swampdonkey64

  Location: West Coast, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Golang, Python, Typescript, React, Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, gRPC, GraphQL, Linux, Git, Docker, GitHub Actions, LLMs (OpenAI, Claude, Llama)
  Résumé/CV: Upon request
  Email: [email protected]

Full-stack software engineer with an emphasis on back-end services, infra, and project management. Presently bootstrapping projects from 0 -> 1 for my employer while passively seeking new opportunities. I place great emphasis on writing maintainable code with good DX to facilitate frequent deployments and reduce surprises in prod. Training LLMs to assist via well-written rule files helps my velocity.

I'd be a great fit for a Series B or later start-up that's found PMF and has to start building things durably in an opinionated way. Let me know what you're up to!

  Location: West Coast, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Golang, Python, Typescript, React, Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, gRPC, GraphQL, Linux, Git, Docker, GitHub Actions, LLMs (OpenAI, Claude, Llama)
  Résumé/CV: Upon request
  Email: [email protected]

Jack-of-all-trades with an emphasis on back-end services, infra, and project management. Presently bootstrapping projects from 0 -> 1 for my employer while passively seeking new opportunities. I build stuff out in a well-tested, local-first fashion via IaC and apply it cleanly to deployment environments. I place great emphasis on shipping obvious, maintainable code that's well-typed and fails loudly. I'd be a great fit for a Series B or later start-up that's found PMF and has to start building things durably in an opinionated way. Let me know what you're up to!

  Location: West Coast, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Golang, Python, Typescript, React, Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, gRPC, GraphQL, Linux, Git, Docker, GitHub Actions
  Résumé/CV: Upon request
  Email: [email protected]

Jack-of-all-trades with an emphasis on back-end services and infra. Presently bootstrapping projects from 0 -> 1 for my current employer while passively seeking new opportunities. I build stuff out in a well-tested, local-first fashion using LocalStack and Docker Compose then apply the Terraform in the cloud. I place great emphasis on shipping obvious, maintainable code that's well-typed and fails loudly. I'd be a great fit for a Series B or later start-up that's found PMF and has to start building things durably in an opinionated way. Let me know what you're up to!

There are plenty of places that aren't so obviously horrible that are actually antithetical to one's well-being. America is replete with places boasting relatively high median salaries and low crime which are actually nothing more than company towns of provincial gossip and economic skullduggery by way of monopolistic legacy industry or pork-barrel government projects. The worst part about this is that in such cases

> Everyone living in these places encourages anyone who has any potential at all, to get out as soon as they can.

doesn't apply. People who think that a McMansion full of TVs and a $65,000 pickup truck are aspirational spend time trying to convince hapless recent grads to join them when said kids would be better served moving someplace where people 1) have more than one type of job and 2) spend their free time doing something other than driving drunk and sleeping with each others' spouses.

For every bucolic town full of hardworking people with real jobs there's a Nowheresville riddled with Java Developers and middle managers building Struts applications for a Fortune 500 company while patting themselves on the back for having a six-figure job they can't get fired from. The performative working-class attitude that these people still have despite having never done an honest day's work is even worse but I digress...

You have no idea who I hate. To me Mitt Romney is on the same footing as George Soros or the Easter bunny. I've never met them. They are notions that live in my head based on things I've heard and read about them in the media. I might dislike the idea of them or what they've supposedly done but to hate them would be absurd.

To say that mutual hatred of Santa Claus-level figures is a starting point for discourse says a lot about your attitude. Please review the HN commenting guidelines.

Are you trying to say with a straight face that a law introduced by a Republican and passed by the first Republican-controlled legislature in 40 years is "de-regulation under Bill Clinton"? And then, surprise, George Soros pops into the mix without any mention of Romney-connected Bain Capital owning part of iHeart/Clear Channel which is an order of magnitude bigger?

Seems intellectually disingenuous to me.

I learned years ago to either give constructive mutually agreed upon ahead of time peer reviews or not give any. I always run this type of stuff by the recipient to make sure that it isn't a surprise. Not too long ago I had one cartoonishly insecure coworker recruit another colleague to their cause of poo-pooing me. The latter wrote something like "they care more about doing things right than delivering quickly" because I surfaced too many obvious architectural issues in my PR comments (actual ones where they departed from our mutually agreed spec, not trite OO pedant nonsense). Thankfully my manager told me of it and dismissed it in much the same manner I did but I didn't feel great about being thrust back to junior high school social behavior.

^ This. This x 100.

You choose your friends because you have shared interests and you make each other feel good. You have family because they brought you into the world and you have shared qualities and bonds. You chose your job because it pays you. You do it for the ducats. Don't get it twisted.

  Location: Southern California
  Remote: Yes, or hybrid in SoCal
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Golang, Java, Python, Typescript, React, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Hashicorp suite, Grafana stack, Kafka, SQL, Linux
  Résumé/CV: Upon request
  Email: [email protected]

Looking for a Senior/Staff-level software engineering role (not a "DevOps Engineering" one). I'm the epitome of "jack of all trades"... over the past decade I've worked at companies from 30 to 30,000 people doing front-end, back-end, architecture, cloud, integration, modernization, greenfield, and several other types of dev work. If you're looking for somebody that does software in true DevOps fashion instead of chucking it over a wall them I'm your ticket!

  Location: Southern California
  Remote: Yes, or hybrid in SoCal
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Golang, Java, Python, Typescript, React, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Hashicorp suite, Grafana stack, Kafka, SQL, Linux
  Résumé/CV: Upon request
  Email: [email protected]

Looking for a Senior/Staff-level software engineering role. I'm the epitome of "jack of all trades"... over the past decade I've worked at companies from 30 to 30,000 people doing front-end, back-end, architecture, cloud, integration, modernization, greenfield, and several other types of dev work. If you're looking for somebody that does software in true DevOps fashion instead of chucking it over a wall them I'm your ticket!