Kevin Glass
Lead Solutions Engineer at CafeX Communications Inc.
Greater Cardiff Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Glass is a seasoned technologist and Lead Solutions Engineer with 20+ years building distributed systems, real-time communications, and UX-driven applications, primarily in TypeScript and Java. He has a long track record at CafeX Communications—rising through innovation and CTO roles—and most recently combines hands-on engineering with business development to shape company strategy. His experience spans defence embedded systems, large-scale data warehousing, and standards engagement, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective from low-level native work to high-level product decisions. An active contributor to legacy game tooling, he enhanced the LWJGL 2.x library with cross-platform input and windowing features, illustrating a pragmatic ability to bridge native and Java ecosystems. Based in the Greater Cardiff Area, he excels at turning complex requirements into usable products and thrives at the intersection of technical leadership, customer-facing sales, and community development.
20 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Wales - College CardiffBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Wales, Cardiff
Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LWJGL/lwjgl
Jun 2005 - Apr 2009
[LEGACY] LWJGL 2.X - The Lightweight Java Game Library.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions focused on enhancing the LWJGL 2.X library. They implemented and integrated JInput controller input support, including platform-specific native libraries for macOS and Linux, as well as a Java wrapper. Further contributions involved implementing window icon setting functionality across multiple platforms (Win32, MacOS, Linux), including the native code for Win32 using a custom icon creation function, and using AWT images for MacOS.
2-xjava-gamegame-libraryopengl3opengl
kevglass/gute
May 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 21 commits, 9 PRs in 11 months
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