#+TITLE: Curriculum Vitae of Alex Bennée
** Summary
I am a software engineer with 30 years of experience in the industry,
mostly at the 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, emulation, kernel space and hypervisors. 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 of 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 as 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 several 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, ICEs, oscilloscopes 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 Arm architecture support in the upstream project. As a
maintainer, I work with others across the community to keep QEMU as an
actively 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 the up-streaming of useful features into the
codebase.

I am also involved in projects to improve the range and deployment 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 ecosystem. This predominantly involves
working directly with the upstream [[http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main/Page][KVM]] and [[https://www.qemu.org][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 QEMU subsystems
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 codebase, and developing new
features. A major aspect of my work was modernising 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 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 principal software engineer of early stage VC 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 codebase. 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*

As 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 engineering 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 end 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 on the 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