Aaron Muir Hamilton

Developing and characterizing open source UI middleware and libraries in the Rust ecosystem; focused on power management, performance, accessibility, mixed layout including rich text with variable fonts, advanced input method integration, and Android platform integration.

This work is part of an effort funded by Google Fonts, involving four contractors.

Leading the software engineering practice and financial model development; I set cornerstones for every technical project, from our backend and data storage architecture, to each frontend application and webpage. I also co-developed the initial financial model, and managed/directed a full-time modeler thereafter.

The backend is written entirely in Clojure, and uses streams and futures to coordinate a system of command (strictly sequential, can mutate) and query (random access, can not mutate) reducers with embedded aggregates over immutable append-only logs. This system communicates with client applications through a custom resumable JSON RPC channel over WebSockets. Clients include numerous web applications written with Preact in TypeScript, administrative tools written in Javascript on Node.js, and also with some pages written with Next.js+React.

I created this corporation to house contracts I was taking, while looking for a new nine-to-five. I dealt in small and medium contracts across multiple languages (C, C++, Elixir, JavaScript) including:

• Distributed stochastic simulation for casino games modeling on Google Compute Engine with NATS-based message passing.
• Custom high-performance WebGL data visualization.
• Straightforward, well-behaved business data entry and display applications.
• An application merging a web interface with a Unity WebGL view; import tools and processes to bring a library of more than a hundred thousand geometry assets into the application, on contract.

Delivering state of the art web applications, ahead of schedule and under budget for multinational online retailers, financial services companies, and media syndicates. Working on the official Angular 2 debugging tool, Augury.

Among other technologies, I used JavaScript, TypeScript, ES6, AngularJS, PhoneGap/Cordova + Ionic, React.js, Objective-C (iOS), Ramda, Express, and PostgreSQL in my time at Rangle.io

Linebender

For the Linebender project I was employed through a grant from Google to work on a variety of platform libraries for graphics and user interfaces in Rust, especially Xilem (UI reactivity layer) and Parley (text layout and interaction library).

Miscellaneous small libraries

• grapheme-iterator (JavaScript) — A simple Unicode Extended Grapheme Cluster segmentation library for JavaScript.
• je.suis/lbx (Clojure) — A relatively fast XML emitter for Clojure with a similar API to hiccup (HTML emitter), focused on emitting compact UTF-8 XML with self-closing tags and the bare minimum of text escapes.