A distinguished Systems Engineer and Researcher specializing in high-performance Rust, low-level tooling, and creative hardware/software exploits. They maintain widely-used infrastructure like "syntect" while simultaneously exploring novel technical frontiers through experimental projects like process teleportation and pupil tracking. Their work demonstrates a rare combination of academic rigor, systems mastery, and practical open-source impact.
Consistently pushes boundaries with novel concepts like teleporting processes ("telefork") or exploiting LCD hardware quirks ("screentunes").
Scorecards highlight exemplary documentation across projects, with "syntect" and "doubleVision" providing educational value alongside functionality.
Maintains highly stable ecosystem libraries ("syntect"), though personal research projects ("telefork", "eyeLike") are understandably experimental/fragile.
High transparency in changelogs, clear attribution of academic papers, and creation of tools that solve universal developer pain points.
Maintains "syntect", a critical dependency for major CLI tools (bat, delta) with sophisticated optimizations (bit-packing, caching) and deeply unsafe systems code in "telefork".
Demonstrated mastery of Linux internals (ptrace, vDSO, memory layout) through the creation of "telefork", which migrates live processes between machines.
Author of "eyeLike", a widely recognized pupil tracking implementation in C++ using OpenCV, demonstrating ability to implement academic algorithms.
Multiple repositories ("gigatrace", "twitterperf", "syntect") are explicitly dedicated to benchmarking, tracing billion-event datasets, and optimizing CPU cycles.
Builds capable developer tooling ("pro") and data processors ("wikicrush"), though recent focus has shifted toward systems languages.
Solid implementation of standard CMake tooling and OpenCV integration in "eyeLike", though the project remains an unfinished research proof-of-concept.
