Curriculum Vitae

I 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.

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.

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.

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.

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