Penn Cameron Porterfield

I am a software engineer with a systems bent. For the better part of a decade I have built and shipped production software end to end, from the application layer down to the cloud it runs on, first across agencies and venture-backed startups and now through my own consultancy.

Lately most of my attention goes to the lower layers. I spend my off hours in Rust, in the Linux kernel, and on the small embedded boards where the two meet, trying to understand computers a few levels further down than the job strictly requires.

• Operating systems & the Linux kernel
• Rust for systems software
• Device drivers & embedded hardware
• Distributed systems
• Cloud infrastructure

• Rust on the BeaglePlay. A kernel module and SPI display driver written in Rust, carried from a bare board through bring-up to a running panel.
• monero-multisig. An M-of-N multisig wallet CLI in Rust: key exchange, co-signing, submission.
• Google I/O. Production pages for Google's developer conference, built on a headless Preact and Python stack via Left Field Labs.
• Samwise Development. An independent cloud and software consultancy, full-stack and infrastructure work at any scale.

• B.S. Network & Cloud Engineering, Western Governors University (in progress)
• Computer Engineering, Penn State University 2009–2013
• DARPA-funded research, Penn State Applied Research Laboratory underwater acoustics