Perry Smith
Owner at Why Not Photography
Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPerry Smith is a veteran systems engineer and founder with over 30 years of deep kernel and device-driver expertise, specializing in AIX internals such as TTY, streams, LVM, file systems, and recent SATA disk subsystems. He has owned and led multiple consultancies (Ease Software, The Kernel Group) that partnered with IBM on core OS components and contributed to projects stemming from the CHRP/Pink era that influenced modern Mac/CHRP work. Perry has hands-on experience across TCP/IP kernel support, network device drivers, and cloud IAM tooling (OpenLDAP, Vault) from a stint as a Cloud Architect, blending low-level systems craftsmanship with modern infrastructure automation. He combines formal training (MS in Computer Science, BSEE) with practical hardware-to-kernel background—having designed embedded boards and compilers early in his career. Based in Texas, he currently operates small businesses while retaining deep specialist skills that few engineers maintain, particularly in legacy UNIX kernel maintenance and device driver development.
14 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
M. S., Computer Science, M. S., Computer Science at Southern Methodist University
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Github Skills (132)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pedz/my.emacs.d
Jun 2015 - Oct 2022
Contributions:48 pushes in 7 years 5 months
pedz/bash-setup
May 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:51 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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