I'm a seasoned software engineer, expert in C and C++, solid in Java, Python, and many other languages. I specialize in concurrent systems, from multi-threaded to HPC. I have a particular love of any hard-core number-crunching. Wherever I go, I also fill the existing holes. Sometimes, a company needs a front-end, sometimes a build system. Sometimes, a company needs someone to train the new-hires and to mentor the not-as-new-hires. I do these things, in my extra on-the-job time.

In my most recent position, I was asked to parallelize a not-quite prototyped serial application. First, I rewrote the ideas into an actual...