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vor 7 Tagendiscuss

  Location: St. Louis, MO USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Scala, Clojure, Java, TypeScript, AWS, Akka, Spark, Cats, ZIO, React, Kubernetes, Terraform, various AI, DevOps, microservices; brushing up on Rust and Golang
  Résumé/CV: https://resume.alex.stangl.us/
  Email: [email protected]

Senior backend engineer with deep experience in distributed systems, Scala, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling. Strong background in functional programming, CI/CD modernization, and scalable services. Remote strongly preferred, but will consider opportunities in the St. Louis, MO area. US citizen.

I have experience in developing web applications using various UI stacks, but prefer backend development. I have experience as team lead, technical lead, and mentor. I am also a big proponent of leveraging AI tools for code generation/inspection/reasoning, and automation, striving to make life easier for both developers and end-users. I enjoy working on interesting and challenging problems, especially science-related ones, and on systems that impact large numbers of people. Contributing to open source projects would be a huge plus. With my background and skills, I will be an asset to your team.

Coworkers and friends look to me for programming advice and assistance in solving complex problems. I relish challenging projects. I strive to write exceptionally clean code, along with suites of thorough unit and integration tests. I am pragmatic, and bear performance in mind, however. Multiple times I've profiled and analyzed code and design, and identified opportunities to speed up and/or reduce footprint by a factor of 1000x or more.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexstangl

https://github.com/astangl

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letzten Monatdiscuss

  Location: St. Louis, MO USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Scala, TypeScript, AWS, Akka, Cats, ZIO, JVM, Kubernetes, Terraform, various AI; brushing up on Rust and Golang
  Résumé/CV: https://alex-stangl-resume.netlify.app/alexstangl
  Email: [email protected]

astangl

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

  Location: St. Louis, MO USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Scala, TypeScript, Rust (learning), AWS, Akka, Cats, ZIO, JVM, Kubernetes, Terraform, various AI
  Résumé/CV: https://alex-stangl-resume.netlify.app/alexstangl
  Email: [email protected]

Veteran software engineer with track record of successful software development using a myriad of technologies. Prefer back-end development using functional programming languages, such as Scala, with emphasis on correctness, robustness, and automation. Relish challenging problems, striving for elegant solutions, yet pragmatic about not overengineering. Am learning Rust, plan to switch to it soon. Remote strongly preferred, but will consider opportunities in the St. Louis, MO area. US citizen.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexstangl/

astangl

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I've kept mine in a single file HTML with some CSS for years too. After toying with more complicated solutions, decided to stick with the KISS principle. It's at https://github.com/astangl/alexstangl-resume if anyone wants to take a look.

astangl

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I was actually just reading about Kapton yesterday, and stumbled upon some info about its deterioration being hastened by heat. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapton#Characteristics

astangl

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

In our high school physics class in early 80s, the teacher didn't care for calculators, so you'd have to do your calculations by hand, or learn to use a slide rule. I learned to use a slide rule, along with a buddy. I don't remember others in the class using slide rules, but looking back now, I have a hard time believing everybody else used pencil & paper. So there were probably others.

I think that teacher didn't retire for another 20 years, so he may have had kids in the 21st century still learning to use slide rules for his class.

astangl

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I checked with Kinesis sales, and they said they’ll be offering the PBT dyesub keycaps, for those of us who’d like to buy them for our old Advantage2 keyboards. No word yet on when they’ll be available though.

astangl

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Nice idea, thanks wentin!

Would be nice to allow user to paste in arbitrary code text, to reflect more typical code they're used to seeing (and get it to display ligatures, if applicable). Or possibly allow user to specify a source file from GitHub/GitLab to display.

Is this open source?

astangl

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

I had this experience, too, after tech reviewing quite a few books. I quickly got to the point where I didn't want to even look at the final product, because of all the pointed-out flaws that would still remain, and I'd know the book could have been so much better, except that some editor was in a rush, or lazy.

astangl

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

Location: St. Louis, MO

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but open to occasional travel

Technologies: Scala, Clojure, Java, JavaScript, Akka, Spark, machine learning, AWS (S3, EC2, ECR, SQS, SNS, SSM, SWF), Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, React, Jenkins, Kafka, PostgreSQL, C++, DevOps, microservices

Résumé/CV: https://alex-stangl-resume.netlify.com

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexstangl

GitHub: https://github.com/astangl

I'm a senior software engineer, experienced in a variety of languages and technology stacks. I'm looking for interesting and rewarding work on a remote-friendly (preferably "remote first") team, especially using Scala. I have experience in developing web applications using various UI stacks, but prefer backend development. I have experience as team lead, technical lead, and mentor. I am also a big proponent of automation, striving to make life easier for both developers and end-users.

Coworkers and friends look to me for programming advice and assistance in solving complex problems. I relish challenging projects. I strive to write exceptionally clean code, along with suites of thorough unit and integration tests. I am pragmatic, and bear performance in mind, however. Multiple times I've profiled and analyzed code and design, and identified opportunities to speed up and/or reduce footprint by a factor of 1000x or more.

I enjoy working on interesting and challenging problems, especially science-related ones, and on systems that impact large numbers of people. Contributing to open source projects would be a huge plus. I have experience working remotely, and with my background and abilities, I will be an asset to your team.

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