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Re:Rust const generics MVP hits beta by doggodaddo78 on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:20PM (#26279417)
Hire me! Jumps-up-and-down over-eagerly like a nerdy new college grad. I'll wave around cheerleading pompoms or aircraft marshaling wands until you do. ; D

Excessive, horn-tooting quasi- resume/cover letter in an HN comment (maybe I should've compressed and uuencoded?).

Home: Austin downtown, via much of NorCal { Chico, Sacramento, and Bay Area }, from San Jose.

Experience with embedded systems on many architectures and different types of RT deadlines, SMT electronics (PCB design and fabrication, stuffing, and repair), Rust (I sure hope so!), C/C++ (autodidacted at 15), LLVM, several assembly languages (ARM, X86, MIPS), microcontrollers, large-scale industrial firmware development (automotive, mining, & agriculture).

I periodically throw 3D printing and Arduino or ESP32 at personal use-cases. And trinocular microscope, Siglent scope, and knock-off compatible JBC solder station. The Fluke 289 DMM is real though.

Can do everything from sales engineering, on-prem/remote custom client integration, customer training, feature development, tools support, customer bug forensics, subgroup lead SWE, systems architecture/engineering, customer solutions development. Make the office more funner now and then (especially internal funny 404 pages and easter eggs, tape your chair up, orbeez explosion, get your wife/SO and kids in on a gaslighting long-con). 5¢ charge per instance. Wooden nickels not accepted. No refunds. :)

Did one or two minor humblebragging things:

- Ported a ridiculous nuclear reactor simulator in Fortran from UNIX to Windows.

- IBM Almaden offered me a dark matter research assistant job when I was 15, but my parents weren't supportive and it would've been illegal. :Y U No moon meme here:

- Wrote a Java-- to native MIPS (non-JIT, compile-time) compiler from scratch with symmetrical implementations in Java and C++.

- Refactored the heck out of a UDP 900 MHz packet radio firmware C++ codebase and added telemetry logging with error tolerance of Flash EEPROM wear beyond mfgr specs.

- Restoring & modding a VW camper and getting into paramotoring (parachute wing and motor on your back).

Re:Rust const generics MVP hits beta by steveklabnik on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:27PM (#26279481)
Oh hi neighbor! I also live in downtown Austin.

Please apply! We are hiring.

Re:Rust const generics MVP hits beta by doggodaddo78 on Friday February 26, 2021 @04:19PM (#26279960)
Heck ya! : D I could work on embedded and datacenter gear for free if I didn't have bills and a spinning circular vinyl noise-makers addiction.

Yeah, I've been pining for highly-integrated, hyperscale datacenter metal. Only Fortune 50 corporations and partakers of OEMs/ODMs like Quanta QCT / Dell DCS deliver somewhat okay customized gear, but not a completely-integrated, managed fleet. I remember eGenera BladeFrame, but it's still nothing like a hyperscale, intermodal-container LEGO datacenter solution.

Oh hey from I-35 and 5th!

Here's your "I probably survived the 2021 ATX Icepocalypse" tie-dyed hoodie with black light effects.

Re:Rust const generics MVP hits beta by 4ad on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:45PM (#26279651)
> Please apply! We are hiring.

You certainly aren't replying to you applicants, though.

Re:Rust const generics MVP hits beta by steveklabnik on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:57PM (#26279773)
Hm, we should be! Sorry about that. The aim is to reply to literally everyone. If you wanna email me, I'm happy to look into it.

EDIT: I decided to take a look, and it seems like you applied before I joined. My apologies, it must have been a mistake.

Re:Rust const generics MVP hits beta by 4ad on Friday February 26, 2021 @04:24PM (#26279986)
> My apologies, it must have been a mistake.

Well that mistake seems to keep repeating itself then.

Oxide has been silent even after subsequent contact, and even after this issue has already been raised internally once.

Re:Rust const generics MVP hits beta by doggodaddo78 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @12:00PM (#26317418)
Silence is usually a soft "no." Good news [usually] travels fast. I usually apply again another time and try to be chill about rejection. :)