Carl Wilson
Technical Lead at Open Preservation Foundation
Greater Leeds Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolCarl Wilson is a Technical Lead with over 10 years’ experience specialising in software quality, continuous delivery, and automation for digital preservation projects. He leads the veraPDF development effort for the Open Preservation Foundation, driving CI/CD, virtualization and testing practices while still contributing hands-on Java and WordPress/PHP work. Previously he shaped preservation architectures and tool interoperability at The British Library across major EU projects like SCAPE and PLANETS. An open source enthusiast and occasional webinar presenter, he blends deep engineering discipline with standards-focused preservation expertise. Based in the Greater Leeds area, he pairs a physics background with decades of systems-level programming across C++, Java and infrastructure tooling.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Physics and Astrophysics, Physics and Astrophysics at Leeds UniversityKings School Gutersloh
English
Github Skills (38)
pdf10
extraction10
file-validation10
validation10
digital-signature10
ubl10
pdf-generation10
unlock10
credit10
obsolete10
digital-preservation9
feature-extraction9
metadata9
installer9
parser8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
veraPDF/veraPDF-library
Mar 2016 - Nov 2017
Industry supported, open source PDF/A validation library
Contributions:45 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
creditpdfvalidationvalidation-librarysupported
veraPDF/veraPDF-model
Jul 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 508 tags in 9 years 9 months
pdfvalidationdslverapdfmodel-validation
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