SEEKING WORK - SF Bay Area - Remote OK, travel negotiable
The web is shiny.  The stuff which keeps the web running is unglamorous plumbing.  I'm a plumber.  If you have some weird hardware which needs a driver, I can do that.  If you're a company which has a big code depot and needs a better way to build it, I'll make a better build tool.  You might have a greenhouse full of bar-coded experiments and need some way to track all of those data points.  Yep, me again.
<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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