Kirit Sælensminde
Kirit was born in 1970 CE in Norway, but grew up in London. He moved to Thailand on September 11th, 2001 and has been living there ever since. He is still a Norwegian citizen.
Kirit is a Software Engineer and specialises in object oriented methodologies, design and development; multi-paradigm software development techniques; teaching and mentoring. He also maintains the Boost cookbook site.
Kirit can be contacted through his web site (http://www.kirit.com/), by email on mailto:kirit.saelensminde@gmail.com, and by telephone on +66 86 992 6229 and +44 20 7193 4526. On MSN Messenger try k@kirit.com and on Skype look for kayessciv.
Experience
Kirit has been programming computers since 1983 and started his first software company in 1985.
Kirit writes software in C++, JavaScript and SQL. He also uses Haskell from time to time and writes about Java, C#, LISP and a large number of other programming languages.
Guest lecturer at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology
- 2007 to present
Kirit is teaching the third year Systems analysis and design course at the International school of King Mongkut's Institute of Technology's Faculty of Science in Ladkrabang.
CTO at FSL Technologies Ltd
- 2001 to present
Kirit has managed the development of the FOST.3™ application framework and has released Mahlee™ and sourcesafe2subversion.
CTO at Felspar Ltd
- February 1998 — May 2001
Kirit managed all the developers (up to 35 people) and was responsible for developing the core framework and methodology used. He also performed pre-sales, sales and contract negotiation. He closed sales and negotiated contracts on projects worth several million pounds.
He was responsible for the design and building of several intranet portals and telephone billing systems.
Director at Motion Graphics Ltd
- 1992 — February 1998
Kirit created software for digital video effects and video editing, he directed videos and created animation for TV advertising and idents (for ITV, MTV, Cartoon Network amongst others). He also managed the digital production (including web development) projects. He released one of the first Java games on the internet when Java was still in alpha release which was certainly the first multi-threaded Java internet game. In 1996 he helped to set up the first web design company in Thailand.
During this time he also taught object oriented software and design to independent contractors and companies like Ford, the BBC and GCHQ. He also taught C++ to the MoD.
Education
Imperial College London, University of London
- 1993 — Present, PhD in distributed object oriented systems
- 1990 — 1993, BEng (Hons) and Associate of the City & Guilds Institute
Coopers School, Chislehurst, London
- 1987 — 1989, A-Levels in Maths, Further maths, Physics and Chemistry
Additional information
Kirit was a regular contributor to Wikipedia between 2003 and 2005 and still contributes the occasional photograph and correction. He is also a regular contributor on news:comp.lang.c++ and news:comp.lang.c++.moderated. He can also be found helping out on irc://freenode/%23%23c++ (as kayess) and answering (and asking) the occasional question on the Boost user's list.
Publications
- October 1995, Dr Dobb's Journal — File-Streaming Classes in C++
- August, 1995, Dr Dobb's Journal — A Pooling Memory Manager for C++
