Since blacksmith labs and phoenix ai - the ai assisted automotive r&d, security and compliance engineering tool has been on the backburner for a while, I've been helping a couple of blockchain projects and built some tools, besides tinkering with my real-time EVM contract and transaction heuristics and classification engine.
- ETH Watchtower: a real-time EVM monitoring tool with heuristics and classification of contracts and transactions: https://ethwatchtower.xyz
- Low Cap Exchange algorithmic trading bots with machine learning and automatic ghost trading, because I wanted to see what the most common shapes are on smaller exchanges: https://github.com/rnts08/low-cap-exchange-trading-bot
However, I am really looking for Sr. DevOps/Platform Eng/SRE/System/Network Admin/Infra Engineering or similar, full-time or contract work, see https://timhbergstrom.pro for contact details.
I've built ETH watchtower, a real-time heuristics scanning tool checking contracts, addresses and transactions. The published version is a PoC and cut down since the full version is way too expensive for me to run together with the frontend for public use. If anyone is interested in building with me, hosting full low latency ethereum nodes or help out with the project feel free to reach out.
Senior DevOps, Infrastructure/Platform Engineer, Cloud Architect, and Security
Engineer with 20+ years of experience designing, automating, and
scaling mission-critical systems across data centers, cloud
platforms, and edge environments.
Open to interesting DevOps/SRE, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity or platform engineering positions as well as contract and consulting work in or around Ho
Chi Minh City, Vietnam - or remote worldwide, especially within the IaaS, PaaS, Startups, AI/ML, Security, Web3/DeFi, FinTech or Cloud sectors.
What is he supposed to do? I'm absolutely sure he's still looking, trying his best to find a job or a permanent solution to his situation. But there's no reason to complain and whine about things he can't change.
Life is shit sometimes, when he is out, he'll be out. Or he'll find some way of generating income, and then he gets another chance.
I've been in similar situations myself, and there is absolutely no reason to get stuck up regardless how stressful and painful it is, you can only do your best and that's it.
The worst thing about the whole kubernetes-cult and the like is that IaC and CM was supposed to help us reduce configuration, to make it less prone to failure and easier to manage.
But the truth is that we ran service based architecture, network meshes and containers with bash just fine before cloud everything, usually with less effort than it is to do literally anything today. Sure you had to know how to set up network bonding and how to tune your systems.
Very, very few people and businesses _needs_ kubernetes or it's cousins. Most just need a decent system administrator.
Congratulations, OP learned about "we expect loyalty and effort from you, but you won't get any from us", which is 99.5% of all companies out there. I hope OP does well on their own and don't have to work in this kind of disingenuous places in the future.
Great first step, now if we could just get apple hardware without apple software and get full access to the subsystems with a linux or android instead of the iOS/OSx slop, even I would consider paying for it.
Anyone wanting to introduce $new/$other language, database, library, deployment system, build system into a large enough system that doesn't solve any actual problem is a nightmare for someone working at this scale.
I don't mind the scale, I like it. I don't like having to fend off questions and complaints why we aren't deploying the latest shiny new thing in our core this week.
A lot of companies are speed running "How to lose your best engineers any%" lately. Yes, there are times for face to face but forcing people back to the office just to justify their space cost and middle managers meddling is a path to failure.
Yes, LI 10-15 years ago was a decent site for professional networking, before it got too much like social media. Looking for work, get in touch with or keep in touch with people that you share professional interests with.
I guess it wouldn't be technically challenging to create a platform for this, the problem would be to bring the right users and as you say, moderate the content to avoid what it has become today.
Show your certificates? Amazing!
Selfie with some half-assed inspirational "leader" quote? No!
We absolutely need a better platform for professional networking. A platform that's not filled with people who dislocate their shoulders trying to pat themselves on the back for some "inspirational" social media babble about the last time they managed to send an email.
But then you can't blame anyone else when shit hits the fan! Isn't that what you're really paying for with EDR? No one is safe from a targeted attack, regardless of software.