Roberta Webber-manners
Manager, Software Development, SBI & AC at Kraken Robotics
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRoberta Webber-manners is a seasoned software engineering leader with a D.Phil. from Oxford and over 30 years’ experience delivering and modernizing high-performance, long-lived systems across sonar/acoustics, defence, scientific computing and ITS. She currently manages software development for Kraken Robotics’ Sub-Bottom Imager and Acoustic Corer platforms, steering architecture, performance and the transition from legacy COTS electronics to next-generation in-house designs. Known for software archaeology as much as new design, she excels at stabilizing messy codebases, reducing technical debt, and making pragmatic, maintainable architectural choices under operational constraints. Roberta combines hands-on C++/CUDA technical depth with program-level delivery experience, mentoring junior-heavy teams and guiding cross-functional hardware–software integration. Her track record includes GPU-accelerated real-time signal processing, multi-million-dollar program delivery, and field deployments with direct customer support and acceptance testing. Colleagues rely on her independent technical judgment for architecture reviews, due diligence, and legacy modernization strategy.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
D.Phil. Engineering Science, D.Phil. Engineering Science at University of Oxford
French, Spanish
Github Skills (61)
bbc-micro10
sd-card10
mikrotik10
c-compiler10
sdcc10
commodore10
c6410
650210
thor10
8-bit10
acorn10
apple210
retrocomputing10
hyper-v9
cookie9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bobbimanners/GNO-Extras
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
bobbimanners/Applecorn
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Allows Acorn BBC Microcomputer language ROMs to run on Apple //e enhanced, //c and IIGS.
Contributions:2 releases, 11 reviews, 869 commits in 1 year 6 months
bbcthorromsiigsapple2gs
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