
CTO at Kube Partners and Orangery
London, United Kingdom

CTO at Kube Partners and Orangery
London, United Kingdom
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My career of over 20 years has focused heavily on technical implementations and architectures. I hate doing things twice and so I love meta-programming.
My interests lie in:-
The Web becoming the OS and applications evolving from the mashup of web based resources.
The ideas of mini languages or DSLs for problem domains.
Databases and particularly the ideas around the Berkeley DB.
The power of location.
Visualization of data.
My day to day efforts at Orangery Technology are focused on the open source Insurance in A Box (IAB) solution (http://iabforge.wikidot.com)
At Orangery, we are constantly re-factoring the IAB code base to clearly identify a set of DSLs. The DSLs are used to control the configuration of a generic set of core insurance processes that are both product and brand agnostic. For brand read - easily white-labeled.
Enterprise Architecture, Product conception and creation, Meta-Programming, OO, WWW as an OS, Web resource based applications, Databases (high volume relational and Berkeley DB), leveraging Web 2.0 concepts within financial institutions.
Specific technical specialties include: XSD, XSLT, Ruby, Wikis, GIS, Google Maps, .NET, C#, Java, J2EE, Oracle RDBMS, Berkeley DB, REST
Specific technical interest areas include: Ruby, Rails, Berkeley DB XML, Meta-Programming, Apple
hiking, scuba, skiing, vegtables (growing)