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Summary
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SeniorCarl 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.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
pdf10
file-validation10
credit10
digital-preservation9
feature-extraction9
extraction9
pdfbox9
ubl9
cli8
metadata8
validation8
dsl8
testing7
xtext6
plugin6
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
pdf
veraPDF/veraPDF-model
Jul 2015 - Sep 2025
veraPDF validation model described using veraPDF DSL
Contributions:4 pushes, 520 tags in 10 years 3 months
dsl
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