- 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
Graphics
Software
- C++14: Q-style promises, variadic currying, thread multi-pooling, non-blocking asynchronous task wrapper, unit-testing tools…
- Perl: g++ output pretty-printer
- Bash+Python: Box packing captioned photos onto a page
- JavaScript: Domain-specific language and parser builders
- AngularJS debugging tool for Chrome
- JavaScript: Gulp plugin to download and integrate webfonts from Google
- TeX: PGF/Tikz package for drawing directed graphs such as neural networks