Over a decade of software engineering experience

256 Lights offers coaching, consulting, and development services for your organization’s software development needs. With experience in small startups all the way up to large enterprises, 256 Lights can develop solutions fitted to your organization.

Consulting and Coaching

Examples of areas 256 Lights can consult in include:

• Technical support across any of their open source projects, including zombiezen.com/go/sqlite.
• Large-scale distributed systems and RPC services
• Account management (e.g. OAuth, JWT, and OIDC)
• Linux systems programming (e.g. eBPF, cgroups, etc.)
• Advice on structuring Go programs
• Build system and developer tooling advice for Go or Nix
• Setting up infrastructure on Google Cloud (including with Terraform)
• Career advice for junior to senior engineers
• Coaching for handling an engineering team structuring problem

Contracting

For contract work, 256 Lights has experience in:

• Backends in Go, Java, Python, Rust, and Ruby
• Build systems like Bazel, Nix, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, and Make
• Cloud technologies like Docker, Terraform, Packer, Kubernetes, and Nomad
• Proficient in Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform
• Frontends with TypeScript and Dart (and specific experience with React, Flutter, Tailwind, Angular, jQuery, and Hotwire)