Curriculum Vitae
View PDFI recently capitulated to the pressures of the modern world and created a LinkedIn account, I can be reached there too.
Work Experience
- PSU Student Groundskeeper
- January 2023 – present. A part-time job working with the landscaping team to keep Portland State University's campus clean and beautiful.
- Flight Software Intern at Masten Space Systems
- January 2022 – August 2022. Worked with the XL-1 lunar lander team (part of NASA's CLPS initiative) developing a Rust program that simulates hardware to test the embedded software. Started as a spring internship but was hired on over the summer until Masten went bankrupt.
- Reed Sports Center Cage Worker
- August 2021 – December 2021. A public-facing position where I assisting people who came to use Reed College's athletic facilities and managing the cleaning and distribution of equipment.
- Reed SB Assistant Webmaster
- May 2021 – December 2021. The Webmaster and I were tasked with building and administrating websites for the Reed College student body. We built a forum where students could give unofficial public feedback for professors.
Skills
- Computer programming
- Preferred languages are C, Golang, Rust and Common Lisp; some familiarity with Python, C++, Emacs Lisp, SQL, and AWK. I'm also comfortable with staples of software development like Git and the Unix shell environment.
- Unix system administration
- 5 years experience as a hobbyist sysadmin running Linux and BSD. I host several web apps and have used common software and concepts like VPNs, firewalls, containers (Docker, Podman, and FreeBSD Jails), PostgreSQL, and monitoring software like Grafana.
- Web development
- Backend web apps in Golang and Common Lisp and typesetting fast, accessible frontends in modern HTML, CSS, and JS.
- Multicultural experience
- I grew up in a US foreign service family in the Philippines, Nigeria, Tanzania, the US, Ethiopia, and Thailand so I'm comfortable traveling abroad and working with diverse groups of people.
- Languages
- I speak native English, basic Russian, and I study dead languages, primarily Latin and Sanskrit, in my free time.
Programming Projects
- audible-dl
- (Golang) An archiving tool for personal Audible libraries, basically functional but still a work in progress (github.com/halcyonseeker/audible-dl).
- tannhauser
- (Shell, Awk) A PoC Gopher CGI script that runs on localhost to make Gemini protocol sites viewable from a Gopher browser (github.com/halcyonseeker/tannhauser).
- fedivist
- (Common Lisp) An archiving tool for Fediverse/Mastodon accounts designed to make it easy to maintain and browse backups of your accounts.
- leibowitz
- (Common Lisp) A library that implements an extensible tagging ontology designed to power search engines, wikis, and file managers.
Academic Experience
- International School Bangkok
- Graduated in 2019 with an IB Diploma.
- Reed College
- I completed two and a half years of study towards a BS in Computer Science and an Associates in Russian, but chose to drop out.
- Portland State University
- Currently a transfer student working towards a BS in Computer Science, a BA in Russian, and maybe an MS in Biomedical Informatics.
References
- David VomLehn
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Lead Flight Software Engineer at Masten Space Systems
(
dvomlehn AT gmail DOT com
)