Innovative systems architect and developer with decades of experience spanning chips, systems, microcode, compiler construction, DevOps leadership, and business-critical software systems. Known for a unique ability to analyze, debug, and simplify complex systems, often uncovering solutions to long-standing problems overlooked by others.

Self-taught, self-driven, and unafraid to challenge convention. Career marked by technical depth, leadership across global teams, and a persistent focus on clarity, reliability, and impact.

• Early Hardware & Systems Design – At 21, joined LSI Logic, contributing to ASIC and system-level design, manufacture, amd prototype debugging. Gained hands-on expertise with chip architecture, BIOS, and microcode development.
• Compiler & Tooling Innovation – Designed an object-based language, compiler, and debugger for the Canadian Navy. Delivered tools used in mission-critical environments and presented solutions directly to military leadership.
• Global DevOps Leadership (before DevOps was a word) – Led an international team spanning Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Toronto, and Bucharest from Halifax. Responsible for North American operations and business systems at Mars Inc. Anticipated practices now considered modern DevOps years before their formal adoption.
• High-Stakes Analysis & Debugging – Hired repeatedly as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies to resolve persistent, costly issues. Known for an unconventional but highly effective debugging style: stripping away misleading comments, visually restructuring code, and letting the logic speak for itself.

• “Comments lie; code tells the truth.”
• Pursues clarity over convention, whether in design, documentation, or communication.
• Believes that intelligence should serve morality: wealth and skills are meaningful only when they ease others’ burdens.

• sztest – A comprehensive Go testing library with simplifying test driven development providing facilities to simulate and test go code always aiming at 100% code coverage.
• szlog – A Go logging library with structured levels, deferred evaluation, and localized formatting. Demonstrates clean API design and professional documentation.
• szargs – A Go library for configuration via command-line and environment variables.
• szbck - A go utility implementing "time machine like backups" aimed at Unix/Linux machines.
• gotomd – A utility for generating GitHub-style README files from Go source code and tests, ensuring projects are self-documenting.
• szstore – A fast windowed data collection utility for recording and reporting continuously updated windowed averages.

All projects available at: [https://github.com/dancsecs]

• Systems-level problem solving
• Debugging complex, high-stakes issues
• Tooling and language design
• Global team leadership and mentoring
• Documentation and clarity of communication
• Deep commitment to ethical, human-centered technology

These projects are dedicated to Reem. Your brilliance, courage, and quiet strength continue to inspire me. Every line is written in gratitude for the light and hope you brought into my life.