vmlinuz

I'm an experienced senior engineer, currently in Hong Kong but relocating to the UK this month, looking for work starting early April, either fully remote or hybrid accessible from Leeds. In my last 3 jobs, I've worked for a pan-Asian logistics start-up as the 'code owner' of the core backend engine, a large European bank as the senior engineer in an informal devops team building internal tools to modernise operations, and freelance building sites for an accounting firm. In the past I've worked on websites/APIs, Android apps, the Unix kernel, and also spent a while working in a bra factory...

It's a bit of a cliche, but when asked I say I'm looking to work on a good problem, with good people, using good tech. Beyond that - I'm flexible!

Comment · 3 years ago

That's exactly what happened to me during lockdown - hired at a bank on a fixed-term contract, purely by phone interview. When I started, they required me to work on-site because I wasn't permanent staff and therefore had to be supervised, except my manager wasn't on-site and I was there for over 2 months before meeting him in person - they were actually quite strict about separation because they were worried about the operational risk of an office outbreak.

It wasn't until I broke my toe and was told by the doctor to minimise my walking they they allowed me to (technically temporarily) work from home...

Comment · 3 years ago

And why exactly should we listen to a German when it comes to these things?

Comment · 4 years ago

SEEKING WORK | HONG KONG (currently) | REMOTE

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmlinuz/

Experienced engineer, originally from the UK, worked on a large variety of different products at different levels of tech stack. Recently, mostly backend Python/Django, but also non-code expertise like mentoring, code review, workflow, troubleshooting, etc. Previously: PHP, shell, C (Unix kernel and system utils), Android/Java, Linux, some HTML/CSS/JS, little bits of Kotlin and Golang, also bras.

Comment · 4 years ago

I'm quite surprised to see that OpenServer is still on that list, and Solaris isn't...

Comment · 4 years ago

While technically my first Linux was a generic boot/root floppy pair in late 1995, my first distro was Slackware in 1996. I've used Red Hat, SuSE, OSX, Solaris, Unixware and (rarely) Windows since then - but last night I updated my home PC to Slack 15RC3...

Comment · 4 years ago

Location: Hong Kong

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No (possibly yes, in the medium-to-long term)

Technologies: Python (10+ years), Django/Flask, SQL, Linux (25+ years), bash, HTML, etc.

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmlinuz/

Email: [email protected]

I am an experienced software engineer, and I have mostly been working on backend/server-side code recently. In the past, I have worked with many technologies, from C in the Unix kernel, to Java for Android apps, plus various PHP and Javascript bits. I have recently finished a contract in an experimental devops-ish team for a large European bank, and before that I was a senior engineer and 'code owner' (responsible for code/design reviews and deployments, as well as making my own contributions and mentoring junior devs) at an Asian unicorn.

I'm flexible w.r.t. working terms - would be interested in discussing local, remote, permanent, contract, etc. opportunities.

Comment · 4 years ago

Thanks for this - I've been using it for a while for my and my parents' personal domains and it's been pretty much flawless!

Comment · 4 years ago

This kind of post is somewhere between depressing and surreal to me.

I live a long way outside the US - UTC+8 - and these sort of numbers are utterly unreal for most of the world. In my recent experience, pre-, during- and 'post-'pandemic, the vast majority of remote companies aren't willing or able to consider people outside their local timezone(s) and/or tax jurisdictions, while my local market is masssively under-developed compared with most other developed parts of the world, unless you can break into banking.

My most recent income was a little over a third of this, and that was with a bank, albeit on a devops-ish contract. I am a senior engineer - you could say mid-senior if you really wanted to pick holes in my CV - and I'm pretty much ready to quit the local market, and then likely relocate due to inability to pay rent otherwise...

Meh. Have a good end of year and stay safe, y'all.