vivekamn

Software Engineer | Chennai, India | Pipecandy | pipecandy.com | Onsite

We, at PipeCandy, are trying to re-imagine the way B2B outbound prospecting is carried out, by unleashing the power of data and technology. We are building the tool that would make a sales person's life a lot easier and prospecting, a breeze. As one of the early hires, you'd get the ground floor opportunity to move the needle right from day one and get to work with some of the brightest minds.

As a technical architect, you will be required to spearhead projects from its inception to the final leg. Hence, a strong sense of business and technical knowledge is required. It is essential to understand all the stages of the project as you will be in charge of the project running successfully.

If that excites you, read on -

Responsibilities: Ability to break down the project into smaller chunks Facilitating and coordinating between the tasks assigned to various teams Ensuring that the quality of the project stays top-notch Understanding the requirements and delivering on that Responsible for leading delivery teams and ensure successful end to every project Ability to convert business requirements into technical requirements by planning, developing and refining Requirements: Excellent communication (written and verbal) and ability to convey the message to the various members involved in the project Ability to constantly update and stay knowledgeable about the relevant industry practices Exposure to designing data solutions Exposure to data engineering, data science & advanced analytics and data visualization Looks to solve problems with an optimistic approach and takes on challenges Our platform is built using Python, R, Apache Spark, Luigi and Kafka (on the data-side) and Node.js / React (on the application side). We are looking for an individual who enjoys taking initiative, adaptable and thrives in a high powered environment! A role with the best of both worlds - business + tech. If the adrenaline inside you has been thumping while reading this, then write to me – sakina@pipecandy.com

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/28/private-sales-site-beyo... clickable link

Yes, we do at www.bharatmoms.com and of all the rich text editors(js based) we tried, this worked out to be the best.

Co-founder Founder of www.radaptive.com an Asset Management and Ticketing solution(running in Ebay/paypal/danger-now Microsoft! and ask.com. Role: I handle all things technical.

Splitting my time between Chennai, India(80%) and San Jose, California

They also have code snippets and Application Creation wizards. I think the later will be useful what with the api still being unstable(pmi pkg disappearing between 1.0 to 1.5 etc).

Guy Kawasaki used to write good articles based on insight gleamed from his personal experience. But these days he seems to be more about just generating some content to get eye balls so that he can push alltop. He is losing credibility fast.

Doing feasibility on white label mobile social network.

I am running a rails app with 100,000 pages views/month with a 86MB slice(not at slicehost though) with <2sec response times. The pages are pretty heavy dynamic pages.

Another take on 'copy' is to take an idea that worked in one market and do it another market with appropriate localizations applied. Say a successful product in US done right for India.

If you are using Sphinx on a rails project, I strong recommend Thinking Sphinx(http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/). We used to use Ultra sphinx plugin, but thinking sphinx is more flexible.

I think for developers the advice of 'work your connections to get a job' is highly over rated. In my 15 years of experience not even a single job I got is based on connections.

keyboard short cuts.

I also liked the specific action items. Like which exact css selector is inefficient. Also liked it called out the exact images that could do with compression, what % can be gained and even a sample compressed image!

Go full time on your idea. Or at least make some commitment so that there is a monthly burn(say a hosted server or a github account at the minimum). Nothing like pressure to keep one focused. This is from my own experience.

FAQ is not the first thing I look for in a site. To me, in context hints and help links are more useful. Personally, I would focus more on these. I do check the faq, if all else fails to explain.

Solutions in Programming Pearls. Each solution is iteratively improved with the proper reasoning.

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pearls-2nd-ACM-Press/dp/02...

I agree. I usually choose to read an article based on the comments. Also most times, it the comments that are interesting.

RUBY/RAILS. As productive as Django. More books, good community and so on.

full time on a startup

One of the best startup retrospectives I have read. Especially the points about marketing and user acquisition are very relevant to what I what I am doing currently.

When you have tabs(options/welcome in your case), it might be a good idea to visually indicate which is the current tab.

He tell that you should state your offering in max 3 bullets. And in his intro of his company crams like 19 items into one slide!? Again, he asks you avoid jargon, did anybody notice how much jargon was in their intro?? Dude, practice what you preach.

Timing is another thing. When we tried to get press for a site targeted at moms, we had a lot of luck approaching news papers, tv shows and blogs around, surprise!, women's day and mother's day.

Second that. So many crappy serials get renewed, why in the hell this got canceled?

github.com speedyrails(rails VPS)

I second that. Having their own ad network has worked out great for cafemom.com a ssn for mothers.

For ny site based on user feedback, solving the chicken and egg problem is going to be your biggest hurdle. Can you bootstrap the initial reviews from some other source?

You should consider the ability to embed this as part of a website.

Yes. I would also pay to get more attention for my questions. Sort of like many game worlds, where you can earn points either by activity or by paying hard cash.