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About This is me, Eric McWilliams (aka nugget)

Hello and thanks for stopping by!

First things first: my name is Eric McWilliams, but I usually go by my nickname: nugget. I was born in 1974 in Alabama, where I spent all of my childhood until I was 10ish, moved to Ohio, then made my way to California about 12/13ish for my high school years and the early 90s. In 1992 I joined the Marines and learned field radio communications and had a knack for communications that has taken me far in life. I was stationed in Kaneohe Bay Hawaii and deployed around the world from there. I have a daughter that I love to death that keeps me busy needing rides to her different activities.

Contact You can reach me via the most common methods:

Mastodon: @
Twitter: quit it before Elon..
LinkedIn: [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-mcwilliams-34b0b5327/|eric-mcwilliams-34b0b5327]]
Email: nugget@igazine.com please include Subject: [WIKI]

I find it pretty easy to avoid spam and bots just by requiring normal people to send a message with a predefined subject header. So until the ML and bots learn this method I say game on…

Software developer My primary job and hobby are both centered around software development. My expertise is in production backends, Unix-like operating systems, and build systems. I thoroughly enjoy writing Rust and designing easily testable systems, but I'm also fluent in C++, Go, Python, and shell scripting to name a few.

I have authored many Open Source projects and contributed to a few existing ones, including NetBSD, Gnome, and FreeBSD. Although I know Linux, I am a BSD “believer”. These days, my free time goes mosty into a EndBASIC, a fun little project I want to use to teach programming to (my) kids.

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Engineer at work I am a Software Engineer by profession. At work I am recognized for “seeing the forest and the trees”, writing comprehensive designs, authoring clean code, developing extensive test suites, and steadily delivering results with attention to the finest detail. I enjoy working on infrastructure-level software and my “motto” is simple: production software can be beautiful; you just need to hold it to the same high standards as you would user-visible products.

I am currently employed by Snowflake as a Senior Software Engineer 2 who works in Developer Experience Productivity. I was previously employed by Microsoft as a Principal Software Engineer in Azure Storage, and by Google as a Software Engineer in Bazel and a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in internal and cloud storage systems.

Am I available for hire and/or long-term freelance work? Maybe. Ask me. Sell me your project.

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Writer as time permits I enjoy writing essays on software development, ranging from personal experiences to opinion pieces (with varying degrees of “success”). My blog has been alive since 2004 and has moved around quite a bit, but this site is where I collect all originals.

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