Andrew Hughes

Current

• IcedTea/OpenJDK Core Developer at Red Hat
• Hacker at IcedTea
• PhD Student at University of Sheffield

• GNU Classpath Developer at Free Software Foundation

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Past

• VT Lab Co-ordinator at University of Sheffield
• Sheffield University Campus Ambassador at Sun Microsystems
• Undergraduate Student at University of Sheffield

• Webmaster at King Edward VII School

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Education

• The University of Sheffield
• The University of Sheffield
• UK GRADSchool, May 2007, Bournemouth

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
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Andrew Hughes’s Summary

I'm now working full-time as a software engineer at Red Hat as part of the OpenJDK team developing IcedTea. I'm also writing up my PhD thesis, which aims to provide a new model for developing concurrent applications using a process calculus as an underlying theoretical basis. I am also a keen Free Software developer, having been working on the GNU Classpath project for the last four years and IcedTea for the last year.

Andrew Hughes’s Specialties:

Programming: Java, C, Haskell and can get up to speed on pretty much anything else (have dabbled in Perl, Python, C# and even VB). Can understand and maintain standard networking applications (e.g. DNS, NIS) and handle autotools wizardry.

Andrew Hughes’s Experience

• IcedTea/OpenJDK Core Developer

  Red Hat

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHT; Computer Software industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

  As a member of the OpenJDK team at Red Hat, I work primarily on the OpenJDK project with the primary goal of supporting this product in Fedora and RHEL.

• Hacker

  IcedTea

  (Computer Software industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years)

  Development work on the Free Software build harness for OpenJDK and OpenJDK6. Recently, I've been ensuring that the original IcedTea harness for OpenJDK7 keeps pace with the biweekly build drops.

• PhD Student

  University of Sheffield

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  I'm developing a process calculus called TNT (Typed Nomadic Time). This merges lots of concepts from various sources to create a calculus with synchronisation, discrete time via explicit clocks and both process and location mobility.

• GNU Classpath Developer

  Free Software Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)

  I regularly contribute patches to the GNU Classpath project (http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath) and am an established member of the community.

• VT Lab Co-ordinator

  University of Sheffield

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  November 2005 — September 2008 (2 years 11 months)

  This involves ensuring the provision of sufficient resources within the lab for new and existing students, especially desk space, in addition to general problem solving as issues arise.

• Sheffield University Campus Ambassador

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)

  2007 — May 2008 (1 year)

  This role involves promoting Sun technology on campus, mainly by organising Sun technical demonstrations with appropriate speakers and liasing with students and staff.

• Undergraduate Student

  University of Sheffield

  (Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

  October 2001 — June 2005 (3 years 9 months)

• Webmaster

  King Edward VII School

  (Educational Institution; Internet industry)

  August 2001 — March 2003 (1 year 8 months)

Andrew Hughes’s Education

• The University of Sheffield

  PhD , Computer Science , 2005 — 2008

  Activities and Societies:

  Departmental Postgraduate Representative (November 2006 on), Verification and Testing Postgraduate Representative (June 2006 on), Concurrency Reading Group Founder, Concurrency Reading Group Chair and Organiser (March 2006 to October 2006), Theory Special Interest Group (SIG) Chair and Organiser (January 2006 on), Verification and Testing Group Lab Manager (November 2005 on).

• The University of Sheffield

  MComp , Computer Science , 2001 — 2005

• UK GRADSchool, May 2007, Bournemouth

Additional Information

Andrew Hughes’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My RSS feed

Andrew Hughes’s Interests:

Free Software, Music, History

Andrew Hughes’s Groups:

GNU Classpath, GCJ, IcedTea, OpenJDK, Associate Member of Free Software Foundation, JikesRVM

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