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Looking for a new Role

#career

// originally published on Medium — archived here verbatim.

After 3.8 years of working at Reckonsys as VP of Engneering, I am looking for a new role now. My notice period at Reckonsys ended on August 31, 2022. One of the main problems I am facing has to do with carrying the title "VPE". People assume that I have taken up managerial position. But this if from from the truth. Despite being a VPE, 70% of my time has been invested in hands-on coding. To be honest, title "VPE" is wildly inaccurate for what I have been doing at Reckonsys. I would say only about 20% of time was spent doing what and Actual VPE would do. A glorified Tech Lead that took on part-time VPE role would be more accurate :P.

All that being said, I am currently looking for Python/Rust roles where I can be hands-on at least 70% of my time. More precisely, I love building micro-services, Setting up CI/CD or DevOps pipelines, scale said service and doing a bit of SRE.

I usually spend most of my time building python (micro)services. But I also have built production services with JavaScript (Browser + Node), C, Go, PHP, Ruby, Objective-C, C# & Java. I have worked on all levels of a typical web application stack. I architect, code, deploy, (auto)scale, and maintain server-side (.py, .rs), browser-side (.js, .ts, .wasm) & infra (terraform, pulumi, CDK) code. Here is a non-exhaustive list of things that I built in the past:

  • GraphQL, RPC & RESTful microservices with Python
  • JavaScript frontends with Ember & React
  • DevOps pipelines
  • E2E Test Automation Framework (Horizontal & Vertical) with RobotFramework
  • Native iOS apps
  • Android and iOS device farms
  • RaspberryPi bitcoin mining farm with custom ASIC chips
  • Scaled a couple of high-traffic web applications
  • Deploy services on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud (Fabric, docker, AWS copilot, Kubernetes, etc.)
  • Small tech teams (5–15 engineers)
  • Setting up E2E engineering processes for the entire organization
  • Can design and develop resource-efficient, reliable, maintainable, secure & scalable products
  • A bunch of open-source tools that are useful for web development.
  • Contributed to a bunch of 3rd party open-source projects
  • Reverse Engineered and "hacked" a bunch of mobile applications for fun
  • Hobby IoT & robotic projects (very basic stuff)

Lately, I have developed a keen interest in Rust programming language, WebAssembly & Distributed software.

I would appreciate your support. Thank you in advance for any connections, advice, or opportunities you can offer.