George Nachman
Software Engineer at Continua AI, Inc.
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarGeorge Nachman is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience, based in Sunnyvale, California, currently building at Continua AI. He combines deep systems-level expertise with practical product instincts, demonstrated by backend contributions to notable open-source projects such as iTerm2 (improving VT100/PTYSessions) and NMSSH (adding robust SSH features like keypair auth and known-hosts support). Comfortable working on low-level terminal and networking code, he has a track record of removing dead code and implementing precise, security-minded enhancements. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who bridges legacy code maintenance and forward-looking feature work while keeping reliability and developer ergonomics in mind.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
objective-c10
user-authentication10
libssh10
maintenance10
authentication10
emulation10
ssh10
code-cleanup10
cryptography9
terminal-application9
cprogramming-language9
terminal-emulator9
c-language9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
gnachman/iTerm2
May 2011 - Jan 2023
iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 14324 commits, 281 PRs in 11 years 9 months
Contributions summary:George deleted dead code and added new code in the iTerm2 project's source code files. They made code changes related to the VT100Screen+Mutation and PTYSession modules. They implemented code related to terminal functions.
iterm2emulatormac-osterminal-emulatormac
NMSSH/NMSSH
Dec 2013 - Dec 2015
NMSSH is an Objective-C wrapper for libssh2, with a sweet API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on enhancing the NMSSH library's functionality by implementing progress callbacks for file upload and download operations. They added support for known hosts, including checking host key recognition and adding hosts to the known hosts file. Furthermore, the user introduced the capability to authenticate with keypairs, including the option to utilize optional passphrases for secure authentication.
apiobjective-cc-wrapperlibssh2sweet
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