Mastodawn

I'm back on the job market after getting DOGE'd from my job with USDA that I started in December.

I'm a software developer with over a decade and a half of professional experience in both established projects and startups. I've mostly been involved in web application development, and mostly backend work recently. But having worked with mostly small teams, I'm a pretty good generalist.

My resume: https://con.cor.dance/ben-anhalt-resume.pdf

I'm open to pretty much any opportunity in any ethical industry. By that I mean: no cryptocurrency, targeted ad tech, arms manufacturing, LLM snake oil, etc.

I'm particularly interested in roles where I can contribute as part of a healthy, collaborative team, and the work has a prosocial impact. I greatly prefer fully remote, but for the right job I would consider onsite in Lawrence, KS; Topeka; or the western KC metro.

#GetFediHired #FediHire

Dr. Sobek Feb 24, 2025

@benanhalt Random question, is there any lawsuit ongoing wrt those massive terminations, on dubious grounds ?

Ben Anhalt Feb 24, 2025

@Sobex I know of a couple of law firms which are building cases.

https://federalworkerrights.com/2025/02/13/mass-terminations-of-probationary-employees-is-there-any-recourse/

and

https://www.employmentlawfederal.com/

I've been following https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/ which is where I saw these. I sent them my info but haven't heard anything yet.

Mass terminations of probationary employees: is there any recourse?

UPDATE February 24, 2025, 230 PM The Office of Special Counsel, an independent government agency, has reportedly made an initial finding that the mass terminations are illegal and has asked the Mer…

Federal Worker Rights

Scott Noe Feb 24, 2025

@benanhalt Not sure if this of interest or a match, but it's a pretty good company https://www.clarkassociatesinc.biz/careerdetail?id=93993

C# .NET Software Engineer - Remote (Select States) | Clark Associates

Clark Associates

Linda Sgoluppi Artist Feb 24, 2025

@benanhalt Wishing you good luck.

HarrisonFormry Feb 24, 2025

@benanhalt Welcome back to the job market! It sounds like you have a lot of valuable experience, especially being a generalist in small teams. I totally get wanting to avoid certain industries, and it’s awesome that you’re aiming for something with a prosocial impact. I’m sure there are plenty of companies out there that would appreciate your skill set. Good luck with the search—I hope you find something that fits what you’re looking for!

MakanaBoy Feb 24, 2025

@benanhalt Bro so sorry about what happened. Wishing you nothing but good luck in the future.

Dan Jewett Feb 24, 2025

@benanhalt Hi Ben. Love finding fellow #lfk folks on here. Wish you well on your job search.

Ben Anhalt Feb 24, 2025

@danjewett Me, too! Thanks for the well wishes.

James Van Dyne Feb 24, 2025

@benanhalt We're hiring at Kraken.tech (part of Octopus Energy group, not blockchain) where we're enabling utilities to operate with a renewable grid. Mostly Python/Django and remote shouldn't be an issue.

Happy to answer any questions you might have.

Viktor Nagornyy Feb 24, 2025

@benanhalt See if anything at Nextcloud fits your skills and interests. Maybe Sales Engineering.
https://nextcloud.com/jobs/#sales-engineer-consultant

Nextcloud is looking for people who want to join our team

We are a modern, distributed, open source company whose mission is to provide our users and customers with the means for data storage, access and communication under their control

Nextcloud

Lukas Fittl Feb 24, 2025

@benanhalt In case its of interest, we're looking for a solutions engineer with infrastructure experience: https://pganalyze.com/careers/senior-solutions-engineer (basically helping prospective customers set up pganalyze, do trainings, and improve the product onboarding logic or documentation - customer-facing role but no prior solutions engineering/sales experience needed)

Careers · pganalyze

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Ben Anhalt Feb 24, 2025

@lukas Thanks for the lead. I'm a big fan of Postgres. I will check it out!

⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️Feb 24, 2025

@benanhalt .PDF CV on mobile, please don't - use HTML.
Also maybe hash tag the languages or platforms you want to play with

PeachMcD Feb 24, 2025

@benanhalt
I really hate that #DOGED has become a verb 😖
Best wishes & Solidarity from this underemployed old lady in Tacoma WA

Scott Williams 🐧Feb 25, 2025

@benanhalt I was doing some data archiving for USDA today. Besides surveys, census data, and SNAP, anything you might recommend I prioritize for archiving?

Robin A Feb 25, 2025

@benanhalt Chin up, you sound very talented. 🙂

Mastodon Migration Feb 25, 2025

Boosted for:

"I'm open to pretty much any opportunity in any ethical industry. By that I mean: no cryptocurrency, targeted ad tech, arms manufacturing, LLM snake oil, etc."

Good luck!

IanMoore3000 Feb 25, 2025

@benanhalt good luck

cherieherrjones Feb 25, 2025

@benanhalt I have nothing to offer as far as job leads, but I do want to say I'm sorry for what happened to you ... and also that I love Mastodon -- the way this community can come together to help someone, it fills my heart! Best of luck in your job search Ben!

Ben Anhalt Feb 25, 2025

@cherieherrjones Thank you. I'm blown away by the response this has gotten. After updating my resume yesterday, I had the thought to make a post here on the chance it might surface a few leads. I was not expecting the outpouring of support I have received. It's extremely heartening.

I have the resources to weather this setback with relatively minor inconvenience. It could mean some lost income, some deferred maintenance on my house and car. There are feds out there who have been fired after moving across the country for a dream job. There are those who are just starting families with a baby on the way and unsure about where they will get health insurance. It's appallingly cruel, and I'm lucky that I'm likely to be relatively unscathed.

cherieherrjones Feb 25, 2025

@benanhalt I boosted your response because I thought it was so kind and empathetic of you to be thinking of others who might have it worse, even though things are not great for you. I wish there were more people like you in the world!

Philosia Apr 19, 2025

@benanhalt My best wishes for your new job that you are going to do in future.
I can suggest only that it is god given opportunity to go within as that is very important journey.
I share from my own experiences of entering the kingdom of god within.
You can start from reading any of my posts but I suggest to as below if you wish to start with Jesus:

https://joshuto.substack.com/p/three-books-for-christian-thirsty?r=1gxdhi

Apart from this I suggest to begin with a three part post on wonder in our life. https://joshuto.substack.com/p/revealation-of-mystery?r=1gxdhi

Three books for Christian thirsty of inner light.

Osho has created links between religions in his books, for a Christian his books helps in getting Jesus’s messages in Bible becoming clearer. Messages of other mystic are compared with Jesus’s message

Philosia

Philosia Apr 19, 2025

@benanhalt This post is about knowing mind. Actually my inner journey begun with a book on knowing mind.

https://joshuto.substack.com/p/how-can-the-mind-be-known-five-sutras?r=1gxdhi

How can the mind be known? Ancient sutras for Ideas.

In spiritual journey of a person knowing mind is first and important step to generate ideas. Whole journey is to make it a slave, while it is a master now.

Philosia