gsumpster

Location: Lafayette, CA (East Bay, San Francisco)

Remote: Hybrid preferred (3 days/week in the SF Bay Area); fully remote also acceptable

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, React, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, async data pipelines, distributed systems, container/VM infrastructure

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hjKMt29swXG18zvyBi0_0JxVyV4...

GitHub: https://github.com/gsumpster

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gsumpster/

Email: gsumpster@gmail.com

Hi, I'm George. I've been an early-stage startup engineer for about ten years and I'm looking for a product engineering role at a seed to Series B company.

I lean product engineer with a strong infra background. At Neurelo I was the first engineer and ran product alongside the founders — owned the roadmap, talked to design partners, and shaped the developer platform from concept to production. At Paramark there was no dedicated PM, so engineering was the product team in practice; I scoped features with the founders, talked to customers, and shipped end-to-end.

Recent work:

Paramark — Product engineer on a team without a dedicated PM. Owned features end-to-end. Also built internal data tooling and async processing pipelines on Kubernetes that took data prep from days to minutes for the analyst team.

Neurelo (founding engineer) — First engineer; led product alongside the founders and defined the roadmap. Designed the core architecture (Kubernetes-based infra for on-demand isolated customer deployments, systems for schemas and API-driven database access), built the team to eight engineers, and held technical and product direction through an executive transition.

Earlier: Stir (fintech for creators), Alto Pharmacy (led a team of five on patient-facing web/mobile, growth and experimentation), Bill.com (CI/CD work, cut Angular bundle size by 86%), and infra/data roles at Mimosa Networks and Zero Systems. What I'm looking for: a small team, a product I can care about, and room to own real surface area.

Happy to chat — feel free to reach out.

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I am probably about in the same spot that you are. I've been slowly working my way through this course from Andre LaMothe, I think pieces of it might be applicable for you. It's a Udemy course, so it goes on sale for ~$20ish pretty often, I think it's really well done and I've learned a lot so far.

https://www.udemy.com/course/crash-course-electronics-and-pc...

Oh man, I hadn't seen that! Super disappointed :(

For what it's worth, I use Duolingo (the app itself) as just another way to practice at the moment but feel that most of my real progress comes with a tutor that I found through Preply and eventually started private lessons with. Group lessons were a cheap way to get some more practice in though with other speakers.

They do offer real classes done through independent teachers, they are typically group lessons, but they are at a pretty reasonable price! http://classes.duolingo.com

I don't think it's fair to ignore the instructor and class content of Peloton. I use mine because of the classes, I'm not sure I would use the bike if it weren't for the instructors and classes that I like.

Peloton did also just release a new bike that does work with Apple's GymKit too, so, I don't think it's just the metrics.

I interviewed with the team not too long ago, didn't get the role in the end but the team was lovely and the interview process was great. Would recommend giving it a shot if you're at all interested, there are some great people working there!

Nice! I recently ditched my older 15" MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air and configured the VS Code Remote Container plugin to run against a $20/mo Digital Ocean server and it's been mostly good so far!

I was so tired of my MacBook Pro's fans being constantly on and always needing to be plugged in with dev servers and VS Code extensions running. Github Workspaces look promising too, looks like the same work.