clarkema

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Fractional CTO / tech lead

Are you being held back by a constraining architecture, slow backend, or a team lacking the depth of experience you need for the next stage of your growth?

Most recently CTO of a regtech startup, I've spent the past 20+ years in a wide variety of tech roles building both products and teams, giving me the perspective to get your project moving without being bound to a particular language or stack.

Previous work:

  * Deterministic AI for medical device regulations and other complex legal systems, including novel language and runtime for regulatory computing (Elixir, Raku, Rust)
    
  * EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure, Common Lisp, Perl, XQuery)

  * Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

  * University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

  * High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

  * Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

  * Feasibility study investigating the possibility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Fractional CTO / tech lead / senior backend dev

Are you being held back by a constraining architecture, slow backend, or a team lacking the depth of experience you need for the next stage of your growth?

Most recently CTO of a regtech startup, I've spent the past 20+ years in a wide variety of tech roles building both products and teams, giving me the perspective to get your project moving without being bound to a particular language or stack.

Previous work:

- Deterministic AI for medical device regulations and other complex legal systems, including novel language and runtime for regulatory computing (Elixir, Raku, Rust)

- EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure, Common Lisp, Perl, XQuery)

- Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

- University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

- High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

- Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

- Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Fractional CTO / tech lead

Are you being held back by a constraining architecture, slow backend, or a team lacking the depth of experience you need for the next stage of your growth?

Most recently CTO of a regtech startup, I've spent the past 20+ years in a wide variety of tech roles building both products and teams, giving me the perspective to get your project moving without being bound to a particular language or stack.

Previous work:

- Deterministic AI for medical device regulations and other complex legal systems, including novel language and runtime for regulatory computing (Elixir, Raku, Rust)

- EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure, Common Lisp, Perl, XQuery)

- Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

- University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

- High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

- Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

- Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Fractional CTO / tech lead

Are you being held back by a constraining architecture, slow backend, or a team lacking the depth of experience you need for the next stage of your growth?

Most recently CTO of a regtech startup, I've spent the past 20+ years in a wide variety of tech roles building both products and teams, giving me the perspective to get your project moving without being bound to a particular language or stack.

Previous work:

  * Deterministic AI for medical device regulations and other complex legal systems, including novel language and runtime for regulatory computing (Elixir, Raku, Rust)
    
  * EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure, Common Lisp, Perl, XQuery)

  * Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

  * University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

  * High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

  * Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

  * Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Senior backend dev / tech lead / fractional CTO

Are you being held back by a constraining architecture, slow backend, or a team lacking the depth of experience you need for the next stage of your growth?

Most recently CTO of a regtech startup, I've spent the past 20+ years in a wide variety of tech roles building both products and teams, giving me the perspective to get your project moving without being bound to a particular language or stack.

Previous work:

  * Deterministic AI for medical device regulations and other complex legal systems, including novel language and runtime for regulatory computing (Elixir, Raku, Rust)
    
  * EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure, Common Lisp, Perl, XQuery)

  * Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

  * University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

  * High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

  * Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

  * Feasibility study investigating the possibility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Senior backend dev / tech lead / fractional CTO

Are you being held back by a constraining architecture, slow backend, or a team lacking the depth of experience you need for the next stage of your growth?

Most recently CTO of a regtech startup, I've spent the past 20+ years in a wide variety of tech roles building both products and teams, giving me the perspective to get your project moving without being bound to a particular language or stack.

Previous work:

  * Deterministic AI for medical device regulations and other complex legal systems, including novel language and runtime for regulatory computing (Elixir, Raku, Rust)
    
  * EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure, Common Lisp, Perl, XQuery)

  * Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

  * University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

  * High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

  * Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

  * Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Senior backend dev / tech lead / fractional CTO

Are you being held back by a constraining architecture, slow backend, or a team lacking the depth of experience you need for the next stage of your growth?

Most recently CTO of a regtech startup, I've spent the past 20+ years in a wide variety of tech roles building both products and teams, giving me the perspective to get your project moving without being bound to a particular language or stack.

Previous work:

  - Deterministic AI for medical device regulations and other complex legal systems, including novel language and runtime for regulatory computing (Elixir, Raku, Rust)
    
  - EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure, Common Lisp, Perl, XQuery)

  - Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

  - University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

  - High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

  - Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

  - Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Senior backend dev / tech lead / fractional CTO

Are you being held back by a constraining architecture, slow backend, or a team lacking the depth of experience you need for the next stage of your growth?

Most recently CTO of a regtech startup, I've spent the past 20+ years in a wide variety of tech roles building both products and teams, giving me the perspective to get your project moving without being bound to a particular language or stack.

Previous work:

* Deterministic AI for medical device regulations and other complex legal systems, including novel language and runtime for regulatory computing (Elixir, Raku, Rust)

* EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure, Common Lisp, Perl, XQuery)

* Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

* University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

* High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

* Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

* Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Senior backend dev / tech lead / fractional CTO

Are you being held back by a constraining architecture, slow backend, or a team lacking the depth of experience you need for the next stage of your growth?

Most recently CTO of a regtech startup, I've spent the past 20+ years in a wide variety of tech roles building both products and teams, giving me the perspective to get your project moving without being bound to a particular language or stack.

Previous work:

  * Deterministic AI for medical device regulations and other complex legal systems, including novel language and runtime for regulatory computing (Elixir, Raku, Rust)
    
  * EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure, Common Lisp, Perl, XQuery)

  * Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

  * University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

  * High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

  * Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

  * Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

In our case one of these NIF stores is created per user for a specific task; ironically, with the amount of polish that Rustler puts around NIFs I suspect it would have been more work and more risk to go down the port route and manage everything manually.

No, it doesn't -- looking at the website that's an explicit trade-off of pure performance vs 'Elixir-ish-ness'. It would certainly break a lot of expectations to have data mutating like that without it being hidden away somewhere, so I can understand why they went that way.

In my case the data I'm dealing with is more of a store than a single data item, so I'm leaning on the example of things like ETS. Also it's within a single application rather than being a large generally-available library, so the trade-offs are different. It would be interesting to know if they did tests though.

Explorer does actually use Rust (and polars) for a lot of its work -- its one on the libraries I looked at while figuring out my memory management issues.

That's an interesting point that I should perhaps have covered in the original article.

The real code that this is based on is in fact hidden behind a GenServer for this exact reason -- to maintain the expectations of other Elixir code that has to interact with it. The advantage of the escape hatch, as another commenter mentions, is allowing efficient sparse mutations of a large chunk of data, without having to pay a copy penalty every time. I definitely wouldn't recommend sharing the db handle widely.

I have a 'study' setup using a Boox Mira (portable 13" eink screen) for exactly this kind of use; not polyphasic in my particular case but late evening use. Yes, the screen is expensive, but _totally_ worth it.

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Senior backend dev / tech lead / fractional CTO

Most recently CTO of a regtech startup, in the past I've been a network engineer, run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular project, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

Previous work:

  * Deterministic AI for medical device regulations and other complex legal systems, including novel language and runtime for regulatory computing (Elixir, Raku, Rust)
    
  * EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure, Common Lisp, Perl, XQuery)

  * Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

  * University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

  * High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

  * Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

  * Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: I take MVPs that you’ve outgrown and upgrade them to support the next stage of your growth.

There could be any number of reasons why your current system is holding you back. Wherever you’re starting to feel the pinch, the price of ownership is that you don’t have the luxury of saying “that part’s not my problem” or “I don’t get involved at that level.”

You won’t hear it from me, either.

20 years handling a wide variety of IT roles and projects mean that I can help through the whole process from high-level strategy right down to code, all based on a deep technical foundation.

In the past I've been a network engineer, run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular project, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

Buzzwords: Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, PostgreSQL, Clojure, Elixir, Perl, Raku, Common Lisp, Rust, Ruby, Go

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com

Caveman here. I put the washing in and then set a countdown timer on my watch.

I just tried logging in and found that it hangs indefinitely. This seems to be because shhhbb.com has a AAAA record that the BBS isn't listening on:

debug1: Connecting to shhhbb.com [2a01:4ff:1f0:8a78::] port 2223

If I connect with `ssh 5.78.86.154 -p 2223` instead I get in fine.

Maybe either have the server listen on v6 / adjust the packet filter or stop shhhbb.com resolving its AAAA address, which is currently taking priority for me.

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: I take MVPs that you’ve outgrown and upgrade them to support the next stage of your growth.

There could be any number of reasons why your current system is holding you back. Wherever you’re starting to feel the pinch, the price of ownership is that you don’t have the luxury of saying “that part’s not my problem” or “I don’t get involved at that level.”

You won’t hear it from me, either.

20 years handling a wide variety of IT roles and projects mean that I can help through the whole process from high-level strategy right down to code, all based on a deep technical foundation.

In the past I've been a network engineer, run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular project, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

Buzzwords: Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, PostgreSQL, Clojure, Elixir, Perl, Raku, Common Lisp, Rust, Ruby, Go

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com

We don't "establish" civilization. We take it with us.

I certainly won't claim that no harassment ever takes place; every wintering team is different, and I have no doubt that plenty of women _do_ experience some form of harassment or unwanted attention. When you live in a small, close-knit community with (generally) a large gender imbalance, there will be tensions.

What I object to is the unsubstantiated claim that Antarctica "brings out the animal in each of us"; that the environment is one of such privation that all those who venture there necessarily regress to some more basic form and that standards of civilized behaviour become something we can't afford, sacrificed on the altar of survival.

This is patently false, and frankly a very limited and limiting view of the human condition.

What you like to dismiss as a "personal anecdote" I'd prefer to call "multiple seasons of lived experience in the environment under discussion."

While I can't speak for the hiring procedures of other nations, the majority of the interview process for the British Antarctic Survey centres around the interpersonal side. If you're sitting in the interview in the first place you're assumed to be technically competent; once that bar is passed they select primarily for people who will survive the isolation and be able to work as independent members of a small society. Are the results perfect? Of course not -- failures happen and bad winters happen. But they are well aware of how important social dynamics are to the overall success of the winter.

We enforce rules in our society because they make that society better. Basic shared rules of behaviour are a precondition for social cohesion and prosperity, _not_ a luxury that we can only afford when everything else has been taken care of. This goes 10x in small groups in rigorous environments.

I wouldn't call resources in the Antarctic winter "incredibly scarce"; expeditions have been wintering South for decades now. We know what's required, and it's available, in quantity, with backups. It's true that people are trapped together for months at a time; we also rely on each other for survival. Under such circumstances, it's entirely backwards to claim "local society can't afford to have such strict standards." Just the opposite; strict standards of social behaviour are _required_ for the group cohesion and trust that's necessary for collaboration and survival.

A candidate who demonstrated this attitude would never get through BAS' hiring process. If, by some mischance, they did manage to make it South, they certainly wouldn't be overwintering.

Source: Wintered in Antarctica. Did not regress to the state of a caveman clad in penguin skins, nor did I become "prone to sexually harassing women."

There are often openings for people with electronics engineering backgrounds for roles supporting science and met, as opposed to comms and base IT. It doesn't hurt to apply.

Edit: https://www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/careers-at-bas/operational-suppor...

Too early for that! "The Thing" is traditionally midwinter viewing.

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible in better times depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Senior backend dev / tech lead

In the past I've been a network engineer, run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular project, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

I focus particularly on taking on “weird” or niche data or exploratory projects end-to-end; things that wouldn’t be a fit for a standard web or development agency.

Previous work:

* EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure)

* Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

* University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

* High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

* Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

* Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

Buzzwords: Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, PostgreSQL, Perl, Common Lisp, Clojure, Ruby, Go, Arduino / AVR, Elixir / Phoenix, FreeBSD

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible in better times depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Senior backend dev / tech lead

In the past I've been a network engineer, run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular project, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

I focus particularly on taking on “weird” or niche data or exploratory projects end-to-end; things that wouldn’t be a fit for a standard web or development agency.

Previous work:

* EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure)

* Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

* University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

* High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

* Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

* Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

Buzzwords: Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, PostgreSQL, Perl, Common Lisp, Clojure, Ruby, Go, Arduino / AVR, Elixir / Phoenix, FreeBSD

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible in better times depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Senior backend dev / tech lead

In the past I've been a network engineer, run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular project, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

I focus particularly on taking on “weird” or niche data or exploratory projects end-to-end; things that wouldn’t be a fit for a standard web or development agency.

Previous work:

* EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure)

* Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

* University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

* High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

* Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

* Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

Buzzwords: Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, PostgreSQL, Perl, Common Lisp, Clojure, Ruby, Go, Arduino / AVR, Elixir / Phoenix, FreeBSD

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible in better times depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: Senior backend dev / tech lead

In the past I've been a network engineer, run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular project, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

I focus particularly on taking on “weird” or niche data or exploratory projects end-to-end; things that wouldn’t be a fit for a standard web or development agency.

Previous work:

* EDI message passing / reconciliation for US dental health insurance market, including X12 parser (Clojure)

* Custom domain specific language (DSL) to encode business rules for computer vision system (Common Lisp)

* University library data migration project, with a focus on completeness and validation. (Clojure, Elixir, Ruby)

* High-reliability, long-term timelapse platform for inaccessible locations. (FreeBSD, Arduino, Python, Shell)

* Migration of existing Node.js+Firebase service to Golang+PostgreSQL on AWS

* Feasibility study investigating the possiblility of writing custom code to interface with a biometric timeclock (Common Lisp)

Buzzwords: Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, PostgreSQL, Perl, Common Lisp, Clojure, Ruby, Go, Arduino / AVR, Elixir / Phoenix, FreeBSD

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible in better times depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: I take MVPs that you’ve outgrown and upgrade them to support the next stage of your growth.

There could be any number of reasons why your current system is holding you back. Wherever you’re starting to feel the pinch, the price of ownership is that you don’t have the luxury of saying “that part’s not my problem” or “I don’t get involved at that level.”

You won’t hear it from me, either.

20 years handling a wide variety of IT roles and projects mean that I can help through the whole process from high-level strategy right down to code, all based on a deep technical foundation.

In the past I've been a network engineer, run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular project, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

Buzzwords: Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, PostgreSQL, Clojure, Elixir, Perl, Raku, Common Lisp, Rust, Ruby, Go, Arduino / AVR, FreeBSD

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com

SEEKING WORK - Remote, travel possible in better times depending on location and duration.

Location: North-east UK

What I do: I take MVPs that you’ve outgrown and upgrade them to support the next stage of your growth.

There could be any number of reasons why your current system is holding you back. Wherever you’re starting to feel the pinch, the price of ownership is that you don’t have the luxury of saying “that part’s not my problem” or “I don’t get involved at that level.”

You won’t hear it from me, either.

20 years handling a wide variety of IT roles and projects mean that I can help through the whole process from high-level strategy right down to code, all based on a deep technical foundation.

In the past I've been a network engineer, run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica. I have experience with a wide range of different Unix tools and technologies, at various levels of the stack. This gives me the ability—and the perspective—to pick the best combination of tools for any particular project, rather than simply treating everything as a nail because all I have is a hammer.

Buzzwords: Debian, Ubuntu, AWS, PostgreSQL, Clojure, Elixir, Perl, Raku, Common Lisp, Rust, Ruby, Go, Arduino / AVR, FreeBSD

Got something you think is a good fit? Drop me a line at mike -at- lambdafunctions -dot- com