I'm a software engineer with 35 years of experience. I've worked across an unusually wide range of domains: mobile game backends, privacy-preserving data platforms, high-throughput COVID testing infrastructure, email and account systems, e-payment processing, job marketplace systems, and bioinformatics. I pick up new domains quickly and have a history of doing it repeatedly. I understand how to turn business needs into engineering requirements.

I prefer to work remotely but I am open to an in-office job in the Philadelphia area or especially in Philadelphia itself. I've often worked remotely since the 1990s and can operate with minimal supervision. Several of my favorite projects were self-directed: I identified the need, built the thing, and shipped it. My preferred time zone is America/New_York, but I'm flexible.

Some of the many, many technologies I've used are: Python, Perl, TypeScript/JavaScript, Haskell, Go, C, Java. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite. Flask, SQLAlchemy. AWS (Lambda, S3, RDS, SQS, EC2). Docker, Git. Github and Gitlab.

I've also repeatedly picked up new languages and stacks as needed: Haskell for differential privacy research, TypeScript for a 24/7 AWS Lambda system, Flask for my most recent employer. I've become productive with new systems over and over, and I can do it quickly.

I'm a published author (Higher-Order Perl, Morgan Kaufmann), longtime blogger, and conference speaker with a reputation for making complex ideas clear.

I am a U.S. citizen.

My résumé is at https://
plover.com/~mjd/cv/Mark%20Jason%20Dominus.pdf

mjd@pobox.com

Thanks!

#OpenToWork #remoteWork #softwareEngineering #Python #backend #hiring
#fediHire
#getFediHired

Attachment: ]]> https://yeen.town/notes/arhbne5oqpuz022o Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:10:42 UTC https://yeen.town/notes/arhbne5oqpuz022o A+ work happening.

Attachment: ]]> https://weird.autos/@Basmitharts/117276738191162889 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:33:00 UTC https://weird.autos/@Basmitharts/117276738191162889 NYC Dept of Buildings has an online Building Information Service. It's down (in the sense that it returns an error whenever you search). If you call 311, they'll tell you that they got a memo that it was going to have some downtime for maintenance starting yesterday (Sunday), and they have no idea when it'll be back up. This is... not the best practice for maintenance. Hope Mamdani's Pit Crew can fix it, because yow.

Attachment: ]]> https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online/117260498740064768 Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:22:04 UTC https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online/117260498740064768 Buses were fucked today due to the West Indian Day parade, so we took a car service. The driver's name was "Boubacar", which I assume means that he is forbidden from driving a cybertruck...

The devil exists amongst those who deliberately starve children to death because they rationalise that those children will only grow up to be terrorists. It exists among those who bomb tent encampments and literally burn children and their parents alive. It exists amongst those who call Palestinians “human animals” the same phrase used by Himmler, the head of the SS about Jewish children in a speech on October 4, 1943 to senior SS Generals.

https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492

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#GoodNews #Politics

BTW, if you are the person who recommended Professor Mmaa's Lecture to me, please speak up; it was such a long time ago that I forgot!

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@shivers/117154982621618849

“‘The second I ignored everyone’s advice, I felt great,’ she said.”

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