Jabber/XMPP; lightweight SIP forwarding daemon; exim mail server.

Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Static code analysis for C++: Implementing new static analysis checks, ongoing maintenance and bug-fixing.Key developer responsible for extending the in-house C++ parser to support C++11 features: auto type specifier, decltype, scoped and strongly typed enums, inline namespaces, explicitly defaulted and deleted functions, explicit conversion functions, rvalue references, variadic templates, noexcept, alias templates, user-defined literals, inheriting constructors, range-based for loops, lamda expressions (including init captures and generic lambdas), uniform initialization syntax, variable templates, nullptr, unicode character types, C++17 constexpr if, fold expressions, inline variables, class template argument deduction, initialization in selection statements, structured bindings, direct-list-initialization of enumerations, u8 character literals, and non-type placeholder template parameters. Ensuring quality of implementation by testing against the boost library and cross-checking test-cases with gcc, clang and Visual C++.Mentoring junior developers.Member of the ISO C++ Standards Committee.

Support and continuous development of an optical network management (SONET/SDH) system in a Unix environment (mostly C++ on HP-UX and Linux).Network management application development -- concentrating on SMI parser, SNMP/MIB and native code integration for low-level network and OS access. Designed and implemented a versatile framework to access MIB data by auto-generating data-access functions from MIB module definitions.

Worked in a global development team on telecom network management software for optical networks (SONET/SDH) in a Unix environment (mostly C++ on HP-UX and Linux).Low-level architectural work: porting of the low-level networking code from HP-UX to Linux; developed a debugging memory management library to facilitate detecting and tracking down of memory management bugs.

Developed software in the self-service banking area for end-user terminals running Windows and Unix-based servers. Specialised in providing low-level hardware (CEN XFS) and operating system access to Java applications using auto-generated C++ JNI APIs.Other projects included the integration of SNMP functionality into a J2EE application for monitoring self-service banking terminals and the development of a highly scalable TCP/IP communication server on Windows for statement printers.

Automated and improved the omniORB regression testing suite; developed a black-box CORBA server testing tool in Python, based on annotations in the interface definition (IDL).