Who I am, my professional context, some really old personal stuff.

Who I am

• I usually respond to Grenville, my homegrown website isn't flashy, and I look something like this.

Professional highlights

• Netflix:
  • Engineering Manager, Transport Protocol R&D, Open Connect, May 2018 - Oct 2026
  • Senior Software Engineer, Open Connect, Sep 2017 - Apr 2018 (visiting academic)
• Swinburne University of Technology:
  • Founding Head of Internet For Things (I4T) Research Group, 2017 (WayBack Machine link)
  • Professor of Telecommunications Engineering, Jan 2009 - Jul 2018
  • Founding Director of Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures, Feb 2002 - Feb 2017 (WayBack Machine link)
  • Associate Professor of Telecommunications Engineering, Feb 2002 - Dec 2008
  • Research community activities

Supplemental professional context

• IEEE LCN 2025 Keynote speaker, "Media Streaming, Application Informed Pacing, and Coexistence with Cloud Gaming," October 2025 (video)(slides)
• Obligatory LinkedIn and technical meanderings on Wordpress
• Publications: Local list, DBLP entries, Google Scholar, and a few books (wordpress)
• Selected pre-Swinburne public talks/presentations
• Some previous work history

Some (old) personal stuff

• My first computer (the Sinclair ZX81, 1982) (wordpress)
• My second computer (the BBC Model B Microcomputer, 1984) (wordpress)
• Releasing server-side mod(s) and post-analysis tool(s) for gathering Quake III Arena usage statistics (2001/2002) and analysing the Quake III Arena server usage patterns (in 2001)
• Jotting down my thoughts and experiments
• Re-vitalizing old (and new) PCs with FreeBSD
• For awhile I recorded the books I'd read, kept some photos of pre-2001 travels, and cars I'd enjoyed.