Welcome to my GitHub profile! I'm a systems engineer with an affection for open source, the rust language, compilers, developer tooling, and a variety of other things.
After getting involved in open source in college via RCOS, and a brief internship, I started my career at the MITRE Corporation, an American not-for-profit organization. While I was there, I worked on some very cool tools to assess software supply chain security risks. One of them was even open-sourced: hipcheck. After my time at MITRE I started working at Cloudflare, where I joined a small team of folks dedicated to protecting the internet from Denial of Service attacks. Since joining, I've had the privilege to work on a variety of things, including Programmable Flow Protection. Some of my work on that has even been open sourced; the verifier and headers are on the Cloudflare Github.
Over the past few years, I've added docs and examples to the rust standard library, implemented some of the tracing and error logic in rust's libgit2 wrapper, added better error messages regarding macOS SecureTransport errors to libgit2 itself, added a parser combinator to nom, and made a few other open source contributions in various repositories.
My main focus, on-and-off since 2017, when it was a different repo and a different project (please don't read that code too deeply, I was a teenager when I wrote it lol) has been wright-lang, a programming language and compiler that I'm designing and building from scratch. I've stopped and restarted the project several times over the years, mostly relating to when I'm burnt out with it or when I have other things in my life keeping me busy, so it has evolved a lot since it's creation. Hopefully one day when it's more complete, I can give it it's own section here.
In my free time have a variety of hobbies including hiking, making music, and playing League of Legends and Magic The Gathering. I'm also an avid car enthusiast, fashonista, foodie, and lover of frogs & other amphibians.
If you reply to me on GitHub, or raise an issue on one of my repos, I'll likely see it! I look at GitHub relatively regularly. Otherwise feel free to message me on social media (Bluesky, Instagram, LinkedIn) or email me at "venus [at] venusblon [dot] de".
If you've gotten down here you've finished reading my little internet blurb about myself -- thanks! I'm not frequently one to be inspiring or deeply thoughtful online, but the internet is a crazy wonderful wild thing. I feel incredibly lucky and grateful to live in a time where I have access to it, let alone am able to put my work onto it for the world to use and enjoy. Very few things in human history last forever, and I'm sure one day the sun will set on the world wide web too. Until then though, I'm glad to have been online with you.
Humbly, Venus Xeon-Blonde