Passionate software engineer with specialization in building fast, small and efficient code in everything from assembly to Ruby.

As a professional

• Leveraged specialized knowledge in Linux systems programming to develop a high performance database for serving millions of streaming records and to facilitate customized queries.
• Developed self updating, cross platform, multi-threading optimized and easy-to-use end user applications.
• Built a full spectrum integrated application suite from embedded device to the desktop to the web.
• Developed a fast, effective and reliable low-level communication protocol for communicating with ultra low power embedded devices.
• Created data visualization tools from the ground up, allowing customers to visualize and manipulate hundreds of thousands of data points in real-time.
• Utilized Open Source tools to drastically reduce development time, thereby decreasing development costs and delivering high quality software solutions to customers in a timely fashion.
• Created a cross-platform automated software build solution to decrease development-to-testing period.

As a hobbyist

Significant contributor to numerous open source projects, including the Linux kernel, SQLite, MPD, Gentoo, TokyoCabinet and more. Creator and maintainer of some popular projects, maintaining and continuously developing software used by thousands of individuals on a daily basis. Built a strong and growing community of supporters and enthusiasts for the following projects:

• Conky, a dynamic and extensible system monitor used by professionals and normal users alike. Conky is featured in the default desktop installation of some prominent Linux distributions.
• Omploader, a file and image hosting service.

Full source code for these projects and others is available at http://git.omp.am/.