Kai Hendry

Work history

Webconverger (Linux based Browser-only distribution)

Founder, project leader and Managing Director from February 2007 to present

• Designed, developed and maintain the leading Web kiosk & signage distribution based on Debian
• Wrote the custom Firefox extension for Webconverger
• Implemented Paypal/invoice based billing and configuration service

WAC UK, Westbourne Grove, London

Compliance Process Manager from December 2010 to February 2012

• Editor of WAC 2.0 compliance tests(TCS) for product delivery from Widget Runtime (WRT) vendors to WAC members
• Lead development on security tools: widget signing and validation tools
• Designed test result reporting system so members and vendors can track their compliance progress

Vodafone secondee to JIL/WAC (previously known as OMTP BONDI), Marble Arch, London

Support and compliance engineer from July 2010 to December 2010

• Co-ordinating compliance tests between Widget Runtime (WRT) vendors
• Technical contact person for developers, WAC members and widget runtime vendors
• Implementing processes to better handle support queries

Aplix Corporation (Mobile software), Guildford UK

Senior Developer from August 2007 to July 2010 improving the mobile Web runtime

• Developing and testing the WebVM browser plugin for mobile devices
• Active in OMTP BONDI, W3C DAP and W3C widgets working groups
• QA for the BONDI SDK, an Eclipse based IDE for BONDI widgets and an emulator runtime
• System administrator for our source control, Bug Tracking System (BTS) and various services

Naraworks, which was acquired by Access Japan (Mobile/embedded software industry), South Korea

Senior Developer from March 2006 to August 2006

• Designed and implemented an unique Korean linux distribution based on Ubuntu/Debian
• Advised on the Access Linux Platform (ALP)
• Compiled report on image decoders and Netfront's optimised JPEG decoder
• Quality Assurance for Netfront document viewer (Naraviwer)

Soltec Software (Airline software industry), Melbourne, Australia

Environment/Deployment/Release manager from May 2005 to January 2006

• Managed the successful deployment of the company's key product SABS
• Setup and maintained a mission critical RedHat/JBoss/Java/J2EE/Servlet/Oracle 10g environment
• Migrated Web applications to use CSS and to be browser independent and conducted SEO
• Developed PHP/Python Web applications for generating reports from Oracle Databases
• Implemented QA practises and introduced bug tracking software
• Performed security testing and implemented security resolutions
• Wrote and maintained build scripts in Ant and shell

University of Helsinki Computer Science Department, Helsinki, Finland

Researcher role from December 2003 to August 2004

• Member of the Research on Distributed and Networked Systems and Applications group
• Gained in depth knowledge of Mobile Web user agents and markup languages (See Masters Thesis)
• Webmaster of group

Assistant researcher role from November 2002 to December 2003

• Member of Helsinki University's Initiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval research group INEX
• Implemented an XML search engine in Python and C
• Performed data mining on very large data sets

Telering Finland (part of the Sonera/Telia Group), Helsinki, Finland

Architect/Design role from January to June 2002

• Produced design documents with IBM engineering procedures(WPD)
• Deployed RosettaNET standards(XML)
• Developed on and administered the IBM Websphere(WAS) platform
• Implemented forecasting and inventory visibility tool prototype with Java servlets and SVG

Siemens Finland, Helsinki, Finland

Unix administrator, troubleshooter roles from June to September 2001

• Siemens (SINIX/UNIX) system support for Radiolinja
• Customer (telecommunications) service on site
• Bash/Perl scripting to monitor UNIX systems
• Performed updates (kernel building, patching) on critical systems
• Administered several UNIX test machines (SINIX and Sun OS)
• Maintained Informix DBMS

CH Solutions, Cornwall, UK

Technical lead from February to October 1998 and numerous short contracts

• Designed and built server systems from hardware components
• Software deployment and configuration
• Quality Assurance
• Technical support
• Hardware Purchasing

Voluntary work, hobbies and related activities

• Maintain several packages for Debian and a Debian Live contributor
• Contributed to the WHATWG Web Applications specification and an invited expert of the W3C HTML WG Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites Working Group
• Founded the Bath University Network Computing Society in 1998
• Advocate for the suckless programming philosophy
• Speak basic German, Spanish, Finnish
• Well travelled
• Keen debater and public speaker from University debating tournaments to technical presentations

Education

University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Graduated from a Computer Science Masters program at the Faculty of Science with minors in Management, Mathematics, Statistics, German and the Finnish language. View transcript.