Jim Wise
Infrastructure Technology Manager at NetBSD
Town of Carmel, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJim Wise is an Infrastructure Technology Manager with 15+ years building and operating low-latency, high-availability systems for leading financial firms and hedge funds, currently driving infrastructure strategy at Arcesium. He blends deep Unix/Linux systems engineering, performance tuning, automation and security with hands-on software development in C/C++ and scripting languages, and has repeatedly led global Unix and specialized trading platform teams at firms like JPMorgan, Barclays, and Millennium. An active open-source contributor and long-time NetBSD developer, he also contributes to Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL), improving cross-platform stability and test automation for a widely used Lisp compiler. Based in New York, he pairs enterprise-scale infrastructure leadership with an engineer’s penchant for solving platform portability and reliability edge cases.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at New York UniversityDoctor of Law - JD, Law, Doctor of Law - JD, Law at City University of New York School of Law
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Github contributions (5)
sbcl/sbcl
Mar 2011 - Oct 2013
Mirror of Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)'s official repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) compiler project. Their work involved addressing issues related to platform-specific behavior, such as readdir on SunOS and mkstemp test failures. Furthermore, the user enhanced the testing infrastructure by introducing new keywords and functionality to manage test skipping and failures based on platform and feature combinations. These contributions highlight a focus on improving the stability and portability of the SBCL compiler across different operating systems.
sbclsteelcompilerlispcommon-lisp
jimwise/ambit
Jan 2012 - Nov 2017
Contributions:52 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 5 years 11 months
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