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Senior Engineering Manager

Location: Brisbane, Australia Remote: Yes (prefer Australia), can do Brisbane hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: 20 years in the industry, 8 years as a manager. Backend / Frontend / Infra / AI. JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Go, SQL/noSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS, and more

Résumé/CV:

- https://shteinikov.com

- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LRZGRBhurpdKCujv4RR87L1pXWi...

- www.linkedin.com/in/shteinikov

Email: [email protected]

I bring experience that's rare in Australia: I previously led global engineering teams at Uber in the US, operating at a scale and complexity that's hard to match down here. I'm very good at building high-performing teams, working with ambiguous requirements, and delivering under tight deadlines and real pressure. I'm not looking at roles in the gambling space.

I think age verification is the step in the wrong direction but banning algorithmic feeds is the right way to address the issue

Just having more HP doesn't translate to a better car on a race track. There is much more to the performance just pure power-to-weight distribution. There is a reason to enjoy a humble Mazda MX-5 over Tesla 3 performance

It's ICE, they talk about mid engine configuration

As a user of software I see no improvements. What I see is that I need to download software more often, it brings more features I don't need and it has been as buggy as ever (if not more). And I can say that about Operating System I use, social networks, games, etc.

Released my game a few months back. I generally agree with you, however Apple process was more painful / took longer when you start adding in-app-purchases and providing all the financial info required for that to be approved.

And, as I'm doing weekly updates, I found both stores approving builds typically within 12-14 hours which was a nice surprise

When something like this was happening to me, I heard people were saying "Oh, he is just lucky". It kinda made me a bit mad because of how much work I've put in a particular thing behind the scenes and in general how unlucky I was with many other things.

Then I stumbled upon the concept of "luck surface area" [1] and it's kinda clicked with me. Yes, luck is a factor, but you definitely can increase your chances. Cold emails from the post is one of such instruments.

[1] https://umbrex.com/resources/tools-for-thinking/what-is-luck...

In the modern warfare with drones that made "killzone" to be 30-40kms from the frontline, with current russian tactics of infiltration by small groups and inability of them running medivac groups, the ratio of wounded vs dead in casualities are nowhere near to what it was in previous wars. Don't have the exact number but some estimates were 1:1 wounded:dead ratio on Russian side

Should try to use alternative searches. Can recommend Kagi

What are you talking about? Mediazone already has 230k confirmed! russian deaths with names. Current confirmed rate of ~30k/month casualities for Russia couldn't be sustainable for much smaller population of Ukraine if they were trading 1:1 or even worse

A few years back when I worked in the Seattle downtown, I used to have a walk around the office during lunchtime. I still remember seeing a drug addict baking what I assume was heroin just a block away from Pike Place Markets. It's crazy

More importanly they have moat

I'm an Australian who was born in Eastern Europe. I've travelled around the world, lived in the US for 4 years and done a few cross country trips in the US including visiting Texas. With all its pros/cons, my experience there can't be compared to what I had in China

Here is my experience in the center of Shanghai, very subjective of course:

- I can't pay with my credit/debit cards there so I need to get their alipay pay app. There is KYC required to upload my government ID.

- We stayed in a short rent apartment, so we had to temporarily register with government. Of course that requires uploading photos of me, my kids, and all our IDs

- with a lot of apps banned there, you are essentially told which one you have to use

- you need VPN

- you go outside, there is always a police or some security in booth watching you. Of course cameras are also everywhere.

- fences everywhere - don't walk on the nice lawn there, don't sit here, don't stand there. And the moment your kids do - the security / police will come

- lack of public spaces (we couldn't find a playground, the one we eventually found was behind the fence) make the environment hostile and it almost feels like they don't want you outside

I could barely exist in Shanghai when I visited it for a week earlier this year. The surveillance is suffocating. With all my disdain towards the way the West is going, the level of control and freedom can't be compared. Especially if you've ever experienced freedom taken from you (unfortunately, I have).

Actually it was my fault misreading the comment I replied to. Initially I've read the meaning of it as the whole domain of video games will "get expired" with the advancement of AI.

After re-reading it, I totally agree with the comment message

Game is just another creative media like books and movies. Does it mean that you believe that those will get expired too?

Not, according to their AI influencers

> recent load issues (...) were seen as an existential threat

I wouldn't be so sure. Don't overestimate people competence.

For me it all looked like picking the highest ROI item in attempt to fix their reliability without putting too much thought how to do it gracefully. So they just hacked it and we see the results

When I was trying to use Claude to analyze my past transactions, I found out that it was constantly hallucinating charges, sometimes adds new, double counts and etc.

When I'm dealing with my finances the 95% time Claude is correct and doesn't hallucinate is not enough as I have to be vigilant and review its work all the time. So it kinda makes it worthless in this case for me

Russia, and especially Putin (over the last 26 years), never considered Ukraine an ally but rather a puppet and something that must be in their direct influence/control. Their relationship can’t be compared to the one the US and Canada had.

The documents pack is like an A4 folder 1cm thick. He received close to 100 in one day. Enough for his mailbox to get full and for the postie to dump most of it on the lawn

I worked for an Australian insurance company and we physically DDOSed a poor man's real mailbox with printed policy documents as we used their address during e2e testing and we mistakenly didn't put a testing flag somewhere.

Our CTO had to personally apologise to him

Why shouldn't I do quite the opposite? I don't want people with a questionable morale who knowingly built those systems work in my company

In Brisbane, Australia they run a 6-month trial to make all public transport trips to be 50c (that includes buses, metro, ferries). It was so successful and widely loved that it was a no-brainier for it to be extended indefinitely

I agree. It is very easy to fall in the trap: "I let AI write all the tests" and then find yourself in a situation where you have an unmaintainable mess with the only way to fix broken test within a reasonable time is to blindly accept AI to do that. Which exposes you to the similar level of risk as running any unchecked AI code - you just can't trust that it works correctly

I'm returning my cart not because of my support of grocery stores but because I care about other customers: abandoned carts getting in the way of walking/parking, may damage cars and just in general clutter the space

Is the law the only thing that stops you from littering?

I usually just leave them in the cart and we go and return it together. Or now as they became older - they push it themselves to the corrals (with me next to them of course).

Feels like a lazy justification