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SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote only

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Are you looking for a Software Developer or an Engineering Manager / CTO?

If your company wants to improve an existing product, its software development process or develop a new product, I can take on a new project starting in mid-August.

I am an Engineering Manager with a focus on Solutions Architecture, System Design and System Analysis. I have experience building teams, establishing processes, working closely with product managers and managing technology projects from concept to completion (taking the role of Product Owner). I have hands-on experience in all the aspects of the Software Development lifecycle, including performing functions of DevOps and SRE (setting up and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP, observability tools, CI/CD pipelines). A bit of experience with Machine Learning Computer Vision and early stage Product Management.

My primary focus is web back-end (PHP, Laravel), but I have also worked with mobile apps and front-end (React, Vue.js).

Our potential collaboration could take one of three forms:

1. If your company needs technological solutions but lacks a tech team, I provide a complete package: from initial analysis and doing software development myself to ongoing maintenance and managing the cloud infrastructure.

2. In cases where your tech team requires interim leadership or specific expertise, I step in as interim CTO, also filling in any existing knowledge or skill gaps. I can audit your team(s) and software development process to improve speed of your team and/or the quality of the product.

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You can contact me at [email protected]

Not sure where did you get this number. $45/hr was the standard expected rate for software development houses and agencies 7 years ago in Eastern Europe. So now it probably is around $70-80/hr. For $30/hr you could get a talented junior freelancing, if you're lucky. But that comes at the cost of quality and efficiency, which offsets the savings from the seemingly lower rate considerably.

Depending on the available budget, tech stack, intensity of your involvement (and the functions and competencies you can cover) and the seniority of the devs required, I would additionally use these three channels: * Senior dev hiring marketplaces like Toptal, Proxify * If my project uses PHP, Laravel, I would check Laravel Partners to find out reputable agencies and software development houses (perhaps there are similar listings for other ecosystems as well?) * Post a contract job listing on LinkedIn * Ask around in my network of engineers (everyone knows someone)

Head of Engineering type of person with additional experience in early-stage product management and business administration. 15+ years experience in IT. Formed and led software development teams, IT projects and participated hands-on in various aspects of software development lifecycle. Experience filling various missing roles: devops, infrastructure management / cloud services, system design as solutions architect, product ownership.

Location: Riga, Latvia (EU)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Mostly web, backend (primarily PHP/Laravel and MySQL, a bit React/Vue), Linux, but also have worked with smartphone apps (React Native, others) and 3D (Unity, C#)

Résumé/CV: Will send on demand

Email: [email protected]

Would you kindly share your contact information? My e-mail is visible in the profile.

Looking for a C developer with experience in PHP internals (or willingness to dive deeper into PHP internals) to build together a debugger (similar to Xdebug) for production environments.

E-mail in my profile. I'll send more details in e-mail about market, business model, value proposition, etc.

My background consists of a mix of software development, business development and innovation, engineering management and executive roles. Have experience building a start-up.

There's a nice iterative process called Customer Development from the Lean Startup methodology. Use this to validate your initial assumptions, to fine out the Business Model (Value Proposition and the target audience) and generally understand pain points of your potential customers (how much does the problem currently cost them, how they solve it currently, what are the possible alternatives, etc.).

Hard to give a complete advice im just a few sentences, but basically this framework gave me the understanding necessary to quickly build out (validate) business ideas before anything is really developed. To oversimplify it - try selling before building it. That will give you a very good understanding of the potential market size, the actual needs of people and so on.

Perhaps someone could help out solve my 20 year old mystery? When I was a kid, I had briefly access to a computer. My memory might be mistaken on the details, but I just can't find on Google what kind of computer it was. It had 5 inch floppies, I am pretty sure that games on it only used four colors (cyan, magenta, white, black). I think it had joystick similar to Atari's. It had Bubble Bobble game.

Edit: Photos of Commodore computers look really close to what I remember, but not exactly. Also, Latvia (where I live) just recently had regained independece from USSR and it was a time when the market was flooded with clones for everything. E.g. instead of NES kids had famiclones like Zhiliton, UFO or in my case, I think it was Dendy.

Edit: Floppy reader was in-built, not external, as far as I remember.

Edit: Sorry, more like 30-year mystery. Somewhere around beginning of 90s.

Edit: I think it also had game Alley Cat.

Edit: Thank you everyone for chiming in! This inspired me and gave extra keywords for further investigation and narrowing down the exact model / make. Gonna continue searching on Sunday.

Interesting name. "Mēris" in Latvian means "plague". I wonder if it is on purpose. Too lazy to read the article or look up, though.

Location: Riga, Latvia

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Linux, others

Résumé/CV: upon request

Email: in my profile

CTO / product owner/management type person. Previously spent 7 years running own software development agency (10 employees), 2 years running a co-founded company in start-up environment, now I have returned to the job market and work as a CTO for a medtech company (10 years old, 20 employees).

Experienced in bizdev, project management, systems administration, software architecture, development team leading / building engineering org etc.

Or read about agile user story mapping, user personas, user stories and write your requirements that way. If that is not enough - get a UI/UX designer who'll translate your requirements into interactive prototypes which will somewhat serve as requirements for the developers.

Fascinated and feeling surreal, that I was able to load Doom and check it out on my phone's web browser in https://www.windows93.net/.

I was thinking of building something similar. Any other alternatives to similar solutions?

I guess I am the only one missing the point (disliking this as a code golf challenge) and cringing that the solution does not sleep for a precise 1000 years and overthinking that various other rules are not being taken into account (e.g. leap years, extra seconds per year, etc.).

This reminded me of zero electricity air-con made of plastic bottles: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/zero-electricity-air-con-...

The hot air flowing from outside through your windows could be compressed making it cool.

I wonder if there are existing, not so ugly commercial products providing that. This could be a green alternative for air-conditioning.

I outsource this job to the top world DJs. Namely - I usually listen to some type of electronic music (EDM sub-genres, trance, etc.), so the last few years I've been listening to the radio shows of the top producers and djs (in a format of podcasts). That gives me a steady stream of the newest and hottest songs that have been unearthed and hand picked by experienced djs.

Funny that it is the other way around in our country. Larger companies play on recognizability, stability and have well ironed-out processes requiring less skilled employees. While in smaller and mid-sized companies the experts (experienced employees) are the main driving force.

I feel like author is missing the point. Shouldn't the recency bias show up in recent votes (while the movie is "hot" and trendy) vs. later votes?

Yes. Less teamwork, less knowledge sharing. I feel like I've been progressing professionally much slower than when I had the chance to interact face-to-face with various colleagues from various departments on a daily basis.

I'm a development team lead / senior engineer who's sometimes assuming the role of CTO for young companies. From my experience, the best way to approach this is: * Express the work required in money (as you would with any contractor - determine the market value of the work involved) * Multiply this value a few times (coefficient more or less is a subjective evaluation of the risks not succeeding) * Calculate the possible profits after 1-2 years of running business (how much of that money you will be able or willing to pay out in dividends?) * Equity share should be as big as to allow receiving the amount of money obtained in the second step

For example - let's assume that building your MVP and maintaining it for 6 months until you're able to cover maintenance and improvement costs, would cost you around 30 000 $. Then let's multiply it by 3 or 4 and get around 100 000 $. Let's say you're certain that you will be able to pay out 500 000 $ in dividends in the second year. That amounts to about 20% equity share.

Also, it would be very good to give cash as well. Depending on the amount of the equity share - 20-50% of the market value for the job involved.

Wanted to achieve lot in my life. And saw money as means to do that. Was ambitious, working hard. Left the job, founded company. Worked my ass off for 5 years. Failed. But earned enough so that for the last 2 years haven't been really working while trying to get my shit together (although soon the savings will run dry). Ruined my marriage with the only person I really cared about. Can't get any motivation to do anything and feel "out of loop" and outdated to get back into the job market. Thinking about the suicide.

Lessons learned: 1) money does not make you happy. If you don't know how to be happy with little, you won't be happier when you have a lot. 2) job and career is not everything. Healthy work-life balance means a lot.

.. Actually kinda hard to put all the thoughts, feelings and experiences of turbulent 7 years in only some sentences.

I'm kinda surprised noone mentioned teleportation.

Also, what about human-computer interfaces? (communicating with your smartphone and receiving responses using only thoughts)

I am buffled by the relatively low prices. Much, much lower than DigitalOcean. Is this service stable? How can I be sure that they won't go out of business in a few months...?

Dear HN users,

Could you please link to alternative solutions?

Does AWS Glue solve the same problems? https://aws.amazon.com/glue/

Could anyone link to similar CMSs that allow "ordinary users" to create and link content "types" the same way Webhook does?

So far I've been watching https://prismic.io/ closely, but currently it does not have "internationalization support", which is a deal breaker for me.