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stakent

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Senior Software Engineer | 20+ years mission-critical systems

Building production systems with AI coding agents. Documenting what actually breaks: walat.eu/series/ai-agents-in-practice

Python, Go, PostgreSQL. Industrial control systems to distributed architectures. Remote from Poland.

GitHub: github.com/stakent Email: dariusz@walat.eu

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DEF CON 2024 – Cory Doctorow – Disenshittify or die [video]

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www.bankofengland.co.uk 7y ago

The Bank of England and climate change [pdf]

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firmwaresecurity.com 7y ago

Qualcomm iZat and baseband location tracking (2018)

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media.consensys.net 7y ago

I Fell Out of Love with the Internet

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blog.startopz.com 7y ago

Productivity Tips from Hacker News – StartOpz Blog

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www.cnet.com 7y ago

Smart meters could let government peek into your home, court warns

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arduino.stackexchange.com 8y ago

How the Arduino IDE organizes things [2015]

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www.idogendel.com 8y ago

The Arduino Programming Language: Which One Is It? (2014)

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vcg.informatik.uni-rostock.de 8y ago

Visual Survey of Visualization Techniques for Time-Oriented Data TimeViz Browser

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callingbullshit.org 9y ago

Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data

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dtic.mil 9y ago

Joint Operating Environment Report by the Pentagon [pdf]

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paulgraham.com 10y ago

The Top of My Todo List (2012)

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spinroot.com 10y ago

The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code [pdf](2006)

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www.dailymail.co.uk 10y ago

Does Apple deliberately slow its old iPhones before a new release? (2014)

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Changing threats to privacy – Moxie Marlinspike [video 2015]

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www.eff.org 10y ago

How the TPP Will Affect You and Your Digital Rights (2015)

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www.antipope.org 10y ago

Long range forecast

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theintercept.com 10y ago

The Way GCHQ Obliterated the Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed (2015)

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slatestarcodex.com 10y ago

No Physical Substrate, No Problem

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Drone In-Flight Firmware Upgrade – 2013 [video]

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medium.com 10y ago

Why I’m not staking my future on MeteorJS

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www.antipope.org 10y ago

It could be worse

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people.cs.uchicago.edu 10y ago

Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research (2008) [pdf]

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Building Prototypes with Dan Gelbart [YouTube Playlist]

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www.kalzumeus.com 11y ago

Kalzumeus Podcast Episode 9: Customer Onboarding with Samuel Hulick

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lcamtuf.blogspot.com 11y ago

Two more browser memory disclosure bugs (CVE-2014-1580 and #19611cz)

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lcamtuf.blogspot.com 11y ago

Fuzzing random binaries without execve()

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lcamtuf.blogspot.com 11y ago

Bash bug: the other two RCEs, or how we chipped away at the original fix

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www.chrisstucchio.com 11y ago

Computers are made of metal, not category theory

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lcamtuf.blogspot.com 11y ago

Bash bug: apply the unofficial patch now (CVE-2014-6277)

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Location: Rzeszów, Poland

Remote: Yes — remote only (~EU hours or async)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, LLMs & embeddings, semantic search, deterministic data pipelines, PDF/document extraction, OCR

Résumé/CV: https://walat.eu/cv/

Email: dariusz@walat.eu

Trustworthy output from untrustworthy data. I build systems that catch what's silently wrong — a dead sensor nobody noticed, contradictory records, a garbled scan, a confidently-wrong model — so it surfaces as a flag today, not a six-month catastrophe.

I use LLMs where they earn their place (development, meaning, embeddings, plain-language access to jargon-locked data) and keep them out of decisions and the data flow, which stay deterministic and verifiable. An LLM can help you find the answer; it can't be the answer.

Senior systems engineer, multiple AI cycles of judgment on what survives the hype and where it breaks. Currently turning messy Polish legal PDFs into a correctness-checked graph — the hard part is the verification, not the AI. Previously I built a legislative-notification service that ran autonomously in production for over three years before I retired it. I've written about where AI coding agents actually fail and why verification is the real work: https://walat.eu

Best fit when: correctness matters, the data is real-world-messy, and you want someone who names what doesn't work and why.

Location: Poland (EU timezone, UTC+1)

Remote: Yes (20+ years remote/autonomous work)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Django, Docker, K8s, Redis

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/dariusz-walat

Email: dariusz@walat.eu

Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail — from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.

Currently building a production SaaS solo using AI coding agents as primary development method.

Documenting the operational realities — not the marketing: walat.eu/series/ai-agents-in-practice

Looking for remote-first senior IC roles where reliability and technical judgment matter.

Location: Poland (EU timezone, UTC+1)

Remote: Yes (20+ years remote/autonomous work)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Django, Docker, K8s, Redis, AI/ML (NLP)

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/dariusz-walat

GitHub: https://github.com/stakent

Email: dariusz@walat.eu

Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.

Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + highly efficient AI capabilities.

Looking for: Remote-first senior IC roles with interesting technical challenges. Particularly interested in Python/Go positions where reliability matters.

Location: Poland (EU timezone, UTC+1)

Remote: Yes (20+ years remote/autonomous work)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Django, Docker, K8s, Redis, AI/ML (NLP)

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/dariusz-walat

GitHub: https://github.com/stakent

Email: dariusz@walat.eu

Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.

Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.

Looking for: Remote-first senior IC roles with interesting technical challenges. Particularly interested in Python/Go positions where reliability matters.

Location: Poland (EU timezone, UTC+1)

Remote: Yes (20+ years remote/autonomous work)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Django, Docker, K8s, Redis, AI/ML (NLP)

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/dariusz-walat

GitHub: https://github.com/stakent

Email: dariusz@walat.eu

Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.

Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.

Looking for: Remote-first senior IC roles with interesting technical challenges. Particularly interested in Python/Go positions where reliability matters.

Location: Poland (EU timezone, UTC+1)

Remote: Yes (20+ years remote/autonomous work)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Django, Docker, K8s, Redis, AI/ML (NLP)

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/dariusz-walat

GitHub: https://github.com/stakent

Email: dariusz@walat.eu

Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.

Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.

Looking for: Teams deploying AI/ML in production. I've documented systematic agent failure modes from building production systems - see walat.eu/series/ai-agents-in-practice/

Location: Poland (EU timezone, UTC+1)

Remote: Yes (20+ years remote/autonomous work)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Django, Docker, K8s, Redis, AI/ML (NLP)

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/dariusz-walat

GitHub: https://github.com/stakent

Email: dariusz@walat.eu

Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.

Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.

Looking for: Teams deploying AI/ML in production. I've documented systematic agent failure modes from building production systems - see walat.eu/series/ai-agents-in-practice/

Location: Poland (EU timezone, UTC+1)

Remote: Yes (20+ years remote/autonomous work)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Django, Docker, K8s, Redis, AI/ML (NLP)

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/dariusz-walat

GitHub: https://github.com/stakent

Email: dariusz@walat.eu

Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.

Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.

Looking for: Remote-first senior IC roles with interesting technical challenges. Particularly interested in Python/Go positions where reliability matters.

Location: Poland (EU timezone, UTC+1)

Remote: Yes (20+ years remote/autonomous work)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Django, Docker, K8s, Redis, AI/ML (NLP)

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/dariusz-walat

GitHub: https://github.com/stakent

Email: dariusz@walat.eu

Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures. Currently exploring AI/ML through personal projects (Sejm-Whiz - Polish legal document analysis using NLP).

Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.

Looking for: Remote-first senior IC roles with interesting technical challenges. Particularly interested in Python/Go positions where reliability matters.

Location: Poland (EU timezone, UTC+1)

Remote: Yes (20+ years remote/autonomous work)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Django, Docker, K8s, Redis, AI/ML (NLP)

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/dariusz-walat

GitHub: https://github.com/stakent

Email: dariusz@walat.eu

Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures. Currently exploring AI/ML through personal projects (Sejm-Whiz - Polish legal document analysis using NLP).

Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.

Looking for: Remote-first senior IC roles with interesting technical challenges. Particularly interested in Python/Go positions where reliability matters.

Happy New Year HN! 3 years ago

It turns out time flies fast. Over 14 years on HN.

Being there I've been exposed to some life changing things.

Thanks!

All the best in 2024!

There are Toastmasters clubs which are online only. There are Toastmasters clubs which carry hybrid online/on site meetings in many time zones.

As for learning speaking over Zoom one anecdata point: I wouldn't get my job if not for Toastmasters and later a lot of TM meetings over zoom.

Looking at the screens for many hours 5 days a week I prefer face to face TM meetings.

Swimming 3 times a week for about 45 minutes changes the body and mind.

And is a little addictive like ex. running.

Background: I've been swimming for the last few years for about 10-20 minutes twice a week and I've experienced the changes.

Switching few months ago to more intense sessions led to dramatically higher rate of the change and I start to think about the ways of sustaining this. For now I've bought the swimming paddles and this works.

SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote

I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. Access to the source code hosted on gitlab.com available on request.

In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

stakent<usual sign here>walat.eu

Location: Rzeszów in Poland, Europe

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. And whatever is needed.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F5dkYY1Tg218jNbKZCS3kR2W8bm...

Email: stakent<an usual sign>walat.eu

I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. The source code https://gitlab.com/stakent/unkot

In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

I've designed and implemented event driven architecture with log based source of truth for the system which is distributed, eventually consistent, can work with unreliable network.

Location: Rzeszów in Poland, Europe

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. And whatever is needed.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F5dkYY1Tg218jNbKZCS3kR2W8bm...

Email: stakent<an usual sign>walat.eu

I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. The source code https://gitlab.com/stakent/unkot

In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

I've designed and implemented event driven architecture with log based source of truth for the system which is distributed, eventually consistent, can work with unreliable network.

SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote

I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. Access to the source code hosted on gitlab.com available on request.

In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

stakent<usual sign here>walat.eu

SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote

I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. Access to the source code hosted on gitlab.com available on request.

In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

stakent<usual sign here>walat.eu

Location: Rzeszów in Poland, Europe

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. And whatever is needed.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F5dkYY1Tg218jNbKZCS3kR2W8bm...

Email: stakent<an usual sign>walat.eu

I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. The source code https://gitlab.com/stakent/unkot

In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

I've designed and implemented event driven architecture with log based source of truth for the system which is distributed, eventually consistent, can work with unreliable network.

Location: Rzeszów in Poland, Europe

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. And whatever is needed.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F5dkYY1Tg218jNbKZCS3kR2W8bm...

Email: stakent<an usual sign>walat.eu

I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. The source code https://gitlab.com/stakent/unkot

In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

I've designed and implemented event driven architecture with log based source of truth for the system which is distributed, eventually consistent, can work with unreliable network.

SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote

I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. Access to the source code hosted on gitlab.com available on request.

In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

stakent<usual sign here>walat.eu

SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote

I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. Access to the source code hosted on gitlab.com available on request.

In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

stakent<usual sign here>walat.eu

Location: Rzeszów in Poland, Europe

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. And whatever is needed.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F5dkYY1Tg218jNbKZCS3kR2W8bm...

Email: stakent@walat.eu

I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. The source code https://gitlab.com/stakent/unkot

In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

I've designed and implemented event driven architecture with log based source of truth for the system which is distributed, eventually consistent, can work with unreliable network.

SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote

I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. Access to the source code hosted on gitlab.com available on request.

In the past I've used Go (golang), Gython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

stakent<usual sign here>walat.eu

Location: Rzeszów in Poland, Europe

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. And whatever is needed.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YpDL3hzLu28h9cI1cV_tDdv9nK3...

Email: stakent@walat.eu

I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. The source code https://gitlab.com/stakent/unkot

In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

I've designed and implemented event driven architecture with log based source of truth for the system which is distributed, eventually consistent, can work with unreliable network.

Location: Rzeszów in Poland, Europe

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. And whatever is needed.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YpDL3hzLu28h9cI1cV_tDdv9nK3...

Email: stakent@walat.eu

I'm redirecting my career path from industrial maintenance management to software development.

I've done, among other things, over 10 years of code maintenance and functions extensions in a live industrial production environments.

My current preferred tool set: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Git, Docker, Linux. Now I prefer boring tools which allow me to concentrate on the problem at hand.

I'm open to other tools as needed.

My most recent project is Polish law change monitoring service available at https://unkot.pl. The source code https://gitlab.com/stakent/unkot

In the past I've used go (golang), cython, neural networks with feedback loops running on CPUs, genetic programming.

I've designed and implemented event driven architecture with log based source of truth for the system which is distributed, eventually consistent, can work with unreliable network.