Kai Hendry

Work history

Aplix Corporation, Guildford UK

Senior Developer from August 2007 to present

• Working on the WebVM browser plugin
• Presented at the W3C/OpenAjax Workshop on Mobile Ajax

Webconverger (Web Operating System), Cornwall UK

Founder and CTO from February 2007 to present

• Designed, developed and delivered a GNU/Linux 'Web kiosk' distribution based on Debian
• Wrote and packaged a custom Firefox extension for Webconverger
• Integrated Google checkout to take orders online

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

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 MW4D Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites Working Group
• Founded the Bath University Network Computing Society in 1998
• Speak basic German, Spanish and hold a general interest in ethnography
• 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 online transcript