I have 20 years experience in software engineering much of that in the geospatial energy and utility space. I currently manage a team of 18 on large technical transformation projects. I have a strong background in architecture and development but have moved to management in the past 5 years. I do staffing and hiring, client relations, Business development, skill up plans for the team, creating short-lived skunkworks projects to explore new tech, mentoring Junior developers, and generally working to make my team independent and able to operate without me. I still do code reviews and work on POCs but not a lot of development outside of that.
Also tried it and it could have been a lot better. If I had any type of interview with that voice (press interview, mentor interview, job interview) I would think I was being scammed, sold something, or had entered the wrong room.
Not really a side project as I was trying to get traction on my ideas at my former employer.
I do contract work for a pretty niche industry and after you've done a couple big implementation projects, you've seen 80-90% of all user stories, integrations and edge cases.
I started a side project that was a combination of tooling, processes, checklists and methodology to stop reimplementing the same project work and stop approaching every client like it was greenfield work. Not fully productizing our approach but moving in that direction.
My company was not interested. During an interview I pitched my side project ideas and they immediately said they wanted to hire me. Skipped the rest of the hiring process and landed a new role doing exactly what I had wanted to do at my previous company.
I just can't imagine buying one of these for every person in my household so we can watch TV together or game together. My kids have friends over and they take turns playing on the switch. Even the kids who aren't playing get involved because they can see the screen and shout encouragement/advice/heckle.
Even if they come down in price by an order of magnitude, that's still too pricey to buy one for everyone in my house and an extra or two for a friend.
Totally see the value for certain specific business and industry uses though. My company has a product that help keep line and construction workers keep utility information up to date in real time by scanning poles, cabinets, transformers etc and identifying them along with positional information. This could be amazing for something like that and the price tag will just be a business expense.
The "big town" (8000 residents) near my town (2500 residents) rejected Walmart on these grounds 25 years ago. The town that accepted Walmart has grown tremendously whereas my big town has 14 empty storefronts on the two main streets which is about 25 percent of the walkable storefronts. It's probably a confounding factor more related to my town's resistance to change and growth than the fact that Walmart isn't there but that's my anecdata.
Location: Northeast U.S.
Remote: yes - for the past 14 years
Willing to relocate: yes, to certain areas in the U.S.
Skills: staffing and hiring, mentoring, cross-functional team creation (cloud, engineering, analyst, testing, pmo), .Net, python, JavaScript, GIS, OCM, contracts, business development.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ram-tech
Email: in HN profile
I have 20 years experience in software engineering much of that in the geospatial energy and utility space. I currently manage a team of 18 on large technical transformation projects. I have a strong background in architecture and development but have moved to management in the past 5 years. I do staffing and hiring, client relations, Business development, skill up plans for the team, creating short-lived skunkworks projects to explore new tech, mentoring Junior developers, and generally working to make my team independent and able to operate without me. I still do code reviews and work on POCs but not a lot of development outside of that.