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Re:Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017? on Sunday December 31, 2017 @02:10PM (#16042128)
I left my full time job about 3 months ago to start my own software consulting venture. Ive maintained projects from old clients I had on the side, and also created and launched a new project for a client (RN mobile app). Still have to get an online presence setup for the company. Its been going well so far, and I am looking forward to new projects and clients in 2018.

I launched ScrumGenius (https://scrumgenius.com). Its a side project I started for fun at my previous job (it was just a simple slack bot script back then) and decided to actually build a service and launch it a few months ago. I did not take it too seriously at first, I was just using it to learn. However, after reading indiehackers and other people launching products I was really inspired to give it a try. Its been steadily growing and it makes around $300/mo.

Hoping to continue to grow it even more in 2018.

If anyone is looking for a end to end consultant that does Full Stack Dev with experience in mobile and web! Please do reach out, would love to talk! I am based in Canada and UK.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2016) on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:44PM (#12902289)
SEEKING WORK - Fullstack Web Developer - Go, ReactJS, AngularJS, Django, Python

location: Toronto, ON

Experienced fullstack Python/Django developer. I have worked on applications large and small. I have modernised legacy applications. I have experience leading a team and delivering results on time.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Resume/CV: https://tharshan.me

Oh I hope that's not the case. They were asking others for help, it would be a shame if they were not willing to offer the same help to others.
I am in Toronto. Would love to know the name, if you don't mind sharing.
Re:Investing for Geeks on Saturday September 17, 2016 @11:19AM (#12520831)
This is very US based. Does much of this advice change, say if I were a, UK citizen? (other than the obvious 401k etc)
Re:Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X on Thursday May 26, 2016 @11:07AM (#11778483)
Just curious, what is the tech stack?
Can you send your own UDP packets to the elevator then?
Re:Show HN: EverActiv, an ML personal trainer for iPhone on Thursday April 28, 2016 @10:38AM (#11589157)
Im also just curious what technologies you are using, specifically for the ML. Is there a particular ML technique that works well for this use case?
Re:Docker for Mac Beta Review on Monday April 25, 2016 @08:25PM (#11568485)
tharshan09

Thanks!

I tried this and I was in Toronto. I was seeing people in SF. It seems you might want to fine tune your search radius.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014) on Monday December 01, 2014 @01:49PM (#8682858)
BroadConnect - Downtown Toronto, Canada - Graduate/Co-Op/Full-Time

SUMMARY

Our engineering department functions like an independent startup, with financial backing from an established company with a healthy bottom line.

We're looking for someone to help with front end development - notably, visualization of data generated from our back end and big data team.

Experience with Angular, D3 and REST is an asset, but your eagerness and ability to learn trumps all!

You should consider yourself a full stack engineer, despite focusing on front end, as our dev culture strives to have everyone learn a bit of everything.

DETAILS

We are hiring full stack engineers (DevOps experience is greatly valued)

About Us

The parent company is a telecom provider with offices and subsidiaries in Canada, USA and UK. Our software engineering group functions more or less as a startup of the parent company, addressing specific pain points in the telecoms industry. We apply lessons and tactics from the fast the fast moving consumer web to bring great UI/UX to the enterprise space.

We are small engineering team looking to expand rapidly by hiring smart people. Our focus is on keeping up with best practices and staying DRY. We strive to create a great culture where learning is just as important as “doing” (i.e. grunt work).

About You

You are software engineer with a desire to improve yourself. You enjoy working on challenging tasks but also knows that some grunt work needs to be done from time to time. You are ideally a full stack engineer who is as comfortable with the frontend as the backend. You enjoy reading up on best practises and keeping with the fast past world of web development. You should strive to write production ready code (DRY), but would be willing to go back to refactor when you feel it's necessary.

Technology Stack

- Python/Django

- AngularJS

- Redis

- Postgres

You will get to work with us in the heart of downtown Toronto on University Avenue. If this sounds interesting, please contact me: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014) on Saturday November 01, 2014 @08:04PM (#8545086)
BroadConnect - Downtown Toronto, Canada - Graduate/Co-Op/Full-Time

We are hiring full stack engineers (DevOps experience is greatly valued)

About Us

The parent company is a telecom provider with offices and subsidiaries in Canada, USA and UK. Our software engineering group functions more or less as a startup of the parent company, addressing specific pain points in the telecoms industry. We apply lessons and tactics from the fast the fast moving consumer web to bring great UI/UX to the enterprise space.

We are small engineering team looking to expand rapidly by hiring smart people. Our focus is on keeping up with best practices and staying DRY. We strive to create a great culture where learning is just as important as “doing” (i.e. grunt work).

About You

You are software engineer with a desire to improve yourself. You enjoy working on challenging tasks but also knows that some grunt work needs to be done from time to time. You are ideally a full stack engineer who is as comfortable with the frontend as the backend. You enjoy reading up on best practises and keeping with the fast past world of web development. You should strive to write production ready code (DRY), but would be willing to go back to refactor when you feel it's necessary.

Technology Stack

- Python/Django

- AngularJS

- Redis

- Postgres

You will get to work with us in the heart of downtown Toronto on University Avenue. If this sounds interesting, please contact me: [email protected]

I am curious. How did you come to work on the WebRTC stack for Chrome?
Re:Show HN: My first platformer game (Mac, Demo) on Friday July 11, 2014 @04:25AM (#8019265)
Congratz! Its a very nice game.

How was this made? Was it with a framework? or with OpenGL? Would love to know some details.

Re:Accepted projects – Google Summer of Code 2014 on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @05:20AM (#7626569)
Really happy I got accepted. I am graduating this year and this was my last chance to do this. This also gives me plenty of time to job hunt :)

https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/g...

Re:Ask HN: Who got accepted into GSoC 2014? on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @04:49AM (#7626480)
Hey! I got accepted for GSOC to do a project with Mozilla (Intellego). What are you working on?
Re:Accepted projects – Google Summer of Code 2014 on Monday April 21, 2014 @05:32PM (#7624056)
Me too! It is indeed very awesome.
The part about needing sponsorship - Don't you think your form should have a field to reflect this. So that the startups can easily see if the candidates are not in the US and need sponsorship? Without having to view each resume.
How would you get around the restrictive Youtube API? With such rules as having the embed visible?

Tell HN:Full Stack Engineer looking for an internship in USA

Hi HN, I'm soon to be graduating with a degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the UK. After a recent exposure to the startup world, I feel I would greatly enjoy working in a fast, exciting tech start up in the USA.I am passionate about software, with a keen interest in the web. I have various side projects that showcase my skills - please see my CV for details.Check out my details...

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Re:Lessons from a Silicon Valley job search on Saturday March 22, 2014 @12:59AM (#7447711)
Could you share what companies you are referring to? Which finance companies use Python? I am soon to graduate and I would like to find something in London that is using Python or C/C++.
Re:Ask HN: Best big companies to work for? on Saturday February 01, 2014 @09:39AM (#7161739)
I am not if I should start a new thread but if this exact question was asked but instead of a senior dev, a university graduate (with experience in a large company and a startup). What would your suggestions be? (also.. I am located in UK)
Could someone explain what has made this possible to do this now rather than before? Is it V8? What does it give the developer that allows him to be able to debug and trace anything?
Haha no worries.

Yea it does sound like you are doing a bunch of work arounds, I can now appreciate the development time for this. However, the clean design hides all these hacks :) I assume you had tried the youtube IFrame API etc in the background page etc? But I guess if you were to use that then the elements on the youtube player are there and you don't really need it.

That weighting feature for the radio is gold - its kept me listening since I installed it! I had not thought of that when developing my app (https://github.com/viperfx/ng-juketube), I just used the mix's. I have been using your extension since I installed it, I might have to use this and not my own app :) or improve my one.

One bug I did notice is that videos tend to overlap, what I mean by this is that some videos seem to be smaller so you can see the previous video paused or stopped in the background and the current video playing over it - you notice it because the current video is somehow smaller.

I look forward to the updates.

Very nice! I built a very similar web app and in hindsight I should have made it into a chrome extension. Very nice and clean design! The video is laggy for an HTML5 video, however it is not a big issue. Just curious - how does the radio work? are you using youtube mix's?
Would be nice to see the source code.
Yes I am referring to Authentication via Social Auth like Facebook and normal email/pass auth as well. But I am using Django as the backend, not node like most of these tutorials are using.
It would be great if you could share your insights into handling authentication with an API. I am still yet to find a perfect way to do it.

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