Owen Rudge
PortJump Manager at Zernebok Hosting, Ltd.
Banchory, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Rudge is a seasoned software leader and engineer with 25 years’ experience delivering porting solutions, product development, and managed hosting from Banchory, Scotland. As PortJump Manager at CodeWeavers and founder of Zernebok Hosting, he blends hands-on systems and backend development with client-facing project delivery across scoping, proof-of-concept and post-release support. His long tenure at Lloyd’s Register saw him progress from developer to IC Team Manager, owning lifecycle delivery for industrial software in oil and gas. An active open-source contributor, Owen has contributed substantive compatibility work to Wine and vcpkg—implementing Windows Sockets Direct support for WineVDM and maintaining cross-platform C++ portfiles—highlighting deep expertise in cross-platform interoperability. He combines pragmatic leadership with low-level systems chops and a knack for solving obscure compatibility challenges that keep legacy software running on modern platforms.
25 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of St Andrews
Github Skills (22)
c-language10
lib10
package-management10
wp-api10
windows10
cmake10
c1110
winapi10
c1710
vcpkg10
ws-api10
cprogramming-language10
idl10
build-automation9
xml9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vcpkg
Feb 2019 - May 2021
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Owen primarily contributed to the `vcpkg` repository by updating and maintaining portfiles for various C++ libraries. Their work involved updating library versions (e.g., Crypto++, proj4, tinyxml2), modifying build configurations, and ensuring compatibility within the vcpkg build system. They also addressed build issues, such as cross-compilation problems on macOS and exporting symbols for static libraries, and added support for new platforms (arm64-windows).
c-plus-plussetuptoolspackage-managermacoscplusplus
otya128/winevdm
Mar 2017 - May 2018
16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Owen primarily contributed to the implementation of Windows Sockets Direct (WSD) API support within the WineVDM project, a compatibility layer for running 16-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Windows. The contributions involved adding partial implementations for several interface definition language (IDL) files, including `wsdxmldom.h`, `wsdtypes.h`, `wsdbase.idl`, `wsdxml.idl`, `wsddisco.idl`, and `wsdapi.h`. The user also implemented various functions related to memory management and XML handling, such as `WSDAllocateLinkedMemory`, `WSDXMLAddChild`, and `WSDXMLGetValueFromAny`.
64-bitwindows16-bit2-xwindows-10
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