Hi there 👋

• About me
  • Software Engineer at Microsoft
  • Musician and composer with music available on most streaming services
  • President/COO and founder of Digital Defiance, a non-profit Open Source Engineering Guild
  • Open Source advocate and contributor
  • Women's, minority, and disabled rights advocate
  • Disabled due to aggressive/advanced metastatic thyroid cancer, COPD, long COVID
  • Strong chance of losing my voice to thyroid cancer surgery in early 2024. Play.HT has generously donated a subscription for me to use to clone my voice before it is taken from me. Also investigating Open Source approaches like Realtime Voice Cloning and OpenVoice.

Much is "up in the air" or "on pause" right now due to cancer's impact on my health. I had made a burst of effort on a number of my projects, but ultimately I think I am going to dedicate more of my time to reading and less to coding since I don't seem to have anyone that uses or cares about my code. I hope it will be useful to someone, but it seems I am not going to be the one to finish it. My cancer prognosis has shifted towards incurable, and although it isn't immediately terminal, I may only have a few years- not all of which will be "good time". So I am trying to refocus my life on work and reading and getting rid of things I've accumulated over my life. Sorry I wasn't able to code more or finish everything. I tended to jump between projects, never finishing anything but always starting something new. Still, I think I've left a chunk of useful code for anyone who wants to borrow it. Lots of good stuff in the BrightChain repo. Encryption, ethereum hdkeys, all kinds of goodies. Even reed-solomon block recovery. Check it out if you have an interest.

• 🔭 I started an Open Source/FOSS Guild called "Digital Defiance" which is a non profit incorporated in WA state and is officially 501c3. It has absorbed most of my projects at least in theory. Right now we're actively working on a number of projects.

  • HACC is just reaching a really really usable state!
  • Come find us!
    • Keybase: https://keybase.io/team/digitaldefiance
    • Discord: https://discord.gg/8ASAAxzyyM

• I work on a lot of side projects, always starting new things. I usually circle back to projects eventually.

• I am currently un-mothballing some of the projects I set aside when I was sicker. I am still finding a balance between my personal time and my work time, but unfortunately the work comes first.

  • Most of what I am currently working on is in TypeScript and in NX based monorepos. I previously tried to merge multiple projects into a massive monorepo and that didn't pan out very well for Docker and the like, so I've started to break things back apart into their own separate monorepos.
  • BrightChain
  • GridIron
  • Project Albatross
  • Albatross One
  • Chili and Cilantro
  • OpenBook
  • A number of my projects utilized Firebase but Google moved my quota of projects to zero which effectively shut me down. I have been working on developing a new pattern based on typescript, node, express, and react but it takes time.

• My old projects aren't totally abandoned- though some are kind of ideas I've thought about and may interest you, so I've left whatever work (if any) I've done. 🤷‍♀️ I may swing back yet... Occasionally I'll pick one of them back up out of the blue and update it. Most of it is ideas in search of an audience.

• 🌱 I’m always learning. I'm rebuilding my life as a software engineer and musician after losing many years and a lot of ability to cancer, autoimmune diseases, and then COVID/Long COVID which further provoked the autoimmune issues. I always am trying to stay current in a lot of different areas. Pushing my knowledge on C#/Blazor, JavaScript, TypeScript and more.

• 💬 Ask me about Software Engineering, Music, Writing. Programmer since ~1987, professional since 1994. Embedded systems, DSP, Web/Full Stack. C/C++, Python, PHP, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript/ECMAScript, ActionScript/Flex, Perl, Go, Pascal, and more.

• 📫 How to reach me: jessica [at] mulein [dot] com

  • Alternate emails: jessica [at] mulein [dot] com [dot] ua (Ukraine/Украї́нська)
  • https://jessicamulein.com (GitHub pages hosted)
  • https://linktr.ee/jmulein
  • https://hashnode.jessicamulein.com
  • Mastodon

• 😄 Pronouns: Mercurial/Highness/Majesty (she/her if you really want to know)

• ⚡ Fun fact: I was once a licensed coal miner and have coded in the deepest darkest places on earth. I have lived rather diverse and separate lives under several names. One of my names is on millions of bookshelves.

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicamulein/