I live in Seattle, WA (Fremont, the center of the universe!), but most recently worked half-time for the University of Hawaii's Ocean Technology Group maintaining software for both ship and shore-side computer systems and helping ocean-going marine techs fix various software/network problems at sea.
I have both a BS and MS in Comp Sci (computer vision) and have spent a lot of time writing C code for controlling projector/camera systems, as well as a lot of network code and other Linux systems code in addition to Perl and Octave. I've been programming in Python since mid-2010 and I like it a lot and I think it will become my "go to" language. I'm also familiar with concepts from functional languages and have read a lot about them.
I focus on understanding software and hardware systems in terms of their fundamentals and concepts. Having a strong base in algorithms, data structures, and low-level systems programming makes it easy to understand complex software systems, as they are necessarily built upon these things.
I would like to meet people in Seattle for possible startup opportunities/collaboration -- or maybe I'll just go work for one of the big companies...we'll see.
Contact me if you're interested. I am interested in a wide range of business possibilities, many which are very very far from my harder-core CS/math/engineering roots and are actually more about business model innovation and rapid iteration than really great engineering.
gmail address: nate75sanders