Hacker News: mburst

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)"

mburst — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:54:03 +0000

Location: San Francisco, Bay Area

Remote: Yes, open to onsite, hybrid, or fully remote opportunities

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, React, React Native, Go, PHP, SQL, Java, Kotlin, Ruby, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mburst/

Email: https://mailhide.io/en/e/iINzNpnc or LinkedIn

• Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building consumer products at global scale

• Spent 3.5 years building up the mobile app, backend, and business tooling for ride hail operations at Cruise including pricing, payments, real time communication, and geolocation

• Spent 7.5 years across the stack at Imgur working on products such as content recommendation, data platform management, media uploads, image classification, frontend gallery browsing improvements, and more

• Open to full stack or backend roles

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: Have you made IRL friends from HN usage?"

mburst — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 03:02:37 +0000

They pop up every now and then. Wouldn't say it's a common thing. Fwiw the overlap between a random tech meetup and HN users is probably pretty high. I've gone to a few in SF from meetup.com

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: Have you made IRL friends from HN usage?"

mburst — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 23:33:51 +0000

It was a good time for sure. I worked there 7.5 years before leaving. Still keep in contact with a lot of people from that job. On the first work day of the month there are hiring threads on HN if you end up wanting to check those out

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: Have you made IRL friends from HN usage?"

mburst — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 23:21:07 +0000

I've gotten a job through HN which has turned in to friendship if that counts. Every now and then meetups popup too which are cool

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)"

mburst — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 16:21:22 +0000

I believe it's US remote only. It can't hurt to apply though. The recruiting team may have other roles that are more globally available that they can point you to.

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)"

mburst — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 07:11:36 +0000

You can reach me in the email from my original comment or my profile. My first and last name is in my hn profile

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)"

mburst — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 23:47:46 +0000

Sorry to hear that. If it's for the role in my link or another product eng role let me know and I can have someone look in to it for you. If not the recruiter you're talking to is likely your best bet.

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)"

mburst — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 03:08:21 +0000

Awesome to hear you're interested! You can apply directly through the website there with your resume and someone from our recruiting team will reach out if there is a fit

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)"

mburst — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 23:17:40 +0000

Cruise | Full Time | San Francisco or US Remote | See links below for pay ranges

Cruise's ridehail team is looking for software engineering talent with backend, frontend, or full stack experience. On the backend we're using Express/Postgres/Redis with Typescript and on the frontend we're using React Native. Come help us build the future of self driving cars!

https://getcruise.com/careers/jobs/2537876/ - Staff Software Development Engineer (frontend, San Francisco or US Remote)

https://getcruise.com/careers/jobs/2657686/ - Senior Backend Software Engineer II (backend, San Francisco or US Remote)

https://getcruise.com/careers/jobs/2657665/ - Software Engineer, Consumer Ridehail Quality (full stack, San Francisco)

Feel free to reach out at firstname.lastname@getcruise.com I'm one of the software leads on the team

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)"

mburst — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 16:39:40 +0000

Cruise | Senior React Native Engineer | Full Time | San Francisco or US Remote | $166,600 - $245,100 + bonus + equity

Cruise's ridehail team is looking for a mobile expert to come in and help build out our iOS and Android app using React Native. Come help build the future of self driving cars.

https://getcruise.com/careers/jobs/2537876/

Feel free to reach out at firstname.lastname@getcruise.com I'm one of the software devs on the team

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?"

mburst — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 18:16:13 +0000

I started working on a project to solve this exact issue https://github.com/mburst/protomolecule. I haven't spent too much time building out other frameworks, but the first framework is React + Express which fits what you're looking for

New comment by mburst in "Cloudflare had a partial outage"

mburst — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 07:00:14 +0000

It's times like these when I'm appreciative of the simplicity of the HN tech stack. Was talking to some people on discord when it went down and then noticed some other websites were down. Came right to HN to see 5 different threads about this. Will be curious to see what the cause of the issue turns out to be

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: What's a Good Gift for Programmers?"

mburst — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 05:49:05 +0000

I really enjoy my pbt key caps. Programmers spend all day at the keyboard and the oils from their fingers wear down the key caps and make their keyboards look terrible. PBT feels better and takes longer to break down. You can get a good set for $30. Just make sure the key caps on their keyboards come off.

Logitech also makes some nice wireless mice around $100 that are pretty ergonomic and comfortable to use. Anything to help prevent carpel tunnel is nice.

A lot of programmers really love the jetbrains tool suite, but that's more subscription based.

A lot of free database viewer tools pale in comparison to their paid counterparts. So something in that arena could be nice

Imgur Acquired by Medialab

mburst — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 19:19:27 +0000

Article URL: https://imgur.com/gallery/We6yCM2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28674883

Points: 474

# Comments: 288

New comment by mburst in "Artist faked being a billionaire to photograph New York City’s best views"

mburst — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 04:50:00 +0000

I thought the same thing, but I found it hard to find views of inside of the apartments I sampled from the article. A lot of the apartment websites just talked about the amenities. Some had a floor plan, but no pictures of what the inside actually looked like. For a $7mil+ condo I was expecting a little more, but I'm also not really the target audience of those condos either

New comment by mburst in "Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers"

mburst — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 01:58:34 +0000

This reminds me of the Internet Explorer antitrust issue. Eventually Microsoft had to give users a choice on start up. Not sure if it directly led to better browsers or not, but it certainly didn't hurt. I could see the outcome being the same here where users will get to choose which store(s) they want on their device during setup rather than defaulting to the play or apple store

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: How do you prevent eyestrain with daily computer use?"

mburst — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:53:25 +0000

I've been running Flux https://justgetflux.com/ for over a decade now. Windows has something similar built in, but it's not as good as Flux in my experience. Flux has the ability to slower change the hue of your screen over time and gives you great control over it at every level. It also lets you set a notif for when you want to get up so when it alerts me that I'm 8.5 hours away from needing to wake up I know I need to start winding down

Programmatically Identifying Political Media

mburst — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:31:23 +0000

Article URL: http://www.maxburstein.com/blog/programmatically-identifying-political-media/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24970655

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mburst in "How to deploy a React app for free"

mburst — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 06:01:52 +0000

So cool to see all the different free services out there for getting in to web dev. I remember having to do graphic design work growing up to afford a shared hosting plan on my mom's credit card. Times have definitely changed :D

Lately I've been enjoying KubeSail's (https://kubesail.com/) free tier for playing around with some SSR things. A lot of the lambda like services don't do great with doing realtime stuff since they're just meant to run one piece of code then die a few seconds later

New comment by mburst in "Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?"

mburst — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 03:01:41 +0000

Yea my first programming job was translating word docs to accessible html for universities. The jobs around section 508 compliance seem mainly government related