Remote: Yes, remote only. Happy with European hours and async teams.
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, React, everything web Résumé/CV: https://mitrev.net/assets/resume.pdf
GitHub: https://github.com/gmitrev
Email: [email protected]
Senior backend engineer, ~15 years, mostly Rails. I've done a lot of infra work as well and am pretty familiar with most technologies used for running the web. I am very passionate about creating useful software and have created a lot of side projects - see list at https://mitrev.net/projects. Looking for a product engineering role on a Rails team (also open to other web stacks at remote-first companies).
Hey HN,I procrastinate looking for a job by creating side projects. This one was born when I finally decided it was time for look for a job. Naturally, I wanted to prepare for an eventual interview and asked Claude to drill me. It did an OK job but the questions were mostly bad and the process was not great. So I decided to build a library of good questions first and still get AI to grade and...
I started it to track my all my investment accounts in one place and a couple of years ago decided to open it up to the public. Active users are in the hundreds but not growing rapidly. Tried to monetize it with Patreon but only 2 people actually subscribed.
It's a fun project to work on, though, and not having paying customers allows me to ignore it until I get the enthusiasm to work on it again :)