Robert Mcqueen
Chief Executive Officer at Endless Access
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Mcqueen is a seasoned technology executive and engineer with 11 years of formal experience and a long history of leading open-source and commercial engineering organizations from Cambridge, UK. As CEO of Endless Access and former Chief of Engineering and VP roles at Endless, he blends product-focused leadership with deep systems engineering knowledge spanning OS deployment, kernel enablement, and large-scale platform delivery. He has been a prominent contributor and leader in the GNOME community—serving as President and now Vice President—and holds a track record of advising and governing open source policy through roles at OpenUK. On the technical side he remains hands-on in low-level Linux tooling, contributing backend fixes and GPG signature improvements to widely used projects like Flatpak and OSTree that underpin application sandboxing and atomic OS upgrades. Comfortable moving between boardrooms and codebases, he combines startup founding experience (Collabora co-founder/CTO) with practical expertise in reliability engineering and secure update mechanisms. A Cambridge computer science graduate, he is notable for keeping a developer's attention to detail while steering strategic open-source initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons) Computer Science, BA (Hons) Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (16)
c1710
gnupg10
filesystem10
file-management10
package-manager10
flatpak10
ostree10
c1110
cryptography10
pg10
glib9
linux9
error-handling9
git9
system-programming8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
flatpak/flatpak
Jul 2017 - Jan 2019
Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 24 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributes to the flatpak project by addressing issues related to remote repository management and general system stability. Their commits focus on improving the reliability of the `flatpak remote-add` command when offline by handling metadata update errors gracefully. They also fixed a crash in the `flatpak info` command and added a device to the list of devices available to the flatpak run command. Furthermore, the user refactored the file monitoring for session helper.
linux
ostreedev/ostree
Jul 2017 - Sep 2018
Operating system and container binary deployment and upgrades
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 50 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on improving the GPG signature verification and handling within the ostree project. Their contributions include canonicalizing GPG key lookups, displaying primary key IDs from signatures, and adding a new attribute for the primary key fingerprint. The user also added code to include public keys from the signing homedir for duplicate signature checking. Additionally, the user made code changes to include missing line prefixes, and added methods for file removal from the mutable tree.
operating-systempackage-managerostree
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