Art Cathain
AI Safety Institute, Software Engineer at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolArt Cathain is a pragmatic technical architect and software engineer with 12 years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native systems across public and private sectors, now focused on AI safety at the UK government's AI Safety Institute. AWS-certified and fluent in Java/JVM and Node.js stacks, he combines hands-on coding with strategic architecture—proven across serverless, container, and VM deployments—while championing infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible) to automate reliable delivery. Comfortable embedded in teams, he balances developer productivity with early guardrails for security, cost and availability, and has a track record of winning senior stakeholder trust. A contributor to the well-known Thunderbird Android client, he brings practical mobile bug-fix experience alongside large-scale backend work. He works part-time with a flexible schedule and is explicit about availability, making him a predictable, senior partner for short- or long-term engagements.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems), MSc Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems) at Trinity College DublinMSci Mathematics and Physics, MSci Mathematics and Physics at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (40)
spring10
sendmail10
send-email10
java10
webservice10
soap10
e-mail10
javas10
junit10
warnings10
android10
maven10
generics10
eclipse10
mockito10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Sep 2014 - Jul 2021
Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:3 reviews, 58 commits, 23 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Art primarily contributed to bug fixes, specifically addressing warnings and errors within the codebase. These changes include modifications to Java files related to mail storage, caching, and the user interface. The commits also demonstrate an understanding of dependency management and code cleanup, improving the overall quality and stability of the application.
mailemailcommunicationandroidmozilla
artbristol/k9mail-docs
Jul 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:64 pushes, 39 branches in 2 years 8 months
wipmailemailsmtp
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