Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)

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Even with a raised round, the units that you are denominating the calculation is months. Months of life before your company dies (you can’t raise debt if you can’t raise equity, simplistically).

Depending on your risk appetite, family factors and time in life, it seems perfectly reasonable to signal a better value alignment. He/she could take a (let’s say gigantic) equity stake in a pre-seed entity and low cash, in which case it’s be an extremely expensive employee with no sensitivity around the round or stage of company.

Also, and sorry for belaboring this, but having a round starts the “clock”; personally that pressure to do X or raise Y or sell/IPO is not a feature but a bug, and for others that common goal orientation and team alignment might be really valued.

Just guessing :)

Hi, I'm Mike! I'm an engineer and scientist with tons of breadth as well as depth, with a background in the hard sciences and a penchant for reproducible machine learning systems. I love to build stuff and have a fierce tenacity when it comes to difficult problems. I'm particularly experienced at taking off-the-shelf academic machine learning codebases, hooking them into APIs, and making them maintainable.

Location: Upstate NY

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Core skills: Python (10 years), C++, C, docker, computer vision, signal processing, NLP, tensorflow, pytorch, flask, DVC, git, data vis, devops, ROS, distributed computing, networking, linux system management, firmware, hardware hacking, electronics.

Actively improving: kubernetes, Rust, Go, functional Python (mypy, pydantic, returns), JS, React, SQL. I want to get into more strongly functional languages, like Rust, Scala, Haskell.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikemcdermott23/

Github: https://github.com/xkortex/

Email: mikemcdermott23 AT gmail DOT com

Why to hire Mike:

  - I'm good at recognizing useful patterns when I see them (thanks, Dan :) )
  - You want an outgoing, fast-learning, jack-of-all-trades with depth in python data processing
  - I'm a great ROI - I can fit a huge variety of roles: 
 engineering, data science, AI/ML R&D
  - You need someone with a background in software, hardware, *and* chemistry/bio/neuroscience
  - You are willing to train on the job a functional-heavy language 
  - You work with robots. Robots are awesome. I can help you make awesome robots

Why not to hire Mike:

  - You expect workers to burn the candle at both ends
  - Your system is mostly CRUD applications/enterprise/ads
  - You are looking for management experience
  - Your stack is mainly Windows/NT based

Thanks for reading!