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I am a factory worker now

blog.jamesolds.me
2 points·by oldsj·7 tháng trước·2 comments

Building a (useful) voice assistant I can call from my watch

blog.jamesolds.me
1 points·by oldsj·9 tháng trước·0 comments

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oldsj
·6 tháng trước·discuss
Location: Remote (US)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, TypeScript, Terraform, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Dagster, LLMs/AI tooling (Pydantic AI, Langfuse, Qdrant)

Résumé/CV: https://blog.jamesolds.me/james-olds-resume.pdf

Email: james + hn @ oldsmail . com

GitHub: https://github.com/oldsj

Blog: https://blog.jamesolds.me/

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Full Stack / Platform Engineer, previously at Trail of Bits.

Recent focus: Designed entire K8s infrastructure with secure best practices and Tailscale for intranet connectivity to self hosted services - supporting the team that placed 2nd at AIxCC DEF CON 2025. Built out multiple full-stack apps with Svelte, Tailwind CSS, Typescript, Python.

Currently building https://github.com/oldsj/mainloop so that I can more quickly build https://understanding.news, a reasoning layer for political news and comments.

Looking for: Full-stack AI native product development roles or Platform Engineering roles. Full time or contract
oldsj
·6 tháng trước·discuss
I think we’re slightly better than random at this point
oldsj
·6 tháng trước·discuss
I like the idea. As a solo dev I've experimented with creating Claude subagents for multiple perspectives for "team leads" and will run ideas through them (in parallel). The subagents are just simple markdown explaining the various perspectives that are usually in contention when designing stuff. And a 'decider' that gives me an executive summary.

  agents/
    |-- customer-expert.md - validates problem assumptions, customer reality
    |-- design-lead.md - shapes solution concepts, ensures UX quality
    |-- growth-expert.md - competitive landscape, positioning, distribution
    |-- technical-expert.md - assesses feasibility, identifies technical risks
    |-- decider-advisor.md - synthesizes perspectives, executive analysis
oldsj
·6 tháng trước·discuss
I’ve been working on running agents (Claude agent sdk) on k8s this looks great to control their egress
oldsj
·7 tháng trước·discuss
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oldsj
·7 tháng trước·discuss
I'm just glad it can run async of my main thread now, so I can spawn other agents for more interesting things