Paul Winder
BI Consultant at Independent Consultancy
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Winder is a seasoned BI Consultant and Telecoms specialist with over three decades of technical and commercial experience, currently running an independent consultancy from London. He authored Oracle's original Telecoms Industry Data Model, which drove an estimated $48M in downstream revenue and became a global reference for telecoms data warehouses. Having consulted to more than 30 fixed and mobile operators across 40+ countries—especially in CEE—he blends board-level business development with hands-on BI, data modelling and pre-sales expertise. Early career work spans systems engineering and real-time software for defense and oil exploration, giving him deep low-level systems understanding alongside enterprise BI acumen. He also contributes to open-source OS development, including low-level driver and kernel work on the illumos project, reflecting a rare mix of kernel and enterprise data skills.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Hons, Mathematics, B.Sc Hons, Mathematics at University of Southampton
Github Skills (13)
fiber10
kernel10
il10
device-driver10
unix10
driver10
cprogramming-language10
c-programming10
system-programming10
kernel-mode10
networking10
fibers10
operating-system10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
illumos/illumos-gate
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Systems EngineerContributions:20 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 10 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed significantly to the `illumos/illumos-gate` repository, an open-source Unix operating system. Their work focused on low-level driver development, specifically related to Emulex Fibre Channel adapters and Mellanox network interfaces. The user implemented and improved core kernel modules, addressing issues with device initialization, interrupt handling, and DMA, along with improvements to various system functionalities like congestion control and MTU management. This included significant modifications to the networking and storage drivers and related kernel structures.
unixkerneloperating-systemlinuxillumos
pwinder/illumos-gate
Jul 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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