My name is Brian Jones and I hail from Eagle River, Alaska. I moved back to this beautiful state in 2018 after having lived in Japan for 12 years. I enjoy hiking with my daughter and our two border collies.
I've worn both EM and IC hats throughout my career. For thoughts on how I approach management and leadership please see my Manager README.
As for software engineering, I've continued to delve deeper down the stack as time goes on. In my early days dynamic langauges were fun and exciting, however, I started leaning into typed languages with runtimes such as Go and Haskell, and now Rust and Zig as I become more interested in low level resource efficiency and systems programming.
Back when I was excited about Go I wrote a Riak (by Basho) database driver: https://github.com/riaken/riaken-core
I had the opportunity to build a Haskell team at one point. Here is a highly commented demo of the web stack we landed on.
My latest Rust tool is DepthZ which helps graph systems and infrastructure dependencies.
I'm tinkering with Zig by writing components of a command line edior.
- Zig Piece Table: Talks about using Zig and implementing a text editor