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Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by jeremiecoullon »

PhD student in applied Math at UCL in London. Side project is public engagement: short documentaries about academic research (http://knowitwall.com ); My role is web developer (starting learning web dev from scratch which was and still is overwhelming but fun :) )

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by njpatel »

Technical Lead, Xamarin Insights (https://xamarin.com/insights)

Side Projects: https://github.com/skizzehq/skizze - High-throughput probalistic data structure service. Also working on it's Golang and Node.js client bindings (see the org.)

https://github.com/njpatel/grpcc - a nice-to-use gRPC CLI for testing/debugging gRPC services

https://github.com/njpatel/HiveKit - a British gas Hive Heating -> HomeKit bridge

Also working on another little utility for devs around sending files between machines, should be out by the weekend!

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by mytochar »

I'm a backend developer;

and, for a long time, I worked on side software projects; but, when I get home, I'm often so tired from coding all day that I don't program as much at home anymore. Lately, I've been learning to play a midi-controller and maybe make some music :)

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by KevinUK »

I'm a full stack web developer and I created https://www.quirkycushion.com last week. If it gains any traction then I plan on setting up sister sites for other products.

I read the book http://www.startupbook.net/ which says to pick a niche which is why I will have several sites each focusing on one product rather than one site with multiple categories.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by ehartsuyker »

I was hired as a Data Engineer for my skills in Scala, AWS, and other data technologies. I ended up falling into Backend Engineer (also Scala) as our core services needed significant support. From there, I drifted into Operations as our infra and deployment processes were negatively impacting QOS and the time from code-to-prod.

In my spare time I:

  - made a shitty personal website[0] for kicks

  - maintain an npm package[1]

  - contribute to SecureDrop[2]

  - run the not-yet-live BerlinLeaks[3]
[0] - https://heartsucker.com

[1] - https://github.com/ehartsuyker/node-deb

[2] - https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop

[3] - https://berlinleaks.com

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