About Adonis
- Enthusiastic explorer, technologist, scientist, detail-oriented, self-taught & motivated programmer since age 10. Extensive programming & debugging experience: over 50 audio-visual apps (games, ray-tracers, 3D engines, demos/intros: [dddgames.com/demos/darkavenger.html]), tools (2-pass assembler, binary file patcher, subtitle fixer, AVI demuxer, parsers/decoders for various formats) and GUI apps, many pre-academicum (details in extended résumé). Recent "switcher" and fan of NeXT/Apple technologies: Obj-C, Cocoa(Touch), FoundationKit, AppKit, WebKit, UIKit, Xcode, IB, Instruments, Shark, Sample(r); good stuff!
- Experienced and involved with many Open Source and Unix technologies, libraries and tools (gcc/gdb/clang/LLVM, static/dynamic libs/paths, XMMS, Wine, MesaGL, UtahGLX, DRI, XFree86/Xlib, Glide, MPlayer/FFMPEG, mpg123). Familiarity with OS architectures and internals (caching/buffering, zero-copy, (a)sync I/O, file systems, VFS, VM, NX/stack randomization, procs/(p)threads, CPU scheduling/affinity, lock/race/deadlock/resource contention & fragmentation issues), primarily Linux & Mac OS X.
- Experienced with networking (TCP/IP, protocol/client/server design & implementation, WiFi) and parallel/distributed computing (Grand Central Dispatch/libdispatch/Blocks, multi-process/threaded apps, MPI, PVM, SMP/NUMA/clusters)
- Experienced with code optimization (pipelining/interleaving, cache warming/locality, self-modifying code, profiling, rev-eng & cracking), data compression & audio/video techniques (sampling, fixed/floating point interpolation, (anti)aliasing, Fourier transforms, DSP, splicing/transcoding, animation, soft/hard 2D/3D/OpenGL) concepts and implementations
- Experienced with low-level hardware programming for IBM PC, Amiga, Gameboy (PIO, MMIO, DMA, hard/soft IRQs, timers, CPUid, thermal sensors, EGA/VGA/VESA, 2D/3D accel. cards, boot loaders, TSRs), file/disk data recovery
- Game design & development experience: 1 published game (Axia), 3 freebies
Specialties: Dialects: assembly [16/32bit x86 & FPU/MMX/SIMD, Gameboy Z80, 68k, 32bit PPC, 32/64bit Sparc RISC, wrote a 2-pass assembler], C/ObjC/C++/Java, HTML/CSS/JS/AJAX/CGI, shell scripting/regEx/make, Tcl/TK, Python, Lua, Ruby, PHP, Pascal, Perl, BASIC
Platforms: Apple Mac 68k/PPC/x86 (MacOS 6 to X, Linux), Commodore Amiga 68k/PPC (AmigaOS), IBM PCs (PC/MS/DR-DOS, MS Windows, Linux, *BSD, BeOS, QNX), NeXT 68k/x86 (NeXTSTEP), Sun Sparc (SunOS, Solaris, Linux), SGI (Irix), VAX (VMS), 128 node Ncube2
Experience
Career Break
- TravelJul 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mosAthens, Attiki, Greece
My latest full-time job was remote and after COVID I spent time in Greece to be closer to my aging parents & extended family. The company I was working for at the time discontinued our product and the teams were laid off as geopolitics worsened (Ukraine is close to Greece), and inflation hit the highest levels in the summer of 2022. I decided to stay in Greece longer to focus on cultivating my relationships and take some time for myself, while earning income from my personal projects. I returned to California and the Bay Area in 2024 for good and started my job search as I settled in. I plan is to stay in the Bay Area and work in the software/tech industry.
- Senior SWE & Software Engineering Team LeadMar 2020 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mosSan Francisco Bay Area · Remote
Worked on Vue.js front-end of a revolutionary hybrid Web2/3 platform & a Go-lang / Node.js / MongoDB / Postgres back-end running atop an elastic AWS-based infrastructure. Promoted to team lead within 3 months, managing a team of ~9 engineers spread across the globe. Also liaised & synched with blockchain, design & business teams, and C-suite (making company-wide bi-weekly presentations on the state of the entire software stack). Also integrally involved in architecture, documentation & hiring. Skills: Cross-functional Team Leadership · Software Product Management · Scrum · Technical Documentation · Technical Recruiting · Team Leadership · Technical Presentations · Technical Project Leadership · Vue.js · Troubleshooting · Document Management · Front-End Development The Values Movement: Finally, Humanity’s Shared Values Can Drive the Global Economy! Values Movement Designing the values-driven economy — how the vision began
Education
- Western Michigan UniversityMaster's Degree, Computer Science1999 - 2000
Grade: magna cum laude Activities and societies: Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Graduate Teaching Assistant Skills: Troubleshooting · Apple Support
- Western Michigan UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science Theory & Analysis1996 - 1998
Grade: cum laude Activities and societies: Upsilon Pi Epsilon Theory & Analysis is a more rigorous program: more courses, focused on advanced computational theory and accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission; minor in mathematics; honorary member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon. Skills: Troubleshooting · Apple Support
- Penn State UniversityComputer Software Engineering1993 - 1995
classes only, no diploma Skills: Troubleshooting
Skills
Other
Apple SupportTechnical SupportTroubleshootingHTMLObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Front-End DevelopmentSoftware Product ManagementTechnical PresentationsTechnical Project LeadershipNetwork AdministrationTechnical RecruitingCross-functional Team LeadershipCascading Style Sheets (CSS)
At a glance
Experience31 years
Currently atCareer Break
Based inUnited States
Studied atWestern Michigan University
Roles11
Skills20
LanguagesFrench · Greek
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