mgallowa

  Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Javascript/Typescript (React/Redux, Node, Express), Python (Django/Flask), GraphQL/REST, MySQL/PostgresSQL/MongoDB/Redis, Docker, AWS LESS/SASS/CSS, git
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vxw2vMtiwsl0G_wb3akjs6jFfE0jVTE9/view?usp=sharing
  Email: [email protected]
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgallowa/
  Github: https://github.com/MarkGalloway
  Timezone: UTC -6
  Desired Role: Senior Software Engineer

I have 6 years of experience developing high-traffic, full-stack web applications. I've built everything from social media app backends to very complex dashboards to mobile-first Progressive Web Apps to web-based, event-driven games. I've also designed and deployed large, distributed, and scalable cloud infrastructures. I've often had full ownership of these projects, with junior developers underwing. I've planned milestones, set and met deadlines, and empowered my colleagues to deliver their best. I strongly enjoy teaching others and helping my teams work together to meet ambitious goals. I have a solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals and system design. I believe in clean and simple solutions. I prefer readable, consistent, and testable code over clever code. I'm motivated to exceed requirements and have an end result that is both performant and provides a superior user experience.

I'm looking to work for a company that has a strong culture around communication, iteration, and collaboration. I want to solve hard problems, learn new things, and be passionate about what I'm building. I prefer to take ownership of large features and the responsibility that comes with it.

  Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Javascript/Typescript (React/Redux, Node, Express), Python (Django/Flask), GraphQL/REST, MySQL/PostgresSQL/MongoDB/Redis, Docker, AWS LESS/SASS/CSS, git
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vxw2vMtiwsl0G_wb3akjs6jFfE0jVTE9/view?usp=sharing
  Email: [email protected]
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgallowa/
  Github: https://github.com/MarkGalloway
  Timezone: UTC -6
  Desired Role: Senior Software Engineer

I have 6 years of experience developing high-traffic, full-stack web applications. I've built everything from social media app backends to very complex dashboards to mobile-first Progressive Web Apps to web-based, event-driven games. I've also designed and deployed large, distributed, and scalable cloud infrastructures. I've often had full ownership of these projects, with junior developers underwing. I've planned milestones, set and met deadlines, and empowered my colleagues to deliver their best. I strongly enjoy teaching others and helping my teams work together to meet ambitious goals.

I have a solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals and system design. I believe in clean and simple solutions. I prefer readable, consistent, and testable code over clever code. I'm motivated to exceed requirements and have an end result that is both performant and provides a superior user experience.

I'm looking to work for a company that has a strong culture around communication, iteration, and collaboration. I want to solve hard problems, learn new things, and be passionate about what I'm building. I prefer to take ownership of large features and the responsibility that comes with it.

  Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Javascript/Typescript, React/Redux/Apollo, Node/Express.js, Graphql/Rest, Python/Django/Flask, MySQL/PostgresSQL/MongoDB/Redis, Docker, AWS/GCP, CI/CD workflows, Webpack/Grunt/Rollup, LESS/SASS/CSS, git
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zdraSt7RhWKq6ZeShBFHaFZ8mkyZ69aP/view
  Email: [email protected]
  Github: https://github.com/MarkGalloway
  Looking for: (Senior/Lead) Fullstack Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer
  Timezone: UTC -6

I have 6 years of experience developing high-traffic, full-stack web applications. I've built everything from social media app backends to very complex dashboards to mobile-first Progressive Web Apps to web-based, event-driven games. I've also designed and deployed large, distributed, and scalable cloud infrastructures. I've often had full ownership of these projects, with junior developers underwing. I've planned milestones, set and met deadlines, and empowered my colleagues to deliver their best. I strongly enjoy teaching others and helping my teams work together to meet ambitious goals.

I have a solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals and system design. I believe in clean and simple code designs modeled around data. I prefer readable and testable solutions to clever ones. I'm motivated to exceed requirements and have an end result that is both performant and provides a superior user experience.

I founded an anonymous social media platform in the past. It can be a real pain because once identity/accountability is removed, people tend to act very poorly. On paper, I like your idea of helping people to form risk-free connections, but it is very possible for your platform to spin out of your control. The small radius location nature of your app will likely mean a lot of negative press and/or police inquiries about stalking, harassment, threats, bulling, maybe even rape or murder in the extreme.

Not trying to be negative; I know your intentions are good, but be please be prepared. When the police call you in the middle of the night, and they will, make sure you can provide whatever information you can to identify the users. I am actually surprised you would be able to get into the Apple store without being able to do so.

Congrats to Mackenzie and Dan. (:

I thought I was going to learn how to speed up my SSR, instead I learned about how to hide from my problems by using Redis. I am disappointed.

Nice work, Redspread team. Can't wait to play with your tools this summer (: