Robert O'Callahan
I am a Christian from a non-Christian background. I serve at the Auckland Chinese Presbyterian Church. I'd classify myself as evangelical.
I grew up in New Zealand, lived in the United States for ten years and then moved back to New Zealand. In the USA I obtained a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon (studying static program analysis based on type inference) and worked at IBM Research for a few years (mostly on dynamic analysis). Overlapping with that, I was a volunteer Mozilla contributor for five years and on return to New Zealand I worked full-time on the Mozilla project for eleven more years. I made many significant contributions to Gecko and Web standards and was granted the title of Distinguished Engineer. At Mozilla I also led the development of the rr debugger.
When not working, I like board games, tramping (overnight hiking), reading books and barefoot running --- and of course, spending time with my wife and children.I grew up in New Zealand, lived in the United States for ten years and then moved back to New Zealand. In the USA I obtained a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon (studying static program analysis based on type inference) and worked at IBM Research for a few years (mostly on dynamic analysis). Overlapping with that, I was a volunteer Mozilla contributor for five years and on return to New Zealand I worked full-time on the Mozilla project for eleven more years. I made many significant contributions to Gecko and Web standards and was granted the title of Distinguished Engineer. At Mozilla I also led the development of the rr debugger.