Matthew Willson

Theory

Qualified:: MMath (Oxford, first-class) - 4 year course with a broad and rigourous mathematical base, focusing towards the end on set theory, topology, mathematical logic and theoretical computer science
Still dabbles with:: Relational algebra; type theory, category theory & programming language theory (Haskell anyone?); some statistical AI and data-mining techniques (Latent semantic indexing, feature extraction, high-dimensional spatial indexing)

Have been doing commercial web (and other) development for over 7 years:: Server-side development: web apps with Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, Object-oriented design; Client-side development: solid XHTML/CSS; object-oriented Javascript, AJAX; Flash integration; rich user interfaces; Database development: MySQL, PostgreSQL, solid relational data modelling, indexing and optimization; Systems development: solid UNIX skills, web server setup / deployment, have scaled web applications to multi-tiered and clustered systems architectures; Teamwork: experience as lead developer; source control / bug-tracking / estimation; agile processes; architectural work and some project management
And coding for even longer:: First program around age 10 (anyone remember LOGO turtles the BBC B?); As teenager wrote games, demos and desktop apps in BASIC, C, C++ and ARM assembler; designed built and programmed boards using the PIC microcontroller

Has worked with a succession of successful small companies and start-ups, including two of the UK's biggest music sites and one of Canada's most successful "Web 2.0" ventures
Inspired by those around me I'm taking a growing interest in strategy, economics and entrepreneurship in the technology industry
Always interested in opportunities to innovate using more specialised technical and mathematical skills

Music
Food
Above-mentioned geekery
Ways of combining these three (I just need to write some songs about seasonal fruits to complete the triangle ;-)

Email: matt at drownedinsound dot com