Director, Operating System Development at litl
Asheville, North Carolina Area
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- Director, Operating System Development at litl
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- Lead Online Desktop Developer at Red Hat
- Lead Mugshot Developer at Red Hat
- Desktop Architect at Red Hat
- Software Developer at EMC Capital Management
- Education
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- University of Chicago
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Havoc Pennington’s Summary
Currently technical director for software development at litl, where I led the creation of litl OS - the heart of litl's product.
* Passionate about great interaction design and design-driven development
* Expert in open source project organization and leadership
* Expert in GUI toolkit technology; Linux in particular but also cross-platform
* Expert C developer; solid Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, HTML, JSP, CSS skills among others
* Experienced software developer and architect
* Engineering management experience with team sizes up to 25
Best known for being one of the original GNOME developers and leaders (chair of the GNOME Foundation board for a couple of years, personally implemented large parts of the Linux desktop). Founded freedesktop.org; creator of projects such as D-BUS, metacity; implemented many big chunks of the GTK+ toolkit. Author of "GTK+/GNOME Application Development."
Hired most of the desktop team at Red Hat, managed this team for a couple of years.
Havoc Pennington’s Specialties:
open source, design, user interfaces, UI toolkit design and implementation, GNOME, Linux, C, C++, Java, GTK+, Python, JavaScript, UNIX, Red Hat, engineering management, design thinking, interaction design
Havoc Pennington’s Experience
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Director, Operating System Development
litl
(Privately Held; Consumer Electronics industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
As technical director for litl OS, hired a team and shipped a brand new high-design OS on brand new hardware in less than two years from standing start. Made key technical architecture decisions, partnership decisions, and heavily participated in product design.
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Lead Online Desktop Developer
Red Hat
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHT; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — January 2008 (8 months)
With the open source community, explored how to build a simple, secure, maintenance-free OS that's an ideal window to the Internet.
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Lead Mugshot Developer
Red Hat
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHAT; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 5 months)
One member of a small team creating Mugshot, a consumer-oriented web site. Mugshot displays a feed of everything your friends are doing around the Internet, for example their current music track, latest photos, blog entries, etc. Like the Facebook News Feed - but shows stuff from all over the web not just Facebook. (And we created it before Facebook launched their News Feed!)
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Desktop Architect
Red Hat
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHAT; Computer Software industry)
1999 — September 2005 (6 years )
Started as a developer and open source community leader, later took on a management role and ramped up the Red Hat desktop team. We transformed the Linux desktop from fvwm2+xterm into a modern user experience.
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Software Developer
EMC Capital Management
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Investment Management industry)
July 1998 — July 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Developing visualization software for technical analysis for a commodities fund.
Havoc Pennington’s Education
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University of Chicago
BA , Anthropology , 1994 — 1998
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Havoc Pennington’s Honors:
Passed Certified Financial Planner and Chartered Financial Analyst level 1 exams. (I do not hold either credential, however, since there are many requirements beyond the exams and I do not work in the financial industry.)
