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Controlling the chaos of systems and subsequently people in organizations, workflows and processes. Trained by RTFM and spectacle failure at scale.

Currently: kids, wife, engineering, homesteading

Pronoun: human

Retired systems researcher and practitioner and regular old computer guy since 1966. Worked at MIT, Bell Labs, DEC SRC, Microsoft Research, VMware, Apple, Google, and excessive others. Got my PhD at one of those too. Very smart ⋀ very good-looking!

Security sharpshooter at Apple

outsider scientist, nontrepreneur, professor intern, DEI hire

Softw engr, drums/music, politics, humor, sports 
#blackmastodon #programming #dotnet #drums #music #africanmusic

Find the beauty in your mistakes.

Professional: One foot in engineering, one foot in IT, the other in customer service.

Personal: husband, dad, tinkerer - still learning to dance but I have two left feet.

He/Him/Archduke

Avatar image: me wearing a t-shirt and sunglasses with the sun directly behind looking into the camera.

Banner image: The face of a statue that overlooks the Hoover Dam, in profile, on one side and the rest is clear blue sky.

The person who's wrong on the Internet. Meme-worthy. Lurking in the AI Alliance (thealliance.ai). Also pretending to do FP, Scala, Physics, writing books, and conference speaking. Alleged photographer (flickr.com/photos/deanwampler/). IBM Research

database, concurrency nerd

I barely speak for myself, let alone my employer

that said, fuck authoritarians

computer science researcher, co-author of the HelenOS microkernel multiserver OS, passionate programmer, F/OSS advocate, IT specialist, feminist, employee of Kernkonzept GmbH

Principal Software Engineer / Mathematician, father of a girl and two boys.

I make YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/@simonracz

Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie write books and newsletters about the Internet and related computer systems topics.

Assistant Professor @ Wellesley computer science. PhD from Cornell. Compilers, formal methods, systems programming languages. she/her.

PhD Student @ Cornell | Programming Languages and Computer Architecture

SW Designer/consultant/mentor, author, inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design & xDD meme, heuristica (design heuristics!), patterns author, heuristic hunter, science/engineering nerd, jogger, gardener.

Assistant Professor in Computer Science at UBC.

Trained for Systems Analysis. Enjoys nice paper things.

The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) supports research of importance to the evolution of the Internet protocols, applications, architecture, and technology.

The IRTF focusses on supporting research related to the Internet, while the parallel organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), focuses on the shorter term issues of engineering and standards making.

writing segfaulting code
PhD@CSLab NTUA