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Interim and Fractional hands on CTO

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanholloway https://github.com/jph98

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Relatively underhand change by Google early last month to limit all Google Drive consumer accounts to 5m files/folders regardless of whether you've reached the storage limit or not - paid or unpaid.

Causing chaos for lots of people, especially if you're utilising Google API's for storage and document editing for your own apps.

This was not announced, is not documented and was rolled out without notification.

Location: Bristol, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript, React (+ Native), Python, Java

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

Blog: https://medium.com/@jonathan.holloway

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D7LpdfSMI8qTdp1YwBT6Sjqp...

Email: jonathan.holloway@gmail.com

Software engineer, data engineer, product manager, engineering manager/CTO looking for contract work (remote or SW England based) primarily. Relocation eventually for the right role.

Elephant Healthcare | London, UK - Full-Time | https://elephant.healthcare We’re a startup in Shoreditch building a healthcare management platform for Africa/Middle East markets. Heavy data/analytics platform, responsive web with mobile clients to follow. Tech stack is AWS, MongoDB, Node/ES, Rambda, React, Redux, RxJs. Looking for the following people for engineering:

    * Mid level front-end engineer
    * Mid level back-end engineer
    * Senior Engineer (Platform) - with approx 50% spent doing back-end engineering and devops with the team.
Up to 50-90k GBP with equity and benefits depending on experience.

Email us with any questions at jon dot holloway at elephant.healthcare

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113144

Ometria | London (UK) | Full-Time | https://ometria.com

Ometria's mission is to stop impersonal ‘one size fits all’ marketing campaigns and make the way retailers communicate with their customers more personalised and engaging. We are bringing the technology of the hyper-growth retail giants, like Amazon, to many more retailers utilising advanced data modelling and machine learning techniques, and this involves processing many millions of data points quickly and reliably.

We’re building out a B2B SaaS platform to support this using Javascript and Python (Flask services) on AWS and Kubernetes at scale.

Open roles are as follows:

- Lead Site Reliability Engineer: https://www.workable.com/j/8605A40E4F

- Senior Python Engineer: https://www.workable.com/j/DD178A47E6

- Product Manager: https://www.workable.com/j/1BF3115981

- Machine Learning Engineer: https://www.workable.com/j/E0C3A6993E

Tech Stack: JS, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, Postgres, Redshift - https://stackshare.io/ometria

Blis | London, UK | Onsite | Full-time | circa £80k | Senior Engineer, Data Platform | https://www.blis.com/

Blis are looking for several engineers to join our engineering teams working on location/behavioural solutions for programmatic adtech.

We're around 30 engineers building out a data platform using Spark, Scala, Python with Druid, Cassandra and PostGIS. We build API's and apps using JS/JVM tech.

Tech We Use: Scala/Java/Python/Docker/Kubernetes/AWS/Ansible/PostgreSQL/Cassandra/Druid/Redshift/Luigi

Qualifications

- 5+ years of commercial software development experience. - Experience with JVM technology (Scala a plus, but not essential) - Rapid development, aptitude for picking up new tech quickly - Excellent communication skills

https://lnkd.in/dJuiQ_r

Leadership, Software Teams and CTO Related Services | London | Jon H | Jonathan.holloway@gmail.com | jonathanholloway.co.uk

Interim CTO and software management. Mentoring for software teams and engineering management. Hiring, growth.

Interested in helping companies from startups to mid size : )

I sympathize. It's horrible being in this position when you first graduate, rest assured - somebody will give you a break, I assure you that. Some advice

1. Clean up your CV, make it look more for professional and less arty.

2. Stress the open source project and dev blog in interviews along with any books/resources and interesting language features/features you're currently using at the moment.

3. Don't wait for somebody to come to you. A good approach is to approach employers directly rather than using recruitment agents or middlemen. You will find somebody who will give a break. Recruitment agents are the scum of the earth, but sometimes very useful - I didn't find them so useful when starting out.

4. You weren't unemployed for two years - I can't stress this enough. You worked on open source projects during that time and learned a whole bunch. Right?

Good luck with the job search : )

A rock star is somebody who plays in a rock band!

There is no such thing as a rock star developer. It's a stupid stupid term. You have no inherent connection with rock music, you are not famous and don't have thousands of adoring fans. I'm convinced that a number of balding, pony tailed idiot developers and snotty college grads think they do - but you don't - get over yourself.

Stop using the term, right, now, it's stupid, seriously.

I'm not going to get started on "code ninja". Jesus... WTF comes up with this rubbish.