Principal Software Engineer, Performance & Scalability

This individual is a highly experienced programmer with decades of experience, solid fundamentals, and a proven track record as a troubleshooter, tech lead, and architect. They have SRE-ish capabilities, having solved legacy Heisenbugs and shipped solutions multiple times. They are the author of a performance cheatsheet and are currently writing a book on HPC. They are a US citizen with native English proficiency. Their past experience includes working at Orbitz on core technologies such as JVM, GC, performance regression follow-up, operations, logs, instrumentation, caches, sessions, threads, and database connections. They also conducted research and due diligence for the US State Department on public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda and disinformation (national security). They have been a game engine creator and toolmaker since childhood and once built a small software business. Recently, they performed system programming R&D on memory allocation latency and SEGV resilience using C on Linux for a client, delivering code, benchmarks, diagrams, and a report on upgrading the performance and availability of a soft-RT, $-impacting backend. They are also the author of LatLearn, a FOSS Golang latency instrumentation and reporting library. They are located in Colorado, USA, are open to remote work, and willing to relocate. Their technical expertise includes Golang, C, Python, Java, SQL, git, Docker, Linux/POSIX, Internet & web development, cloud IaaS, distributed systems, concurrency & threading, performance & scalability, and some math & machine learning.