Ron Record
Principal Architect Software Engineer at Hornblower Group
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRon Record is a Principal Architect Software Engineer with decades of hands-on experience building, porting, and maintaining UNIX/Linux distributions from the Intel 8086 era through modern cloud-native infrastructures. He blends deep systems-and-security expertise (former SCO Chief Security Officer and long-time open source maintainer) with contemporary automation skills in Kubernetes, Proxmox, VMware, and infrastructure-as-code. Ron has led virtualization and cloud management efforts at VMware and currently designs automated datacenter infrastructure, while his background in nonlinear dynamical systems (Ph.D. in Mathematics) informs a rigorous, systems-theoretic approach to engineering. Notable behind-the-scenes contributions include leading SCO Skunkware, co-inventing the Webtop, and porting a wide array of open-source stacks to commercial UNIX platforms.
14 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (200)
mopidy10
ascii10
audio-player10
streaming10
javascript10
animation10
mpd-client10
audio10
magicmirror10
mpd10
console10
spectrum10
java10
album-art10
asciinema10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
doctorfree/mpcplus
Sep 2022 - Jun 2024
Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpcpp
Contributions:3 releases, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
mpd-clientncmpcppmpdwolfram-languagencurses
doctorfree/doctorfree
Aug 2020 - Apr 2025
Profile styling repo
Contributions:2 PRs, 629 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
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