Mastodawn

"This, of course, is much better algae, the best algae. Algae like no one has ever seen before. I know more about algae than anyone. Everybody says so. Big, strong men have come up to me with tears in their eyes and said, 'Sir, we cannot believe how great you are at dealing with algae.' And it's growing bigly!"

romaintb Jun 15

Mark Dominus Jun 15

I'm looking for work, please boost!

I'm a senior software engineer with 35 years of experience. I've worked across an unusually wide range of domains: mobile game backends, privacy-preserving data platforms, high-throughput COVID testing infrastructure, email and account systems, e-payment processing, job marketplace systems, and bioinformatics. I pick up new domains quickly and have a track record of doing it repeatedly. I understand how to turn business needs into engineering requirements.

I've worked remotely since the 1990s and can operate with minimal supervision. I don't need hand-holding to find the right problem to solve. Several of my most valued projects were self-directed: I identified the need, built the thing, and shipped it.

Some of the technologies I'm familiar with include: Python, Perl, TypeScript/JavaScript, Haskell, Go, C, Java. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite. Flask, SQLAlchemy. AWS (Lambda, S3, RDS, SQS, EC2). Docker, Git. Github and Gitlab.

I've also repeatedly picked up new languages and stacks as needed: Haskell for differential privacy research, TypeScript for a 24/7 AWS Lambda system, Flask for my most recent employer. I've become productive with new systems over and over, and I can do it quickly.

I'm also a published author (Higher-Order Perl, Morgan Kaufmann), longtime blogger, and conference speaker with a reputation for making complex ideas clear.

My résumé is at https://plover.com/~mjd/cv/Mark%20Jason%20Dominus.pdf

[email protected]

Thanks for your attention!

#OpenToWork #remoteWork #softwareEngineering #Python #backend #hiring

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romaintb Jun 12

The unfunny part is the whole team will have to cleanup the mess. And that's provided that we stop slopping to do a proper cleanup, which I don't really see happen soon.
My job just went from mildly enjoyable to full on hell. In a matter of months.

romaintb Jun 12

My lead dev got into ai recently. He is stuck in a loop of using Claude to "figure out" the problem, then use Claude to "fix" the problem, then use Claude to "do the code review", and then back to the start. It's the funniest shit tbh. Ofc Claude will tell you something is wrong with the pr it just wrote, that's on purpose so you gobble up more tokens.
The pr is now thousands of lines, create data migrations that will lock prod for hours, and even then it will break existing features.
LOL

#ai

romaintb Jun 11