100hr/week workaholic, graduated early (3.5years) from Carnegie Mellon SCS (7% acceptance rate, ranked #1 in US), 100,000+ lines of code (20k JS, 10k Go, 10k PHP, 4k shell, 30k C/C++, 5k Java, 5k Python, 3k Perl, 3k C#, 1k Rust), 300+ books read, Vim master, touch typist,
* Graduated early from Carnegie Mellon SCS (3.5 years). Course work highlight:
--- Operating Systems (OS)
--- Distributed Systems
--- Mobile Apps
--- Real world Algorithms
--- Minor in Machine Learning, neural networks
* 4 years of experience as a software engineer at a Silicon Valley company.
* Graduated early from High School (3 years)
* Extremely experienced: Over 100,000+ lines of code written professionally at a Silicon Valley company
* Extremely well read: 2015, 120 books. 2016, 70+ books. 2017, 50+ books.
* Workaholic! I read, study, or work 100+ hours a week. It really adds up. Like you can't believe.
* Extremely proficient with vim, a beast code editor.
* Touch typist. I have to mention this because I've actually *seen* a professional software engineer hunt and pecking! How do you get any work done like that?
* My superpower is shell scripting - this allows for incredible automation ability of my work.
* Proficient in ALL of these languages (thousands of lines of code in each of these): Golang, C++, C, C#, Python (Flask, bottle), Javascript (VueJS, Angular, Backbone, jQuery, React, NodeJS, TypeScript), Rust, Java, PHP, CSS, HTML, Applescript
* Experience with all of these:
--- Wordpress (Elementor, Divi)
--- MySQL
--- SQL
--- Git
--- Linux (especially CentOS)
--- Docker
--- Arduino, Raspberry Pi
--- Mongo DB
--- Assembly language
* Unusual contracts I have taken!
--- Linkedin crawler, Linkedin bot
--- Runescape bots! (I'm ashamed to say I had insane fun with this one. Used Dreambot)
--- porting 10,000 lines of C# sharpcompress to Javascript for RAR uncompress.
--- AWS cost consulting. I've seen some crazy AWS bills ($10,000+ per month. Crazy)
--- Mail server with Postfix
--- shell automation
--- Google Sheet/Google Script "macros"
--- surveyjs.io surveys.
--- automate Google's Indexing API. Automate Requests to Index a URL that changed.
--- automate Amazon AWS Cloudfront Invalidation. Actually a lot easier than you think.
--- setup SSL certificates using Lets Encrypt. Automate SSL renewal.
Have also done extensive work in marketing (which I realized I needed to learn if I ever wanted to start a business)
* Shopify stores, Facebook Ads, Google Adwords, custom funnels + landing page
* Spent $11,000 on Facebook Ads, $10,000 on push notification ads, $1000 on search PPC ads (Bing + Google)
* Which is not that much compared to the "big boys", but enough for me to get the basics of paid traffic, and have huge respect for the marketing skill.
* affiliate marketing, StackThatMoney
Favorite books (I write this section in the hopes of connecting with anybody out there who shares the same interests!):
* Nassim Taleb's writings, by far. I've re-read parts of Antifragile many times. I'm also a huge fan of his twitter. If you like Taleb, chances are pretty good we'll get along. And if you hate him, then we probably won't.
* Munger's talks. His first commencement speech given at USC was what kickstarted super massive personal growth in me, starting around January 2015 when my career first started.
* Scott Adams How to Lose at Everything
* Feynman's writings
* Some of TimFerriss's stuff. Not all of it.
Special section for Shopify Apps: I've interviewed ~50 Upwork developers for Shopify Apps when trying to hire someone for my own Shopify App. I've seen so many outrageous quotes (hall of fame stupid was 6-7 weeks for something that should take 8 hours). I'm telling you now to really watch who you hire for Shopify Apps.
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