Tim Barbour Email & Phone Number

I am *not* a specialist.An architect needs sufficiently broad and deep expertise to use the best applicable techniques in any situation.I do IT architecture, with the best technologies, and all kinds of people. I've done it for twenty years already.I have a depth of knowledge and skill resulting from a lifelong enthusiasm for computers. I believe the creative use of computers is the best means of improvement we have, and therefore I study and practice the best computing techniques.A shipwright who was ignorant of the use of steel could only produce designs for wooden boats. It is just as important for an architect to understand the capabilities of modern programming languages.I'm a hands-on programmer across all 20th-century paradigms (procedural, OOP, FP, CLP), but I'm still learning about 21st-century techniques (type theory). I've written around a hundred thousand lines of code, in about fifteen languages.I like higher-order point-free style, such as the following (working code):

Listed skills include Linux, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Computing, Object Oriented Design, and 43 others.