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AJ ONeal (@coolaj86), the Lead Software Engineer at SpotterRF and Web-Technologist at large. Avid member of the Open Source community in Utah, especially JavaScript- / HTML5-related stuff, including the JavaScript Jabber podcast. I DJ parties and weddings on the side and am also connoisseur of fine cheeses.

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Hello! I'm AJ. I manage the website. We started the site with a cookie cutter template and left a garbage TOS and Privacy Policy in there by mistake. Someone told me about this post and so I pretty much pulled the TOS and I've been working through the Privacy Policy too. Consider this a draft, would love your feedback on github issues: https://github.com/daplie/daplie.com/

I'm co-founder of Daplie (https://Daplie.com) and we offer a home cloud (pointedly dubbed "Cloud") that competes with some (or potentially all) of Google's G Suite.

The Internet never seemed so small, closed, and locked as when we got our notice that our ads account was suspended (and we got no explanation other than that the reason was 'on a list they weren't allowed to talk about'). It suddenly became super clear just how much Google monopolizes the web and had the power to censor products and services and ideas they don't want.

Not evil, eh?

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SpotterRF - Orem, UT (near Salt Lake City) - Intern, Full-time

Our core product and primary focus is the world's first Compact Tracking Radar (not the large spinning blip-blip kind), affectionately known as "The Spotter". It's the size of a small lunch box and tracks in real-time, which we primary sell in military / gov't markets.

The success of and need for our product has put us in the unique but challenging position to bring government and military customers into the 21st century of technology, design, and usability (and that is a challenge). For example, we use an HTML5 interface for our tracking system and it only works in real browsers (not MSIE).

If you love technology, want to work in a friendly environment, and have a budding (or deep) interest in a mix of the areas below, or you just have a good feeling about it, please get in touch with me (ajoneal at spotterrf . com).

We're looking for skill but, more importantly, potential.

Embedded Developer * Linux, Arduino * Raspberry Pi * C * Soldering

Web Designer * Adobe Suite * CSS3 * HTML5

Application Developer * Application language (i.e. NodeJS, Ruby, Python) * Systems language (i.e Golang, D, C) * Problem solving skills

Algorithm Developer * Radar, Sonar, etc * Game Design * Artificial Intelligence * Machine learning * R, MatLab

Here are some projects that have sprung out of github.com/SpotterRF (both on and off the clock):

* Foobar3000 - The worlds most advanced (and convenient) echo server * Dropshare - Simple file-sharing that gets past (government) e-mail filters * Mildoc - Pretty documentation for the rest of us * Tolmey - GPS Geotranslation in JavaScript * Appr - Application Distribution (think App Store)