• EA - I’m Offering Free Engineering and Consultation for EA Aligned Projects by Soof Golan

  • Aug 10 2022
  • Length: 4 mins
  • Podcast

EA - I’m Offering Free Engineering and Consultation for EA Aligned Projects by Soof Golan

Listen for free

View show details

  • Summary

  • Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: I’m Offering Free Engineering and Consultation for EA Aligned Projects, published by Soof Golan on August 10, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL;DR: How to contact me If you think this could be useful to your org, please book through this calendly (Google Meet). As a fallback, I’m available as well through WhatsApp. I’m offering help with: (In no particular order) Software engineering Algorithm Implementation Solving performance problems Backend development Computer Vision Pushing that feature always wanted, but didn’t find the resources to implement Data Science Weird quests you're not sure what genre they fall into Strange problems Software engineering consultation Bottleneck Analysis Design review Mentoring If you don't see anything on this list that matches your problem, you can still book and tell me about it, I'd be happy to listen. Why do I think I’ll be useful? I expect to need very little management overhead and I’ve successfully done such things in the past, such as: I lead the engineering of an autonomous drone startup, which included: Real-time tracking and navigation algorithms Computer vision (ML + classic) I 1000x improved the performance of a critical framework within Apple. I onboarded to Connected Papers in under an hour, added monitoring to their systems and improved an important performance bottleneck that was bothering them by at least 20x. I removed almost 50% of manual labor needed in my team at Wix that regarded user onboarding. See my full CV here. Should you contact me? If you think I might be useful to you - yes. Right here. Alternatively, give me feedback on why not in this form. What kinds of problems do I think I’ll be useful with? TL;DR: Complicated problems please! (If you're not sure - book with me!) Engineering “We want to find a scheduling solution with the following constraints” “We need to reduce the amount of alerts / errors in production” Performance “Our cloud bill is exploding when we have a lot of user activity” “Our app feels unresponsive” “We can’t add more tests because our test suite is already too slow” “Let’s grab a coffee while my build runs!” Mentoring / Consultation “We need to grow our engineers but don’t have capacity” (also see Yonatan’s mentoring post) “Which database should we choose?” “We can’t onboard new engineers because it would take too much time walk them through our system” What will working with me be like? A meeting over video where we talk about your engineering challenges and figure out if I’m a good fit. An onboarding session to your codebase (optional) Ongoing communication mostly with async messaging PRs at your repository’s doorstep Direct communication I like to be frank about things (especially around engineering) that I’d, eh, do differently. I do this in a constructive way aiming to help make the situation better (this is indeed what I’m looking for - help solve this stuff), and still, I’d like to say explicitly that I’d like to work with people who are happy with this style of communication. How can you help? Refer software orgs / teams to me, if you believe they could benefit from a strong engineer in the short term. Let me know why your org chose not to work with me. Here's the form for that. This is all very much a beta endeavor, I plan to tune what I’m offering based on my observations, any feedback and suggestions to improve this effort are welcome. Special thanks to Yonatan Cale for helping me create and memeify this post. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.
    Show more Show less
activate_WEBCRO358_DT_T2
Show more Show less

What listeners say about EA - I’m Offering Free Engineering and Consultation for EA Aligned Projects by Soof Golan

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com reviews

Amazon reviews
No Reviews are Available