Oliver Emberton
Chief Executive Officer at Metamorph AI
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Emberton is an entrepreneur, programmer and writer who has led Silktide since founding it in 2001 and now serves as CEO while also acting as CTO at Metamorph AI. He began programming at age 8 and built a million-line Windows-like GUI by 16, demonstrating deep hands-on engineering chops alongside long-term company leadership. A prolific essayist whose pieces have appeared in Forbes, Huffington Post and Lifehacker and whose Quora writing reached record engagement, he blends product vision with public-facing thought leadership. On GitHub he contributes front-end improvements to widely used projects such as osano/cookieconsent, reflecting attention to UX and responsive design in privacy tooling. Based in Austin and trained in AI at the University of Derby, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with practical technical depth and a side pursuit of a novel.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing Studies (Artificial Intelligence), BSc Computing Studies (Artificial Intelligence) at University of Derby
Stackoverflow
951reputation
103kreached
24answers
2questions
Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
user-interface10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
javascript9
ui-designer8
wordpress6
internet-explorer6
sanitize6
language-agnostic6
php6
computer-science6
endianness6
naming-conventions6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
osano/cookieconsent
Jun 2015 - May 2017
A free solution to the EU, GDPR, and California Cookie Laws
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily focused on the front-end development of the project, contributing significant effort to the design and implementation of the demo pages. Their work involved refining the styling and layout of the demo examples, as well as improving the user interface for different themes and functionalities. They also added links and made the demos responsive, which enhanced the overall user experience. The commits demonstrate a strong focus on CSS styling and HTML structure.
legalcookie-consentjavascriptccpaeu-gdpr
silktide/HTML_CodeSniffer
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
HTML_CodeSniffer is a client-side JavaScript application that checks a HTML document or source code, and detects violations of a defined coding standard. Comes with standards that cover the three conformance levels of the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and the U.S. Section 508 legislation.
Contributions:8 releases, 14 pushes, 8 tags in 1 year 4 months
legislationaccessibilitywcag-guidelineshtml-codesniffersection-508
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