Aaron Carson Email & Phone Number

My most recent work experience has been "hiring myself" during the majority of 2023 to both design and develop my own original programming language named Vikari. The language now has a partially implemented, heavily tested interpreter on GitHub.One purpose of my developing Vikari was to concretely prove that I can still accomplish software dev work in a challenging problem domain after a multi-year hiatus from the software industry. In 2019 I encountered a medical problem that prevented my capacity to work. However, as of 2023 I have recovered enough that was able to work an average of 3-5 hours a day on Vikari for a total of 700 hours spent developing the project.Because of this ongoing medical problem, I can no longer accomplish full-time software development work. I learned from experience during this past year that after 3-5 hours of work on any given day, my mind reaches its limit. Pushing beyond this limit induces symptoms such as severe mental fatigue and a headache. However, during those 3-5 hours of dev work I can work just as hard and effectively as any other software dev.Before 2019, I worked for two and a half years for Marin Software developing and maintaining a Java microservice for extracting OLAP data from Presto and transforming it into a JSON response for consumption by the frontend UI app. This was my first and only professional role in software development since graduating from my degree program in 2016.Beyond this, I have had much interest in procedural generation and game development in my past. However, I now have no interest in game development. My personal interests have swayed towards other problem domains such as programming language design and implementation.Professionally I am most interested in finding work outside of my current areas of expertise. While I am still open to finding work in using Java, my most familiar language, I'm far more interested and excited in finding a job working with a language and tech stack I don't currently know. I have a skill of learning new things quickly in software development. So I feel confident in my capacity to succeed in a new role given new technologies I don't currently know.