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British software engineer living in Seattle, previously 5 years in the SF Bay Area.

Founder at https://ipinfo.io. Formerly Calm.com, Facebook, Lightbox and Mendeley. Father of 3.

You can get in touch via ben.m.dowling@gmail.com or follow me at https://twitter.com/coderholic

    $ curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8
    {
      "ip": "8.8.8.8",
      "hostname": "google-public-dns-a.google.com",
      "city": "Mountain View",
      "region": "California",
      "country": "US",
      "loc": "37.3860,-122.0840",
      "org": "AS15169 Google Inc.",
      "postal": "94035",
      "phone": "650"
    }
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BitTorrent's DHT and the Leading ISP Networks Helping to Keep It Alive

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Show HN: Free IP to Country and ASN Downloads from Ipinfo.io

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ipinfo.io 4y ago

Migrating from App Engine to Google Kubernetes Engine

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Migrating from App Engine to Google Kubernetes Engine

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Show HN: Ipinfo.io CLI

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Map IPs – quickly and easily plot up to 500k IPs on a map

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Show HN: Summarize IPs (bulk geo, asn, privacy report for IP addresses)

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ipinfo.io 6y ago

Privacy Detection API: VPN, Proxy, Tor and Server IP Detection

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Reducing our API latency by making reverse DNS lookups fast (2019)

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Stack Overflow Kick-Started an Business: Talking with Ben Dowling from IPinfo

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Taking on Google, catering to developers and building a location API business

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Tools we use: ipinfo.io

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The Extremely Boring Thing That Will Make or Break Your API

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Why you should build your company on APIs

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IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io

IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data, including geolocation, VPN and residential proxy detection, mobile carrier data, and over 20 other context tags. Our API handles over 120 billion requests per month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you’ve likely interacted with.

We’re a fast-growing, bootstrapped company with a globally distributed team of around 60 people. Our data powers customers such as Cloudflare, T-Mobile, SpaceX, DemandBase, and Clearbit, among many others. We also sponsor and contribute to academic conferences like ACM IMC and ACM CoNEXT, staying closely connected with the internet measurement and research community.

- Infrastructure Engineer - read more and apply at https://ipinfo.applytojob.com/apply/d9CPSFceDF/Infrastructur...

- Internal tools / Retool Engineer - read more and apply at https://ipinfo.applytojob.com/apply/76y0IV5x3X/Retool-Develo...

We're always on the look out to strong software or data engineers with an internet measuremenet / analysis background to join our team too!

IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io

IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data, including geolocation, VPN and residential proxy detection, mobile carrier data, and over 20 other context tags. Our API handles over 120 billion requests per month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you’ve likely interacted with.

We’re a fast-growing, bootstrapped company with a globally distributed team of around 60 people. Our data powers customers such as Cloudflare, T-Mobile, SpaceX, DemandBase, and Clearbit, among many others. We also sponsor and contribute to academic conferences like ACM IMC and ACM CoNEXT, staying closely connected with the internet measurement and research community.

- Data Engineer - Geolocation team - read more and apply at https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/76?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

- Data Engineer - Privacy team (VPN / ResProxy etc) - read more and apply at https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/75?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

- Research Scientist - read more and apply at https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/74?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

We're always on the look out to strong software or data engineers with an internet measuremenet / analysis background to join our team too.

IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io

IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles over 100 billion requests a month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you might have used. We started as a side project back in 2013, offering a free geolocation API, and we've since bootstrapped ourselves to a profitable business with a global team of over 50 people, and grown our data offerings to include geolocation, IP to company, carrier detection, and VPN detection. Our customers include T-Mobile, Google, DataDog, DemandBase, and many more.

- Fullstack Web Engineer - apply at https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/24?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

We're looking for an experienced fullstack engineer to join our web team, and take the lead on implementing new features and functionality on our website.

- Senior Product Manager - apply at https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/45?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

We're looking for an experienced product manager to join IPinfo. Ideally you have a technical background, and have built out a PM function before. Should be familiar with our data and industry.

We're always on the look out to strong software or data engineers with an internet measuremenet / analysis background to join our team too.

IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io

IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles over 100 billion requests a month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you might have used. We started as a side project back in 2013, offering a free geolocation API, and we've since bootstrapped ourselves to a profitable business with a global team of over 40 people, and grown our data offerings to include geolocation, IP to company, carrier detection, and VPN detection. Our customers include T-Mobile, TransUnion, DataDog, DemandBase, and many more.

- Software Engineer - integrations (fulltime) - apply at https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/63?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D > We're looking for an engineer to lead our integration efforts - including our various existing platform integrations (Databricks, Splunk, Elastic, Snowflake, Maltego) and SDKs, and also work on new integrations for new platforms and languages.

We're always on the look out to strong software or data engineers with an internet measuremenet / analysis background to join our team too.

IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles over 100 billion requests a month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you might have used. We started as a side project back in 2013, offering a free geolocation API, and we've since bootstrapped ourselves to a profitable business with a global team of over 40 people, and grown our data offerings to include geolocation, IP to company, carrier detection, and VPN detection. Our customers include T-Mobile, TransUnion, DataDog, DemandBase, and many more.

- Data Engineer - https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/68?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

We're looking to add an awesome data engineer to our data team. You'll work on improving our data pipelines, creating new data sets, optimizing queries, and helping us cement our position as an industry leader.

You should be a SQL expert, and familiar with Google BigQuery, including performance and cost optimization.

You should also be familiar with geospatial queries and data (eg. geometries, geohash, h3, OSM etc).

We're always on the look out to strong software or data engineers with an internet measuremenet / analysis background to join our team too. Any questions about the roles or IPinfo feel free to reach out to me directly at ben@ipinfo.io

IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles over 100 billion requests a month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you might have used. We started as a side project back in 2013, offering a free geolocation API, and we've since bootstrapped ourselves to a profitable business with a global team of over 40 people, and grown our data offerings to include geolocation, IP to company, carrier detection, and VPN detection. Our customers include T-Mobile, TransUnion, DataDog, DemandBase, and many more.

- Software Engineer - integrations (fulltime) - apply at https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/63?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

We're looking for an engineer to lead our integration efforts - including our various existing platform integrations (Databricks, Splunk, Elastic, Snowflake, Maltego) and SDKs, and also work on new integrations for new platforms and languages.

- Mobile engineer (iOS / Android) - https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/61?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

Help improve our own mobile apps, and mobile SDKs. Should be familiar with low level iOS and Android networking (or just one platform). Part time or full time contract role.

- Splunk App engineer (contract) - https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/62?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

Looking for someone with lots of experience building splunk integrations, and familiar with enterprise splunk deployments. Part time contract work to help improve our existing splunk integration to make it more reliable, and a world class customer experience.

We're always on the look out to strong software or data engineers with an internet measuremenet / analysis background to join our team too. Any questions about the roles or IPinfo feel free to reach out to me directly at ben@ipinfo.io

IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Partime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io

IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles over 100 billion requests a month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you might have used. We started as a side project back in 2013, offering a free geolocation API, and we've since bootstrapped ourselves to a profitable business with a global team of over 40 people, and grown our data offerings to include geolocation, IP to company, carrier detection, and VPN detection. Our customers include T-Mobile, TransUnion, DataDog, DemandBase, and many more.

- Software Engineer - integrations (fulltime) - apply at https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/63?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

We're looking for an engineer to lead our integration efforts - including our various existing platform integrations (Databricks, Splunk, Elastic, Snowflake, Maltego) and SDKs, and also work on new integrations for new platforms and languages.

- Mobile engineer (iOS / Android) - https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/61?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

Help improve our own mobile apps, and mobile SDKs. Should be familiar with low level iOS and Android networking (or just one platform). Part time or full time contract role.

- Splunk App engineer (contract) - https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/62?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

Looking for someone with lots of experience building splunk integrations, and familiar with enterprise splunk deployments. Part time contract work to help improve our existing splunk integration to make it more reliable, and a world class customer experience.

We're always on the look out to strong software or data engineers with an internet measuremenet / analysis background to join our team too. Any questions about the roles or IPinfo feel free to reach out to me directly at ben@ipinfo.io

IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io

IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles over 100 billion requests a month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you might have used. We started as a side project back in 2013, offering a free geolocation API, and we've since bootstrapped ourselves to a profitable business with a global team of over 40 people, and grown our data offerings to include geolocation, IP to company, carrier detection, and VPN detection. Our customers include T-Mobile, TransUnion, DataDog, DemandBase, and many more.

- Resesarch Scientist - apply at https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/53?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

At IPinfo we collect more than 20TB of Internet data every week, including BGP, DNS, ping and traceroute data from more than 700 servers around the world. Our research team is at the forefront of analyzing and evaluating this data to ensure it finds its way into our producs - IP geolocation, VPN detection, our IP tags and more. In this role you will be analyzing that data, collaborate with fellow researchers from universities and research institutes, write academic papers and reports based on your analyses, implement measurement and analysis techniques from cutting-edge research, and discuss your findings at academic conferences

- Research Intern - apply at https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/54?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

During the research internship you will be working on a well-defined research/data analysis project which allows you to collaborate with the research and data teams at IPinfo. The goal of the internship is to gather novel insights, gain new knowledge in data analysis, processing, and Internet measurements, and present your results within the group.

- Infrastructure Engineer apply at https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/55?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

At IPinfo we've built out one of the most capable internet measurement networks in existence - our Probe Network. It currently consists of over 700 servers, deployed in over 240 cities in over 115 countries, across 250 ASNs. We're looking to hire an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to manage our probe network. You should have experience managing a large number of linux servers, be obsessed with automation, love debugging networking and linux config issues, be results oriented, and be excited about ways in which we can leverage our probe network over time.

We're always on the look out to strong software or data engineers with an internet measuremenet / analysis background to join our team too. Any questions about the roles or IPinfo feel free to reach out to me directly at ben@ipinfo.io

You're not missing anything - those are all real problems! We've done a lot of work to overcome many of them, and others are active areas of research and development for us.

We do scan and traceroute all IPv4 and (known) IPv6 space, once a week, so our measurement data can be out of date by at most a week. We have other signals that an IP might have moved within that timeframe though.

We definitely don't have a significant share of total internet traffic - but we do get 6BN API requests a day.

IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io

IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles almost 100 billion requests a month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you might have used. We started as a side project back in 2013, offering a free geolocation API, and we've since bootstrapped ourselves to a profitable business with a global team of over 20, and grown our data offerings to include geolocation, IP to company, carrier detection, and VPN detection. Our customers include T-Mobile, Nike, DataDog, DemandBase, Clearbit and many more.

We're looking for exceptional and ambitious people to join our team. The main role we're hiring for currently is a Product Manager - ideally with SaaS/DaaS experience, and a technical understanding of our products / services. Apply here: https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/45?source=aWQ9Mjg%3D

We're always on the look out to strong software or data engineers with an internet measuremenet / analysis background to join our team too. Any questions about the roles or IPinfo feel free to reach out to me directly at ben@ipinfo.io

I’m not sure why you think I’m lying, or why it’s so unbelievable that we’ve hired at least 10 engineers from HN? It’s true, and fairly easy to verify too.

HN is my favorite place to hire engineers for ipinfo.io - we’ve hired at least 10, although most of those have applied to jobs that I’ve posted on who’s hiring. I do browse who wants to be hired and ask people to apply who look like a fit too though.

Ah, then I'm sorry - that's my bad. If you'd gone to the trouble of answering questions over email then I should totally have got back you and not ghosted you. I do try to do that with everyone I engage with about a role over email, but it looks like I didn't on this occasion - apologies!

If you or anyone else finds yourself in a similar situation in the future I'd encourage you to shoot over a reminder email to bump the conversation to the top of the inbox of the person you're waiting on a reply from. In almost all cases being "ghosted" just means your email got lost in a busy inbox, and a quick nudge (or 2) is likely all that's needed to get the reply.

Sorry for your bad experience! We review every application, but we don't reply to every one.

For candidates that we think could be a fit for the role we'll usually send over some questions over email, and then schedule an interview if we like the answers, or let them know we don't be moving forward.

Not sure what stange you got to (if we never replied to your application at all, or if you were emailing us and then didn't hear back)? Happy to look into your application and send some feedback if you reach out to me (ben@ipinfo.io).

IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io

IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles almost 100 billion requests a month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you might have used. We started as a side project back in 2013, offering a free geolocation API, and we've since bootstrapped ourselves to a profitable business with a global team of over 20, and grown our data offerings to include geolocation, IP to company, carrier detection, and VPN detection. Our customers include T-Mobile, Nike, DataDog, DemandBase, Clearbit and many more.

We're looking for exceptional and ambitious people to join our team - we're currently hiring for this role:

- Senior Software Engineer - generalist engineer (or backend focused) to help improve our data pipelines, ship new APIs and data sets, help support the data and web teams, and more (ideally strong golang, bash, sql and node.js experience) - https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/careers/43

Any questions about the role or IPinfo feel free to reach out to me directly at ben@ipinfo.io

I can share some thoughts from a hiring perspective. For context I'm the founder & CEO at https://ipinfo.io - we're a fully remote team of around 30 people, and we've hired at least 10 of those this year, many via the monthly HN Who's Hiring posts, eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33076376

The best way to stand out is to put some effort into the application. We get many applications that just include a resume, and no additional details. We also get a lot that include some very generic details that could relate to any job post (eg. "I'd like a remote job for reason X"). Applications that include even the smallest bit of customization will put you way ahead of many candidates (eg. "I saw your post on HN and it caught my eye for reason X and I think it'd be a fit for me because of Y").

Cold outreach direclty to me (email or LinkedIn) is usually a good sign, but again those vary greatly in quality. The worst ones don't give me any information about the candidate (eg. "Saw your post on HN, can you give me more details?"). The very best ones demonstrate that you're proactive, and a great communicator (eg. "Hey Ben, just submitted my application for the role I saw you posted to HN. I'm excited about the role for reason X, and think it could be a great fit because of Y. You can found out more about me at 1, 2 or 3. If there's anything you think I could improve on my application please let me know. And here are a few thoughts I had about your company/product from a quick glance: Z. Hope to hear back from you or the team soon, thanks!")

A really important part of fully remote work is communication, and the application process is a great way to desmonatate that, but it's something people often miss.

Best of luck on your job hunt!

IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io

IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles almost 100 billion requests a month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you might have used. We started as a side project back in 2013, offering a free geolocation API, and we've since bootstrapped ourselves to a profitable business with a global team of over 20, and grown our data offerings to include geolocation, IP to company, carrier detection, and VPN detection. Our customers include T-Mobile, Nike, DataDog, DemandBase, Clearbit and many more.

We're looking for exceptional and ambitious people to join our team - we've got various roles we're looking to hire for:

- Sr Fullstack Engineer - tech lead for a web eng team. Work on the codebase that powers our API, improve our rate limiting & authentication, help build out new features etc. Apply via https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=35

- DevOps / infra eng - our second infra hire. Should be familiar with google cloud, k8s, big query, airflow etc. help keep our api up and efficiently handling our volume. Apply via https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=32

Any questions about the roles or IPinfo feel free to reach out to me directly at ben@ipinfo.io

IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io

IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles almost 100 billion requests a month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you might have used. We started as a side project back in 2013, offering a free geolocation API, and we've since bootstrapped ourselves to a profitable business with a global team of over 20, and grown our data offerings to include geolocation, IP to company, carrier detection, and VPN detection. Our customers include T-Mobile, Nike, DataDog, DemandBase, Clearbit and many more.

We're looking for exceptional and ambitious people to join our team - we've got various roles we're looking to hire for:

- Senior Software Engineer - generalist engineer to help improve our data pipelines, ship new APIs and data sets, work on our SDKs and product integrations and more (ideally strong golang, bash, sql and node.js experience) https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=21&source=hn

- Senior Engineer / lead - Data Team - help build and maintain our data pipelines, including IP geolocation, VPN detection, build out new data sets and insights etc. Help roadmap and plan the data team activities. https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=21&source=aWQ9M...

- Data analyst / jr engineer - apply via https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=28

- DevOps / infra eng - our second infra hire. Should be familiar with google cloud, k8s, big query, airflow etc. help keep our api up and efficiently handling our volume. Apply via https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=32

Any questions about the roles or IPinfo feel free to reach out to me directly at ben@ipinfo.io

IPinfo.io | Various Roles | Remote (Anywhere) | Fulltime / Contract | https://ipinfo.io

IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data. Our API handles almost 100 billion requests a month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you might have used. We started as a side project back in 2013, offering a free geolocation API, and we've since bootstrapped ourselves to a profitable business with a global team of over 20, and grown our data offerings to include geolocation, IP to company, carrier detection, and VPN detection. Our customers include T-Mobile, Nike, DataDog, DemandBase, Clearbit and many more.

We're looking for exceptional and ambitious people to join our team - we've got various roles we're looking to hire for:

- Senior Software Engineer - generalist engineer to help improve our data pipelines, ship new APIs and data sets, work on our SDKs and product integrations and more (ideally strong golang, bash, sql and node.js experience) https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=21&source=hn

- Senior Engineer / lead - Data Team - help build and maintain our data pipelines, including IP geolocation, VPN detection, build out new data sets and insights etc. Help roadmap and plan the data team activities. https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=21&source=aWQ9M...

- Data analyst / jr engineer - apply via https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=28

- DevOps / infra eng - our second infra hire. Should be familiar with google cloud, k8s, big query, airflow etc. help keep our api up and efficiently handling our volume. Apply via https://ipinfo.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=32

Any questions about the roles or IPinfo feel free to reach out to me directly at ben@ipinfo.io

For another cli based IP address utility check out IPinfo.io's CLI: https://github.com/ipinfo/cli

It doesn't currently support calculations, but it does support conversion of start-end ranges to CIDRs (via `range2cidr` and `cidr2range`) and `grepip`. If you just want to get details for an IP it's gives a great overview, and supports bulk lookup too:

    $ ipinfo 8.8.8.8
    Core
    - IP           8.8.8.8
    - Anycast      true
    - Hostname     dns.google
    - City         Mountain View
    - Region       California
    - Country      United States (US)
    - Location     37.4056,-122.0775
    - Organization AS15169 Google LLC
    - Postal       94043
    - Timezone     America/Los_Angeles
    
    ASN
    - ID     AS15169
    - Name   Google LLC
    - Domain google.com
    - Route  8.8.8.0/24
    - Type   business
    
    Company
    - Name   Google LLC
    - Domain google.com
    - Type   business
    
    Privacy
    - VPN     false
    - Proxy   false
    - Tor     false
    - Relay   false
    - Hosting false
    - Service
    
    Abuse
    - Address US, CA, Mountain View, 1600 Amphitheatre     Parkway, 94043
    - Country United States (US)
    - Email   network-abuse@google.com
    - Name    Abuse
    - Network 8.8.8.0/24
    - Phone   +1-650-253-0000

Happy to have my flawed thinking corrected - can you share the examples?

I likely am thinking of a narrow set of "regular businesses" - what came to mind were corner shops, hairdresses, bars or restaurants etc. Even in those cases there are obviously large successful busniesses that do have competitive advantages - but I suspect they mostly get erroded away by competition rather than the business being able to sustain them, and high margins. I would love some counter examples though!