Craig Ferguson

Open-source software developer at Tarides. ⛵

Working on OCaml open-source tooling and distributed storage.

Living in Paris, under the careful supervision of those who can speak French.

🛠 PROJECTS

🌳 Irmin, a high-performance distributed database with Git-based semantics;
🧪 Alcotest, a testing framework with combinators and coloured output;
💀 Oskel, a skeleton-builder for modern OCaml projects;
... see my GitHub profile.

📝 ARTICLES

Mostly discussion of OCaml design patterns and tooling:

The _intf trick – April 7th, 2020(~ 6 min)
Tail recursion modulo cons – February 2nd, 2020(~ 2 min)
Testing manpages – January 30th, 2020(~ 1 min)
Pitfalls of polymorphic ignore – January 20th, 2020(~ 1 min)

🎙 TALKS

CausalRPC, in which I discuss the design trade-offs of creating a type-safe RPC framework using Git-based semantics. Given at the OCaml workshop at ICFP 2019 (23rd August). Recording of the talk forthcoming.
Particle Swarm Optimisation, in which I give a brief introduction to swarm intelligence and its practical applications. Presented to my fellow Churchill Computer Scientists during my degree.

🏺 ARTEFACTS

Curriculum Vitae. LaTeX styles available here.
CausalRPC (4.85 MB). My Part II dissertation, documenting the creation of a Git-inspired RPC framework. Won the G-Research Prize for the Best Individual Project.