Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

Evergreen Residential Maintenance Worker: September 2023 – present. I am on call after hours to respond to maintenance emergencies in the Evergreen dorms and occasionally to assist first responders in getting access to residential buildings.
PSU Student Groundskeeper: January 2023 – May 2023. I was part of the landscaping team maintaining Portland State's campus.
Flight Software Intern at Masten Space Systems: January 2022 – August 2022. Worked with the XL-1 lunar lander team developing a hardware simulation in Rust 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. Worked at the front desk of Reed College's athletic facilities, maintaining and distributing equipment and assisting customers.
Reed SB Assistant Webmaster: May 2021 – December 2021. Built and administrated websites for the Reed College student body.

Computer programming: Preferred languages are C and Common Lisp; some familiarity with Rust, Python, C++, Golang, Emacs Lisp, SQL, JS, x86 ASM, and AWK. I'm also comfortable with tooling like GDB, Emacs, Git, and Unix shell.
Unix system administration: 6 years experience as a hobbyist sysadmin running Linux and BSD and managing various kinds of servers.
Web development: Backend web apps with Common Lisp and SQLite and fast, accessible frontends in modern HTML, CSS, and vanilla 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 love learning about linguistics in my free time.

leibowitz: (Common Lisp) A library that implements an extensible tagging ontology designed to power search engines, wikis, and file managers (github.com/halcyonseeker/leibowitz).
audible-dl: (Golang) An archiving tool for personal Audible libraries (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).
pass-pdf: (Bash) A password-store extension for creating physical paper backups of passwords (github.com/halcyonseeker/pass-pdf/).

Most of a BS in Computer Science: Will be awarded by Evergreen State College later this year, but I did most of my degree at Reed College followed briefly by Portland State University where I was also working towards an Associates in Russian.
IB Diploma: Graduated from International School Bangkok in 2019.

CERT Volunteer: Since Febuary 2024 I'm certified as a FEMA Community Emergency Response Team volunteer.

David VomLehn: Lead Flight Software Engineer at Masten Space Systems (dvomlehn AT gmail DOT com)