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* Curriculum Vitae of Alex Bennée

** Summary

I am a software engineer with 30 years experience in industry, mostly

at Lead or Senior engineer level. I'm well versed in the breadth of

Free, Libre and Open Source (FLOSS) technologies often associated with

the GNU/Linux platform. My core competencies are in embedded systems

and kernel engineering. I am a pragmatic open source advocate and

contribute to several open source projects in both professional and

personal capacities. I also share most of my [[http://github.com/stsquad][personal code]] and

maintain a few small open source projects.



** Skills

I have a strong track record in development and successful project

delivery. I am well versed in hardware development and have taken a

number of heterogeneous embedded platforms from conception to

manufacturing. I have an excellent understanding containerisation,

virtualisation and hypervisor technologies as well as networking

technologies.



I have a long history of mentorship and outreach work helping develop

engineers within companies as well working with community schemes such

as [[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/][Google Summer of Code]] and [[https://www.outreachy.org/][Outreachy]]. I have also presented work at

a number of conferences including a number of keynotes for the QEMU

project. I write technical blog posts both for companies and

communities to showcase developments and plans.



*Languages*: C/C++, Assembly, Rust, Python, Shell, Emacs Lisp



*Architectures*: ARM, x86/x86-64, PPC, SPARC, many more



*Platforms*: Linux (in many forms), Hypervisors (KVM/Xen), BSDs, *not*

Windows



*Tools*: Emacs, GNU toolchain, GIT forges, ICE's, scopes and logic analysers,

various CI systems, common FLOSS workflows



** Recent Employment

*** [[http://www.linaro.org][Linaro]]



/December 2022 to Present/\\

*Senior Tech Lead for Virtualisation and Emulation*



I am responsible for the core [[https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/QEMU/overview][QEMU team]] responsible for driving the

evolution of the Arm architecture support in the upstream project. As

a maintainer continue to work with others across the community to keep

QEMU as an active supported project for a wide variety of use cases. I

work with external members and other internal groups to advise and

problem solve to support up-streaming of useful features into the code

base.



I am also the lead for [[https://linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ORKO/overview][Project Orko]] which is a open project to improve

the range and deployments of VirtIO technology as an open abstracted

interface for various workloads across multiple hypervisors.



/November 2013 to December 2022/\\

*Senior Software Engineer*



I support and develop new features for various flavours of

virtualisation in the ARM eco-system. This predominately involves

working directly with the upstream [[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page][KVM]] and [[http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page][QEMU]] FLOSS projects. My

first project was helping with the initial ARMv8 support for QEMU.

Since then I've worked on numerous aspects of the emulator including

enabling [[https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/tcg-multithread][multi-threaded emulation]] and a [[https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/TCGPlugins][plugin system]] for dynamic

analysis. I am an upstream maintainer for a number of the QEMU

subsystem and have given numerous talks at Linaro and KVM forum

conferences.



*** [[http://www.cbnl.com][Cambridge Broadband]]

/November 2011 to November 2013/\\

*Head of Software/Principal Software Engineer*



Reporting to the Head of Engineering I was responsible for a team of

engineers maintaining all software elements (FPGA, Embedded and

network management) of the VectaStar product. My responsibilities

included balancing the demands on the team of supporting existing

customers, improving the quality of the code base and developing new

features. A major aspect of my work was modernising the development

practices and reducing the reliance on knowledge locked up in the

original developers heads.



/March 2008 to November 2011/\\

*NMS Software Engineer*



I joined the company to design and build their [[http://cbnl.com/resources/vectastar-network-management-vnms][Network Management

System]]. This involved taking their existing element management

software (EMS) and combining it with long-term monitoring and fault

finding and analysis tools on a customised distribution of [[http://www.ubuntu.com][Ubuntu]]. I

also got involved in kernel work and system bring-up for new products.



*** Transitive

/January 2005 to March 2008/\\

*Lead Software Engineer*



I was the Product Lead for the development of a SPARC/Solaris to

x86/Solaris dynamic binary translator. I previously worked on the

development of the SPARC/Solaris to x86_64/Linux translator. Aside

from technical planning and leadership I also represented the company

at various technical conferences and was involved in mentoring fellow

engineers.



*** Braddahead, St Helens

/September 2002 to January 2005/\\

*Senior Code Hacker*



I worked as the principle Software Engineer of a venture capital

backed startup developing next generation Digital Video Recorders for

the security market. I was responsible for the software architecture

as well as a large portion of the in house code base. Braddahead

completed a successful exit in July 2004 when it was bought by Baxall

Ltd.



*** Marconi Communications, Liverpool

/January 1999 to September 2002/\\

*Software Team Leader - Line Systems Development*



While I was a team leader I led a variety of embedded line card

projects. I was involved in a large number of process improvement

activities as well as contributing my engineer experience.



/December 1997 to January 1999/\\

*Software Engineer - System X Line Card Development*



I started in the department supporting the existing Basic Rate ISDN line

cards at the tail of the "Home Highway" development and went on to work

on further line controller developments.



*** Barcrest Ltd, Ashton-under-Lyne

/November 1994 to December 1997/\\

*Software Engineer - Video Game Development*



I worked doing analysis, simulation, implementation and testing of

Video Gaming software for various Casinos and other high stakes

markets.



*** The Technology Partnership, Cambridge

/July 1994 to November 1994/\\

*Software Engineer*



I was taken on a short-term contract to develop an experimental teaching

aid for the deaf. During my time there I became involved in a variety of

other projects including writing software to drive some prototype

industrial hardware.



** Education

*University of Manchester - BSc. in Chemistry*



My final year project was a computer based analysis of Transfer RNA.



** Contact and Personal Details

- Name: Alexis James Bennée

- Location: South Wales, UK

- Email: alex@bennee.com

- Homepage: www.bennee.com/~alex/

- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbennee