wildengineer
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
We're building the Top Rated Speech-to-Text API for Developers.
Customers use our API to transcribe phone calls, meetings, videos, podcasts, and other types of media. Our accurate transcripts are used to power features like visual voicemail, call analytics, closed captioning, meeting summaries, and a slew of other features. We're growing fast, and processing millions of API calls per day in production.
We're a fully remote company and our development team is currently spread out across the US.
We're looking for a senior backend engineer with strong software and cloud engineering skills. You'll help us build highly scalable developer-centric APIs powered by state-of-the-art ML models.
Job description: https://www.notion.so/Senior-Backend-Engineer-187f72231e4946...
Website: https://www.assemblyai.com
You can reach me directly at: [email protected] (Please put "HN" in your emails)
At Papa Bear Software, we provide technical strategy, architecture, and engineering, and staff augmentation primarily for early stage b2b software startups.
What we've done lately:
- Redesigned a SaaS company's cloud infrastructure resulting in $45k/year savings
- End to end development of a new product for a successful marketing company looking to pivot into adtech.
- Designed and built a high traffic IoT data pipeline including data lake storage and time series visualizations
- Built out a business intelligence platform to help multi-tenancy startup visualize success metrics.
Recent Technologies:
Languages: Python, Javascript, Java, Go, C#, Ruby
Frontend: React, React Native, iOS, Android, Vue.js
Backend: FastAPI, Express.js, Apollo.js, Spring, JEE, Rails
Mobile: React Native, Native iOS/Android
Testing: Cypress, Selenium, Jmeter, Pytest, Mocha.js, JUnit
DevOps: Very deep on AWS, Some Azure, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Helm, GitOps
Website: https://papabearsoftware.comEmail: mike AT papabearsoftware.com
What we've done lately:
- Redesigned a SaaS company's cloud infrastructure resulting in $45k/year savings
- End to end development of a new product for a successful marketing company looking to pivot into adtech.
- Designed and built a high traffic IoT data pipeline including data lake storage and time series visualizations
- Built out a business intelligence platform to help mulit-tenancy startup visualize success metrics.
Recent Technologies:
Languages: Python, Javascript, Go, Java, C#, Ruby
Frontend: React, React Native, iOS, Android, Vue.js
Backend: Spring, JEE, Flask, Node.js, Rails
Mobile: React Native, Native iOS/Android
Testing: Cypress, Selenium, Jmeter, Pytest, Mocha.js, JUnit
DevOps: Very deep on AWS, Some Azure, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Helm, GitOps
Website: https://papabearsoftware.comEmail: mike AT papabearsoftware.com
At Papa Bear Software, we provide guidance, technical strategy, system design, and engineering staff for Early Stage B2B Software Startups.
Latest Results:
- Redesigned a SaaS company's cloud infrastructure resulting in $45k/year savings
- End to end development of a new product for a successful marketing company looking to pivot into adtech.
- Helped implement a big pivot for a well known media entertainment company.
- Designed and built a high traffic IoT data pipeline including data lake storage and time series visualizations
Current Technologies:
Languages: Python, Javascript, Go, Java, C#, Ruby
Frontend: React, React Native, iOS, Android, Vue.js
Backend: Flask, Node.js, Spring, Rails
Mobile: React Native, Native iOS/Android
Testing: Cypress, Selenium, Jmeter, Pytest, Mocha.js, JUnit
DevOps: Very deep on AWS, Some Azure, Terraform, Docker, K8s, Ansible, Helm, GitOps
Seeking both companies and freelancers.Website: https://papabearsoftware.com
Email: mike AT papabearsoftware.com
I am an Early Stage Software Consultant helping leaders find their way to market. I work closely with leadership to help them navigate through the dangers of early stage software. Some of my clients call me a Rent a CTO or Fractional CTO.
I also lead a team of highly skilled engineers to accelerate my client's progress. We do everything from focusing/shaping requirements to full stack implementation to cloud native devops to end to end testing.
Latest Results:
- Redesigned a SaaS company's cloud infrastructure resulting in $45k/year savings
- End to end development of a new product for a successful marketing company looking to pivot into adtech.
- Helped implement a big pivot for a well known media entertainment company.
- Designed and built a high traffic IoT data pipeline including data lake storage and time series visualizations
Current Technologies:
Languages: Python, Javascript, Go, Java, C#, Ruby
Frontend: React, Html, CSS
Backend: Flask, Node.js, Spring, Rails
Mobile: React Native, Native iOS/Android
Testing: Cypress, Selenium, Jmeter, Pytest, Mocha.js, JUnit
DevOps: Very deep on AWS, Some Azure, Terraform, Docker, K8s, Ansible, Helm, GitOps
Seeking both companies and freelancers.Website: https://papabearsoftware.com
Email: mike AT papabearsoftware.com
This is what I did over many years:
- Playing alot of slow chess. This allows you to explore and learn from the exploration, but also gives you a small amount of pressure.
- Studying openings with mobile apps
- Consuming everything chess through books, apps, and videos. I loved watching analysis of the masters.
- Focusing on tactics over strategy. I learned from a really good chess player that strategy is more of an experts tool. I was never going to be an expert.
- Chess puzzles. This helps with pattern recognition, especially in blitz.
Well not as cut and dry as that, but cops harassing black kids walking the streets is an old tradition of law enforcement. Mix in some stop and frisk and you have an unfair system. I remember I made friends with some black kids in high school. I went down to their neighborhood. It didn't take long for a cop to pull up and start asking questions. I never had a cop approach me before that. It was eye opening. I lived only a mile away.
> laws...which are the same for everyone.
Oh really? Are you sure about that? There are many studies showing that black people have higher incarceration rates for the same crimes as their cohorts.
Languages: Java, Scala, Python 2&3, Javascript/ES6/Typescript
Libraries/Frameworks/Middleware: Spring, Java EE, Spark, Flask, Pandas, Pyspark, Node, Kafka, Redis, Memcached
Databases: The popular SQL dbs (SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra and Mongo).
I also have alot of experience with Azure and AWS offerings, including serverless.
I don't have any experience in sales, but I'm eager to learn. Any advice on which content I should consume in this area?
2. As for service, my technical focus is on all things backend, but also advise my clients on best practices at all phases of development. I want to eventually build a team to cover the full stack and QA.
3. Very good points and advice.
4. I currently work on these contracts. One of which should carry me through the year, but I don't have the cash to float myself for any longer than 3 months. I expected to work near full time while I work on sales. Also I don't know much about sales. Any content I should be reading?
5. Thanks I'll take a look.
I went through the same thing with Witcher 3, but I tried again and once I got past the initial Baron storyline the game really hit its stride. That game has so many mini-stories that you can play for 100 hours and still have some interesting stories to engage with. I don't think I've played any game before or since with that many storylines.