Rick Sladkey
Software Architect at Full Spectrum
Eastham, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRick Sladkey is a software architect and problem-solving generalist with over three decades of hands-on experience spanning compilers, embedded systems, and AI-assisted productivity. He combines low-level expertise in C/C++ and kernel work with a taste for mathematical depth—contributing to Linux NFS, strace, and projects like VsVim and ConEmu—while inventing Meta-Query, a novel approach to AI-augmented thinking. Comfortable from bootloaders to NLP, he has built high-performance systems (including a from-scratch CLIPS reimplementation and an NLTK-based parser for Magic: The Gathering) and led cross-platform CI/CD and embedded-scanning efforts. A mentor and open-source advocate rooted in the hacker ethos, Rick blends philosophical curiosity with pragmatic engineering to make complex systems more usable. Based in Eastham, MA, he’s actively seeking collaborators and projects that push the boundary between human cognition and machine assistance.
16 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellBachelor of Science - BS Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Chemical Engineering at Tulane University
English, French
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Github Skills (50)
c-language10
silverlight10
xaml10
wp-api10
terminal-emulator10
winapi10
terminal-application10
vim10
fileio10
dotnet-core10
file-handling10
file-processing10
fsharp10
wpf10
ws-api10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
VsVim/VsVim
Dec 2013 - Nov 2019
Vim Emulator Plugin for Visual Studio 2015+
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1578 commits, 281 PRs, 299 pushes in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Rick appears to be focused on enhancing the functionality of a Vim emulator plugin for Visual Studio, contributing to both its core behavior and user interface. The contributions include adding and testing digraphs, which involve implementing features for inserting special characters. They are also responsible for fixing bugs and adding support for several features.
emulatorvim-emulatorvimvisual-studio-extensionvsix
Maximus5/ConEmu
Dec 2013 - Mar 2016
Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style, hotkeys and more
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rick primarily focused on bug fixes and code enhancements within the ConEmu terminal emulator. Their contributions addressed issues related to console behavior, particularly in the context of overlapped I/O operations and directory handling. They also addressed a deadlock issue and converted source files to UTF-8, ensuring proper character encoding. The user demonstrates a strong understanding of system-level programming in the context of a terminal application.
windows-terminalwindowsconsolecustomizablesplits
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