Hi! My name is Ivan. I love building software, and I feel lucky to do what I’ve done so far. I’m retired from software engineering and managing now, but always looking for some fun projects.

I named this site voidstar.org because I was, at first, a C++ programmer. Since the 1990’s. Back then I liked the idea of void* as “a pointer to anything”. I rarely ever used them though. This is a “.org” domain because (in the 90’s) my registrar wouldn’t allow “.com” – I was an individual, not a company, they said.

Here’s a little more about me:

  • I recently retired after 30 years writing software and managing teams ➡️[Resume]
  • I was named after prominent computer scientist Ivan Sutherland. He’s an accomplished and interesting guy!
  • Worked at Apple, Google, Meta, various startups and medium-size companies
  • Located in Mountain View, CA
  • Apple fan. Current fixation: living on iPad only ➡️[Now Page]
  • Married to my wonderful wife. We have two teen kids, one in college one nearly there
  • I’m a fan of hard sci-fi and generally sci-fi that leans toward optimistic futures

Where to find me

Here! I post a tiny bit – See [Posts], but I’m solidly a lurker/consumer of content. See also:

Where you won’t find me

  • ❌ I’m not on X
  • ❌ I’m not on Facebook or Instagram
  • ❌ I’m not on Bluesky or Threads
  • …and many more

If you see an account that looks like me on those site, it’s not me!

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