Ian Oliver is vice president of developer tools at Imagination Technologies.

Ian steers and manages the debug and operating systems activities for all of Imagination’s programmable IP including the MIPS processors. Among his areas of responsibility are software debuggers, debug probes and tools for measuring system performance, and also the development and enhancement of the MIPS Linux kernel and a wide variety of RTOSs. Ian has been at Imagination since 2001 and has 25 years of experience in debugging and optimization strategies, and operating system porting.

Ian began his career in 3D games programming and later founded Cross Products, which was acquired by Sega in 1994. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Leeds University.