Hobthross Ltd

is the private consulting company of

Rachel Willmer

<rachel @ hobthross.com>

An experienced "hands-on" consultant with 20 years experience of working in innovative startups, coming from an insatiable curiousity about disruptive technologies.

Current Customers and Projects

Previous Customers

Conferences, etc

2011 Presenter and Session Chair at PyCon UK:
"Luzme.com: how my ebook search side project turned complicated, distributed and profitable"
2005 Presenter at EuroOSCON:
"PGP is not just for email"
2000-2002 Co-Founder and presenter:
Edinburgh Financial Cryptography Engineering
1990s Co-Founder of Edinburgh's branch of First Tuesday

Other Career Highpoints

  • Founder and CEO of Intertrader, a digital cash startup
  • Product Line Engineering Manager at Spider Systems, Europe's best networking company (bought by Shiva Corp. in 1995)

Technologies

  • Languages: Python, C, C++, Javascript
  • Websites: Django, Ajax, Apache modules
  • Databases: MySQL, CouchDB, Sqlite3, Postgres
  • Other: High-Availability Distributed Computing

More details

Please contact me to discuss projects or business opportunities; or follow this link for more information.