Anthony Williams
Software Engineer at Just Software Solutions Ltd
Penzance, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAnthony Williams is a seasoned C++ software engineer with 13 years of professional experience, best known as the author of C++ Concurrency in Action and a long-time Boost contributor. He designs and implements multi-threaded applications and libraries for Windows and Unix, with deep expertise in concurrency, database-driven client-server systems, and user-focused GUI design. Anthony runs his own consultancy, Just Software Solutions, and currently applies his skills at Woven by Toyota, bringing practical library-level thinking to application engineering. His background spans embedded and instrumented systems to robotics and automotive projects, reflecting a knack for reliable, low-level engineering across domains. An Oxford-trained physicist, he pairs strong theoretical grounding with pragmatic coding and an ongoing commitment to open-source C++ ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys, Physics, MPhys, Physics at University of Oxford
Stackoverflow
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windows-installer
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winapi
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sql
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synchronization
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concurrency
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parallel-processing
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Github Skills (96)
parser10
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commonmark10
extensible10
cpp10
concurrency10
markdown10
mutex10
bbcode10
parallel-processing10
sql10
boost10
sqlite10
dll10
linker10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tcbrindle/variant
Jun 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:149 commits in 1 year 4 months
anthonywilliams/jthread
Jan 2019 - May 2021
C++ class for a joining and cooperative interruptible thread (should become std::jthread)
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
stdcppcooperativeheader-onlythread
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