I am (by choice) between jobs, and while I doubt this is the best place for it, it never hurts to poke various different networks to see what comes up.

I'm a senior software engineer; I've primarily worked in Java, and have primarily worked on traditional customer-hosted enterprise software.

I've got a lot of OS/systems experience as well, but none of it except at my most recent employer involved live production systems, and I didn't really take to that part of working there -- it was very much this is one of the reasons I left, and I'm inclined to avoid other big web companies (or at least their primary lines of business.)

I am based on the peninsula south of San Francisco; I am not open to relocation out of the Bay Area, or to "travel all the time" positions, but am open to positions that involve a moderate amount of travel.

If by some chance you're at a company looking for someone like me, please get in touch. Aside from private messaging here, my FT username is directly derived from my real name and is the same as my LinkedIn username.