argonium's comments

argonium | 5 years ago | on: Carol Kaye

Indeed, she was part of the legendary Wrecking Crew.

argonium | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2020)

SEEKING WORK - Washington, DC - Remote only

Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end / desktop systems, algorithms, etc. Interested in performance tuning and technical writing.

I'm a native English speaker, have a BS in Computer Science, built a lot of systems and understand modern stacks very well. I can improve the performance of your system, whether the bottleneck is in the code (front-end or back-end), database, network stack, cache, or elsewhere. Currently writing a book on improving software performance.

I'm also an accomplished writer, having written one technical book (on undocumented Microsoft file formats) and edited four others. I can document your system, process, framework or anything similar.

Github: https://github.com/argonium

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfwallace/

Email: mfwallace at gmail

argonium | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2019)

Location: Fairfax, VA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end / desktop systems, algorithms, etc. Interested in performance tuning and technical writing.

I'm a native English speaker, have a BS in Computer Science, built a lot of systems and understand modern stacks very well. I can improve the performance of any system, whether the bottleneck is in the code (front-end or back-end), database, network stack, cache, or elsewhere. Currently writing a book on improving software performance.

I'm also an accomplished writer, having written one technical book (on undocumented Microsoft file formats) and edited 4 others. I can document your system, process, framework or anything similar.

Resume/CV: https://github.com/argonium and https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfwallace/

Email: mfwallace at gmail

argonium | 7 years ago

Location: Fairfax, VA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end / desktop systems, algorithms, etc. Interested in performance tuning and technical writing.

I'm a native English speaker, have a BS in Computer Science, built a lot of systems and understand modern stacks very well. I can improve the performance of any system, whether the bottleneck is in the code (front-end or back-end), database, network stack, cache, or elsewhere. Currently writing a book on improving software performance.

I'm also an accomplished writer, having written one technical book (on undocumented Microsoft file formats) and edited 4 others. I can document your system, process, framework or anything similar.

Resume/CV: https://github.com/argonium and https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfwallace/

Email: mfwallace at gmail

argonium | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2018)

Location: Washington, DC

Remote: Yes, only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end / desktop systems, algorithms, etc. Interested in performance tuning and technical writing.

I'm a native English speaker, have a BS in Computer Science, built a lot of systems and understand modern stacks very well. I can improve the performance of any system, whether the bottleneck is in the code (front-end or back-end), database, network stack, cache, or elsewhere. Currently writing a book on improving software performance.

I'm also an accomplished writer, having written one technical book (on undocumented Microsoft file formats) and edited 4 others. I can document your system, process, framework or anything similar.

Resume/CV: https://github.com/argonium and https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfwallace/

Email: mfwallace at gmail

argonium | 7 years ago | on: Web Framework Benchmarks

Good point. Thanks for the feedback. Our sites don't get a huge amount of traffic, so it's possible Spring doesn't have as good a concurrency story (or it's due to memory usage) as the higher-ranked frameworks, so it's been sufficient for our needs.

argonium | 7 years ago | on: Web Framework Benchmarks

I've been following these benchmarks for some time, and am always shocked that Spring does so poorly (it's 7% here). I haven't had any performance issues with Spring in production, so these benchmarks are puzzling. Are the other frameworks really that much faster in practice?

argonium | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2018)

SEEKING WORK - Washington, DC - Remote only

Developer, architect and writer. 20+ years of experience with Java and C (some Python), databases, back-end / desktop systems, algorithms, etc. Interested in performance tuning and technical writing.

I'm a native English speaker, have a BS in Computer Science, built a lot of systems and understand modern stacks very well. I can improve the performance of any system, whether the bottleneck is in the code (front-end or back-end), database, network stack, cache, or elsewhere. Currently writing a book on improving software performance.

I'm also an accomplished writer, having written one technical book (on undocumented Microsoft file formats) and edited 4 others. I can document your system, process, framework or anything similar.

Github: https://github.com/argonium

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfwallace/

Email: mfwallace at gmail

argonium | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2016)

SEEKING WORK

Location: Washington, DC, US

Remote: Yes, preferred

Availability: Part-time

Field: Technical writer

I'm a long-time software developer with strong skills in technical writing (co-wrote a book on Windows file formats, and edited four other books), now looking for contract work as a technical writer. I'm a native English speaker, have a BS in Computer Science, built a lot of systems and understand modern stacks very well, and I'm looking to help people document their application, process, framework or anything similar.

https://github.com/argonium

argonium | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What project are you working on?

I'm working on Beetle, a command-line ETL tool written in Java (if it goes well, I'll add a Swing interface). It's rudimentary at this point, but soon you'll be able to execute a SQL query and save the data to XML, JSON, YAML or a SQL script of Insert statements. You'll also be able to generate fake data in any of those formats, and also translate data between those formats, or push the data directly into a database. Any database with a JDBC driver is supported. As it gets more robust, I'll add features that seem useful.

https://github.com/argonium/beetle-cli

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