Phil Budne
Software & Networking Consultant at Self
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Budne is a seasoned Software & Networking Consultant with over three decades of Unix/Linux systems programming and administration experience, currently based in Arlington, MA. He excels at "draining swamps"—taking on gnarly legacy and low-level problems—from embedded device drivers and transport over lossy satellite links to large-scale Linux audio MCUs and cloud telematics back ends. Phil blends deep systems instincts (dtrace, PMCs, epoll, Netgraph) with practical tooling and automation—often writing Python test harnesses, monitoring integrations, or migration scripts—to make systems faster and more maintainable. An occasional retro-computer hacker, he has contributed to the historic SIMH emulator (GRAPHICS-2 for PDP systems), reflecting both curiosity about computing history and skill in faithful hardware emulation. Pragmatic, meticulous, and unafraid of old codebases, he brings a rare mix of systems craftsmanship and modern cloud/DevOps fluency.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Science Curriculum, Science Curriculum at Stevens Institute of TechnologyBA, Psychology, BA, Psychology at Boston University
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Github Skills (8)
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cassandra6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
simh/simh
Mar 2016 - Dec 2018
The Computer History Simulation Project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 27 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily contributed to the simulation of a "GRAPHICS-2" subsystem, likely for a PDP-7/9 computer system. They implemented IOT routines, service functions, and display output features, including character handling. The contributions demonstrate the development of software related to the original hardware's specific commands and character representations, which involved adapting and refactoring existing code to ensure the correct implementation for the emulation.
simulatorcomputer-historysimulation
philbudne/story-indexer
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:349 pushes, 134 branches, 140 tags in 1 year 4 months
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