Jon Easterbrook
Retired at Home
Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJon Easterbrook is a retired CAD engineer based in Gloucester with over three decades of hands-on experience designing, implementing and supporting CAD toolchains for semiconductor design flows. He specialises in extracting practical requirements from users, defining layered specifications, and building diagnostic-rich, resilient tooling across platforms such as Synopsys, ICFB/DFII, Avanti and in-house systems (including Fat Freddy). Comfortable in a wide range of languages from Fortran and BCPL to C, Java, Tcl and Cadence Skill, he combines deep legacy-system expertise with a pragmatic focus on data structures and maintainable documentation. Although officially retired, he continues to work on technical projects—most notably a lightweight, programmable text editor (JoyOfText) intended to tame large CAD files—and remains open to interesting CAD-related consulting engagements.
10 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Portsmouth PolytechnicKing Edward VI School, Bury St. Edmunds
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
python-logging6
raspberry-pi6
exif6
python6
dng6
libgphoto26
Github contributions (3)
joneasterbrook/hello-world
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 14 days
joneasterbrook/jot_source
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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