Francis Smit
Retired
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolFrancis Smit is a seasoned Australian software developer with 14 years of professional experience and a deep passion for systems-level programming, especially in C++ and Raku (Perl 6). Based in Sydney, he has spent decades delivering pragmatic solutions across many languages and platforms, now focused exclusively on Linux development. He combines strong academic grounding in mathematics and computer science (Deakin University, H2B honours) with hands-on craftsmanship demonstrated by a long-running personal code archive on GitHub. Known for being language-agnostic and comfortable tackling whatever a client or project needs, he has worked part-time for Knowledge by Design while balancing health and continued learning. Now retired, he still writes substantial amounts of code and maintains an active public portfolio that reflects a curiosity for elegant, low-level solutions. An uncommon trait: he deliberately moved away from Windows years ago, making Linux his sole development environment.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Hounors H2B, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Hounors H2B at Deakin UniversityThe University of Melbourne
perl, c++, python, php, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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5kreached
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Github Skills (111)
kdeconnect10
syncthing10
gjs10
gnome10
gnome-shell10
syntax-highlighting9
raku9
documentation-generator9
kernel9
shell8
browser8
linux8
unix8
operating-system8
menu8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grizzlysmit/fmtextras
May 2021 - Aug 2024
Contributions:5 releases, 111 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
grizzlysmit/Gzz-Text-Utils
Nov 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:188 pushes, 16 tags in 1 month
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