Frequently Questioned Answers (FQA)
Just the facts:
- Originally from England.
- Living in Germany since 2008. Munich for 5 years, then Hannover ever since.
- First wrote code at 6 years old, on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k.
- Free and Open Source software contributer and advocate since 1994.
- Professional software engineer since 1998.
- Currently, Principal Engineer at Upvest GmbH.
- I've plied my trade at: Canonical, Heetch, Thomson Reuters, Cmed Technology (now Axial Group), HDI (Talanx), amongst others..
- If it's relevant to my expertise and experience, sure.
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In the past I've presented at events dedicated to the following topics:
- Linux
- Racket
- Lisp
- Python
- Go
- Clinical Trials
- Oncology
- Developer Experience
- Possibly. I've done it several times on behalf of my employer, but I'll also do it if it's a topic of interest to me.
- You can email me at geoffrey AT teale DOT de (note, you'll need to replace the capitalised words with the appropriate symbols ;-) ).
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Mostly not, but there are two exceptions:
- @tealeg@mastodon.online - Mastodon, if you must do social media, this is the best place.
- LinkedIn - Mostly work stuff, I don't recommend LinkedIn. if you don't have to be there, don't be there.
- For open source projects, I have decided not to use GitHub any more, but rather Codeberg (full disclosure, I'm a member of the Codeberg e.V.)
- I sill have a Github profile (Please don't use Github unless, like me, you have to for work or for a specific collaboration. See "Why you shouldn't use Github".)
- Member of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Member of Codeberg E.v
- Contributer and supporter of the KDE Eco project
- Former member of RISC-V International, but I've lapsed into being a passive observer.
- Former member of the Free Software Foundation