Connor E.

CONNOR ETHERINGTON Founder, Principal Engineer, Systems Architect PROFILE First-principles engineer who reaches for the bottom of the stack before the top. Moves between C, Go, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Assembly and shell in a single day, and between protocol design, distributed systems, networking, ML pipelines, payments, voice processing, browser automation and consumer product engineering with the same comfort. Decomposes unfamiliar problems into irreducible pieces and builds the solution from those pieces rather than from someone else's library. STRENGTHS Decomposition - reduce amorphous problems into the smallest set of primitives that carry the weight. Cross-domain transfer - patterns from systems carry into protocols, from protocols into UI, from UI into networking. Polyglot fluency - language is never the obstacle. Build-from-scratch - read the spec, implement the smallest correct version, optimise hotspots measurement exposes. Production discipline - logging, recovery, observability and clean shutdown baked in at design time. Sole-operator throughput - carries an entire product end to end alone. Calm under pressure - the bigger the fire, the slower the response. RANGE PRACTISED ML systems, custom tokenizers and vector stores, voice pipelines (TTS, STT, VAD, EOT), multi-agent runtimes. Systems and networking, custom TCP tunnelling, NAT traversal, VPN, WebSocket fanout, sandboxed execution. Protocol design, versioned schemas, priority levels, replay protection, signed envelopes. Cross-surface distributed systems, one identity and one session across phone, watch, desktop, terminal, browser. Mobile, watch, desktop and web product engineering across iOS, Android, watchOS, Wear OS, macOS, Windows, Linux. Payments and commerce, card acquiring, subscriptions, token economies, multi-rail payouts. Data engineering, headless scraping at scale, financial data streaming, prediction algorithms. Security, WASM frontend protection, Curve25519 and AES-GCM, hardware-bound licence tokens, single-binary packaging. EXPERIENCE Founder & Principal Engineer, Agentics. 2019 to present. Built and operates a complete software company alone, from C-level inference to the voice interface on phone, watch, desktop wallpaper, web, terminal and browser extension. Senior Developer & Consultant, Independent. 2017 to 2019. Enterprise contract engineering for nVolve, John Deere and MTN. Automation, monitoring, integration APIs, M2M protocols, data pipelines. LANGUAGES Afrikaans (native), English (full professional), Hebrew (working). EDUCATION Self-directed and continuous. Systems programming, protocols, distributed systems, applied ML, networking, cryptography, security, financial systems, product design. References on request.