MONDATUM

Our multidisciplinary technical team is equipped for the next phase of creative technology development.

We are ready to meet the biggest technological challenges the content creation industry has ever faced.

Mondatum CTO and technical lead Neil Harris is known as one of the post production and VFX industry’s most accomplished technologists.

• visual effects / computer graphics 

• machine learning and AI 

• systems integration 

• distributed computing 

• systems optimisation and operations research

• mathematical programming

• computer security, from pentesting to formal methods

• operating systems and open source software 

• semantic data processing

• "big data" storage and processing 

• digital media acquisition, processing and distribution

• user interface design and web technologies

• signal processing and analysis 

• film and audio technology

• mobile apps / databases / full stack web

• Internet, telecommunications and optical networking 

• C / C++ 

• Python / Numpy / SciPy

• JavaScript / ECMAScript / general web technologies

• LISP / Scheme / Racket / Clojure

• Fortran / Pascal etc.

• x86 / amd64 assembly language

• Low-level systems programming

• Low-level hardware hacking and general electronics skills 

• Constraint / logic programming and optimisation: cKanren, miniKanren, GLPK, CVXOPT, COIN-OR, Gecode. AMPL, MiniZinc,

• Machine learning: TensorFlow, PyTorch

FILM INDUSTRY COMPUTER SECURITY

As part of a series of Innovate UK-funded projects to secure the British media industry against cyber-threats, worked with leading players in the British digital media industry on a number of projects which introduced the industry to new security technologies.

These included the use of machine learning and logic programming to analyze and defend against threats, implement fine-grained rule-based access control (including cryptographic access control) to networks, systems and assets, and the use of mathematical logic to automatically audit security policies to prove they meet industry and studio security standards.

Partners in these projects included Sohonet, Double Negative, Framestore, Smoke and Mirrors, Ovation Data and the Moving Picture Company. 

BIG DATA PROCESSING

Designed and implemented large-capacity, very-high-performance storage, archival and networking systems for a number of clients, up to and including live migration of whole companies from legacy networks and storage platforms to new unified platforms and multiple sites without disrupting business activities. 

Projects included live systems with hundreds of terabytes of low-latency data storage, archives with hundreds of millions of files, real-time multi-gigabit streaming of high-resolution uncompressed film data, and petabyte-scale data synchronization over multi-waveband optical networks.