Principal Golang Performance & Scalability Architect

Experienced software engineer with decades of programming experience, solid fundamentals, and a strong background in troubleshooting. Proven tech lead/architect with SRE-ish capabilities, having solved legacy Heisenbugs and shipped multiple times. Author of a performance cheatsheet and writing a book on HPC. US citizen with native English proficiency. Former core tech engineer at Orbitz, focusing on JVM, GC, performance regression follow-up, ops, logs, instrumentation, caches, sessions, threads, and database connections. Conducted research and due diligence for the US State Dept on public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda and disinformation (national security). A lifelong game engine creator and toolmaker, who once built a small software business. Recently completed client work in system programming R&D on memory allocation latency and SEGV resilience using C on Linux, delivering code, benchmarks, diagrams, and a report on upgrading performance and availability for a soft-RT, $-impacting backend. Creator of LatLearn, a FOSS Golang latency instrumentation and reporting library.