Colin Watson

   42 Aragon Close
   Cambridge
   CB4 2SU
   cjwatson@chiark.greenend.org.uk

Employment

   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.

Other Experience

   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
   ([1]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.

Education

   1997-2000: Trinity College, Cambridge
   1990-1997: Our Lady and St. Patrick's College, Knock

Academic Qualifications

   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
   [2]http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/cv/.

   Last modified: $Date: 2009-09-21 15:39:40 +0100 (Mon, 21 Sep 2009) $
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    Colin Watson 2009-09-21

References

   1. http://www.debian.org/
   2. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/cv/