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Location: India

Remote: not really preferred, but willing

Willing to relocate: Hell yeah!

Technologies: Backend Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building high-throughput APIs, distributed systems, and data pipelines (2TB+/day). Specialized in Python (FastAPI), async microservices, and cloud-native deployments. Experienced in scaling systems for startups and enterprise environments, with a focus on performance, reliability, and clean architecture.

Resume/CV: https://github.com/sharpnife/resume/blob/main/Praise_Winston...

Email: praisewinston07@gmail.com

Hiring someone to find hobbies defeats the purpose of hobbies. Why would you want to pursue something that someone else finds enticing rather than you discovering it yourself?

Location: India

Remote: not really preferred

Willing to relocate: Hell yeah!

Technologies: Backend Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building high-throughput APIs, distributed systems, and data pipelines (2TB+/day). Specialized in Python (FastAPI), async microservices, and cloud-native deployments. Experienced in scaling systems for startups and enterprise environments, with a focus on performance, reliability, and clean architecture.

Resume/CV: https://github.com/sharpnife/resume/blob/main/Praise_Winston...

Email: praisewinston07@gmail.com

My advice: Keep honing your problem solving skills, by doing math challenges, chess puzzles, learn new languages(not programming ones, though that might help too), read books; anything that’d help you get newer perspectives, challenges your mind is good enough to withstand the race against AI.

I don’t think that is cut and dry as such, being able to solve IMO(International Mathematics Olympiad) level problems require a significant level of creativity and imagination, and folks who are good at it naturally have an aptitude(and perhaps an upper-hand as well) for problem solving in general, research or otherwise.

I’ve been using vim for 3-4 years now, and I’m very comfortable in the vim ecosystem. Trying out emacs has been in my mind for a while, but I’m not sure if it’s worth the time investment.

I second this strongly, you can’t get better at math just by reading books. You need to hone your problem solving skills, you need to fight with the problems, have the mindset of a warrior, a conqueror, only then you’ll get the juice out of it and have a clear understanding of the subject. I’ll suggest starting with Concrete Mathematics by Donald Knuth, it’s a beautiful book that catches the essence of mathematics.

Art of problem solving(https://www.amazon.in/Art-Problem-Solving-Basics/dp/09773045...) is also a great start, especially if you don’t have much experience.

I joined my company straight out of college and it was during covid peak, it was totally remote and guess what, last week my manager called me and told me that I've been promoted with a salary hike(within less than a year).

If you've discipline and commitment you can make anything work. :)