I`m a software engineer living in southeastern Pennsylvania, and I work as a Principal Software Architect for . I previously worked for in 2019-2021 helping them to build their new platform, and for / in 2009-2019 to build, maintain, and extend their flagship application. I am also the author of , a popular disk-analysis tool, and I`ve spent decades designing a new programming language named . In my spare time, I`m building video games, because video games are fun :-) I graduated Penn State with a Bachelor`s Degree in Computer Science in 1998. I started writing software when I was eight years old, and today, more than thirty years later, I`m fluent in somewhere between 25 to 30 programming languages. My core focuses are on user-interaction, computational efficiency, compilers, and language theory — all concepts that when implemented empower people to do more than they could without them. I`ve been around long enough in this industry to see a lot of technologies born, grow, and die. I`m not a fan of buzzwords, "paradigms," or the technology-of-the-day. I love creating high-quality software, but believe that most current software "processes" can`t and won`t ever produce it. I`m generally skeptical of most technologies and products produced by most companies, especially those that are supposed to make me "more productive." I`m a believer in , , and , and I strongly believe that an ounce of understanding is worth a pound of "solutions." I have written (and debugged!) half a million lines of C#, a quarter million lines of JavaScript, a million lines of C and C++; and I have several hundred thousand lines of various assembly languages behind me too, including 6502, x86, SPARC, ARM, and even a little 68K for good measure. Toss in a bunch of SQL, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and some BASIC/VB/VBA, and some even more obscure languages no-one`s heard of, add a few pinches of Scheme and Lisp and SmallTalk, and stir to a fine purée. In my personal life, I`m happily married with two kids, a dog and a cat, and a nice house in the suburbs; and my hobbies include drawing and writing. All code I post on StackOverflow is released under the terms of the license. ©