He specialises in embedded Linux audio and, prior to joining Wolfson, was an embedded Linux consultant with HP (now Agilent). He has worked within the Free Software community for more than five years. Liam Girdwood holds a Computer Science Degree from Heriot-Watt University. In his spare time, he is the maintainer of several open source projects including libnova (http://libnova.sf.net ), a celestial mechanics library used by robotic telescopes around the world.