Adam Retter
Status: I am still living a semi-digital Nomad lifestyle, but my opportunities for travel are limited by the Covid-19 Pandemic. I have been residing in the North Western Italian Alps for about 1 year now. I am the full-time director of Evolved Binary, any enquiries for Consultancy or Support should be directed there.
Adam Retter
Exeter, Devon, United Kingdomemail: adam.retter@googlemail.com
Office (UK): +44 (0)2032 397 236 (redirected via VoIP to my laptop whilst outside the UK)
Mobile (UK): +44 (0)7714 330 069
US numbers are currently redirected to UK numbers, but charged at US rates:
Office (US): +1 917 267-8787
Skype: adam.retter
Tweet: @adamretter
My Curriculum Vitae is available here in PDF, Open Office and Microsoft Word formats.
Any spare time I have at the moment is split between:
- RocksDB - An Open Source Embedded Key/Value database; I contribute mainly to the Java API.
- EXQuery - launched at XML Prague 2009. Apart from RESTXQ, I am focusing my resources on EXPath at the moment, once that reaches a suitable stage, I will continue with EXQuery.
- eXist - An Open Source Native XML Database project; I am one of the core developers.
- W3C XML Query Working Group; I am an invited expert.
- Private Contracts and Consultancy - please contact me for further details.
I am currently learning about or improving my skills in:
- Frege - A Haskell for the JVM.
- Scala - a functional programming language atop the Java VM.
- Concurrent Transaction processing and lock-free algorithms.
- Distributed processing - Akka, Hadoop (Developing the Shadoop framework).
- Semantic Web technologies - RDF, RDFa, FOAF and OWL. I have started adding RDFa to the pages in this site.
- Atom - I have started working on delivering an Atom feed from XQuery for my blog, the work in progress can be seen here - http://www.adamretter.org.uk/blog.xql?atom
