Chris Whitworth

Current

• Development Engineer at DisplayLink

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Transitive
• Programmer at Strangelite

Education

• The University of Manchester

Connections

78 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Chris Whitworth’s Summary

Multidisciplinary software engineer with experience in 3D graphics, audio, gaming, low-level/systems development, assembler, code translation and generation on both Windows and a variety of Unix platforms.

Chris Whitworth’s Specialties:

C, C++, assembler, x86, low-level, graphics, audio, compilers, code translation, code generation, Linux, Windows, Solaris.

Chris Whitworth’s Experience

• Development Engineer

  DisplayLink

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

• Senior Software Engineer

  Transitive

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 2004 — July 2008 (3 years 8 months)

  My initial role was as a performance engineer on the SPARC/Solaris translator. I have since worked on many aspects of the company's technology, primarily focussed on core translator technologies, instruction set translation (SPARC and x86-64) and performance profiling and enhancement.

• Programmer

  Strangelite

  (Computer Games industry)

  2001 — 2004 (3 years )

  I worked initially as a 3D graphics and audio programmer on the ports of several SEGA Dreamcast titles to the PC. On later projects, I was also responsible for core game object management, script parsing, particle effects, installation management and internationalisation.

Chris Whitworth’s Education

• The University of Manchester

  BSc , Computer Science , 1997 — 2001

  Degree completed in 2000; 2000-2001 - year of research into New Applications for SIMD Electro-Optical devices.

  Activities and Societies:

  Computer Society (committee member and systems administrator)

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