fox918

Senior Software Developer

Location: Basel, Switzerland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Open for a discussion

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Postgres (and Timescale), Angular, Typescript, Scala, Spring Boot

Skills: Software Architecture, CI/CD, DevOps, Platform/API Management

Resume: on request

Email: [email protected]

I'm a curious engineer that loves to solve problems that lie in between technology, business and customers. I do believe that not all problems are software problems. I have experience in developing a medical product in a small team (from prototype to real usage) but also scaling a platform from small usage to company wide usage in a big team of a world leading industrial instrumentation supplier.

Endress + Hauser | Switzerland (Basel) or Germany (Freiburg) | Senior Ruby Engineer | Full-time (flexible)

-- company

Endress + Hauser is a process and laboratory instrumentation and automation supplier. We offer world class instrumentation and all the services around them in almost all industries. Our products are used e.g. in potable water metering, chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing contexts. The company is still owned by the founders and takes pride in its social core values.

-- we

Are a small platform team (10 people with different roles) operating the central api for the digital offering (https://netilion.endress.com/) around the industrial Internet of Things. While we ingest measurements of connected instruments (the classic IoT). We also provide a digital mirror of the customers manufacturing plant including all documentation that occurs over the lifetime of the instruments and health-monitoring.

Our tech stack includes a large Ruby on Rails monolith handling the api part, but also time series databases, storage backends and some Amazon Lambdas.

-- job

We are looking for experienced (ruby) engineers that help us foster and build our platform team and api offering.

Feel free to mail me at oliver[point]wisler[at]endress.com (I'm a software engineer)

> I knew I wasn't achieving the goals I had with my DIY spreadsheet and mint.com, and once I started using YNAB everything came together very nicely.

That is exactly what I hope to express in my sibling comment. Increasing the friction (be it UX or multi-device usage) might make my hesitation to manage my financial situation bigger and I might cease to manage it. This would be quite a bad scenario (well, at least for my savings ;) )

In my opinion, YNAB allows me to plan for the money I have in my accounts. As I have more plans than I have accounts, I find YNAB inherently useful.

It has changed my inner hesitation to deal with exact financial situation and where my money goes to a good understanding on how much money I have planned for which purpose and priorize where my money goes (or shouldn't).

This gives me peace of mind. For this, I am willing to spend money. I think 15$/month is worth it. (Even without Bank-Syncing).

Of course I could achieve this by other (cheaper) means, but then again I like how frictionless it makes managing my situation. And economically the return of invest in my first year of using YNAB payed for it for quite some years ;)

As someone dealing with two currencies, I can recommend RMillan's Plugins for YNAB [0].

[0] https://ynab.rmillan.com/

Edit: Not affiliated with YNAB, just a simple user somewhere in switzerland

I am running a pretty vanilla setup using a docker compose file for each deployment:

- traefik as reverse proxy and for https termination

- nextcloud (the apache based container)

- statping

- matomo

- small things if needed

This runs on a 10$/month basic droplet + backup

Apart from living, my digital expenses are:

1.) DigitalOcean Droplet with backup, 15CHF/month (hosts my cloud, several small containers)

2.) IDE (Intellij), 14 CHF/month

2.) Mindmapping tool (miro.com), 14CHF/month

3.) Webhosting (cyon.ch), 12CHF/month

4.) Budgeting (ynab.com), 6CHF/month

5.) Backup Storage (wasabi.com), 5 CHF/month