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Nicholas Barnes
Founder, director, and Senior Consultant.
Expertise
- Software engineering
management. How to deliver products of known quality on time
and to budget.
- Software architecture and
design. Abstraction and modularity to produce scalable,
portable, robust, and flexible solutions.
- Software development. ISO C
(chapter and verse). MFC. Python. Building solid code.
Refactoring. Compilers, debuggers, even staring at hex dumps.
Performance analysis and improvement.
- Memory management. Garbage
collection, manual memory management, custom solutions, analysis and
advice.
- Network and systems management. Sendmail, POP3, DNS, DHCP,
PPP, Apache, Majordomo, IPFW, etc.
Experience
- 1997-present: Director, Ravenbrook Limited. Consulting
for clients in the UK and the US. Management, analysis, architecture,
design, coding, refactoring, coding standards, process definition and
improvement, internet and intranet design and coding, systems and
network management. Also director of a small ISP, Verity Networks
Limited.
- 1990-1997: Computer Consultant, Harlequin Limited. Compilers,
runtimes, thread systems, profilers, process improvement, memory management.
With a two year break as:
- 1992-1993: Visiting Research Programmer, Fox Project, Carnegie Mellon
University: compilers, runtimes, thread systems, networking, academic
research.
- Before 1990: A number of inconsequential short-term programming jobs.
Education
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