timtamboy63

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CTO PennyWhale (http://pennywhale.com) Founder and Director of Startup Exchange at Georgia Tech @chintanparikh94

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Comment · 1 year ago

Hi Peter - thanks for doing this.

I'm currently on a H1B and transitioning to an E3 visa. However, I did get married to a US Citizen and am also applying for my green card via marriage. I need to move to the E3 as my H1B maxes out before I can get a green card. I have a few questions:

* The E3 visa is a non-immigrant visa, but I assume getting married to a US citizen implies immigrant intent. My lawyers tell me it's not an issue as long as I wait 90 days after getting the E3 to apply for the green card. Does that sound right / any concerns?

* How long are you seeing current wait times for the marriage based green card end to end after applying? I'm mostly concerned about not being able to leave the country for 1-2 years (even with filing advanced parole)

* I'm also going for the employment based green card and we've filed my PERM (3 months ago). That doesn't really seem like it;s going to work out in time for it to matter. Does that sound right?

Comment · 1 year ago

Secureframe | Remote (Canada) | https://secureframe.com

Secureframe helps companies get compliant and build trust with their customers. We do this by integrating in a company's core SaaS tools, ingesting data, and then displaying all misconfigurations that need to be remediated for a given security framework. Stack is Rails/React/Typescript/Postgres/Elasticsearch

We've got three open engineering roles - apply here: https://secureframe.com/careers or email me at chintan[at]secureframe.com

Comment · 2 years ago

I wrote something 10 years ago that scrapes a vBulletin forum into a Rails app and exposes a UI so the data is accessible. Happy to share the code with you if you'd like

Comment · 5 years ago

MergeQueue is phenomenal. We've been using it for a few months now and it's been great for keeping PRs green and helping merge quickly.

Comment · 6 years ago

Would love to see this!

Comment · 6 years ago

I'm also going from H1-B -> Green Card. The first chunk of the process is with the Department of Labor and so they should be able to get started on that

Comment · 6 years ago

I've been using Rails for the past 6 or 7 years. The biggest positive is that almost any feature you need is available as a gem. We're using for an early stage startup right now, and it's crazy how quickly we've been able to crank out features. I've looked at the JS and Python ecosystems, and haven't seen the same mature ecosystem.

I don't disagree with your point around large Rails apps becoming un-maintainable. I think as long as you have a few developers who have dealt with big Rails app and know what to avoid (concerns, fat models, etc), it's not too hard to write a maintainable app in Rails.

Comment · 7 years ago

Opendoor | Software Engineering | Onsite | San Francisco, CA

Selling or buying a home is a stressful, uncertain process that can take months. At Opendoor, we’re reshaping an entire industry to fix that. Joining our team means building a new experience that puts customers at the center of the transaction. Plus you’ll work with a passionate, mission-driven team. We're hiring across a bunch of different teams and most of our engineers are full stack. For more info shoot me an email - [email protected]

Comment · 7 years ago

Rails + Postgres for MVP. Very quick to prototype (you can build a CRUD app with a few commands) and fairly flexible. Then when you want to scale you can add a JS framework if you need and use Rails for the API piece.

Comment · 7 years ago

Opendoor | San Francisco / Atlanta / Los Angeles | Full-Time | ONSITE Opendoor is revolutionizing the real estate industry and changing the way people buy and sell homes. This year, we've:

• Expanded markets from 6 to 20 cities, planning for 50 markets by 2020

• Seen 1 in 2 true sellers who receive an offer choose to sell to Opendoor, up from 1 in 3

• Reduced the average fee to home sellers to 6.5 percent

• Increased our annualized acquisition run rate to $3.8B, up from $1.2B

• Grown the homebuilder trade-in program with Lennar and other homebuilders to enable over $875M in annualized sales for builders

• Acquired online home buying platform Open Listings (W15)

• Opened engineering and design offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta

• Been hiring like crazy (from 250 -> 1200 in a year and a half)

Apply for openings at https://www.opendoor.com/jobs or email me at [email protected]

Comment · 8 years ago

Opendoor | San Francisco / Atlanta / Los Angeles | Full-Time | ONSITE

Opendoor is revolutionizing the real estate industry and changing the way people buy and sell homes. This year, we've:

• Expanded markets from 6 to 20 cities, planning for 50 markets by 2020

• Seen 1 in 2 true sellers who receive an offer choose to sell to Opendoor, up from 1 in 3

• Reduced the average fee to home sellers to 6.5 percent

• Increased our annualized acquisition run rate to $3.8B, up from $1.2B

• Grown the homebuilder trade-in program with Lennar and other homebuilders to enable over $875M in annualized sales for builders

• Acquired online home buying platform Open Listings (W15)

• Opened engineering and design offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta

• Been hiring like crazy, and hit our 1000th employee a few weeks ago (for context I joined a little over a year ago and was employee ~250)

Apply for openings at https://www.opendoor.com/jobs or email me at [email protected]

Comment · 8 years ago

Opendoor | San Francisco / Atlanta / Los Angeles | Full-Time | ONSITE

Opendoor is revolutionizing the real estate industry and changing the way people buy and sell homes. This year, we've:

• Expanded markets from 6 to 20 cities, planning for 50 markets by 2020

• Seen 1 in 2 true sellers who receive an offer choose to sell to Opendoor, up from 1 in 3

• Reduced the average fee to home sellers to 6.5 percent

• Increased our annualized acquisition run rate to $3.8B, up from $1.2B

• Grown the homebuilder trade-in program with Lennar and other homebuilders to enable over $875M in annualized sales for builders

• Acquired online home buying platform Open Listings (W15)

• Opened engineering and design offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta

• Been hiring like crazy, and hit our 1000th employee a few weeks ago (for context I joined a little over a year ago and was employee ~250)

Apply for openings at https://www.opendoor.com/jobs or email me at [email protected]

Comment · 9 years ago

I use Slack voice a ton as well - quality has been perfect for me and I don't think I've ever had a dropped call.

Comment · 9 years ago

This is great! I recently went through the interview process and found that doing this saved a lot of time. I didn't have to ask my interviewer to repeat themselves or clarify anything in the middle of writing code.

Comment · 10 years ago

Same! I was thinking about building this a year back and thought the best monetization model would be to add some overhead for the delivery.