Adam Retter

adam@evolvedbinary.com
 

Declarative Amsterdam
@ CWI, Congress Centre
2024-08-11

@adamretter

• Director of Evolved Binary

  • UK - Software, Consultancy, Training, and R&D

• Co-founder and Co-owner of eXist Solutions

  • Germany - TEI Publisher software

• Software Engineer / Prolific Open Source contributor

  • eXist-db - 20 Years as Core contributor (last 9 as Main dev.)

  • RocksDB - 7 Years as RocksJava main developer

• W3C XQuery Working Group - Invited expert

• Founder of EXQuery, and creator of RESTXQ

• Enjoys Research and Development, and Snowboarding

Rachel

Alexandra

Amine

Adam

Younes

Alan

Callum

Radek

RocksDB

• Privately Owned, and Self-Bootstrapped

• UK Registered Ltd Company, founded: April 2014

• Around 8 FTE staff (unconventional hiring)

  • Growth: 2020 (1 FTE) to 2024 (9 FTE)

• Fully Remote (UK, Italy, Germany, Algeria, Dubai)

• Specialisms:

  • Database Engines

  • Digital Publishing

  • Digital Humanities

  • Digital Archiving, and Archival Catalogues

  • Digital Preservation

• I have been a Core Developer for 20 Years

  • Last 9 years as the Main Developer and de-facto Maintainer

• My colleagues at Evolved Binary have been contributing for 10 years

• Drama!?!

  • A group of self-appointed (ex. 3) people have announced that:
    Adam is no longer part of the project

    • This group has (still) not spoken to me

• I am sorry that this is happening

  • I am as confused as you are!

• Thank you so much to the users that have publicly defended me

• Thank you to the many, many, users and XML experts that have contacted me privately to offer kind words and support

• We should ignore the Drama

  • Better to talk

• Business as usual at Evolved Binary

  • eXist-db activities are just one of our offerings

  • We continue to provide eXist-db Consultancy, Development, Hosting, and Support

  • We will accelerate our plans for Elemental

• For me personally

  • I am still open to talking about this - just contact me!

  • I don't like to be where I am not welcome

• We currently have capacity for more projects

• We are openly seeking new challenges

• We have been security cleared for Government Projects (UK and USA)

  • UK Gov Marketplace (G-Cloud 14)

  • USA System for Award Management (Sam.gov)

• For Academia and Non-profit organisations

  • We have always, and continue to, offer generous discounts

• Come and talk to us: hello@evolvedbinary.com

“ We deeply care about the Software Communities and Open Source efforts that we are involved in.

We believe that Conferences such as Declarative Amsterdam are essential to the XML Community, and we support as many such conferences as possible. ”

- Adam Retter