Samuel Clegg

                            305 Bennington St
                           San Francisco 94110
                                   USA

                        Telephone: +1-415-6014661
                       e-mail: sam@superduper.net
                         e-mail: sbc@google.com
                         e-mail: samo@debian.org


Summary:

    I am dedicated to building platforms and tools that allow more code
    to run in more places. From building one of the first open source
    mobile operating systems, to enabling PlayStation games to run on
    early Nokia phones, to enabling C/C++ to run securely on the Web
    (Emscripten), I have more than 20 years of professional experience
    building compilers, toolchains and SDKs.
    

Qualifications:

    MSc in Advanced Computing, 2002-2003. Distinction
    Imperial College, London
    
    BSc in Computer Science, 1996-1999. 1st Class Honours
    University of York
    

Employment History:

    Senior Software Engineer -- Google Inc. (San Francisco, USA)
    July 2012-present
    
    Until 2015, primarily worked on Native Client (NaCL), the native
    code sandbox used in Chromium. Focus was the SDK and examples, but
    also worked on the core runtime, and compiler. Primary maintainer of
    the naclports project which comprised over 200 ports of open source
    projects to NaCl.
    
    Around 2015, began working on WebAssembly, the logical successor to
    NaCl. Primarily working on the Emscripten toolchain and the
    WebAssembly LLVM backend. Created the WebAssembly linker (wasm-ld)
    which is part of the LLVM project. Regular contributor to Wabt and
    Binaryen, two popular tools for WebAssembly manipulation and
    optimization. Currently the most active contributor to the
    Emscripten project.
    
    Active in the WebAssembly standards process and champion of two
    proposals that are now part of the WebAssembly standard: Memory64
    (which enables access to memories larger than 4GiB) and Extended
    Constant Expressions (which allows for more expressive
    initialisers).
    
    
    Key Engineer/Head of Innovation -- Ideaworks3D (London, UK) (San Francisco, USA)
    January 2004-June 2012
    
    Ideaworks3D was a technology company and game development studio
    that brought many AAA game titles to mobile including Call of Duty,
    Metal Gear Solid, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, Tetris, Game of Life, Tomb
    Raider, Need for Speed and The Sims. We won several industry awards
    including the two BAFTAs.
    
    Led development on the core runtime of the Marmalade SDK. This was a
    platform abstraction technology which powered many mobile games of
    the time. The technology allowed a single native binary to be
    executed on any operating system. This enabled apps to be written
    once, against a standard API and deployed to all platforms without
    porting or recompilation. Targets included iOS, Android, WebOS,
    Symbian, Winmobile, and more.
    
    Lead engineer on Airplay Online, the network protocol and server
    technology that enabled many successful games both in-house and
    third-party. Developed fast, scalable server application using
    C++/Linux/pthreads and utilising embedded Python or Java for highly
    customisable online game behavior. Developed and maintained the
    Airplay Online server cluster.
    
    
    Senior Software Engineer -- Transvirtual Technologies Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
    August 2000-December 2001
    
    Worked primarily on the XOE (previously PocketLinux) project, an
    operating system for PDAs and other resource constrained devices.
    XOE was open source, build on Linux, Java, and XML, with the goal
    allowing app developers to write as much as possible, including
    application logic and presentation layer, in XML. Work included
    Linux kernel programming, and JVM internals. Also responsible for
    building cross compiler toolchains and creating embedded Linux
    images.
    
    Many of the ideas we developed for PocketLinux are visible today in
    the Android OS, which bears a striking resemblance.
    
    
    Field Applications Engineer -- MathEngine Inc. (Oxford, England and San Francisco, CA)
    August 1999-July 2000
    
    Worked with customers to bring realistic physics to the next
    generation of games. Involved coding in C/C++ targeting next
    generation gaming platforms. Created and maintained Linux port of
    MathEngine products. Worked on one of the Japanese PS/2 launch
    titles.
    

Computing Skills:

    30 years of programming experience and Linux specialisation.
  
    Extensive experience with C/C++, Python and JavaScript. Professional
    experience also includes C#, Java, Ruby, OpenGL/GLES, SQL,
    CMake/make/autoconf, sh/bash, XML/SGML..
  
    Debian user since 2000. Retired Debian developer (package
    maintainer).
  

Other Interests:

    When I'm not at my computer I enjoy snowboarding and riding electric
    unicycles. I also love to play chess, although not very well.