Summary
William Schaub is an experienced UNIX-focused software engineer and owner with 12 years in systems administration, legacy systems maintenance, and UNIX software development. He specializes in Perl, shell scripting, and PostgreSQL, and has a track record packaging and automating builds for embedded ARM hardware and Debian/Ubuntu systems. William has hands-on kernel and driver experience, devised cross-architecture build workflows using schroot and QEMU, and delivered customized Linux images for niche hardware communities. His background spans startup development, school-district network administration, and client-facing engineering, reflecting both deep low-level expertise and practical operational savvy. Based in West Plains, Missouri, he brings a pragmatic approach to maintaining and modernizing long-lived infrastructure while enabling reproducible builds for constrained devices.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer