About Me
Hello, I am Andrew Gillis, better known as online as gammazero.
I am a software engineer with over 20 years experience software development, architecture, security, and protocol design.
I’m an active open-source maintainer and contributor, a member of various developer communitiess. I maintain a number of software packages that are user in many companies, products, and sistems. I am a long-time contributor to the WAMP protocol.
In my daily life, I’m into science, ocean free-diving, and writing software for fun. I love reading science fiction.
Quick Points of Interest Link to heading
Favorite programming languages Link to heading
- Go
- Python
Favorite dev environment Link to heading
- Go + emacs + git/github + claude
Languages I’ve written code in (at some point or another) Link to heading
- Go
- Python
- C/C++
- Rust
- Java
- Haskell
- Bash
- Perl
- Ruby
- Erlang
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- SQL
- 8086 Assembler
Databases and Key-Value storesI have worked with: Link to heading
- PostgreSQL
- Pebble
- MySQL
- Dynamo
- MongoDB
- InfluxDB
- FoundationDB
- memcached
- levelDB
- Badger
Favorite Authors Link to heading
- Cormac McCarthy
- Richard K. Morgan
- Joshua Dalzelle
Favorite Movies Link to heading
- Alien
- Aliens
Favorite Music Link to heading
- Hard Acid Techno (various artists)
- Hardcore Industrial Dance (various artists)
- Classical Synth (Carlos, Tomita)
Sports and Hobies Link to heading
- Freediving
- Body boarding
- Gaming (FPS mostly)