wayne_skylar

SEEKING WORK | NYC | REMOTE

## Overview I am Generalist developer with 13 years experience seeking part-time or full-time contract and freelance opportunities.

I spent first half of career in finance-adjacent startup focused on big data. I primarily wrote low-latency multithreaded C++ / Python code for custom internal applications.

Currently I am a fully-remote full-stack web developer for a consultancy with experience on a wide variety of projects and tech stacks.

I pride myself on being able to come up to speed with a project quickly and also make an impact quickly. I also pride myself in my ability to communicate with non-technical stakeholders to discover requirements.

I also have a good deal of experience with working with and improving messy codebases.

## Technical Highlights

  *  Python, SqlAlchemy, Django, Express.js, Vue, React, Marionette, AngularJS
  *  Mysql, Postgres, Informix
  *  C++11x / boost::python / STL / multithreading / binary protocols / TCP/IP / distributed computing / POSIX. 
  *  AWS: / Cloud Formation / EC2 / S3 / SNS / IAM. 
  *  CI/CD with Jenkins
  *  Familiar with gitflow and best other development best practices.

## Contact

[email protected]

SEEKING WORK | NYC | REMOTE ## Overview I am Generalist developer with 13 years experience seeking part-time or full-time contract and freelance opportunities.

I spent first half of career in finance-adjacent startup focused on big data. I primarily wrote low-latency multithreaded C++ / Python code for custom internal applications.

Currently I am a fully-remote full-stack web developer for a consultancy with experience on a wide variety of projects and tech stacks.

I pride myself on being able to come up to speed with a project quickly and also make an impact quickly. I also pride myself in my ability to communicate with non-technical stakeholders to discover requirements.

I also have a good deal of experience with working with and improving messy codebases.

## Technical Highlights

  *  Python, SqlAlchemy, Django, Express.js, Vue, React, Marionette, AngularJS
  *  Mysql, Postgres, Informix
  *  C++11x / boost::python / STL / multithreading / binary protocols / TCP/IP / distributed computing / POSIX. 
  *  AWS: / Cloud Formation / EC2 / S3 / SNS / IAM. 
  *  CI/CD with Jenkins
  *  Familiar with gitflow and best other development best practices.

## Contact [email protected]

SEEKING WORK | NYC | REMOTE

## Overview I am Generalist developer with 13 years experience seeking part-time or full-time contract and freelance opportunities.

I spent first half of career in finance-adjacent startup focused on big data. I primarily wrote low-latency multithreaded C++ / Python code for custom internal applications.

Currently I am a fully-remote full-stack web developer for a consultancy with experience on a wide variety of projects and tech stacks.

I pride myself on being able to come up to speed with a project quickly and also make an impact quickly. I also pride myself in my ability to communicate with non-technical stakeholders to discover requirements.

I also have a good deal of experience with working with and improving messy codebases.

## Technical Highlights

  *  Python, SqlAlchemy, Django, Express.js, Vue, React, Marionette, AngularJS
  *  Mysql, Postgres, Informix
  *  C++11x / boost::python / STL / multithreading / binary protocols / TCP/IP / distributed computing / POSIX. 
  *  AWS: / Cloud Formation / EC2 / S3 / SNS / IAM. 
  *  CI/CD with Jenkins
  *  Familiar with gitflow and best other development best practices.

## Contact

[email protected]

Are you saying to look at NY state government job listings and find contracting roles that way? Or are you suggesting I make connections with state gov't to get work as a contractor?

The pandemic has really made me second guess my blind trust in the "trusted" sources. When the WHO released a statement saying that it hadn't been proven that antibodies prevent covid, the media ran with the sensationalist "antibodies are ineffective" slant. I simply can't believe that the news organizations that ran with that version didn't do it on purpose.

The same can be said for reinfections and perhaps even long-term effects. The narrative surrounding these concepts is so common that I hear it from friends as if it were common knowledge. I don't know about the long-term effects but I am pretty certain that reinfections are very rare. But the prevalence of either seems to be omitted from the story.

Of course we don't know because the news often reports anecdotes when there is no data or even when there is data. The news isn't held to the standard of giving a whole picture, just a glimpse of the current moment. In that they find a lot of wiggle room to publish things that are in the "public interest" while also benefiting from sensationalism.

I don't think it was deliberate. But after they realized it's a problem, they also realized that it's the best way to drive engagement so they do nothing.

What would be an example of a "contractor organization"? I am interested working on contract but I live in NYC and here it seems like it's always contract-to-hire situation where they want someone long-term but are using the contract as a way to limit the damage if the hire doesn't work out. I'd love to find a series of 3-6 month contracts like you mention but have had little success.

This is the way I see it. Ever since Facebook started "optimizing" the timeline order they have been showing you a distorted picture of the world. Honestly it would probably be enough to default everyone back to a world where nobody gets preferential treatment on your feed and everything is chronological.

We all walk around with our model of the world in our heads. When we see something that reinforces our model we get a dopamine hit. "I knew I was right!" Instead of Fox or MSNBC selecting stories for a target audience facebook uses machine learning to find the perfect selection of stories to keep you hooked.

Before Facebook had an algorithm you'd see peoples posts in chronological order. The moment they altered that was where they began to influence behavior.

I do think that facebook is in the position to do something about its negative influence. And taking no action or saying "it's too hard to fix" is basically being complicit. You don't get to profit off of this machine without being responsible for its negative externalities. At least from a moral standpoint.

The solution? Stop the manipulation of what users see based on machine learning. Users should see what their friends and groups post chronologically. What would be the downside of that? I'd spend less time on facebook (an upside if you ask me) and facebook would make less money.

I've always had a question about this. If more people are deciding to use the road afterwards surely it means that trips are being taken that weren't before? Wouldn't that be a good thing, economically speaking?

I find it so funny that Facebook hides behind "freedom of speech" when in fact what they do is the exact opposite.

When everything you saw was cronological, you could make that argument. I write a message on my wall and everyone who follows me can see it if they scroll down far enough. Most importantly, the only criteria used was the time it was submitted which I think everyone can agree is fair.

By prioritizing certain posts based on what the algorithm thinks will make you stay on the site longer, they are prioritizing, thus interfering with free speech. When I post something, my message will have a lower chance of reaching some of my followers. How can facebook justify tipping the scales for one type of message over another and call it free?

It's not strange that you weren't productive during one of the most disruptive periods of instability most of us will likely experience during our entire lives. Some people have made a positive out of this experience but you shouldn't feel like a failure if you couldn't.

You may badly want to be one of these people who emerges from lockdown in an amazing new body with all of these projects completed but you shouldn't feel like a failure if you couldn't. This was not a normal time and adding pressure to be productive is not the answer for everyone.