I’m Rob Hansen, but due to the sheer number of Rob Hansens in the industry I go by “Robert J. Hansen” professionally. I’m not Robert “RSnake” Hansen of Mozilla, nor am I a serial killer.
If you’re looking for my professional résumé, you can have it in either Microsoft Office .DOCX or Adobe .PDF formats here and here, respectively.
As with many hackers, I keep an active GitHub presence. I’m particularly proud of the Djinni project, which started twenty years ago to create a high-quality annealing library in C++ — and which I’m still maintaining today. Take a look at the code and you can judge for yourself my proficiency as a C++ nerd.
I’m really quite liking Rust lately. I’ve not made any significant open-source contributions to it, unfortunately. I did write a replacement for Ted Ts’o’s excellent (but ancient and unmaintained) pwgen utility, though: if you’re a sysadmin needing a strong password generator, take a look at rpass.
I’m an example of someone living with chronic medical conditions. In my case they’re depression and anemia. It’s sort of a grim package deal: anemia causes my brain to not get sufficient oxygen, which makes my depressive disorder flare up; my depressive disorder leads me to not take good care of myself, which causes my anemia to flare up. I am fortunate in that I can say my condition is well-managed.
