I worked 3 years for a startup remotely. The major con was the lack of social interaction, while the pro was the ability to completely immerse myself in coding and solving problems on a deeper level. For the past year, I've worked onsite at a great startup with a great culture, but an open floor plan. Things that are perfect with this setup: ad hoc meetings, fixing the build, grooming sessions,...
I've been doing a lot of distributed computing work over the past year, so nowadays when I get home my side project thoughts look like this:- I want my own mesos cluster. - I wonder if I should use apache aurora or chronos for scheduled jobs in our next release? I want to install both and take a look. - I'd love to check out spark streaming off of a kafka topic. - etc.What's a cost effective...
I'm 6 years into my software engineer career (first 3 as a consultant and the next 3 at a startup). From that experience, I can basically take any idea (or startup) from day 1 to around year 3. I can: register the (sub)domains, setup email, setup all servers on almost any provider (aws, rackspace, linode, digitalocean), setup git on github/bitbucket and manage deploys/versioning and continuous...
I'm the tech lead on a new project that is out of my domain experience. At my company we have a fleet of drivers who checkin via an app with their lat/lng coordinates. We have pickup locations (whose locations are already known) and dropoff locations (whose locations are not known until an order is placed). We have a google maps for business license so we can query for directions with traffic...