Dick Porter
Consultant Software Engineer at Ecgtheow Ltd
Greater Swansea Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDick Porter is a Consultant Software Engineer with 26 years’ experience delivering robust, cross-platform systems primarily in C and C# across Linux, Unix and embedded environments. He has deep expertise in portability, low-level networking and runtime internals, having contributed fixes and features to the widely used Mono runtime (including platform-specific system code and non-blocking socket work). As founder of Ecgtheow Ltd he has led projects integrating modern web UIs (Angular, React, Node) with terabyte-scale analytics and authored Kibana plugins to embed observability into high-rate network forensics products. His background includes fault-hunting race conditions and memory/GC tuning for production servers, plus porting Windows-centric systems to lean Linux/ARM targets with Yocto. Based in Greater Swansea, he combines academic grounding (MSc Communications Systems) with a pragmatic consultancy mindset that thrives on solving subtle interoperability and scalability problems. Notably, his contributions to Mono and embedded TLS/OSL components show a rare blend of systems-level rigor and front-end delivery.
26 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Computer Science, Bsc, Computer Science at University of Wales, Swansea
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Github Skills (15)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
solaris10
csharp10
runtimes10
dotnet-core10
operating-system9
sys9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
jit8
unit-testing6
nodejs6
angular6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mono/mono
Sep 2001 - Apr 2011
Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:881 commits in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dick contributed to the Mono project by modifying system-level and platform-specific code. Their work included enabling features on specific platforms like Solaris, and addressing compatibility issues. They also worked on system-level configurations, such as non-blocking sockets for improved stability.
dotnetjitruntimemonoandroid
ecgtheow/can-deactivate-guard
Nov 2018 - Sep 2020
A boilerplate CanDeactivate guard for Angular routing
Contributions:4 releases, 3 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 9 months
boilerplateangular-routingroutingangularguard
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