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sebbul

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Ex Startup CTO in a data intelligence company

Creating scalable systems across other people’s data centres. On the JVM with Java, ruby, scala 10 years ago, in python & js today, hopefully rust in the future.

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sebbul··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
Traffic rerouting through NSA had a hiccup…
sebbul··on Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting
Classification is a human invention… are tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchinis fruit or veggies? Non issue.
sebbul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)
Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes/GCP) - Remote | Adeptmind

Our company delivers AI products for e-commerce. We are expanding our Infrastructure team, looking for Kubernetes and GCP experts. Fully remote, global presence, Montreal-based hiring manager.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Lead SRE model transition in fast-paced AI retail domain.

- Manage Kubernetes, GCP infrastructure.

- SOC2 compliance, security best practices.

- Champion documentation-driven culture.

- Maintain, improve B2E solutions.

Ideal Candidate:

- Experienced with Kubernetes, GCP.

- SOC2, security certification knowledge.

- Strong in SRE principles.

- Excellent documentation, communication skills.

- Independent, problem-solving, fast delivery skills.

We Offer:

- Fully remote, flexible schedule.

- Cutting-edge AI in retail search.

- Diverse, global team.

- Professional growth opportunities.

Apply:

- Email resume, cover letter to seb [at] adeptmind dot ai, subject: “Infrastructure Engineer Application”.

sebbul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes/GCP) - Remote | Adeptmind Join our AI-focused team in retail search. We are expanding our Infrastructure team, looking for Kubernetes and GCP experts. Fully remote, global presence, Montreal-based hiring manager.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Lead SRE model transition in fast-paced AI retail domain.

- Manage Kubernetes, GCP infrastructure.

- SOC2 compliance, security best practices.

- Champion documentation-driven culture.

- Maintain, improve B2E solutions.

Ideal Candidate:

- Experienced with Kubernetes, GCP.

- SOC2, security certification knowledge.

- Strong in SRE principles.

- Excellent documentation, communication skills.

- Independent, problem-solving, fast delivery skills.

We Offer:

- Fully remote, flexible schedule.

- Cutting-edge AI in retail search.

- Diverse, global team.

- Competitive compensation.

- Professional growth opportunities.

Apply:

- Email resume, cover letter to seb [at] adeptmind dot ai, subject: “Infrastructure Engineer Application”.

Be part of our AI-driven retail revolution!

sebbul··on I applied to 250 jobs and timed how long each one took
When I was involved in hiring at a major enterprise, our HR recruiting lead advised against reviewing candidates directly from the ATS. The reason? Due to our company's reputation as a top workplace, many applicants indiscriminately applied to every role available. Our HR lead essentially served as a human spam filter.
sebbul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)
AdeptMind | Senior SRE Engineer | Remote Worldwide (Canadian Business Hours Overlap) | Join Our Thriving AI Search Company | https://adeptmind.ai

At AdeptMind, we're an innovative AI Search company that delivers exceptional enterprise solutions. We take pride in our fantastic engineering culture and our founders' successful track record, including a 9-figure exit in their previous venture. As a company that values a no-politics environment, we're excited to be growing and are looking for a talented Senior SRE Engineer to help us scale even further.

As a Senior SRE Engineer at AdeptMind, you'll be joining a skilled team of professionals working with cutting-edge technologies, including Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Next.js, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, Prometheus, and more. We're cloud-native and run Kubernetes on major cloud providers, ensuring our infrastructure remains on the forefront of industry advancements.

We're at a pivotal point in our infrastructure journey as we transition to Infrastructure as Code (IaC)-only changes. We need a skilled professional like you to elevate our SRE maturity and contribute to the ongoing success of our engineering team.

To thrive in this role, you should be:

Soft Skills:

  - A self-starter and go-getter with a passion for success
  - An excellent communicator with the ability to collaborate effectively with team members
  - A team player who motivates and empowers others
  - A vector of change, driving innovation and improvement
  - Adept at automating tasks and streamlining processes
  - Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make quick, well-informed decisions
Technical Skills:

  - Experienced in Python and scripting languages
  - Highly knowledgeable in Linux and Kubernetes
  - Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
  - Proficient in configuration management and infrastructure automation
  - Familiar with DevOps practices, including CI/CD
  - Experienced with both SQL and NoSQL databases
  - Well-versed in caching and distributed systems

If you're ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic, growing company, we'd love to hear from you! Please reach out to our hiring manager, Seb, directly at seb at adeptmind dot ai (don't apply online, as our website is mostly a placeholder from pre product-market fit days).

We can't wait to welcome you to the AdeptMind family and work together to achieve extraordinary success!

sebbul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)
Adeptmind | SRE Lead | Remote worldwide (partial Canadian business hours overlap) | https://adeptmind.ai

We're an AI Search company with a proven track record to close and deliver on enterprise deals. We have a great engineering culture. Our founders have had a successful 9-figure exit on their last rodeo. I've co-founded startups in the past and led teams in large enterprises including AWS. I jumped back into a no politics environment at this startup as I see how I can help 100x its size. I'm seeking a seasoned infrastructure lead to free up some of my time for other critical initiatives.

Our tech stack includes Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Next.js, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, Prometheus and more. We're cloud native, running k8s on major cloud providers.

We're at a juncture in our infra journey, where we're approaching the point where we'll be able to enforce IaC-only changes. We're seeking someone that can push the engineering team to a higher SRE maturity level.

Here's the JD. Contact me at: seb _at_ adeptmind _dot_ ai.

Non-functional:

  * Self-starter, Go-getter
  * Great communication skills
  * Automates by default
  * Practices napkin math
  * Team leader
  * Vector of change
Functional:

  * Python & scripting
  * Solid experience with Linux & kubernetes 
  * IaC with Terraform 
  * Configuration management and infra automation
  * DevOps practices: CI/CD
  * sql and nosql experience
  * understands caching and distributed systems
sebbul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2023)
Adeptmind | SRE Lead | Remote (partial Canadian business hours overlap) | https://adeptmind.ai

We're an AI Search company with a proven track record delivering enterprise deals and a strong engineering culture. Our founders have a successful 9-figure exit and our team is led by a seasoned tech leader with experience at startups and large enterprises, including AWS.

We are seeking a talented SRE Lead to join us as we continue to grow and mature our infrastructure. You will be a key member of our team, driving improvements and best practices in SRE and devops.

Key Requirements:

  * Strong experience with Python & scripting
  * Proficiency in Linux & Kubernetes
  * Terraform IaC experience
  * Knowledge of CI/CD and configuration management
  * Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
  * Understanding of caching and distributed systems
Our tech stack includes Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Next.js, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, Prometheus, and more. We are a cloud-native company, running on k8s across major cloud providers.

If you're a self-starter with excellent communication skills, a track record of automating processes, and a leader with a passion for driving change, we'd love to hear from you.

Contact seb at adeptmind dot ai to learn more about this opportunity.

sebbul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)
Adeptmind | Senior Software Engineer | Remote worldwide (partial Canadian business hours overlap) | https://adeptmind.ai

We're an AI Search company with a proven track record to close and deliver on enterprise deals. We have a great engineering culture. Our founders have had a successful 9-figure exit on their last rodeo. I've co-founded startups in the past and led teams in large enterprises including AWS. I jumped back into a no politics environment at this startup as I see how I can help 100x its size. I'm seeking a self-starting senior engineer to help me in building a new product offering. We're already getting early traction in the market.

Our tech stack includes Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Next.js, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka and more.

Here's the JD. Contact me at: seb _at_ adeptmind _dot_ ai.

Non-functional:

  * Self-starter, Go-getter
  * Great communication skills
  * Automates by default
  * Practices napkin math
Functional:

  * Python (open to learn elixir and functional programming)
  * JavaScript or TypeScript
  * Solid experience with Linux & containers, back-end programming (services, APIs)
  * Knows browser test automation tools (puppeteer or playwright or selenium) and techniques
  * Configuration management and infra automation
  * DevOps practices: CI/CD
  * Front-end skills are an asset
  * sql and nosql experience
  * understands caching and distributed systems

We're also hiring for our SRE team. Our environment is mostly k8s + terraform over major cloud providers.
sebbul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)
Adeptmind | Senior Software Engineer | Remote worldwide (partial US business hours overlap) | https://adeptmind.ai We're an AI Search company with a proven track record to close and deliver on enterprise deals. We have a great engineering culture. Our founders have had a successful 9-figure exit on their last rodeo. I've co-founded startups in the past and led teams in large enterprises including AWS. I jumped back into a no politics environment at this startup as I see how I can help 100x its size.

I'm seeking a self-starting senior engineer to help me in building a new product offering. We're already getting early traction in the market.

Our tech stack includes Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Next.js, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka and more.

Here's the JD. Contact me at: seb _at_ adeptmind _dot_ ai.

Non-functional:

  * Self-starter, Go-getter
  * Great communication skills
  * Automates by default
  * Practices napkin math
Functional:

  * Python (open to learn elixir and functional programming)
  * JavaScript or TypeScript
  * Solid experience with Linux & containers, back-end programming (services, APIs)
  * Knows browser test automation tools (puppeteer or playwright or selenium) and techniques
  * Configuration management and infra automation
  * DevOps practices: CI/CD
  * Front-end skills are an asset
  * sql and nosql experience
  * understands caching and distributed systems

We're also hiring for our infra team mostly k8s + terraform over major cloud providers.
sebbul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
Adeptmind | Senior Software Engineer | Remote worldwide (partial US business hours overlap) | https://adeptmind.ai We're an AI Search company with a proven track record to close and deliver on enterprise deals. We have a great engineering culture. Our founders have had a successful 9-figure exit on their last rodeo.

I've co-founded startups in the past and led teams in large enterprises including AWS. I jumped back into a no politics environment at this startup as I see how I can help 100x its size.

I'm seeking a self-starting senior engineer to help me in building a new product offering. We're already getting early traction in the market.

Our tech stack includes Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Next.js, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka and more.

Here's the JD. Contact me at: seb _at_ adeptmind _dot_ ai.

Non-functional:

  * Self-starter, Go-getter
  * Great communication skills
  * Automates by default
  * Practices napkin math
Functional:

  * Python (open to learn elixir and functional programming)
  * JavaScript or TypeScript
  * Solid experience with Linux & containers, back-end programming (services, APIs)
  * Knows browser test automation tools (puppeteer or playwright or selenium) and techniques
  * Configuration management and infra automation
  * DevOps practices: CI/CD
  * Front-end skills are an asset
  * sql and nosql experience
  * understands caching and distributed systems
sebbul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2022)
Adeptmind | Senior Software Engineer | Remote worldwide (partial US business hours overlap) | https://adeptmind.ai

We're an AI Search company with a proven track record to close and deliver on enterprise deals. We have a great engineering culture. Our founders have had a successful 9-figure exit on their last rodeo.

I've co-founded startups in the past and led teams in large enterprises including AWS. I jumped back into a no politics environment at this startup as I see how I can help 100x its size.

I'm seeking a self-starting senior engineer to help me in building a new product offering. We're already getting early traction in the market.

Our tech stack includes Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Next.js, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka and more.

Here's the JD. Contact me at: seb _at_ adeptmind _dot_ ai.

Non-functional:

  * Self-starter, Go-getter
  * Great communication skills
  * Automates by default
  * Practices napkin math
Functional:

  * Python (open to learn elixir and functional programming)
  * JavaScript or TypeScript
  * Solid experience with Linux & containers, back-end programming (services, APIs)
  * Knows browser test automation tools (puppeteer or playwright or selenium) and techniques
  * Configuration management and infra automation
  * DevOps practices: CI/CD
  * Front-end skills are an asset
  * sql and nosql experience
  * understands caching and distributed systems
sebbul··on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
Pi Zeroes always looked like a scam from Canada, as the approved resellers limit you to 1 unit and shipping was more expensive than the unit. Now at 15USD, it's the first time shipping is cheaper than the unit, but I can't get it below 35CAD (28USD) shipped to Toronto.
sebbul··on How we built a serverless SQL database
I haven't connected to my cluster but my RUs keep going up. Extrapolating I'll be at 20M RUs over 30 days without using it.
sebbul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)
AWS EventBridge | Vancouver, Canada | SDE | Full-Time | https://aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/ [Note on Location: The team is distributed in Canada now but there will be an expectation of relocating to Vancouver post-Covid. Current delays on international relocations force me to only consider candidates already in Canada.]

Our team builds new capabilities for EventBridge. It’s an event bus for serverless. We're looking for engineers to help build this out! If you have an interest in shaping the future of serverless computing, and do it using serverless building blocks, please reach out. We use a variety of languages (Go, Java, JavaScript, etc...) and AWS services.

I come from a mixed background (startups + enterprise) and the rest of the team is made of people with varied skills - you will learn ALOT here. World class operational excellence like nowhere else. These roles are targeting developers with 2-8 years of industry experience. You can learn more about our organization and some of our Q1 launches here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/icymi-serverless-q1-202...

Email me (Sebastian) a resume or profile if you'd like to find out more about what we're doing and are interested in joining: bulzas @at amazon.com

sebbul··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
AWS EventBridge | Vancouver, Canada | SDE | Full-Time | https://aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/ [Note on Location: The team is distributed in Canada now but there will be an expectation of relocating to Vancouver post-Covid. Current delays on international relocations force me to only consider candidates already in Canada.]

Our team builds new capabilities for EventBridge. It’s an event bus for serverless. We're looking for engineers to help build this out! If you have an interest in shaping the future of serverless computing, and do it using serverless building blocks, please reach out. We use a variety of languages (Go, Java, JavaScript, etc...) and AWS services.

I come from a mixed background (startups + enterprise) and the rest of the team is made of people with varied skills - you will learn ALOT here. World class operational excellence like nowhere else. These roles are targeting developers with 2-8 years of industry experience. You can learn more about our organization and some of our Q1 launches here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/icymi-serverless-q1-202...

Email me (Sebastian) a resume or profile if you'd like to find out more about what we're doing and are interested in joining: bulzas @at amazon.com

sebbul··on In the Works – AWS Region in Canada
I think they chose Montréal for cheap electricity rather than sales tax issues. My residential rates more than doubled when I moved to Toronto. Looks like business rates follow a similar pattern: http://www.hydroquebec.com/business/rates-and-billing/rates/...
sebbul··on Show HN: Get paid for crawling the web
Why all the hate? So far it just looks like a monetization tool to embed in a Chrome extension. Nothing says it's going to run there by default. We have no info on the presence or absence of compulsory disclaimers. Nor do we have any info about the default quotas of daily processing per install.

If the extension provides value to the user, it might be a way to compensate the provider for the said value. The same way ads compensate the provider of apps. In either case, computing time and bandwidth are used.

Now, having said that, if it ran 24/7 and used GBs of bandwidth per day on a single node, I would definitely side with you. But if it was embedded in a way where you get extra value once you enable it, that's another question.

sebbul··on Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup
What's your latency on scraping down the container?