I'm an experienced developer with around 40 years total experience. I've accidentally specialised in iOS for the last 11 years but have a dig-deep-and-learn-what-you-need mentality (and curiosity) so I've got pretty good at:

- Web "stuff": I can reason about CSS behaviour, craft intelligent selectors, dig into raw HTTP, write well-structured (and typed!) Typescript, and choose a framework that gets the job done.

- Backend: My first job was as an SGI sysadmin, back in the day and I’m as happy on the command-line as in an IDE. I progressed from there via Perl webdev to Python WSGI, picking up a few databases along the way. Comfortable with ORMs and good enough at SQL to explain it to my kids.

- CAD: I've contributed to open source CAD software and can write Python for desktop (Qt), backend, or for Blender.

- Networking: I've set up an inhouse spin-up/spin-down configurable linux cluster using Vagrant, to test TCP routing algorithms/detection.

- VBA: I embedded a 3D aero wing profile viewer into Excel. And then got Excel to generate a PowerPoint slideshow that represented the data, with a pop up windowing system to dig deeper. It felt like brain surgery at the time, but was merely a little higher-order VBA dabbling. Might still be in use at Airbus.

- Graphics: I've dabbled in Photoshop and Sketch plugins (iOS 3x export and vector spur gear generation, respectively)

- Hardware: I've done a couple of embedded projects on the side, with rPI/Pygame and DirectorMX in the mix. Happy with a soldering iron, and have a love of LEGO pneumatic circuits.

I work fast, roll my sleeves up, love a square-peg-round-hole challenge, and am a flexible specialising generalist that will put heart and soul into anything I commit to. I'm always looking to learn (React/Redux this year!) and improve whatever I'm a part of, from process, through development, to the customer journey, bringing professional experience, and hopefully some humour, along the way.

I'd happily consider short-term contracts (they can be fun!), or a permanent role. Still looking for the job I'll retire from, but I remain hopeful!

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015) 11 years ago

Actual Experience PLC, Provider of Digital Quality analytics services | Android Developer | Bath, UK | ONSITE (with home-working) | FULLTIME

https://www.actual-experience.com/

We offer digital quality analysis services for businesses and consumers. Our Digital Supply Chain Director service enables continuous, automatic, and real-time Voice of the Customer analysis, identifying any sources of service misbehaviour and directing attention where improvement in experience for staff and customers will be most meaningful. Our service is being incorporated into digital product architectures and processes for some of the world’s largest, most sophisticated digital enterprises.

To give a concrete example: 95% of a web-page may load in a fraction of a second, but the quality of the user-experience is adversely affected by the last image (or javascript, or whatever) taking 3 seconds to arrive from the CDN. Our software captures this kind of measurement and helps identify the cause. It's not limited to web-pages; we have measurement profiles for email, database, VoIP, cloud services etc. We can also help identify where the service is too good, where the additional speed is essentially wasted and, perhaps, the investment would be better made in other areas of an infrastructure.

You can see the technology in action with our consumer version, BbFix. (https://www.bbfix.org/) This allows you to see how good your broadband really is. And where any problems lie from home router to ISP to the Skype or iPlayer endpoints.

We're looking for an Android developer to create apps, in the short-term, to:

- Report the results of the analysis in a simple, engaging way that CxOs can understand

- Measure the Digital Quality to and from from mobile devices and services in a similar way to our current wired Digital Users. With our Tier-1 clients you could have your app deployed to hundreds of thousands of devices.

Beyond that we have plans for tablets and a mobile version of BbFix.

The job-spec is here: https://www.actual-experience.com/site/assets/files/1036/ae_...

We have a mixed technology base: Erlang, Python and the usual Web-stack. The iOS app is Swift-based. Our APIs are JSON and we use Git. You might not know all of them but you'll be interested in finding out more, given the chance. Finally, the working environment is very relaxed with most people flexibly working from home a couple of days a week. Get in touch via the website with a CV or directly: robin@actual-experience.com with any questions.

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