I’m a senior software engineer in a major megacorp. In particular, I am a site reliability engineer. It is a career path in which I found good usage for the skills built in my PhD – Combinatorial Optimization techniques work great for this class of practical problems. It helps to have written a PhD thesis on making the Internet more efficient. Back in the day I wrote a couple pieces of Free Software. Unfortunately, I lack the spare time to maintain those. The spare time I have, I put into ph