Ken Barker
Software Systems Consultant at Via Technology
Poole, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Barker is a software systems consultant with 11+ years focused on real-time, safety-critical aviation systems and standards such as RTCA DO-178C/DO-278A and ISO 9001/TickITplus. He has designed and delivered high-performance C++ and Python systems—from geodesic WGS84 algorithms and parallel Intel TBB/OpenCL servers to Kubernetes-based trajectory production pipelines and Qt/OpenGL visualization tools for Eurocontrol and Cobham. His work spans embedded avionics, distributed data integrity, and air traffic conflict-detection algorithms, and includes a patented method for assuring en-route aircraft separation. Based in Poole, he combines deep technical engineering with systems-level quality management and regulatory experience. Outside work he instructs sailing and powerboating, a hobby that complements his operational focus on safety, human factors and real-world testing.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Bath UniversityHighcliffe Comprehensive SchoolBrockenhurst College
Github Skills (35)
spatial-index10
building-blocks10
parallel-processing10
boost10
gpgpu9
parallel9
multithreading9
opencl9
api9
https-server9
cpp9
oneapi9
geometry8
rust8
embedding8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kenba/opencl3
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
A Rust implementation of the Khronos OpenCL 3.0 API.
Contributions:39 reviews, 157 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years
apiamdrustkhronosgpgpu
kenba/via-httplib
Dec 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:126 commits, 4 PRs, 460 pushes in 3 years 11 months
cppc-plus-plushttp-serverembeddinghttps-server
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