Tony Whitley
Chief Idler at Resting between opportunities
Ascot, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTony Whitley is a veteran embedded real-time software engineer and pragmatic "meta-programmer" who has spent decades improving code quality, tooling, and processes across mobile and telecom stacks. At Qualcomm he transformed the GERAN protocol stack by driving zero-warning builds, static analysis, CI, off-target testing and refactoring that saved tens of kilobytes per device across billions of phones, and helped prevent exploitable security flaws. Equally at home in 4-bit assembler and Python, he focuses less on writing isolated code and more on treating a codebase and team practices as a single engineered system. A Perforce guru, SCons author and Certified QMS Lead Auditor, he blends hands-on technical depth with change leadership that shifts engineering culture. Now "resting between opportunities" from Ascot, he remains passionate about eliminating developer busywork and scaling safety and efficiency across large, legacy codebases.
9 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Studes, Computer Studes at Lancaster University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (82)
google-photos-api10
pygame10
pressed10
synology9
plugin9
internals9
subtitle9
exiftool9
cli8
photography8
python8
photo8
shared-memory8
command-line8
simulation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TonyWhitley/rFactor2-Rank
Sep 2018 - Feb 2022
Taking Uwe's original files and tweaking them
Contributions:9 releases, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 5 months
tweaking
TonyWhitley/rF2_player_editor
Feb 2020 - Oct 2023
Editor for rFactor 2's Player.JSON
Contributions:1 release, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
postprocessingdmjsonplayer
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