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Pushing the needle where I can.

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Comment · 2 months ago

Unfortunately not for these roles.

Comment · 2 months ago

Worth noting: I am looking for engineering leaders with prior management experience.

Comment · 2 months ago

I'm hiring for a frontline EM building the automation and trust layer for freight pricing, matching, onboarding, and settlement.Lead 1-3 teams (FTE + contractors), own delivery end-to-end, ~8 yrs exp typical. I expect everyone in my eng org (myself included!) to be technical and be able to help unblock the team, though your day-to-day wont be in the code.

Technical here means you can/will get into the code yourself and architecture reviews and maintain technical credibility with our junior to staff/principal level engineers. These are not player-coach roles, but these are frontline roles that need that technical capability.

Interesting problems: trust/fraud at marketplace scale; legacy-data-meets-modern-stack; and all kinds of problems that come with powering hundreds of thousands of load/shipment postings every day.

AI/LLM: We are leaned in, but still hold humans responsible for what they push and expect everyone to review and understand llm output before asking other humans to look at a thing.

Culture: I am deeply familiar with Google's project oxygen/aristotle and am building a culture where our teams can do great work with minimal bs.

Location: Must be local to one of our three locations (Seattle, Portland, Denver).

Primary Tech: Node/TS, React, GraphQL, Kafka/redpanda, k8s, AWS, etc

https://careers.dat.com/jobs/?gh_jid=6139594004

Reach out directly at <fname>.<lname>[email protected]; I am the hiring manager for these roles. I'll junk anything that smells of AI.

My profile and background: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelvin-luu/

Comment · 2 months ago

I'm hiring for both EM and Senior EM levels building the automation layer for freight pricing, matching, onboarding, and settlement. Lead 1-3 teams (FTE + contractors), own delivery end-to-end, ~8 yrs exp typical. I expect all managers to be technical and be able to help unblock the team, though your day-to-day wont be in the code.

Interesting problems: trust/fraud at marketplace scale; legacy-data-meets-modern-stack; and all kinds of problems that come with powering hundreds of billions of dollars worth of transactions every year.

AI/LLM: We are leaned in, but still hold humans responsible for what they push and expect everyone to review and understand llm output before asking other humans to look at a thing.

Culture: I am deeply familiar with Google's project oxygen/aristotle and am building a culture where our teams can do great work with minimal bs.

Location: Must be local to one of our three locations (Seattle, Portland, Denver)

Primary Tech: Node/TS, React, GraphQL, Kafka/redpanda, k8s, AWS, etc

https://careers.dat.com/jobs/?gh_jid=6139594004

Reach out directly at <fname>.<lname>[email protected]; I am the hiring manager for these roles. Human emails will get human responses.

My profile and background: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelvin-luu/

Comment · 9 months ago

In my experience, I have used coaches that don’t have more technical skill than me, but are able to provide insight, questions, and provoke me to think through my problems in ways I might not have otherwise.

I break things down into coaching vs training vs mentorship.

Training is when you need to learn a very specific skill from someone that knows more than you. A great example is learning how to drive - it requires training from someone who knows more than you.

Mentorship is when you need to grow more holistically and are learning from someone that is significantly more advanced in your chosen area of study than you. Usually this involves not just technical training, but also a mindset that you wish to learn. Examples of this are apprenticeships or when you seek out a mentor that you think has done well and wish to learn from.

Coaching is when someone may not have more technical skill than you, but is still able to help you improve by probing, prompting, reflecting, or observing. A great example are sport coaches, who are not necessarily more skilled than many of the players they coach.

These are loose and blurry definitions, but I hope it helps frame another perspective on coaching.

Comment · 11 months ago

DAT (Convoy / Convoy Platform) | SWE II – Principal SWE | Seattle, WA | $121–$274k + annual bonus | Hybrid (~2d/wk)

Building the broker<->carrier freight marketplace for the next decade of Convoy/DAT (small, senior, low-BS team, real work/life balance).

Hiring for:

* 2× SWE II - Broker ($154k–$209k)

* 1x SWE II - Integrations ($121k-$157k)

* 1x Senior SWE - Broker ($154k–$209k)

* 1× Senior SWE - Integrations ($154k–$209k)

* 1× Principal SWE - Broker ($218k–$274k)

* Staff-ish? Between Senior/Principal - email me and we’ll talk.

Email: kelvin(dot)luu(at)dat.com (hiring manager)

Recruiter: becca(dot)fernyhough(at)dat.com

> Subject: HN - Truck Yeah! <Broker|Integrations> <Senior|Staff|Principal> <Your Name>

Apply: Principal, broker – https://careers.dat.com/jobs/?gh_jid=5653581004

Apply: Senior, integrations – https://careers.dat.com/jobs/?gh_jid=5649517004

Other Roles: email me.

P.S. We’re in the Maritime Building downtown, directly across from the ferries. The ~2d/wk in-office is real - I don’t care about butt-in-seat time.

Comment · 2 years ago

18F should; as should DSes at agencies.

If people are looking for hard (the hard mostly comes from the ambiguity of problem space and autonomous nature of our teams) impactful work, send em our way (USDS).

If they’re looking for impactful work, but not necessarily some of the things that make USDS “hard,” our partners are also great places to land.

There’s plenty of work for those that can do it though

Comment · 2 years ago

USDS is not slower paced or for the faint of heart.

Comment · 4 years ago

I messaged them and might try and reboot it

Comment · 4 years ago

My org should be able to host an event if you want to try and throw something together.

Unicorn start up and all that jazz. Likely they will want someone to give a short spiel.

Comment · 4 years ago

Maybe it’s good, maybe it’s bad. A lot of anecdotes about “important” historical figures or institutions that use copy by hand as a method for learning.

I would have preferred citing actual research, not an appeal to historical methods.

Given that some of the conclusions that word for word copy may be less efficient than summarized copy[1], it may be a less efficient and less effective way of learning than going through a reading and summarizing every paragraph.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret...

Comment · 4 years ago

At the beginning of diving into a topic area or when I want to go very deep on a subject.

Books tend to have good comprehensive overviews of an area/technology, whereas most online tutorials are very shallow, even if more current.

On the flip side, when I need /deep/ understanding it’s almost always a combination of a book on the topic to fill in holes I missed, the docs, and live repos if available.

If it’s just for day to day use, or a technology I’m only using in passing - no.

I do vet the authors though. A lot of trash is published.