Mission
Software is essential in addressing our most important challenges, including climate change. Nonzero Sum is an organization dedicated to sustainable software development.
Guided by a collaborative philosophy, Nonzero Sum's projects promote and support the work of software developers and creatives as they implement sustainable development practices.
Projects
Nonzero Sum's first project is to create a Library of original articles and other resources relating to sustainable software development. Read the Getting Started article to learn why this project exists and to get a sense of where it is headed.
Get involved
Considering participating? That's great! Here's how you can get involved.
Matt Munz (Founder)
Programmer: Developing Fleet Electrification, Artificial Intelligence, Information Security, Healthcare Technology, Social Networking, and Distributed Systems since 2000. Proficient in the architecture, design, and implementation of software in Go, Java, and Python, using Service-Oriented / Microservice Architecture, and deployed on-premise or to a cloud (AWS). Formerly at Sextant Technologies, Apelon, Vontu, Symantec, Castlight Health, Nextdoor, and Terawatt Infrastructure.
Musician: Woodwind multi-instrumentalist and composer in Jazz, Classical, Afro-Cuban, and Rock (not professionally active since 2001).
Interests
- Reversing climate change, fleet electrification
- Knowledge engineering, knowledge graphs, databases
- Distributed systems, scalability, modularity
- Programming languages, functional programming
- Algorithmic composition, music synthesis, music discovery
Publications
- Distinct roles of trauma and transfusion in induction of immune modulation after injury. 2012. Transfusion.
- Robotic drumming: synchronization in social tasks. 2006. IEEE Ro-Man.
- Computer-aided etude composition in Haskell. 2005. Yale.
Other works
I can be found on GitHub and LinkedIn. Some of my code as well as a list of as-yet unpublished works can be found in the index of my GitHub account.
Acknowledgements
To the many smart, thoughtful, and kind people who have made this site so much better by sharing their insights, feedback, and encouragement, thank you, thank you, thank you!
This site is built on many interesting technologies which are explained on the Application project page.
