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Location: United Kingdom

Remote: Available

Willing to relocate: Yes given a grace period

Technologies: Go, C, Linux admin and Free/OpenBSD admin

Resume/CV: https://h5law.com/cv.pdf

Email: harry@h5law.com

I am mainly looking for something permanent ideally firmware/driver related but I am open to working in any industry. However I don't have frontend experience.

I am experienced with decentralised systems having worked in the blockchain space for the last 3 years. But also, have extremely low-level experience with my projects I have undertook using C99 (usually without any dependencies) such as a chess engine with graphical and multiplayer (still a WIP) as well as a libc implementation (for arm and aarch64) later to be used in the following project, a bootloader, kernel and userland (currently archived while I reorganise their structure).

I am a fast learner and ready to get back to full time work.


Yeah jail for dealing but I was never a trader I’m p bad at it honestly. I used mastering ethereum to learn solidity and the EVM which was wildly outdated by the time I got out and nothing compiled so I learned Go at first and started contributing and getting onto the core team for certain projects. The money from contributions and eventually the job was too much for a person who’d never had to do a lot of illegal things to see the same so it was a little wild to me


For me it was a rapid rate of win after win but without schooling a fancy piece of paper and a prison record I found it hard to work outside of crypto. Ontop of that before I was regularly taking my meds it was win win win - then a swift fall back to the bottom. I’ve been building the whole time but now I’m stable I’m hoping the wins feel more like what they should.

You’re just right though countless people I’ve seen make it big and end up dead shortly after. Money not earned is money quickly lost. Part of the earning it is what builds your character enough to handle it imo


Another big factor, is that, once folks "arrive," they haven't dealt with the demons that kept them down. Their success was a temporary reprieve, so the demons come roaring right back out. Only this time, they have much more of a toybox.


I’m the writer not OP but I was homeless on the streets from around 16-19 then after I left prison with my book knowledge on how to code I started contributing to a open source crypto project and kinda got mad lucky. Many trips to Dubai Water skiing and skydiving then had another episode with my bipolar and ended up literally giving away my bags. More stable now but was both a metaphor for the insane highs and lows mentally but the crazy things a guy fresh out of jail with a new will to do something productive did before I got stable


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