Hacker experienced in functional programming, domain-specific languages, compilers, custom hardware acceleration esp. with FPGAs, concurrency and parallelism, formal verification, configuration management, distributed systems, container orchestration, cloud computing and low level Android performance improvement. Ex-academic with experience of paper writing and obtaining research grants and a love of teaching. Professional duties include ACM SIGPLAN executive committee member, IFIP WG2.8 member and much experience of PCs and sitting on government grant award committees.