Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
Experienced CTO/Software Architect with a history of working on tough problems in the cloud and aerospace industries. Expert in Cloud Orchestration, MANET Routing Protocols, and Delay Tolerant Networking.
Founder and CTO of High Frontier, a company specialising in Bundle Protocol/DTN solutions for terrestrial and deep-space environments
I lead the software development of the Airbus Plexos product line, designing and implementing the fully-featured multi-protocol software-defined routing platform. I also lead the research at Airbus in MANET routing and Delay and Disruption Networking, hence my ongoing involvement with the IETF.
I was engaged to lead the design and development of a custom routing protocol designed for highly dynamic ad-hoc networks, delivering into the military, blue-light and unmanned aerial vehicle markets. The programme involved designing a new lightweight routing protocol, and testing its suitability in various conditions. Having completed the routing protocol stack, the system was integrated into a custom Linux platform running with cryptographic separation, onto a bespoke Cortex A8 hardware platform. As part of the system development, I became increasingly involved in the Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol specification, eventually being asked to join the authorship team. The resulting system won The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) award for Telecommunications Innovation in 2012.