I’m a software engineer with a fancy title at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, which is doing cool things in the field of DNA sequencing.
I’m a proponent, and heavy user, of free software. In the past, I have been heavily involved in writing it as well, contributing to and maintaining several KDE projects.
I believe that communication and diversity are both (still) undervalued in software, and so I have a strong interest in documentation, culture and outreach.
I love learning new things, which is partly why I follow more podcasts than I have time to listen to. I also read too many webcomics for my own good. Hit me up for recommendations.
DPhil (PhD) in Computer Science, 2014
University of Oxford
MMathCS in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2008
University of Oxford
In the past, I have been active in the open source community. I have contributed to and maintained several KDE projects, especially in the KDE Frameworks, but have largely stepped back from this for personal reasons.
I am also co-maintainer (and one of the primary authors) of MPRIS v2, a specification that describes how to find and communicate with media players on the free software desktop.
In a past life, I worked on Quantomatic and TikZiT as part of my DPhil. My thesis forms part of the theoretical underpinnings of Quantomatic.
In my day job, I work in C++/Boost (along with Python and a smattering of Go) on software for single-molecule sequencing devices.