Rick Troth
Senior Software Developer at Virtual Software Systems Inc.
Cedarville, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Troth is a senior software developer with 12+ years of recent experience and a multi-decade background in systems engineering, virtualization, and data protection across enterprise and mainframe environments. He specializes in data and system security (SSL/TLS, PKI, SSH, FPE), secure networking (VPNs, tunnels, Tor), and cross-platform interoperability—from ARM and PowerPC to IBM z Systems and legacy Unix variants. Rick blends low-level C and assembler expertise with scripting and multi-language integration to build, package, and deploy hardened open source solutions, and he routinely builds Linux from source for exotic hardware. A CISSP who evangelizes technology at conferences and forums, he also brings practical strengths in repository management, IPv6 migration, and integrating closed systems with Linux. An early electronics enthusiast and licensed amateur radio operator (N5VDC), he often applies that hands-on curiosity to solve unusual cross-system challenges.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (25)
tac10
mainframe8
filesystem7
linux7
device-driver7
database7
bug-reporting6
linux-kernel6
power-management6
unlock5
intervals5
prebuild5
sega-genesis5
storage-engine5
mingw-w645
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
trothr/xmitmsgx
Nov 2017 - Jul 2025
Contributions:7 releases, 75 pushes, 7 tags in 7 years 9 months
trothr/cmstar
Dec 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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