Ben Nesson

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About Ben Nesson

If you're looking for someone who can analyze a bug caused by the customer's antivirus interfering with the default OS image loader in a way that causes dynamic initialization of non-local static variables to break the eventing system of the third-party library your product is based on, without ever being able to actually repro the bug, you're looking for me. If you're looking for someone who can work out a flaky race condition in third-party menu animation code that only occurs when a particular non-user-facing OS setting is enabled, a bug that it turns out has been plaguing the organization off and on for years, and do it within a few hours of first encountering the defect, you're looking for me. If you're looking for someone who can track a chromium process crash to an OS API call in another process that's failing because of a misconfigured security token, and then write up an explanation of the problem that the customer can understand, you're looking for me. If you're looking for someone who can reconstruct a build process for a ten-year-old version of a third-party library, work out how to update that library with the one critical fix you need to keep selling your product in Japan once the Emperor abdicates the Chrysanthemum Throne, and then write up an explanation of what to do if it comes up again that's so clear and readable that a Director of Software Engineering calls it "a thing of beauty" and uses it as an example of what documentation should be, you're looking for me. If you're looking for someone who can build an impromptu community to keep vulnerable employees alive during an unprecedented global pandemic, you're looking for me. If you're looking for someone who can investigate any bug, figure out what's going wrong, and figure out how to fix it, all while writing up defect updates that result in actual, for-real fans, you're looking for me. Any software engineer worth anything can pick up whatever language or technology you need them to know in short order. If you're looking for someone with the breadth of experience with weird problems and the grasp of human nature necessary to understand how they come about, explain what's happening, and avoid them in the first place, you're looking for me.