Location: Manhattan, NYC.

Role: Principal Software Engineer / Systems Architect.

Contracts: Depends.

Remote: Yes.

Hybrid: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Depends.

Technologies: C/C++, C#, Win32, Linux, POSIX, SQL, etc.

Projects: Tcl/Tk, Eagle, SQLite, System.Data.SQLite, Fossil SCM, Comdb2, etc.

Interests: automation, cryptography, databases, developer tools & SDKs, distributed systems, (Internet) security, public key infrastructure, runtimes, sandboxing, scripting languages, testing, virtual machines, and LLM integration

Profile: https://w.sb/r/profile

Manifesto: https://w.sb/r/manifesto -- Please read this manifesto before reaching out. It nicely captures what I believe about software engineering. If you find it unreasonable, that is a useful signal to both of us.

Affiliations: Tcl/Tk Maintainer ( https://w.sb/r/tcl ), Formerly SQLite Development Team ( https://w.sb/r/sqlite )

Side Project: Please see https://w.sb/r/code and linked projects.

Résumé/CV: https://w.sb/r/resume -- Fourteen years on the SQLite Development Team, four years on the Comdb2 team at Bloomberg, and a Tcl/Tk Maintainer since 2002.

Code I have written and/or helped maintain runs on more devices than I can count, quietly driving production tooling, test infrastructure, network equipment, and embedded systems at companies you know. If your team needs that kind of multi-decade rigor, we should talk.

Email: [put_my_first_name_here] [at] [put_my_user_name_here] [dot] com

Phone: Please see "https://www.mistachkin.com/" for detailed instructions.

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