Antony (Tony) Butterfield Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Distributed Systems

Bristol, Gb

• 1060 Research invented micro-services and resource oriented computing, commercialising it as NetKernel.• Diverse roles as member of small startup including low-level Java optimisation, full-stack development, SDLC, dev-ops, grass-roots marketing, customer acquisition, customer support, roadmap, and business development. • IETF submission draft-butterfield-active-uri-01 in collaboration with HP Labs – active URI, encoding of recursive function invocation • 2 patents granted: ◦ 8,510,750 (US), 2347333 (EU) Method for caching resource representations in a contextual address space ◦ 8,589,945 (US) Method for locating, resolving and invoking software functions• Customer project highlights: ◦ DITO – Google Premier Partner, acting as technical manager and architect in small team developing a value-add customer portal over diverse Google APIs. ◦ LARGE EU BANK – Assigned Strategic Technology Partner status – created POC credit valuation adjustment (CVA) and portfolio calculation compute clusters running on Kubernetes. ◦ BESTBUY – moving portions of web property to NetKernel running on AWS including semantic technology based recommendation system and product image resizing, compression and serving infrastructure.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Technical design and implementation of micro-kernel architecture XML engine.• Java performance tuning and optimisation.• Evaluation and integration of dozens of open source technologies and standards.• Work published in HP Labs technical report in 2004

• Startup to commercialise “uniform interface” component model into product and consultancy business.• Worked with several customers to develop POCs.

Reading, Berkshire, Gb

• Member of architecture team defining, building, evangelising a Java component infrastructure for data transfer, commands, eventing, and persistence. • Release and coordination within 80 man project and 4 feature development teams.• Early use of XML messaging between components.• UML modelling and Java performance tuning.

New York, Ny, Us

• Developed and consulted on SOA distributed object architecture using CORBA.• Build a global reference data system with Swing frontend and Sybase.• Mentoring team members in object-oriented and Java concepts.

• Early of adopter of Java working with rapidly evolving JDK and Swing UI libraries.• Developed several visual programming and configuration platforms for management of call centre and telephony systems including a fully featured dashboard and alerting system using dataflow paradigm.

• Participated in the development of a software defined radio for the UK army.• Developed sub-systems in Microsoft C++ using ObjectStore object database.• Worked within a large team using the latest version control and configuration management practices.

• Seeded development of object-oriented implementation of human resource software used by McDonalds franchises across Australia.• Technical manager and architect of 5 person team.• Developed system with Borland C++, Poet Object database, and a Windows GUI.• Implemented custom DSL for complex Australian pay and award rules.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Involved in rollout of EFTPOS system to major Australian supermarket chain.• Wide ranging work from developing low-level device drivers to reporting interfaces for Oracle Forms.

• Onsite at IBM Hursley developing CICS for AIX.• Junior programmer on functional test team.• Gained in-depth experience with COBOL, C, and shell-script programming.

• Self taught Z80 assembler and MSX system chip programming• Wrote 5 arcade games for ZX Spectrum and Memotech MTX• One game featured as best selling game of the month in user group magazine, and several 5 star reviews in national magazines.

Bsc, Computer Systems Engineering

A-Level Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry