Jamey Sharp

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About Jamey Sharp

If you're in Portland and you want advice on your new technology startup, or insight on software challenges your engineering team is facing, buy me lunch and let's chat! I'm available for short-duration contract work. Get in touch if you have a high-value problem that could benefit from my expertise in software architecture, theoretical computer science, software performance, or the open source software ecosystem. In more detail, I'm a software systems architect, developer, and project manager, effectively evaluating solutions spanning entire software stacks from low-level CPU architecture to high-level application frameworks. I focus on providing elegant solutions for complex needs. My open source projects include the Portland State Aerospace Society (http://psas.pdx.edu), with arguably the most sophisticated avionics of any amateur rocketry group in the world; and XCB (http://xcb.freedesktop.org), a new low-level binding to the X Window System protocol, currently replacing Xlib on every Linux, Solaris, BSD, and MacOS X desktop. Specialties: My interests span computer science fields including cryptography, combinatorial search, compilers, and computational complexity; systems-level programming, such as file format and network protocol implementations, Linux kernel development, and boot-loader hacking; computer architecture and its impact on software design; and functional programming, preferably in Haskell.