About Me

I'm a software developer based in NYC, currently working for Ro on infrastructure/platform stuff. I previously worked for SmartThings, Bitly, and Xirrus.

I studied ECE at CMU. Despite the inexorable market demand for higher level services and abstractions, I'm still quite interested in systems programming, Linux/Unix server configuration/deployment, embedded systems, and crafting low-level software.

You can find some of my recent activity on my github profile.

Some of my old and obsolete technical writing can be found below ...

• Compiling Raspberry Pi kernel modules

  How to compile out-of-tree linux kernel modules against a kernel installed by rpi-update

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• Make

  The classic unix build tool. Theory and practice.

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• linux urandom for random

  Make /dev/random act like /dev/urandom. No wait, hear me out.

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• Arch Linux systemd cleanup

  cleaning up the clutter of services and mounts

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• Linux and Mac OS X dual-boot on Macbooks

  Let unmodified Apple EFI boot grub2 to boot linux

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• Disable Samba printer serving

  really disable all of it, to prevent some logged errors

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• usbreset

  linux utility to disconnect and reconnect all usb devices, virtually

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• systemd rc.local

  how to run a bash script at the end of systemd-based startup

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• pacreview

  an Arch Linux package review / cleanup tool like debfoster

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