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Location: Germany

Remote: yes, only

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C++, C, Rust, Assembly, Python, JS

Résumé/CV: https://shkur.ski/cv.pdf

Email: dima [:at:] shkur.ski

Offer: my expertise in building desktop applications, device management, high-performance systems and more. I worked on products deployed on 10sM machines, both implementation and architecture level. In different environments: from large companies to seed stage startups (incl. YC-backed and own products).

For the past few years: LLM/semantic search applied in the productivity space. Built from scratch and tested with users a bunch of MVPs around the idea of proactive user interfaces: https://shkur.ski/notai

Open work permit: Germany, Canada. Worldwide as a B2B contractor and/or part-time involvement possible.

Location: Germany

Remote: yes, only

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C++, C, Rust, Assembly, Python, JS

Résumé/CV: https://shkur.ski/cv.pdf

Email: dima [:at:] shkur.ski

Offer: my expertise in building desktop applications, device management, high-performance systems and more. I worked on products deployed on 10sM machines, both implementation and architecture level. In different environments: from large companies to seed stage startups (incl. YC-backed and own products).

For the past few years: LLM/semantic search applied in the productivity space. Built from scratch and tested with users a bunch of MVPs around the idea of proactive user interfaces: https://shkur.ski/notai

Open work permit: Germany, Canada. Worldwide as a B2B contractor and/or part-time involvement possible.

Location: Germany

Remote: yes, only

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C++, C, Rust, Assembly, Python, JS

Résumé/CV: https://shkur.ski/cv.pdf

Email: dima [:at:] shkur.ski

Offer: my expertise in building desktop applications, device management, high-performance systems and more. I worked on products deployed on 10sM machines, both implementation and architecture level. In different environments: from large companies to seed stage startups (incl. YC-backed and own products).

For the past few years: LLM/semantic search applied in the productivity space. Built from scratch and tested with users a bunch of MVPs around the idea of proactive user interfaces: https://shkur.ski/notai

Open work permit: Germany, Canada. Worldwide as a B2B contractor and/or part-time involvement possible.

Location: Germany

Remote: yes, only

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C++, C, Rust, Assembly, Python, JS

Résumé/CV: https://shkur.ski/cv.pdf

Email: dima [:at:] shkur.ski

Offer: my expertise in building desktop applications, device management, high-performance systems and more. I worked on products deployed on 10sM machines, both implementation and architecture level. In different environments: from large companies to seed stage startups (incl. YC-backed and own products).

For the past few years: LLM/semantic search applied in the productivity space. Built from scratch and tested with users a bunch of MVPs around the idea of proactive user interfaces: https://shkur.ski/notai

Open work permit: Germany, Canada. Worldwide as a B2B contractor and/or part-time involvement possible.

Location: Germany

Remote: yes, only

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C++, C, Rust, Assembly, Python, JS

Résumé/CV: https://shkur.ski/cv.pdf

Email: dima [:at:] shkur.ski

Offer: my expertise in building desktop applications, device management, high-performance systems and more. I worked on products deployed on 10sM machines, both implementation and architecture level. In different environments: from large companies to seed stage startups (incl. YC-backed and own products).

For the past few years: LLM/semantic search applied in the productivity space. Built from scratch and tested with users a bunch of MVPs around the idea of proactive user interfaces: https://shkur.ski/notai

Open work permit: Germany, Canada. Worldwide as a B2B contractor and/or part-time involvement possible.

Location: Germany

Remote: yes, only

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C++, C, Rust, Assembly, Python, JS

Résumé/CV: https://shkur.ski/cv.pdf

Email: dima [:at:] shkur.ski

Offer: my expertise in building desktop applications, device management, high-performance systems and more. I worked on products deployed on 10sM machines, both implementation and architecture level. In different environments: from large companies to seed stage startups (incl. YC-backed and own products).

For the past few years: LLM/semantic search applied in the productivity space. Built from scratch and tested with users a bunch of MVPs around the idea of proactive user interfaces: https://shkur.ski/notai

Open work permit: Germany, Canada. Worldwide as a B2B contractor and/or part-time involvement possible.

https://shkur.ski/notai A tool that automatically shows you relevant information as you work so you don't have to search for things manually. With privacy guarantees.

Being sick of where things are headed, I didn't want to join the "trend". Instead, there is NotAI. I built it for myself first and foremost, as I am:

  1. Too lazy to Alt+Tab into Notion in order to write a note or find it. Instead, I want to select text and write a note in-place. Next time when I see something relevant on screen, I want it to appear.

  2. Usually distracted with the need to structure information manually. If you see it on screen, it should be enough. With NotAI you see a name in messenger -- it adds contact automatically. You see meeting caps -- it memorises them. Etc.

  3. Tired of bloatware, all those 500MB text editors draining the battery. I wanted it to be fast, small and smooth. NotAI is fully native, consumes a few tens of MBs and runs even on modest 5-7 y.o. laptops. It's fully local, meaning no network requests / server-side processing -> reaction time is usually within 40ms.

  4. Sick of marketing bs. Privacy-first products with telemetry and requests to ChatGPT. Attempts to achieve "privacy" by redefining the meaning of it. I no longer believe what I read. If it's private, I want guarantees! So NotAI is fully local. It's a single executable program. You go Windows Defender (or any other firewall) and block it from network. Period.

Location: Germany, Munich

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C++, C, Rust, Assembly, Python, JS

Résumé/CV: https://shkur.ski/cv.pdf

Email: dima [at] shkur.ski

Software engineer with expertise in building desktop applications, system and low-level programming, background in cybersecurity and experience working in different environments: from large companies to MVP-stage startups.

For the past few years: LLM/semantic search applied in the productivity space. Built from scratch and tested with users a bunch of MVPs around the idea of proactive user interfaces: https://shkur.ski/notai

Open work permit in Germany and Canada, can also consider a B2B contract.

Location: Germany

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C++, C, Rust, Assembly; desktop apps

Résumé/CV: https://shkur.ski/cv.pdf

Email: dima [at] shkur.ski

Hello HN! I'm a software engineer with expertise in building desktop applications, system programming and low-level device management, with the background in cybersecurity and experience working in different environments: from large companies to MVP-stage startups.

For the past few years I've been interested in LLM/semantic search applied in the UX/productivity space, doing product design and user research in addition to engineering. As a result of this research I produced working MVPs, each of which implements a concept around proactive user interfaces: https://searchpad.ai https://shkur.ski/notai

I have open work permit in Germany and Canada, but can also consider a B2B contract.

I perceive this thread in the same way as the praise of Hanns Johst.

With the perceived potential of separating work from its author being inversely proportional to the amount of attention devoted to both (Raskolnikov attitude towards Poles as something on the surface, though it's infiltrated with Russian chauvinism at a much deeper level).

With overlooking the fact that it is being used as a weapon (together with the unified Russian language created by Pushkin) for erasure of entire cultures. I'd stress this out: this is not a weapon in a museum. We are talking active phase. And the more obscure the relations above are, the higher the penetration rate.

Disappointing.

As risky as it may sound, they will triple the depth of concerns.

Location: Germany

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: C++, C, Rust, JS, Python

Résumé/CV: https://shkur.ski/cv.pdf

Email: dima ‖at‖ shkur.ski

Hello HN! I'm a software engineer with expertise in building desktop applications, system programming and low-level device management, with the background in cybersecurity and experience working in different environments: from large companies to MVP-stage startups.

For the past few years I've been interested in LLM/semantic search applied in the UX/productivity space, doing product design and user research in addition to engineering. As a result of this research I produced working MVPs, each of which implements a concept around proactive user interfaces: https://searchpad.ai https://shkur.ski/notai

Would be interested in a job that will leverage my skills. I have open work permit in Germany and Canada, but can also consider being a contractor. If it feels like a good fit, please drop me an email and let's talk.

(If you are not the right person but you think you know one, please share this intro with them and help us meet!)

Thank you.

Worth mentioning how simple the implementation could be if we're limited to COM, which is just a blob with machine code. Simple enough that being a 8 y.o. kid I encountered a book that explained the concept (something like JMP on entry, patch to original and JMP back). The entire thing was assembled over a few hours and deployed to a park of 80286's at school the next day, with consequences imprinted as a bright traumatic experience. This part was not explained in the book.

It's hard to call it "software", but the last one was a script to merge multiple Google Calendars into one, born out of frustration with juggling them manually. It runs on Google Apps Script, reacts on triggers, so once an event is created/modified/removed in one of the calendars, the change is reflected in the main calendar automatically.

[Edit] In the opposite direction as well: if modified in main, it reflects in the original one. AFAIR, it was the feature I missed, since Google only supports (-ed?) one-way mappings.

moc can be replaced without reflection: https://woboq.com/blog/verdigris-qt-without-moc.html

Location: Canada, Germany Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes, potentially

Technologies: C++, C, Rust, Assembly, Python, JS

Résumé/CV: https://shkur.ski/cv.pdf

Email: in CV

Software engineer with 15+ YoE, expertise in building desktop applications, background in cybersecurity and experience working in different environments: both large companies (Logitech, Comodo Cybersecurity) and MVP-stage startups (YC-backed too, as well as developing my own product). Able to learn and be productive quickly with whatever stack you use.

Full-time or part-time.

Location: Canada, Germany

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes, potentially

Technologies: C++, C, Rust, Assembly, Python, JS

Résumé/CV: https://shkur.ski/cv.pdf

Email: in CV

Software engineer with 15+ YoE, expertise in building desktop applications, background in cybersecurity and experience working in different environments: both large companies (Logitech, Comodo Cybersecurity) and MVP-stage startups (YC-backed too, as well as developing my own product). Able to learn and be productive quickly with whatever stack you use.

Full-time or part-time.

Do you consider only US-based candidates?

Location: Canada / Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, but.

Technologies: C++, Rust, C, Assembly

Résumé/CV: https://shkur.ski/cv.pdf

Email: dima //аt/ shkur.ski

Website: https://shkur.ski

I can hack fast and find creative solutions. Expertise: desktop platforms.

Location: Canada, Germany

Remote: Yes. Only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, C++, Rust

Résumé/CV: https://shkur.ski/cv.pdf

Email: dima@shkur.ski

I believe simplicity and extreme attention to details is how wonderful products are born. Looking for a part-time job, while building my own thing. A small team that builds fast. I want to help you move that damn needle.

Sense of humour (intelligence) is about the ability to find improbable, but insightful things. I believe spitting out patterns extracted from training data is not capable of producing anything close to that.

Cool stuff. Interesting to see how these ideas evolve, now with LLMs. I made the similar thing some time ago (>2yrs): https://shkur.ski/chronocatch/ for Mac/Win (Intel, H264 for interframe compression and BM25-ranked search). Then the war started and I regret not sharing this back in time "as is" when I could.

We have the whine-about-anything <previous culture name> on <location name>.

If you store captions produced by a party you trust (e.g., Google Meet), it could be accomplished w/o accessing audio at all. If I get it right, your concern is more about what's in the pipeline than what comes out.

Could you explain what you mean by "recorded"? The distance between full recording and text-only transcription (or summary) is quite large.

You took me to "Now we are done with RAM, let's play with HDD" moment on 80286 when I was a kid.

Fibonacci starting 1,3, so 2030.

With the projection of their value being heavily overestimated. Unlike crypto.

Exactly! What could be the next step is removing the (user-facing) prompt at all, since (presumably) there should be enough data for this part to be proactive.

Looking at Marx's quote on relations of production, could the money flow INSIDE a company be another topic that is worth exploration? From my simple understanding, in Marx's theory it was social aspect that mattered most. Do we still face such problems as it was in 19th century? I'm curious whether it would be a viable company where the surplus-value is distributed among workers and I have a fixed transparent salary as CEO and how it will survive the stage I and scale to stage II, IIIa, IIIb.