Rikka Göring
Volunteer · Autodidact · FreeBSD ports contributor
I help where I can help most and take everything I learn with me. Eight to ten years of self-taught programming, nearly a year of open source contribution. Currently focused on FreeBSD HPC infrastructure — UCX, OpenMPI, Slurm, PMix, PRRTE. Based near Karlsruhe.
I help where I can help most, and take everything I learn with me.
I have been programming for myself for eight to ten years — digging through
documentation, deciphering source code, researching portability gaps. How does
kqueue compare to epoll? Why does a glibc assumption
silently break on FreeBSD? These are the questions that pull me in.
Almost a year ago I crossed the threshold into open source contribution. My current work is focused on FreeBSD HPC infrastructure — because this is where I feel I can help science the most from where I stand right now.
I run FreeBSD on everything. It started with servers, became my daily driver. The moment I first encountered it I was curious — straight into the handbook, mailing list archives, forum posts. That curiosity never left.