Alan Budden
Technical Manager at Renishaw
Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Budden is a Technical Manager with 17 years’ experience leading multidisciplinary international teams to deliver robust electro-mechanical and embedded systems from concept through certified production. With a PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and a track record at Renishaw and Rotork, he combines deep hands-on electronics, firmware and control systems expertise with strategic leadership of cross-border design and manufacturing teams. He has driven product innovation including patented sensor technology and safety-critical IEC 61508 designs while improving software practices through unit testing, CI and automated testing. An active contributor to the Nim language core library, he has also implemented numeric and string utilities that reflect his focus on precision and reliable low-level software. Based in Gloucester, he excels at translating complex multi-domain requirements into manufacturable, testable products and coaching engineers toward chartered status.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1st Class Honours, Master’s Degree, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1st Class Honours at University of Bristol
English
Github Skills (10)
mathematics10
compiler10
nim-lang10
string-formatting10
compiler-compiler10
math10
string-format10
procedural9
macros8
efficientnet7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
nim-lang/Nim
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 16 PRs, 78 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to the Nim programming language core library, specifically the `math.nim` and `strutils.nim` modules, by implementing and modifying mathematical functions. They focused on enhancing the functionality of floating-point operations such as `round()` and `splitDecimal()`, and also implemented functions for string formatting. The user's work involved code modifications, documentation updates, and test case additions to validate the implemented features.
pythonnim-langelegancecompilerprogramming-language
gauravjuvekar/abudden-EasyColour
Aug 2011 - Nov 2013
Contributions:66 commits in 2 years 3 months
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