Summary

  • From northern England
  • Played squash at national level
  • Coached several other national players
  • Played, designed & built electric guitars
  • Some experience with live sound & lighting
  • Some experience with studio recording and production
  • BSc (Honours) Maths and Physics @ University of Leeds
  • BSc project: developing distributed statistical mechanics simulation & analysing results
  • MSc (Merit) Photon Science @ University of Manchester
  • MSc project: improving photomultiplier gamma spectrometers
  • 1.5 years of PhD Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science
  • Lived in Estonia for ~2 years, living+working between Estonia/Sweden/UK since then for a few more years
  • Front-end components for home-pages of various Estonian Public Broadcasting channels
  • Starting with UK-based deep-tech accelerator Entrepreneur First
  • Can understand some very basic written Estonian & French & Swedish
  • Seemingly, can also understand some extremely basic Danish & Norwegian due to their similarity to Swedish
  • Designed a satellite operating system, and implemented 70% of it
  • Designed SDR-based ground-station software for communicating with satellites, deployed to three ground stations
  • Collaborated on design of sub-millisecond TRX switching for one ground station, to replace their slow mechanical TRX switch
  • Buzzwords
    • board games
    • virtual reality
    • light
    • imaging
    • photonics
    • lasers
    • space
    • rf / sdr
    • holography
    • analysis
    • modelling
    • automation
    • audio electronics
    • digital electronics
    • UNIX/Linux
    • C
    • C++
    • C#
    • Java
    • Pascal/Delphi
    • Perl
    • JavaScript
    • Angular.js
    • Node.js
    • LaTeX
    • 35mm photography
    • DSLR photography
  • Gear: Photography
    • Nikon D5100 DSLR
    • Nikkor 18-105mm
    • Nikkor 35mm (f1.8)
    • Sigma 10-20mm (f4-5.6)
    • Sigma 150-500mm
    • Hoya ND400 ND filter
    • Gorillapod
    • Pentax ME Super SLR
    • Hoya 75-205mm
    • Pentax 28mm (f2.8)
    • Many Pentax-compatible teleconverters
  • Gear: Music
    • Vox AD15VT amplifier
    • Marshall MG15DFX amplifier
    • Ibanez EW50CBE electro-acoustic
    • Various home-made electric guitars
    • Cheaparse 49-key MIDI controller
  • Gear: Gaming / “work”
    • Intel i7-2700K @ 5GHz
    • NVIDIA GTX1070
    • AMD Radeon HD4870+HD7750
    • Intel/Samsung SSDs
    • Dell Ultrasharp monitors
    • Das Ultimate keyboard
    • HP Probook 470 laptop
    • HTC Vive

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Photography