mike97

  Location: Bergen, Norway 
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Parquet, JavaScript/TypeScript, Vue.js, REST, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Linux/bare metal, web crawling, API reverse engineering, Stripe, Paddle
  Résumé/CV: Available on request over email
  Email: m.mihai (at) mailbox.org

Senior data/backend engineer with 8+ years in Python. Most recently I worked as a senior data engineer at an AI company, building large-scale scraping and metadata-mining pipelines.

Before that I worked as a technical founder, building a portfolio of data-driven SaaS products (rank tracking, lead generation, influencer search). I owned everything: crawling infrastructure processing 10M+ data points weekly, Django REST/GraphQL APIs with Vue.js front ends, Stripe/Paddle billing, and self-hosted bare-metal deployments with over 99.9% uptime. Between product cycles, I took on contract backend and data-mining work for other companies,

Looking for a senior backend, data engineering, or founding engineer roles. Ideally related to data pipelines, crawling/extraction, or building SaaS products end to end.

> And I bet you can soon get a ThinkPad with the same intel chip, that should have similar battery life.

Yes you can, speaking from experience. I have the T14 gen 7 with the 75 wh battery, and the 356H CPU, it only uses 4-6w/hour when coding with a lot of browser tabs open, a headless VM running, docker containers and so on, online meetings is about 6-8w/hour, this is under Linux, with default power setting from Opensuse.

It can easily last more than 10 working hours, I limit mine to 80% charge as it's more than enough for when I'm on the go.

> AWS / GCP can invoice with EU reverse charge so I don’t even pay VAT. With Hetzner I have to claim it back at the end of the year.

Hetzner can do the same as long as you have a valid VAT code.

> OpenAI and Anthropic are both offering coding plans that are possibly severely subsidized

So does Google, in fact I believe their antigravity limits for Opus and Sonnet for the $20 plan has higher limits than CC $20 plan, and there is no weekly cap or I couldn't get it even with heavy usage, and then you have a separate limit for Gemini cli and for other models from antigravity.

I am actually working on a scraping API for serps, currently it only supports Google, may add more search engines if it gets any traction, it isn't ready yet, but hopefully it will be in a couple of days, if you want to give it a go let me know and I can give you a subscription in exchange for some feedback.

Location: Europe/Romania

Remote: Only remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

- Python, mostly web apps using Django(api, webhooks, handling payments/subscriptios) and data mining.

- C#, I haven't used it in the last 3 years, but I can get up to speed with it pretty fast as I've used it in the past.

- Docker and docker compose for local development and production deployment.

- VueJs/Alpinjs - used it to build a SPA and also as a replacement for jquery for small interactive pages, pretty comfortable with it.

- Linux - using it as my daily drive and of course on my servers, I know my way around the terminal.

Résumé/CV: Available on request over email.

Email: m.mihai (at) mailbox.org

From a quick Google search: 1m3 of concrete = 150l water + 250kg cement + 700kg sand + 1200kg aggregates.

Even if you used just cement and water I think you would get more than 12L from 25kg.

Nice, in Romania it's about 8 euros for 1 gig, unfortunately 10 isn't available in my city yet.

Edit: Just checked and for 10 G it would be about 10 euros and for 2.5 G - 9 euros, that's a very good upgrade, probably they assume that most users won't take advantage of the full bandwidth.

You can have the same with Linux/Windows and Android(not sure if iOS also has an app), using KDE Connect

Location: Europe/Romania Remote: Only remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

- Python, mostly web apps using Django(api, webhooks, handling payments/subscriptios) and scraping, mostly using http web requests, but also using Selenium when needed.

- C#, I haven't used it in the last 2 years, but I can get up to speed with it pretty fast as I've used it in the past.

- Go - Beginner level, still trying to learn to use it to the fullest, mostly for web scraping as the speed and resource usage matters when you do 1000s of requests.

- Docker and docker compose for local development and production deployment.

- VueJs - used it to build a SPA and also as a replacement for jquery for small interactive pages, pretty comfortable with it.

- Linux - using it as my daily drive and of course on my servers, I know my way around the terminal.

Résumé/CV: Available on request over email.

Email: m.mihai (at) mailbox.org

Location: Europe/Romania

Remote: Only remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

- Python, mostly web apps using Django(api, webhooks, handling payments/subscriptios) and scraping, mostly using http web requests, but also using Selenium when needed.

- C#, I haven't used it in the last 2 years, but I can get up to speed with it pretty fast as I've used it in the past.

- Go - Beginner level, still trying to learn to use it to the fullest, mostly for web scraping as the speed and resource usage matters when you do 1000s of requests.

- Docker and docker compose for local development and production deployment.

- VueJs - used it to build a SPA and also as a replacement for jquery for small interactive pages, pretty comfortable with it.

- Linux - using it as my daily drive and of course on my servers, I know my way around the terminal.

Résumé/CV: Available on request over email.

Email: m.mihai (at) mailbox.org

Location: Europe

Remote: Only remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

- Python, mostly web apps using Django(api, webhooks, handling payments/subscriptios) and scraping, mostly using http web requests, but also using Selenium when needed.

- C#, I haven't used it in the last 2 years, but I can get up to speed with it pretty fast as I've used it in the past.

- Go - Beginner level, still trying to learn to use it to the fullest, mostly for web scraping as the speed and resource usage matters when you do 1000s of requests.

- Docker and docker compose for local development and production deployment.

- VueJs - used it to build a SPA and also as a replacement for jquery for small interactive pages, pretty comfortable with it.

- Linux - using it as my daily drive and of course on my servers, I know my way around the terminal.

Résumé/CV: Available on request over email.

Email: [email protected]