Stephen Wiley (Software Engineer)

Software Development

• Rust on Linux
• Pytorch (custom model architecture and training)
• C (GCC/clang, Ken/8c on plan9, avr-GCC, MPLab)
• C++ on Linux and Windows
• Golang and SQLite3
• Oracle with replication
• C#, scheme
• Concurrent programming with goroutines, pthreads, win32
• Assembly (pic18, avr, 6507, Z80, 8086, AMD64)
• Scripting languages (bash,awk,rubby,perl,JavaScript,FORTH,R)
• Micro controllers (pic, at-mega, atxmega, arm (Freescale Kinetis, TI OMAP, STM 32), RISC-V)
• python,tkinter,numpy,unittest,pyserial
• Instrumentation (valgrind) and GDB (with/without RSP)
• Always writes unit tests (jasmine, harnesses for embedded code)
• Parsers and Lexers from scratch and with parser generators (YACC) in multiple languages
• Familiar with many large scale application architectures including REST, ETL
• Devops/deployment automation in puppet 3-7(including puppet rspec), RPM, Alpine, Docker, Terraform and Ansible

Data, Science, and AI

• Professional and academic lab experience
• Standard office and publishing tools including Excel, GROFF, and LaTeX.
• Modeling and data analysis of large high performance systems
• Quantitative modeling of finance and economic data
• PyTorch and GGML with custom model, training, and inference code
• Strong applied math skills in Linear Algebra, Calculus, and Probability
• Self hosted custom foundation Large Language Models
• Familiar with QUBO optimisation and Dwave's quantum annealing APIs (quantum computing)
• Computer Vision with OpenCV and Neural Networks

Social and Buisness Development

• Have maintained personal consulting companies.
• Worked for multiple startups either as initial founding technical team or one of the first highers.
• Have self published software including in closed app stores
• Volunteered consistently for multiple organizations over multi-year long periods.

Unix-like Environments

• Linux, Mac OS, OpenBSD, Plan9, and QNX Both use and C, C++, Objective C, and Python application development
• Common Unix shell tools (busybox and GNU)
• OpenSSH, THTTPD, OpenSMTPD, dovecot
• Unix networking debugging and filtering tools (pf, tcpdump, inetd, nc)
• Buildroot and custom Linux based OSes with busybox
• Makefiles and complex build system (buildroot, kconfig, bespoke recursive Makefiles)
• Both Git and Mercurial (RCS ci/co long ago)
• Asciidoc, Pandoc, LaTeX, GRoff, WikiML, LibreOffice
• Configuration languages: GNU LD scripts, guile, XML/XSLT, uboot, device tree script
• XML starlet
• Docker and LBU (for personal computers)
• Package manager spec files (RPM and apk)
• Nagios
• Deployment Automation: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible
• Verilog (ICEStorm)
• Metasploit
• nmap
• OpenSSL and OpenSSH (both CLI and API)
• OpenLDAP
• Firewalls: PF, iptables, familiarity with Linux ipxfrm code
• Open Source CAD tools (Xcircuit, Gschem, XPCB)
• DNS utilities (bind, dig etc.)
• Have done extensive work with complex build systems including but not limited to: kconfig,buildroot,cmake,gradel,gem,pypi,docker and jenkins

Cisco (2024-Present)

I am a software engineer in the "Common Security Module team" Which maintains internal forks of OpenSSH and OpenSSL to support cisco software.

• Development of internal SSH and OpenSSL software (C, Unix, cryptography,
• Post Quantum cryptography in OpenSSL
• Development and support of deployment automation infrastructure (groovy, ansible, openstack, python)
• Cross organizational coordination and auditing of security requirements
• The Go to guy for debugging difficult to solve problems caused by dynamic interactions of Linux software from outside groups

Verisign (2020-2023)

I was a software engineer on the team responsible for high availability global scale DNS TLD registry/resolution products including global reverse DNS, .gov/.com/.net/ and country TLDs.

• Worked on global scale internet facing applications
• ETL style C++ Oracle Golden Gate Application with many subprocesses
• Nagios monitoring
• troubleshooting of proprietary libraries and specialized tools written in C++, Perl, and shell
• Heavy use of Unit tests
• "One button" deployment automation
• CI/CD migrations
• Specialized high throughput network server applications

Consulting (2014- 2024)

Prior to working at Verisign I've engaged in numerous successful freelancing projects

• Distributed, Delay Tolerant File system for Windows
• Wireless agricultural Monitoring system
• Custom Embedded Firmware (Linux based and custom executives)
• Complex Computer vision Applications
• Custom Laser tag equipment (firmware, electrical, and mechanical design)
• Distributed Control system for Materials lab (both embedded firmware and Windows GUI application)

Undergraduate technical intern for Verisign( June 2012 - December 2012)

Mostly internal infrastructure support for developers.

• Debugged and fixed build system and features for C++ graphical remote desktop software.
• shell scripts to help coordinate VM management
• Modified Free-BSD FORTH boot loader scripts to allow booting an alternate kernel.

Software Engineering Intern for Tridium/Honeywell (summers 2016,2017,2018)

Embedded Systems and Application programming for the building automation business.

• Rewriting Java GUIs in HTML5
• Worked on very disciplined agile team
• unit tests in jasmine
• WiFi regulatory compliance test firmware
  (personally handed off to Underwriter's Laboratories)
• Examination of plastic deformation with finite element analysis software
• QNX and Linux Firmware image generation
• Porting software between (both ways) QNX and GNU/Linux
• Evaluation of QNX VPN software
• Evaluation of extremely small JVMs on arm micro controllers