It's been Years since I've been here much but at the risk of getting skewered...ummm
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I've been in the (US) government for a while and its hard to hire contractors on our existing service contract so I finally found a contract vehicle that would allow us to get either a consultant/programmer if we can find this person but now I need to know how to find a qualified individual for the type of work we need. We need an embedded Linux programmer (I'm not one but we do have one on our team who is doing other work). Be able to advise, review our design, and be able to code, etc. Must understand or be expert at kernel level programming -- device drivers, network/networking IP, ARP, unicast, etc. Basically, we're rolling our own streamlined linux onto a remote network distributor (or redistributor/IP message forwarder). The subsystem will have a main/alternate redundant data paths, control what path to switch to, is bidirectional for some messages but mostly unidirectional. Will need to know which path is online, obtain performance measurements, capable of running a built in test while operating and a fault isolation test when in a maintenance mode to isolate any problems. This device will be the interface to other devices on the network allowing remote access for configurations and also acts as a controller/manager providing status and information for remote monitoring purposes. Personally, we have a small team of C programmers (expert at their area of the system)and only one knows linux and kernel level programming. Of course, he's a know it all and may be pulling the wool over our eyes sometimes because none of us know embedded well enough to challenge him. He seems competent though has a large ego. Anyway, I've did some preliminary looks online at the guru.com type of sites. Wow. That didn't seem very productive. The government can't post a job on one of those sites. And, I tried a couple of informal direct contacts to no avail. Anyway, was hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
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I've been in the (US) government for a while and its hard to hire contractors on our existing service contract so I finally found a contract vehicle that would allow us to get either a consultant/programmer if we can find this person but now I need to know how to find a qualified individual for the type of work we need. We need an embedded Linux programmer (I'm not one but we do have one on our team who is doing other work). Be able to advise, review our design, and be able to code, etc. Must understand or be expert at kernel level programming -- device drivers, network/networking IP, ARP, unicast, etc. Basically, we're rolling our own streamlined linux onto a remote network distributor (or redistributor/IP message forwarder). The subsystem will have a main/alternate redundant data paths, control what path to switch to, is bidirectional for some messages but mostly unidirectional. Will need to know which path is online, obtain performance measurements, capable of running a built in test while operating and a fault isolation test when in a maintenance mode to isolate any problems. This device will be the interface to other devices on the network allowing remote access for configurations and also acts as a controller/manager providing status and information for remote monitoring purposes. Personally, we have a small team of C programmers (expert at their area of the system)and only one knows linux and kernel level programming. Of course, he's a know it all and may be pulling the wool over our eyes sometimes because none of us know embedded well enough to challenge him. He seems competent though has a large ego. Anyway, I've did some preliminary looks online at the guru.com type of sites. Wow. That didn't seem very productive. The government can't post a job on one of those sites. And, I tried a couple of informal direct contacts to no avail. Anyway, was hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
This is the US government. So no matter where you advertise, no matter how you recruit, no matter where you look for a good, highly experienced embedded Linux programmer, you will get a COBOL coder who wears socks and sandals ... and has "worked" for the government for his entire life... :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've been in the (US) government for a while and its hard to hire contractors on our existing service contract so I finally found a contract vehicle that would allow us to get either a consultant/programmer if we can find this person but now I need to know how to find a qualified individual for the type of work we need. We need an embedded Linux programmer (I'm not one but we do have one on our team who is doing other work). Be able to advise, review our design, and be able to code, etc. Must understand or be expert at kernel level programming -- device drivers, network/networking IP, ARP, unicast, etc. Basically, we're rolling our own streamlined linux onto a remote network distributor (or redistributor/IP message forwarder). The subsystem will have a main/alternate redundant data paths, control what path to switch to, is bidirectional for some messages but mostly unidirectional. Will need to know which path is online, obtain performance measurements, capable of running a built in test while operating and a fault isolation test when in a maintenance mode to isolate any problems. This device will be the interface to other devices on the network allowing remote access for configurations and also acts as a controller/manager providing status and information for remote monitoring purposes. Personally, we have a small team of C programmers (expert at their area of the system)and only one knows linux and kernel level programming. Of course, he's a know it all and may be pulling the wool over our eyes sometimes because none of us know embedded well enough to challenge him. He seems competent though has a large ego. Anyway, I've did some preliminary looks online at the guru.com type of sites. Wow. That didn't seem very productive. The government can't post a job on one of those sites. And, I tried a couple of informal direct contacts to no avail. Anyway, was hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Doesn't munchies_matt, aka fat_boy specialize in this area? He may know someone.
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This is the US government. So no matter where you advertise, no matter how you recruit, no matter where you look for a good, highly experienced embedded Linux programmer, you will get a COBOL coder who wears socks and sandals ... and has "worked" for the government for his entire life... :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
OriginalGriff wrote:
COBOL coder who wears socks and sandals
You mean he will be British? :laugh:
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This is the US government. So no matter where you advertise, no matter how you recruit, no matter where you look for a good, highly experienced embedded Linux programmer, you will get a COBOL coder who wears socks and sandals ... and has "worked" for the government for his entire life... :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've been in the (US) government for a while and its hard to hire contractors on our existing service contract so I finally found a contract vehicle that would allow us to get either a consultant/programmer if we can find this person but now I need to know how to find a qualified individual for the type of work we need. We need an embedded Linux programmer (I'm not one but we do have one on our team who is doing other work). Be able to advise, review our design, and be able to code, etc. Must understand or be expert at kernel level programming -- device drivers, network/networking IP, ARP, unicast, etc. Basically, we're rolling our own streamlined linux onto a remote network distributor (or redistributor/IP message forwarder). The subsystem will have a main/alternate redundant data paths, control what path to switch to, is bidirectional for some messages but mostly unidirectional. Will need to know which path is online, obtain performance measurements, capable of running a built in test while operating and a fault isolation test when in a maintenance mode to isolate any problems. This device will be the interface to other devices on the network allowing remote access for configurations and also acts as a controller/manager providing status and information for remote monitoring purposes. Personally, we have a small team of C programmers (expert at their area of the system)and only one knows linux and kernel level programming. Of course, he's a know it all and may be pulling the wool over our eyes sometimes because none of us know embedded well enough to challenge him. He seems competent though has a large ego. Anyway, I've did some preliminary looks online at the guru.com type of sites. Wow. That didn't seem very productive. The government can't post a job on one of those sites. And, I tried a couple of informal direct contacts to no avail. Anyway, was hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
COBOL coder who wears socks and sandals
You mean he will be British? :laugh:
LMAO at this one. :thumbsup:
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Doesn't munchies_matt, aka fat_boy specialize in this area? He may know someone.
so munchies_matt is fat boy. I wondered where fat boy went. Anyhow, fat boy does do low-level kernel programming, if I recall...could be wrong though, It has been a while and my memory sucks. :)
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I've been in the (US) government for a while and its hard to hire contractors on our existing service contract so I finally found a contract vehicle that would allow us to get either a consultant/programmer if we can find this person but now I need to know how to find a qualified individual for the type of work we need. We need an embedded Linux programmer (I'm not one but we do have one on our team who is doing other work). Be able to advise, review our design, and be able to code, etc. Must understand or be expert at kernel level programming -- device drivers, network/networking IP, ARP, unicast, etc. Basically, we're rolling our own streamlined linux onto a remote network distributor (or redistributor/IP message forwarder). The subsystem will have a main/alternate redundant data paths, control what path to switch to, is bidirectional for some messages but mostly unidirectional. Will need to know which path is online, obtain performance measurements, capable of running a built in test while operating and a fault isolation test when in a maintenance mode to isolate any problems. This device will be the interface to other devices on the network allowing remote access for configurations and also acts as a controller/manager providing status and information for remote monitoring purposes. Personally, we have a small team of C programmers (expert at their area of the system)and only one knows linux and kernel level programming. Of course, he's a know it all and may be pulling the wool over our eyes sometimes because none of us know embedded well enough to challenge him. He seems competent though has a large ego. Anyway, I've did some preliminary looks online at the guru.com type of sites. Wow. That didn't seem very productive. The government can't post a job on one of those sites. And, I tried a couple of informal direct contacts to no avail. Anyway, was hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
length of contract? clearance needed? I'd be looking for unix developer groups. I'd talk to you, but my driver level stuff was PCI and graphics accelerators....
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