Author: Byron Green

New comment by El_Mo in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2023)"

SEEKING WORK | REMOTE WORLDWIDE | Based in the UK & France but available worldwide

I am a senior IT architect specialising in building resilient and long-lasting cloud-based platforms for lower TCO.

  . Cloud architecture: design, review, guidance
  . Fullscale Azure & AWS implementations
  . Emergency DevOps & operational support
  . DevOps, Azure problem solving

My unique enterprise-grade approach provides clients with long-lasting solutions that address future growth, HA, security, reliability and operational processes.

My expertise is based on 30 years of hands-on technical experience in all areas of IT, but particularly in architecting, building and managing data-driven enterprise platforms.

Recent examples of my work:

  - Design and delivery of a multi-region, multi-environment, HA platform based on Azure, Docker, Confluent Kafka and Mongo
  - Organisational-level DevOps tooling and security implementations
  - Disaster recovery (vm to regional-level scenarios) design and implementation 
  - Productionalising Kafka and Confluent Connect clusters (SSL, SASL, ACLs, Debezium)

Onsite possible within the EU.

Sign up for a free consultation and spend a few minutes getting a perspective you won’t find anywhere else!

https://www.nonstopops.io/?sid=hnf2308

On parle français!

New comment by jayknaik1 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2023)"

Location: United States (Local to [DFW, TX] + [L.A., CA] + [NJ])

Remote: Open to Hybrid/Remote/On-Site (US Only)

Willing to relocate: Yes (USA Only)

Technologies: Django/Flask/Python, TypeScript/JavaScript/Angular/React/HTML/CSS/NodeJS, AWS, Linux, Docker/k8s/Terraform, Gitlab CI/CD/Github/Jira/Bitbucket, PostgreSQL/OracleDB/MySQL/SQLite

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mf7w60p5w5i0jf8/Jay%20Naik%20-%20R…

Email: jayknaik1@gmail.com

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

Sponsorship: Authorized to work for any employer for up to 3 years (F-1 OPT + STEM OPT), prefer H-1B sponsorship opportunities

Recently completed M.S. in Computer Science. AWS Certified. 4+ YOE.
Experience working in high paced startup and taking multiple responsibilities in Agile team to evolve myself into Full-Stack engineer with DevOps experience. I love contributing to a real world project and do impactful engineering hoping to get an opportunity to work on complex backend systems involving k8s, Kafka, microservices, etc.

Feel free to shoot me an email, I would love to know what you’re building. Email, LinkedIn and Resume is attached.

Retool (YC W17) is hiring hackers to combine visual programming with AI

Hi HN,

We’re Retool (https://retool.com), a visual programming environment for building internal tools. Here’s a 3 minute demo video: https://d3399nw8s4ngfo.cloudfront.net/videos/intro-to-retool….

You can think of Retool as something like Visual Basic, but in the cloud. The idea is that there are lots of internal applications that businesses need, and today, build from scratch (probably via React). But while React is great for many things (our landing page is built in React, our product is built in React, etc.), it’s possible that it might be overkill for building a simple form that POSTs data back to your API. (Who _wants_ to worry about debouncing the submit button, handling errors from the backend, and authenticating and authorizing the users?)

We launched on HN around five years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966). Since then, we’ve launched three new products – a native mobile product (https://retool.com/products/mobile), an automation product for developers (https://retool.com/products/workflows/), and a database product (https://retool.com/products/database/). We’ve hired and grown the team to over 350, and are proud to have businesses like Doordash, NBC Universal, Mercedes Benz, and the NFL using Retool.

The network at Retool is also fairly strong — our lead investors in the Series B were Sequoia, along with Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, as well as John and Patrick Collison. Other investors include the founders of Github, Gusto, Segment, PagerDuty, Plaid, etc.

This year, while other companies are downsizing, we’re doubling down. (Literally.) We’re attempting to double our engineering, product, and design orgs this year. We think the opportunity to invent the future of programming is enormous, and we’re looking for more hackers to join our team.

We think that AI is going to change the way people build software. We think that there is tremendous potential in building interfaces that help humans and AI collaborate together to build software. We want to build a world where humans can quickly assemble full applications by just providing high level directions to AI.

We believe we’re set up especially well to do just that – we have all the building blocks for creating software (frontends, backend compute, data storage) as well as a live interactive builder environment. Why entangle yourself with messy things like Webpack, Docker, and Kubernetes when you can directly manipulate a live app, running right in front of you?

We also think that the world. as a whole, is under-utilizing AI. Businesses are broadly interested in generative AI and LLMs, but don’t know how yet to leverage and use them. It should be simple for businesses to quickly set up flows to have AI automatically triage bug reports, summarize customer feedback, and enrich datasets.

We’ve shared a sneak peak of what we think some of this could look like (https://retool.com/blog/gpt4-in-retool/), and there’s a bunch more coming up that we’re really excited to talk about soon.

If you’re interested in working with AIs and LLMs to change the way companies build software, we’d love to hear from you. We’ve made multiple hires from HN in the past, so we’re posting here. But if you know any friends who are interested, feel free to tell them to reach out as well.

Please email me at david AT retool with “HN” in the subject line.

Thanks!

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Dems 'want answers' on Biden documents, Rep. Porter says: 'Classified documents belong in classified settings'

Democrats want answers from the White House regarding stashes of classified documents improperly held by President Biden since the Obama administration, Democratic Rep. Katie Porter of California said.

Porter, speaking with reporters after a town hall event Tuesday, was asked about her role in the House Oversight Committee and the ongoing investigation into Biden’s illicit storage of classified documents at his private residence, inside his garage, and in the office of his think tank.

WHITE HOUSE REFUSES TO SAY IF BIDEN WOULD SIT FOR INTERVIEW WITH SPECIAL COUNSEL IN CLASSIFIED RECORDS PROBE

“So I definitely think that we want to get answers from the White House,” Porter said. 

Porter, however, wouldn’t say if she will sign on to a request from Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer for records related to the classified documents.

“I don’t know if that document request – I have not reviewed the line by line of the request that Chairman [James] Comer made – but I definitely think we want answers. Classified documents belong in classified settings, and I think you heard me say oversight is not a partisan thing. Good oversight means you’re willing to hold any rule breaker to account.”

Comer, a Kentucky Republican, sent a letter Sunday to White House chief of staff Ron Klain requesting more documents and communications related to the discoveries of multiple Obama-era classified documents in several locations at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. 

COMER WILL ‘CONTINUE TO PRESS’ FOR INFO ON BIDEN DOCS SCANDAL AFTER WHITE HOUSE SAYS NO VISITOR LOGS IN DE

Porter went on to say there has been “much broader abuse of classified information” by former President Donald Trump.

“I don’t have all the facts about President Biden’s classified information,” Porter continued. “We don’t have all the facts, sadly, because of obstruction yet about President Trump’s much broader abuse of classified information. But we should be asking for answers in a respectful way, and we should be expecting to get honest ones.”

BIDEN IGNORES REPORTERS’ QUESTIONS ABOUT CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS FOR 2ND TIME AS STAFF ESCORTS MEDIA OUT

Biden again ignored reporters’ questions on Tuesday as they tried to get him to address the classified documents from his time as vice president that were recently found at his Delaware home and the Penn Biden Center.

Biden had a meeting with Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and after the two leaders delivered brief remarks, reporters began hurling questions at the president. They were all met with silence.

The same thing happened three times last week. First, Biden refused to answer questions about the documents on Monday, Jan. 9. 

Then the following day, Jan. 10, the president did not acknowledge questions after his meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Fox News’ Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.