Location: Sweden, EU

    Remote: Yes (UTC +/- 5)

    Willing to relocate: No

    Technologies: Go, Python, Java, C++, GCP, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Linux, CI/CD, WebRTC, gRPC, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, PyTorch, LLM APIs

    Résumé/CV: Available on request

    Email: (initproc) at (proton.me)

10+ years building infrastructure and backend systems at FAANG, FAANG-adjacents and early-stage startups. I've led projects across the full stack, from cloud infrastructure to product, through developer productivity and ML/AI pipelines, payments and real-time communication systems.

I'm particularly useful early on: greenfield architecture, getting a team to move fast without accumulating debt, and navigating compliance (SOC2, GDPR) without it becoming a distraction.

Regex works well if you have a very limited set of sender and recipient accounts that don't change often

Bayesian or DNN classifiers work well when you have labeled data.

LLMs work well when you have a lot of data from lots of accounts.

You can even combine these approaches for higher accuracy

  Location: Sweden, EU
  Remote: Yes (can work within UTC +/- 5)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C++, Java, Python, Go, Linux, GCP, AWS, Terraform, Bazel, CI/CD, Github Actions, WebRTC, Data processing (big and small), Machine Learning and AI (Tensorflow, LLM APIs and local models).
  Résumé/CV: Available on request
  Email: (initproc) at (proton.me)

Background: 10+ years experience across startups and big tech (ex Google and Stripe). Lead and contributed to projects in compliance/security, distributed systems (Fintech, payments processing, real-time communication), machine learning and AI, as well as developer productivity and release engineering.

The scoring could be improved.

If you live in Sweden then you will also know that the state puts refugees in the same areas (Rinkeby, Vivalla, Tensta, etc ...). These areas are then labeled as unsafe because of a slightly elevated crime rate and because they're labeled unsafe, swedes start moving out and quality of services and house prices drop and the downward spiral continues until the area becomes a ghetto even though they're usually not that bad.

Although SFI exists to teach Swedish to immigrants, the quality of the teaching is not great in most schools.

That's where the integration effort stops.

Even professionals who move to Sweden for work have a hard time integrating in Swedish society. That's how you end up with people living in upscale parts of Stockholm for 10+ years and can barely form a sentence in Sweden.

They release a lot of open source stuff as other commenters have mentioned but you can't build a Facebook or Instagram competitor just by integrating those components.

Producing the Kythe graph from the bazel artifacts was the most expensive part.

Working with Kythe is also not easy as there is no documentation on how to run it at scale.

Sourcegraph is the closest thing I know of.

The main challenge is getting capital.

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A area where software will have a huge impact is crypto mining. As a community we should be proactive in reducing the amount of energy wasted on crypto mining. If you think about it, only the rich have the ability to mine lots of crypto coins and these are people who could have used the same investment to do more positive things in their communities like donating computers to local schools or let the electric power they consume be used for more meaningful purposes instead of buying yet 10 more GPUs and plugging them into the grid. NVIDIA was on the right track with their firmware changes to slow down mining.

Git a is distributed version control system that most people shouldn't have to deal with. It has awful tools and doesn't work well with binary files, large files and moved files. Just an example: How do you diff two copies of an excel document with Git?

Most people don't have to deal with multiple "master" branches with no single source of truth because that's really what Git is for.

What most people need, including software engineers working in closed source, is a single source of truth with good history, diff and large files support.

I believe a tool like Dropbox or even centralized version control systems like Subversion or Perforce are better positioned to solve this than Git.

Many cloud based tools already have features that give them the upper hand over git. For example, Google docs allows collaborative editing and editors have access to file history and can revert to specific versions.

Maybe there are tools to diff binary files like two versions of an audio file or two excel documents or whatever two [domain specific file format] documents.

I will be happy if version control came at the file system or cloud drive level and the app just leveraged this integration seamlessly instead of forcing everyone to learn the difference between between branching, rebasing, cloning, copying, stashing, etc...

Your existing programming experience will give you a head start in a few courses.

Most importantly, it will be easier for you to get an internship while studying and you will get exposed to real world software engineering in a hopefully successful software company.

The degree will also make it easy to relocate across the globe. Some countries require university education or many years of experience to even let you work there as a software engineer.

The main problem is that the KYC and risk checks run by european and american companies don't take into account how people relate to each other in Africa and how money flows in the continent. It's possible that one person regularly sends money to several relatives with different names and in different cities in the span of a few weeks. Fraud detectors at the european/american remittance companies don't like that.

Many of us are also living abroad temporarily and want to retire in our home countries. We want to repatriate most the money we earn abroad but banks in the west don't make it easy.