Who are you again?

I’ve been thinking about, and using, programming languages for a very long time. By day, I’m a software engineer at GitHub, figuring out how to understand and analyze ~every programming language under the sun. By night, I balance family life with hacking on my own language, like any good PL enthusiast would!

In the past I’ve been involved in low-level performance, reliability, and security analysis of network traffic. As part of that work, I was the co-editor of two draft W3C specifications:

Reporting

Network Error Logging (NEL)

I also have a consultancy, Walland Heavy Research, where I bridge the gap between academia and industry. I love finding ways to bring results and best practices from each community to the other. I help academics productionize their research prototypes, and I help software engineers learn about state-of-the-art techniques that make their software more performant, more correct, and easier to understand and maintain. If this sounds like something that I can help you with, please reach out!

Finding me

In addition to this content, you can find me at:

Mastodon

Twitter

GitHub

Keybase (GPG key etc.)

Disclaimer

All of the opinions expressed on this site are my own, and not those of my employer.