LinkedIn: Tim Riker

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Linux Technologist at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Developer at Debian
Chief Scientist at PSNet

Project Lead at BZFlag

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Past

Embedded Linux Technologist at Fourteen40
Linux Technologist E&PS at Texas Instruments
CTO at Lineo

Senior Software Engineer at Caldera
Vice President of Technology at WordCruncher
Senior Software Engineer at SilverPlatter
Vice President of Development at ProCD

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Tim Riker’s Summary

Linux Technologist / Open Source advocate

Tim Riker’s Specialties:

Linux and Open Source Technologies especially embedded Linux devices, consumer electronics, GPL/LGPL/etc and other Open Source licensing issues and corporate migration strategies.

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Tim Riker’s Experience

Linux Technologist

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

(Non-Profit; Religious Institutions industry)

June 2005 — Present (3 years)

Linux clusters for FamilySearch.org
Developer

Debian

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

2001 — Present (7 years)

maintain BZFlag package along with other involvement
Chief Scientist

PSNet

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

2001 — Present (7 years)

embedded Linux work towards a new Linux based smart phone
Project Lead

BZFlag

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

April 1999 — Present (9 years 2 months)

Lead on Open Source project. http://BZFlag.org/ is the main site.
Embedded Linux Technologist

Fourteen40

(Privately Held; Computer Hardware industry)

July 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 1 month)

consultant for embedded Linux hardware and software development
Linux Technologist E&PS

Texas Instruments

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Computer Software industry)

April 2003 — June 2005 (2 years 3 months)

Educational and Productivity Solutions (E&PS)
CTO

Lineo

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

October 2000 — December 2002 (2 years 3 months)

Ported Linux to many new hardware architectures. Worked on BusyBox and eClibc. At CTO managed partner relationships and steered corporate technology.
Senior Software Engineer

Caldera

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 4 months)

single handedly produced the PowerPC and ia64 ports. Worked on many packages in the distribution including the SCO ABI packages.
Vice President of Technology

WordCruncher

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1998 — April 1999 (8 months)

also Spyhop, Logio, then Pacific Web Works. Chief Architect and developer for a large scale search system designed to directly compete with AltaVista (Google was not yet a player). Quicker updates on less hardware than Google's current design. Project was ahead of schedule and under budget when funding was cut.
Senior Software Engineer

SilverPlatter

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 1989 — September 1998 (9 years 8 months)

Ported server application to Linux. Many improvements to search system. Cut indexing and compression times down to less than 1/3 of the original times while maintaining software compatibility. This included improvements to the compression code.
Vice President of Development

ProCD

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1992 — May 1993 (9 months)

Built new large scale search engine from scratch over a period of 10 months with one other engineer. This engine ran on dos, windows, mac, and os2. Later easily ported engine to Linux. Designed to handle terabytes of data with rapid updates.

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Tim Riker’s Interests:

OpenSource, Free Software, Linux, etc. security, encryption, GPG/PGP, openssh, ssh. openssl, ssl, https, performance clusters and clustered computing. Zaurus, Yopy, LinuxFund, HP-2100, HP-21xx series mini-computers, also called HP-1000 series, etc.

Tim Riker’s Groups:

Debian, BZFlag, BusyBox, uClibc, blob, blootbot, infobot, TuxScreen, eLinux.org, FamilySearch.org, Mormon, CELF, FreeNode, plug.org, sllug.org, uvlug.org, DevUtah, classiccmp.org, classic computers, openmoko.org, openezx.org, maemo.org, secondlife, utos.org, utosc.org, Android, LinuxSymposium.org etc.