brian m. carlson

brian is a software developer, creative writer, and cyclist living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They blog and toot on occasion, and can be found various places online. They contribute to Git and formerly Git LFS and Asciidoctor, as well as fixing a variety of miscellaneous bugs that happen to catch their eye.

Their areas of focus in technology are maintenance, development tools, security, and cryptography; in writing, their major themes are nature, transport, and the macabre. They are currently employed by GitHub, but have occasionally taken on other consulting projects as well.

They speak English, Spanish, French, and a little German, and, with some difficulty, read moderately complex Portuguese (by virtue of knowing Spanish).