Kenneth Davis
Programme Officer, UNEP Chemicals And Health Branch
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Davis is an environmental and earth science professional with 22 years’ experience leveraging data, geospatial analysis, and visualization to inform policy and drive sustainable development across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and globally. At UNEP he leads knowledge management and technical assistance for major initiatives such as the $120M planetGOLD programme to reduce mercury use in artisanal gold mining and has developed data platforms to monitor planetary risks. His background spans international treaty support at the U.S. EPA, field-focused geology and remediation work, and program management of science collaborations—combining hands-on technical skills with policy and donor coordination. Unusually for a senior environmental officer, he also contributes to legacy open-source systems as a systems architect on the FreeDOS kernel, reflecting a pragmatic engineering mindset and attention to cross-compiler build stability. He holds an MS in Geological Sciences from UC Santa Barbara and a BS in Geology from William & Mary, and is based in Geneva.
21 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MS, Geological Sciences, MS, Geological Sciences at UC Santa BarbaraB.S., Geology, B.S., Geology at William & Mary
Russian, French, English
Github Skills (8)
c1710
compiler-optimization10
kernel10
assembly10
c1110
sys10
kernel-mode10
build-system9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
FDOS/kernel
Jun 2004 - Oct 2022
FreeDOS kernel - implements the core MS-DOS/PC-DOS (R) compatible operating system. It is derived from Pat Villani's DOS-C kernel and released under the GPL v2 or later. Please see http://www.freedos.org/ for more details about the FreeDOS (TM) Project.
Role in this project:
System Architect / Software Architect
System Architect / Software ArchitectContributions:1 release, 1 review, 162 commits in 18 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily focuses on building and maintaining the FreeDOS kernel, addressing build issues across multiple compilers, and improving code quality. They fixed build processes, including updating scripts for compatibility with different compilers like Open Watcom. Furthermore, they addressed several compiler warnings, specifically W115, by modifying code structures to improve the build's stability and reduce potential issues. Additionally, they updated comments within the code to provide better explanations.
kerneloperating-systemgpllinuxderived
FDOS/append
Jun 2006 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
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