Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead
Abergavenny, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Bennée is a Virtualisation Tech Lead with 18 years of system-software experience, specialising in Linux, open source and embedded platforms and currently driving virtualization support across ARM at Linaro. A proven technical leader and upstream contributor to QEMU and Linux, he combines hands-on engineering—such as low-level work on dynamic binary translation—with mentoring and cross-team delivery. His GitHub work spans practical developer tooling (notably enhancements to the popular Emacs swiper package) and deep virtualization plumbing, reflecting a rare blend of productivity-focused UX tweaks and low-level systems hacking. Based in Abergavenny, Wales, he brings a track record of shipping complex projects in both consultancy and product roles, and a knack for turning obscure platform constraints into robust, upstreamed solutions.
18 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Chemistry, BSc, Chemistry at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (11)
ivy10
gnu-make10
elisp10
makefile10
build-automation9
co9
el9
completions8
searching8
emacs-lisp8
emacs8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
abo-abo/swiper
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 20 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the `counsel-compile` feature within the Emacs package, `swiper`. Their contributions involved implementing and refining functionality for compiling code within the project. This included adding features such as filtered history, integration with build directories, and incorporating environment variable support. Furthermore, the user refactored and improved the process of obtaining make targets, adding a new helper using help output.
elispcounselivygenericemacs
stsquad/checkpatch-mode
Jul 2014 - Jan 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
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