SEEKING WORK - SF Bay Area - Remote OK, travel negotiable
Let's face it.  All of this shiny "Web 2.0" stuff has to run on top of some unglamorous plumbing.  Who creates that plumbing and keeps it running?  People like me.
Clusters?  Device drivers?  Filesystems?  Build tools for your source code?  That's the sort of stuff I do.
<a href="https://rachelbythebay.com/contact/" >https://rachelbythebay.com/contact/</a>
Examples of things I've created:
<a href="http://scanner.rachelbythebay.com/" >http://scanner.rachelbythebay.com/</a> - Software Defined Radio used to monitor an entire trunked system in parallel, with over 1 million calls logged and randomly accessible.  Includes bonus "social layer" where people can tag interesting calls to make them easier for others to find quickly.
<a href="http://rachelbythebay.com/bb/" >http://rachelbythebay.com/bb/</a> - C++ depot build tool.  Why specify dependencies twice?  #include should be all you need.  Can you build a large project without writing rules in some build language (Makefile and friends)?  I can.  Can you add new files to your depot without having to go back to that build language to teach it about them?  Yep, I can do that too.
<a href="https://github.com/rachelbythebay/protolog" >https://github.com/rachelbythebay/protolog</a> - Tired of parsing Apache logs in ASCII?  Keep them in a strong binary format and your life gets much easier.
<a href="http://fred.rachelbythebay.com/" >http://fred.rachelbythebay.com/</a> - I got tired of Google Reader way back in 2011 and wrote a replacement which just works and stays out of my way.  Now, when they pull the plug in July, I'll be ready.
<a href="https://rachelbythebay.com/edu/" >https://rachelbythebay.com/edu/</a> - Streaming high-bitrate video just to be able to read someone's "screencast" is just painful.  Text should be text.  I use that philosophy to provide lessons for those looking to build things with C++.
I also slice through weird "it doesn't work" problems, sometimes for things I've never even seen before.  Got some legacy system which doesn't want to play nice any more?  Shoot me a message: <a href="https://rachelbythebay.com/contact/" >https://rachelbythebay.com/contact/</a>
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