baristaGeek

SEEKING WORK | Colombia (US Timezones) | Remote or Hybrid in Colombia (can fly to the US or elsewhere for offsites)

Email: estebanvargas94@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tebanvargas/

Technologies & Skills: Software Engineering, React, Node, TypeScript, AI Engineering, System Design, AWS, Leadership.

I'm looking for a full-stack engineering role. I can be either be a pure IC or a tech lead. The main thing that I'm optimizing for is for solving the problems that I want to solve.

9+ years of experience in the industry, the past 4 in tech lead roles. I have mostly worked for US SaaS companies, and have also been a founder in the past (backed by Techstars).

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d0-tqGvQdwnN0sXtFfUW6qdE3l9...

Ok I actually like the idea of flatter orgs and player-coaches a lot.

However, do we really need them to AI-wash the fact that as a lot of companies, this company over-hired during ZIRP? Do we really need them to AI-wash the fact that the crypto hype is gone, therefore their business is smaller? “Company as intelligence” and “AI productivity” are just buzzwords so their stock price doesn’t suffer.

Interesting perspective

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Staying pretty much the same, at least with the current state of technology (just way more bottlenecked by this, but with the same process). What have you seen?

Agree! I'm not saying that people are ditching all of Agile, just certain parts of Agile. Let's call it Agile 2.0 or something completely different

Could be the case! Without being to strict on the terminology I just wanted to give a clear message: Our planning processes and time range expectations are changing completely

I built this because I just thought it would be cool to show which LLMs respond faster (between GTP-4o mini, Claude 3 Haiku, and Gemini 2.5 Flash) and show some metrics (TTFT, avg tok/s, total time, and nTokens)

Are you open to UTC -5?

This very interesting blog post got me thinking how English would look like in 2100 or 2200 driven by the changes of the internet and AI. Spelling matters less so alphabet gets reduced? Simpler grammar as it gets more spoken worldwide? Emojis as punctuation?

window unseal nite no log. odd.

Hey! I just wanted to build this to show where gaming is going thanks to this AI Boom (choose your own adventure, but opinionated enough to move numbers, get items, have a game end, etc.)

Don't consider this true educational material! haha

It obviously doesn’t end today but it should be fast.

When Noriega was arrested by the US, the legitimate president started operating normally a few days after.

Exactly! Man… some people don’t get sarcasm

Philz Coffee reportedly nearing a $145M PE acquisition. Just another "only in SF" story. Where your barista’s startup dream comes true, and the morning pour exits before your Series B.

Very good article! Succinct, and very informative.

Postgres is a great DB, but it's the wrong tool for a write-heavy, high-concurrency, real-time system with pub-sub needs.

You should split your system into specialized components: - Kafka for event transport (you're likely already doing this). - An LSM-tree DB for write-heavy structured data (eg: Cassandra) - Keep Postgres for queries that benefit from relational features in certain parts of your architecture

Hi! Have been following LiveKit for a while.

You mention global presence but the job application forms require legal authorization to work in the US. Can you please clarify if you're remote global, or remote US?

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So running this on the browser implies you need to know how to clone a git repo, run a chmod command, etc. How do you plan to productize this so that it actually gets to the hands of non technical people?

What's exactly the benefit of running on the browser? I get that accessibility to a broader audience is a benefit but from what I understand these agents run on the terminal because they have a more powerful runtime. You don't have the browser's memmory limits, you can install native tools such as curl or docker, the model runs directly on your machine, and you have more security on the CLI.

Hey I wasn't aware of that! I'll post somewhere else next time.

I agree that being a local you’re not a target.

Regarding the crimes against some foreigners: - It shouldn’t happen. That’s why we elected a new major with a very different philosophy from the previous one. - 1,8M foreigners came here in 2023 and 35 got killed. Again, the number should be 0, but once you see it as a statistic it feels improbable. - If you don’t do ilegal stupid stuff you shouldn’t be doing in the first place (you know what I’m talking about) you’ll be fine.

I have never been mugged in Medellin living here 22 years out of my total 30.

I would say that beyond the green corridors, the main difference is how global it feels now. Lots of international cuisine, international DJs playing here, foreigners around, real estate ads in English, etc.

Unless you’re in tech or a few other sectors (eg: long tail exports such the company that manufactures transistors for Tesla, which is near here) the local job market is very bad. Particularly with new prices, in the wealthy areas it’s comparable to a city like Lisbon now.

If you have a remote job however, it’s a no brainer. For example, renting a 3 bedroom in a wealthy area (through the local route, not Airbnb) within a gated community that has a pool, a gym, etc = $1,000. A private maid/chef once per week = $80. Normal Uber ride = $4-$6. Meal for 2 in a very fancy restaurant = $50 - $75.

Makes SF prices feel insane.

Are you open to candidates from the rest of LatAm?

Awesome! I applied. Just letting you know in case the system flags because I clicked "no" when asked if I'm in the US or the EU.

I agree that SSR makes the "frontend VS backend API" separation very confusing. Session token VS secret key is a better framing for this, and there's a very interesting insight into the paradox that you described! The ergonomics you mention for ensuring consistency sounds like a very interesting technical challenge.

Hey, the idea of delegating this to the front end is very interesting! I've integrated Auth0 before and felt that it was clunky for designing more customized flows from the UX/UI POV.

1. With the new server components paradigm, React and Next have gone through a lot of changes around how SSR is done. Are your helper functions (currentUser(), currentOrg(), etc.) compatible with both the old and new approaches? Or is adapting to both one of your current technical challenges?

2. Are you open to candidates in the Americas time zones (LatAm)?

Colombia's largest airline (Avianca) printed today's tickets with the 1st of March as a date

50 VUs on the free plan is what I understood

Great product! I really liked the UI/UX, and the fact that you provide an example is awesome. I played around with it for about 10 minutes, but one thing wasn't entirely clear to me: How do I import my API if it's not an NPM package?