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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2023) on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @09:42AM (#36600348)
Location: Singapore

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, SQL, WASM

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kg6vy1GVu5jKZnX7iSZhzIp9pQD...

Email: iobt92 at gmail.com

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Have been working on a high-performance, collaborative "Figma for business" (contracting for US-based company) using Rust + WebGL + WebAssembly (WASM) for the past ~1.5 years. Exploring compilers on the side as a personal interest.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2023) on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:45AM (#36586577)
Location: Singapore

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, SQL, WASM

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kg6vy1GVu5jKZnX7iSZhzIp9pQD...

Email: iobt92 at gmail.com

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Have been working on a high-performance, collaborative "Figma for business" (contracting for US-based company) using Rust + WebGL + WebAssembly (WASM) for the past ~1.5 years. Exploring compilers on the side as a personal interest.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2021) on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:47AM (#29080410)
Location: Singapore

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not now

Technologies: Python, Rust, Javascript/Typescript, SQL, R, Linux, Git.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17TmGrKSSJ6z2c5uIlOj1rXv8QfY...

Email: tedmundhtl[@]gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/iobtl

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Currently a university student looking for junior positions (ideally part-time, but full-time is up for discussion as well).

I have past internship experience in ML engineering and data analysis (separate internships), having worked for one of the biggest e-commerce names in SEA.

More importantly, I have been involved in some remote contract work recently, building a SaaS with Rust and Javascript/Typescript. On the side, I have some experience writing a ray tracer in Rust and also porting C++ code to Rust from some reasonably non-trivial projects.

I am interested in all things technical and have dabbled in compilers, operating systems and graphics. With that said, I believe that I may more suited towards a backend-related role. (willing to pick up any suitable technologies)

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thanks!

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2021) on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @05:40AM (#28047268)
Location: Singapore

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Rust, SQL, Linux, Git.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n6nxh1KlJ2qjSsZQG_jlRJmkD1X...

Email: tedmundhtl[@]gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/iobtl

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Currently a university student looking for junior/internship positions.

I have past internship experience in ML engineering and data analysis (separate internships), having worked for one of the biggest e-commerce names in SEA. I've been mainly working in Rust in my spare time, working on a full-featured ray tracing engine (~8kLOC and growing).

I am interested in all things technical and have dabbled in compilers, operating systems and general systems programming. With that said, I believe that I may more suited towards a backend-related role. (willing to pick up any suitable stacks)

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thanks!

Ask HN: What can an undergraduate work on over summer without an internship?

Hi HN. As the title suggests, a typical CS undergraduate (freshman) is hoping to looking for some ways to boost my technical/non-technical skills over the summer. I know that many may suggest looking for an internship, but due to personal reasons I am not looking to pursue one for this summer alone. As such, I was hoping anyone could possibly suggest interesting projects I could work on which...

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I agree, but which fields would you say (within and outside computing) one can dive pretty deep into via both books and hands on experience?

Ask HN: What does diversification look like for programmers?

Hi all, I've been reading the recently published book by David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. Putting aside the kind/unkind learning environment debate, what do you think breadth/diversification looks like for programmers? What does it mean for a programmer to 'develop broad perspectives' in order to help them better solve problems? Would this entail venturing...

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Ask HN: SQL interview in 2 weeks, how to best prepare?

Hi HN, I have an interview lined up for a data science (intern) position in about two weeks time. This is after I passed an initial take-home assessment testing Python (Pandas) and basic SQL. I received comments from the HR staff that my SQL 'could do some brushing up', which I expected since I had never really worked with it beforehand. He also informed me upfront that the interview in 2 weeks...

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Sure, most definitely. Although I hope I wasn't giving off the illusion of neglecting my core topics, I certainly wasn't planning on that. I was just thinking that perhaps some of the topics present a sort of diminishing 'rate of return', since going too in-depth past a certain point may not be too useful/enlightening(?). But this may just be purely ignorant thinking on my part, since I have not fully grasped the important parts of each commonly taught CS topic yet.

Ask HN: As a CS student with free time, what can I do to further prospects?

Hi all,basically the title says it all. I'm currently a CS student working towards my Bachelor's. Since I have plenty of free time (for the most part), I was thinking of picking up other skills/domains to further my prospects of acquiring an internship/job once I graduate.I was thinking along the lines of: 1. Learning about other topics such as security, distributed systems, graphics which I...

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020) on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @12:16AM (#24046530)
Location: Singapore

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, C/C++, JavaScript, Vue.js, Node.js, Linux

Résumé/CV: Contact me please

Email: [email protected]

Ask HN: What essential programming concepts are often overlooked?

Hey all, this question is mainly directed towards long-term/experienced programmers who have had a decent career/equivalent experience with regards to developing software and creating non-trivial programs in general. In your opinion, which are the few programming ideas or concepts absolutely crucial to program design often missed out by majority of programmers?

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Ask HN: How do you measure your improvement in 'soft' skills over time?

When writing this question, I actually had the skill set of a programmer more in mind. I believe that is widely recognized that the role of a programmer is to solve programs, and hence focusing one's efforts on purely gaining theoretical knowledge may not have such a great ROI (depending on your goals). Yet, it may not be as straightforward to conclude that one's programming skill has...

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Re:Ask HN: How do I become an 'elite' programmer? on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:03AM (#23791036)
Ideally at the end of the day a long and fulfilling career would be my goal. Hence why I am trying to source for more internships and hope to land a few more opportunities over the next few years (although it is trying times amidst the current virus situation).

By new directions would you also include exploring new fields of programming/disciplines? If so, what are some which you think are good to venture into and may potentially be something one would hold interest in the long run?

Re:Ask HN: How do I become an 'elite' programmer? on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:01AM (#23791023)
I like your point on complexity; from that statement alone I am far from it yet. The layers of abstraction which I have had to deal with so far can be said to be merely surface-level. This is a goal I'm still trying to consciously work on as well (being able to handle complex projects). I guess for someone who is a newbie like myself I may be jumping the gun too early by finding myself veering towards systems which I may not understand e.g. operating systems, compilers.

Ask HN: How do I become an 'elite' programmer?

I'm a budding undergraduate awaiting enrollment this year. I've already started to get into programming, and am nearing the end of a ML internship. I really admire people with robust programming skills and hope that I can become one of them (hopefully by the end of university). I wanted to ask, what steps can I take to help me work towards that goal? (I was thinking along the lines of daily...

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