Hi, I’m Wink.
By day I work in operations research. Before that, I worked in cyber warfare and led a reverse engineering shop, and I hold the GREM certification for reverse engineering malware. Software engineering is what I love most, and Bits And Mettle is where I do it.
Bits And Mettle is the home for the products I’m building: Trailside, Strength Programs and Narrative Pro. They solve different problems, and I wanted room for more than one idea.
I work on all of it: the product, the interface and the code, mostly in SvelteKit and Python, with coding agents helping. Trailside is the tool I wanted for that. It shows what the agents are doing, what needs my attention and what’s ready for review. We’ll use Trailside to build Trailside.
Narrative Pro helps people in any career write about their work. Strength Programs is for training, one session at a time.
Reverse engineering taught me to understand how something works before I trust it. I still work that way, whether it’s software or the engine swap in my 300ZX.
There’s a real person behind these products who cares about how they work and how they feel. I take the work seriously, but I want there to be some curiosity and fun in it too. If something here sparks an idea, I’d love to hear about it.
Signed, WinkGregory “Wink” Winkler · Founder, Bits And Mettle LLC
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