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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019) on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @10:52PM (#19804181)
Mythic Markets | Multiple Roles | San Francisco Bay Area | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://www.mythicmarkets.com

Mythic Markets is the platform to buy, sell, and trade fractional shares in alternative assets with enormous fandoms. Starting with pop culture collectibles, we're securitizing rare and appreciating assets like vintage comic books and collectible card games, allowing anybody to invest in nostalgia.

* Backend Engineer - PHP, Python, Javascript, AWS

* Engineering Manager - looking for someone technical to help lead and mentor a team of engineers to deliver quality software.

If interested, please reach out to: tony {at} mythicmarkets.com

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019) on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @03:37AM (#19561525)
Mythic Markets | Multiple Roles | San Francisco Bay Area | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://www.mythicmarkets.com

Mythic Markets is the platform to buy, sell, and trade fractional shares in alternative assets with enormous fandoms. Starting with pop culture collectibles, we're securitizing rare and appreciating assets like vintage comic books and collectible card games, allowing anybody to invest in nostalgia.

* Backend Engineer - PHP, Python, Javascript, AWS

* Engineering Manager - looking for someone technical to help lead and mentor a team of engineers to deliver quality software.

If interested, please reach out to: tony {at} mythicmarkets.com

Re:Ask HN: Contracting firms in SF/BayArea? on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @01:09PM (#10042664)
thanks! Really appreciate it!
Completely agree with OP.

Although I'd personally recommend Kleinberg's book. I feel that it has a better narrative and is very well written IMO.

Ask HN: Contracting firms in SF/BayArea?

Hi all,I've been trying to find contracting gigs but haven't had much luck lately (been mainly looking via my network, meetups, and a few startup message boards). I've been considering reaching out to firms that place candidates into contracting gigs.With that in mind, does anybody have experience with these sort of firms? If so, would you recommend it? Also, any recommendations on firms would...

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Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2015) on Sunday February 01, 2015 @12:05PM (#8980672)
SEEKING WORK - SF / Bay Area, Remote

I am an independent software consultant looking to HELP YOU SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS efficiently and effectively without any ego or non-sense.

Can help you with:

  * Scala, Java, Python, Matlab, Julia, Ruby, Javascript, C/C++

  * Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Pig, Lucene/Solr, pandas, numpy/scipy

  * Data pipelines, data visualization, Crowdsourcing (data collection and cleaning)

  * AWS, Digital Ocean, Rackspace

  * Technical phone screening and candidate code assessment

  * IOS, Android
Qualifications:

  * Data Engineer for 3.5 years at Online Ad Targeting company (acquired recently)

  * BS/MS Computer Science (MS Specialization in Machine Learning/Computer Vision)

  * US Citizen
Contact:

  tony [at] sfdatajobs <dot> com
Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite data structures book? on Friday November 14, 2014 @11:48AM (#8608067)
My favorite would be "Algorithm Design" by Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos. In my opinion, it is extremely well written and easy to follow.