Tony Ibbs

I write software for a living. I am:

• a general programmer, used to taking on whatever tasks are necessary, either as an individual or as part of a group, acquiring any new skills required, and providing appropriate solutions. My skills centre around producing clear, well commented, maintainable code that does what the customer requires.
• a toolsmith. I expect to spend a significant portion of my time writing and maintaining tools and documentation that help myself and others to do our jobs (recently, writing tools to manipulate MPEG video streams, investigating cross-platform compilation, writing "how to" documents on our internal systems, and so on).

I am currently most experienced in C, Python and embedded Linux.

I've used C since 1988, and Python since 1994, but am happy to work in other programming languages as necessary, and once spent a very satisfying year embedding Java into a GIS.

I'm operating system agnostic -- I've done a significant amount of work on various Unices (including Solaris and Linux), Windows NT and others, Mac OS/X and VMS.

I'm an ex-XEmacs user who now mostly works in Vim, but quite likes the Visual Studio environment as well. I've worked with FrameMaker, Tex/LaTeX, Runoff, Office and its relatives and HTML and its variants, and am also interested in Javascript and CSS.

In the past, I've worked in Geographic Information Systems, but for the last several years I've been working in the Set Top Box field, with embedded Linux systems (from choosing a toolchain, to writing serial bootloaders, integrating the system, and then all levels of the software stack) and MPEG data.

I enjoy learning new things, and am happy to explore new fields of endeavour.

I am the secretary of CamPUG, the local Python user group.

I am the administrator and principal author of two open-source projects:

• the tstools package, a set of open-source cross-platform command line tools for working with MPEG data.
• kbus, a lightweight messaging system for embedded, Linux-based platforms.

A one-page summary CV is here as HTML, here as PDF, both generated from this reStructuredText file.

A more detailed CV, with employment history and other matters, is here as HTML, here as PDF, and again as the original reStructuredText.

Other formats can be produced if that would be more convenient.

References are available on request.

A longish summary of my career at Laser-Scan (1980--2003, written in 2003) is available, either as HTML or reStructuredText. This includes a summary of my standards work.