David Kinder
Senior Software Developer at SunGard Financial Systems - now part of FIS
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Kinder is a Senior Software Developer with nine years of professional experience building high-performance, multi-threaded C++ systems and rich Java Swing clients for financial applications. He has led major architectural restructurings that shifted computation to client machines, designed secure asynchronous messaging using Boost ASIO and WebSockets, and refactored complex Monte Carlo and derivative-pricing components into reusable libraries. His background includes secure, fault-tolerant messaging at Sophos and a history of building domain-specific scripting languages and dynamic UIs, reflecting strong systems design and language tooling skills. An Oxford-trained physicist (BA, PhD), he pairs rigorous analytical thinking with practical delivery, and contributes to open-source documentation for the well-known Inform 7 project, highlighting an attention to clarity and user-facing detail.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, First, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, First at University of Oxford
Github Skills (5)
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technical-writing10
inform79
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ganelson/inform
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
The core software distribution for the Inform 7 programming language.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:25 commits, 48 PRs, 19 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:David's commits primarily involve modifications to documentation files within the `ganelson/inform` repository. These changes include updates to advice documents, keyboard shortcuts, and core documentation files related to the Inform 7 programming language. The user is refining existing documentation, adding new details, and improving the overall clarity and structure of the project's documentation resources. The work focuses on providing clear and comprehensive guides for the software's usage.
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DavidKinder/Windows-Glulxe
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 3 commits, 18 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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