42 Aragon Close
Cambridge
CB4 2SU
cjwatson@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Oct 2008 - present day:
Technical Lead for the Ubuntu Foundations team.
Dec 2006 - Oct 2008:
Ubuntu Development Manager for Canonical, with responsibility for the Ubuntu
Foundations team.
May 2004 - Dec 2006:
Software developer for Canonical Ltd., leading the installer team for the
Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux.
May 2003 - May 2004:
Software Engineer for nCipher Corporation, Cambridge.
August 2000 - April 2003:
Software Engineer for Zeus Technology, Cambridge, specialising initially in
performance and later in web server development. Experience in Unix
performance tuning, C++, and Perl (both scripting and XS). Primary author of
the Perl extensions to the Zeus Web Server.
June-September 1999:
Summer job in C development (configuration management for embedded
communications software) at Data Connection, London.
Self-taught C, Perl, Python, and various other less useful languages, as well as some university-taught programming. I took part in several mathematical and programming competitions as a student, and was twice a member of Ireland's International Olympiad in Informatics team.
Unix development (both out of personal interest and professionally), and competency in Linux administration (Debian, Ubuntu).
In February 2001 I became a developer for the Debian Project (http://www.debian.org/). I currently maintain, among others, the man-db, groff, and ctags packages; I co-maintain openssh; and I am a member of the team which administers the bug tracking system.
I have held a full UK driving licence since 1996, free from endorsements.
I have a classical music background, with training in piano and cello, although these days most of my musical activity is singing.
1997-2000: Trinity College, Cambridge
1990-1997: Our Lady and St. Patrick's College, Knock
12 GCSEs (9 As, 3 A*s); 4 A-levels (4 As); 1 AS (A); 2 STEPs (S in Mathematics II, 1 in Mathematics III).
BA (Hons) in Computer Science from Trinity College, Cambridge; classed as I/I/II.2.
Copies of this CV in other formats are available at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/cv/.
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