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Santiago De Compostela, Ga, Es

Decommissioning a legacy network management system used by global network teams:• Building and operating a new, transitional API layer to allow incremental migration to new systems• Support for ongoing users of the legacy system, including targetted fixes in a large undocumented codebase with millions of lines of C++, SQL, Perl and Python• Migrated hundreds of legacy data import+export workflows to modern infrastructure• Documenting as much as we can along the way

Main technical contributor on the Codethink marketing team.• Writing and reviewing articles and social media posts• Collaborating with staff writers, domain experts and PR agency• Website maintenance and SEO

Open Research and Development • Set up and maintain openQA-based integration testing for GNOME • Marketing and outreach via blog posts and conference talks

Assist with BuildStream 2.0 release: • Improved Python packaging • Coordinated documentation and website updates • Presentation at OSSEU 2022

Build improvements for large infrastructure product: • Identify, control and manage large set of open-source dependencies using BuildStream • Incremental migration of large codebase to Python 3 • Integrate with Make-based integration system involving 1000s of targets, custom artifact sharing system and continuous integration powered by Jenkins

Business Modelling Software • Developed code and tests using TypeScript and Elm for a FINOS-backed modelling tool • Mapped domain-specific types into TypeScript, including serialization & deserialization of data values

Santiago De Compostela, Galicia, Spain

Web browser for Automotive • Adapted Chromium web browser for use in a touch-screen IVI system • Integrated browser with existing render pipeline, input framework and IPC mechanism. • Managed profile migration from previous web browser.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Services and consultancy for various embedded, desktop and web projects. Free software means freedom from writing the same code over and over again, and the freedom to take a holistic look at a system and fix problems at the root cause instead of papering over the cracks somewhere else.