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tdowns

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Software Guy. Hockey Player. Bulldog Enthusiast. Detroit, mi
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tdowns··on Amazon has acquired Facebook's satellite internet team
That LP didn't exist until after the article was published. There is some hope that it could be leveraged to remove that kind of guidance from mid-level leaders.
tdowns··on Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers
Amazon has an office in Detroit with 100s of SDEs.
tdowns··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
Kalibrate | Software Engineer, Platform Team | Cleveland, OH

For over 20 years, the people of Kalibrate have been staying ahead of the curve in the fast-moving world of fuel and convenience retail. Over 300 clients, in 68 countries on six continents, in mature and emerging markets, for clients large and small, Kalibrate is there with flexible, dynamic solutions that fit all.

What you'll do

• Build end-to-end features as part of a service oriented product

• Design, code, test, debug and document software along with enhancing existing components to ensure that software meets business needs.

• Build data-centric services to maximize market analysis efficiency and deliver market insights

• Write modular, high-quality code while actively engaging in peer code reviews

• Learn new technologies & best practices, apply them to solve business problems and teach others about your experience

What you've done

• Have 3+ years of experience working on the server side in any language (Java, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, etc.)

• Have experience constructing interactive web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular.js, React.js, Knockout.js, etc.)

• Have experience building REST based web services

• A strong passion for engineering and a sense of ownership of your code and outcomes

• Have experience with test automation, continuous integration and deployment

• Have experience with Cloud services such as AWS or Azure

• Have experience with environment isolation (Docker, Vagrant, etc.)

Our Tech Stack Kalibrate runs a modern, service-oriented stack, continuously integrated and deployed (CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Elastic Beanstalk) on AWS. We deliver our client experience using Angular 2, Bootstrap 4 with Sass and D3.js graphing. We build data services using Dropwizard, PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch.

What's next? Interested yet? To hear more, please send your resume over. Please feel free to provide any coding samples (Github, Stackoverflow, etc…) or blog posts, we’d love to take a look! email us at clevelandtech (AT) kalibrate -dot- com

tdowns··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
DecisionDesk | Rails Developer | Cleveland, OH | Full Time | Onsite

About DecisionDesk:

* We provide an integrated, easy to use and visually stunning application platform for colleges, universities and scholarship programs

* We have the buzzwords: SAAS + Big Data + SPA + DevOps

* We are one of the fastest growing companies in Cleveland and were are frequently recognized as a great place to work

2015 - TechPint 'Startup of the Year' & 'Best Growth Startup' - http://bit.ly/1GN5IqO

2015 - OHTec 'Tech Team of the Year' - http://bit.ly/1GN5T5w

* We use these technologies to GSD: Rails, Ember.js, Sass, PostgreSQL, AMQP, Java, Chef, Vagrant AWS: EC2, S3, SQS, ElasticCache and SES

* We are located in the very hip city of Lakewood, OH

About you:

* Loves startup environments

* Are passionate about technology

* Enjoy influencing the direction of the product and technologies

* Are naturally curious and entrepreneurial

We need your help with:

* Web application development - Help us expand our core product and custom integrations

* DevOps - Help build the tools that allow our engineering team to handle our immense, intense scale

* Writing automated tests - Help us expand our code coverage and improve our Continuous Integration system

* Writing background jobs and data processing - Move data and perform calculations using cron, AMQP, Sidekiq and Ruby

email - tim.downs [at] decisiondesk.com

tdowns··on How we built TryIon with BluetoothLE, Node.js, Websockets, and JSMpeg
Who is your hosting provider? Did you see any ill-effects when you shared this with HN a few days ago?
tdowns··on Show HN: Try Ion before you buy – uses BluetoothLE, Node.js, websockets, jsmpeg
Awesome. Thanks!
tdowns··on Show HN: Try Ion before you buy – uses BluetoothLE, Node.js, websockets, jsmpeg
This is really interesting.

Can I do this with my own Ion?

tdowns··on Ask HN: I've done absolutely no work since December 15th
Nothing wrong with you - you're experiencing a form of writer's block.

As a single contributor how is your project managed? Do you have a to-do list?

tdowns··on ForceRank - simpler team decision-making
Yeah! I'm sure we can figure out a way. Thanks.
tdowns··on ForceRank - simpler team decision-making
This is great.

Currently my team uses google docs to survey our customers. This works really well because we don't have to organize temporary users or share the results publicly.

Am I able to do something similar with ForceRank?

tdowns··on Show HN: thsthn - 2 pictures tell a story
This week we had a hack day to experiment with integrating our API with mobile. The result was a fun little visual storytelling application we call thsthn.

Two pictures and a simple icon allow you to convey rank, order or cause visually.

We'd love to gather any feedback and hope you find it interesting!