Dave Cridland

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Strategic Software Engineering for Healthcare, Military and more @ XMPP Standards Foundation
united states
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Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Dave Cridland

Open Standards professional working within data transfer and collaboration technologies, including email and instant messaging, particularly within low-bandwidth and high security arenas. Programmer and protocol designer. Participant in IETF, XSF, and OASIS. Comfortable with open source and proprietary code.Specialties: XMPP, IMAP, ACAP, Submission, cross-domain, low-bandwidth, federation, STIX, CybOX, making tea.Endorsements: I have no idea why I'm most endorsed for Open Source. If you must, please endorse me for something more meaningful, like "Making Tea", "Random Endorsements", or something.

Dave Cridland's Current Company Details
XMPP Standards Foundation

Xmpp Standards Foundation

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Strategic Software Engineering for Healthcare, Military and more
united states
Website:
xmpp.org
Employees:
10
Dave Cridland Work Experience Details
  • Xmpp Standards Foundation
    Director
    Xmpp Standards Foundation Nov 2024 - Present
    Everywhere Open Standard Messaging Is Needed
    This is an elected voluntary position running the Foundation, which is principally a Standards Development Organisation focused on maintaining and developing XMPP, the leading open standard instant messaging protocol.I'm focusing on ensuring that process documentation is accurate, and also making the tea.
  • Extensible Messaging Ltd
    Principal Consultant
    Extensible Messaging Ltd Aug 2024 - Present
    In A Corner Of A Field In Camarthenshire
    Strategic and Project specific software engineering, including quite a lot of XMPP-related projects, as well as operational engineering.I'm usually quite busy, but if you need an expert in XMPP with experience of military/government/healthcare, or indeed a dab hand at monitoring and performance tracing, give me a shout.
  • Freelance
    Random Acts Of Genius
    Freelance Oct 2023 - Aug 2024
    Within The Interwebs
    Doing strategic engineering on a very reasonable day rate, so I can be picky about the next role.I went straight into work directly after leaving Peppy, with multiple previous employers asking about availability. They're all great companies, but I'm looking for a permanent place for the long term, doing something new. Like my previous places, I want to work with a team that's professional and generous. And as before, I want to work on things that are meaningful, interesting, and challenging.If you think that's sounding like you, and you're looking to hire someone versatile, focused on backend work (I can't do the pretty stuff), but with an eye across the whole technical estate, then my DMs are open (and not just because I don't know the settings).
  • Peppy
    Staff Engineer
    Peppy Jan 2023 - Oct 2023
    A Corner Of A Field In West Wales
    Nobody tell them, but I'm still writing code.As Staff Engineer, poked my nose into much more at a high level, though often not as deep. However I have personally:* Designed, implemented, and deployed a fine-grained onboarding eligibility check for our users.* Redesigned, implemented, and then redesigned again, filtering for our content.* Implemented session recording in our internal web app.* Designed and implemented heuristic detection for InfoSec policy infractions to aid in compliance evidence.* Still quite funny on Slack.
  • Peppy
    Senior Software Engineer
    Peppy Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
    A Corner Of A Field In West Wales
    Turning copious mugs of tea into clear and maintainable code, providing a stable and reliable service.During this period:* Designed and lead implementation of our migration from a UK-only single-tier system into a multi-national, multi-regional, multi-tiered service. This involved balancing regulatory requirements with business needs, delivering to shifting deadlines and agile requirements. All with virtually no downtime.* Redesigned security entirely on a running system from trivial roles to a full hybrid authorization system, based on clearances/labels generated using ABAC-style bespoke code, without any downtime.* Implemented performance telemetry and error reporting via Sentry across most of the estate (and encouraged the mobile team into doing the same).* Devised alerting and monitoring to flag problem for Engineering, InfoSec, and Customer Success.* Quite funny on Slack.
  • Armour Communications Ltd
    Senior Software Engineer
    Armour Communications Ltd Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
    Armour Communications provides cryptographically secure messaging, communications, and collaboration systems operating on everyday devices to companies and organisations which have high security needs.I provide messaging expertise and some of the foremost tea-making abilities in the industry.
  • Xmpp Standards Foundation
    Director
    Xmpp Standards Foundation Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
    Everywhere
    It's a challenging time for international organisations on many fronts, and I'm pleased to have been elected into a position where I can help steer the XMPP Standards Foundation through to face these challenges, alongside some very capable colleagues.
  • Xmpp Standards Foundation
    Xmpp Council
    Xmpp Standards Foundation Nov 2014 - Oct 2021
    Stood for, and was elected to, the XMPP Council.The Council acts as both the approving body for the XSF's technical specifications, and also provides technical leadership.
  • Xmpp Standards Foundation
    Director
    Xmpp Standards Foundation Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
    It's an honour to serve both on the functional management and technical leadership of the XSF simultaneously; I'm hoping to continue the fine work of the previous Board in taking advantage of the raised interest in XMPP as a secure interoperable platform for chat and much more, to help promote our amazing technology base to a wider audience.
  • Pando
    Senior Software Engineer
    Pando May 2019 - May 2021
    London, United Kingdom
    Possibly slightly too excited to work at Pando (previously Forward Health) as "That Guy Who Knows Messaging", where I join an excellent team working to make clinical messaging in the NHS and beyond more intelligent, more secure, and just all-round better. Great fun to work in an industry I can actually talk about, too, so feel free to ask more!During my time here our clinical messaging product was used extensively by those in the NHS and DMS, including many in the front-line of the pandemic. During one month alone, this drove usage growth in excess of 700%, and I helped our team scale the service by working on efficiency at the SQL, API, and even the Mobile App UX. By the time we were exiting the initial phase of the pandemic, the service used less resource than on entry, supported several times the numbers of users, and had significantly less downtime than many other common messaging tools. New feature development pace did not slow down.
  • Surevine
    Odd Job Man
    Surevine Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
    Retained at Surevine for consultancy relating to Tactical Chat, Security Labelling and Cross Domain systems, related to Openfire, Metre, Spiffing, and more.
  • Surevine
    Senior Software Engineer
    Surevine Mar 2014 - Oct 2018
    (Remote)
    Surevine design, build and deliver secure digital workplaces for UK Central Government and organisations with equally demanding security requirements, to harness the power of internal expertise in a safe, trusted environment; allowing people to work smarter in organisations that participate, collaborate and innovate.
  • Threads Styling Ltd.
    Software Engineer
    Threads Styling Ltd. Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
    Using my skills in mission-critical chat communications, I worked with an incredibly skilled team in Threads to apply these same skills to the world of chat commerce.
  • Openfire
    Project Lead
    Openfire Jun 2014 - Jan 2018
    Openfire (formerly Wildfire and Jive Messenger) was first published in (or around) 2002, making it one of the oldest-developed XMPP servers still in active use, as well as one of the most popular servers within enterprise, government, and military.I came into the project to help manage the recent upsurge in development, in the run-up to the 4.0.0 release.
  • Xmpp Standards Foundation
    Director
    Xmpp Standards Foundation Nov 2013 - Nov 2014
    Elected to the Board for another stint, November 2013.The XSF an independent, nonprofit standards development organization whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).
  • Arcode
    Senior Engineer
    Arcode Feb 2013 - Mar 2014
    (Remote)
    Responsible for the mail protocol stack of Inky.
  • Isode Ltd
    Vp Engineering (Xmpp)
    Isode Ltd 2011 - Feb 2013
    (Remote)
    Responsible for Isode Ltd's XMPP products, including both Isode M-Link and Isode's variant of Swift, and management of the excellent team that works on them. I remained (or tried to remain) active in development, mostly in terms of M-Link itself.
  • Isode Ltd
    Software Engineer, Xmpp Team Lead
    Isode Ltd Aug 2006 - Oct 2011
    (Remote)
    Designing, implementing and testing aspects of M-Box, M-Link, M-Vault, and M-Switch.
  • Xmpp Standards Foundation
    Director And Chairman Of The Board
    Xmpp Standards Foundation Nov 2011 - Oct 2012
    Elected to the Board, November 2011.The XSF an independent, nonprofit standards development organization whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).Unlike most instant messaging protocols, XMPP is an open standard. Like e-mail, anyone who has a domain name and a suitable Internet connection can run their own XMPP server and talk to users on other servers. XMPP is the protocol behind services such as Google's Gtalk and LiveJournal's LJ Talk.
  • Xmpp Standards Foundation
    Xmpp Council Member
    Xmpp Standards Foundation Sep 2007 - Mar 2010
    Elected as an XMPP Council member, to handle the standardization side of the XSF. Resigned when pressures of time sadly forced me to.
  • Inventure Systems Ltd
    Director
    Inventure Systems Ltd Dec 2004 - Jul 2006
    Inventure Systems did two things: First, we helped small business and home users get the most from their computers. Second, we used the revenue we gain from that to reinvest into development.
  • Clues Ltd
    Director / Consultant
    Clues Ltd Feb 2002 - Dec 2004
    Founded Clues along with Steve and Martin, as a general IT consultancy at the height of an IT recession. Consistently made a profit.
  • Felspar Ltd
    Developer
    Felspar Ltd 1999 - 2001
    Fleps, as it was affectionately known, was a company providing billing systems to telcos, enterprise intranet portals to banks, and all manner of information management systems to all manner of customers - a couple of which went bust at the wrong moment, effectively killing the company.As a senior developer, I worked on both the JScript/ASP frontend systems and the C++ backend systems, on the lower level object database and the high-level presentation layer. I also brought new recruits up to speed on UML, C++, SQL, JScript, and all the other technologies we used. Finally, I particularly enjoyed having C3P0 come into the office every other week and take us all out for a chinese meal.
  • Cerbernet Ltd
    Network Manager
    Cerbernet Ltd 1997 - 1999
    Back in the Dark Days of Dialup, Cerbernet were proud to be one of the few independent ISPs providing high speed, always-on connectivity to everyone from art galleries to the film industry. I developed the network as part of a fantastic, enthusiastic and talented team.
  • Global Internet Ltd
    Systems Administrator
    Global Internet Ltd 1996 - 1997

Dave Cridland Skills

Open Source Xmpp Linux Software Development C++ Mobile Devices Software Engineering Python Imap Unix Architecture Distributed Systems Beer Making Tea C Scalability Cloud Computing Sql Enterprise Software Random Endorsements Tcp/ip Xml Shell Scripting Acap Android Architectures Curiosity Random Vibration Open Source Software Parenting

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