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New comment by pgmcgee in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"

pgmcgee — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:10:50 +0000

Location: Atlanta, GA

Remote: Yes, or hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Cybersecurity Leadership, Software Engineering (Java, Python, Go, etc), Distributed Systems, Infrastructure, Product Security

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/parker-mcgee

Email: parker@thosemcgees.com

I'm a cybersecurity leader with 15+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, product security, offensive security, and management. I recently took the summer off to take care of my kids while my wife started a grad school internship. Now I'm back and looking for a new opportunity. Before this, I was at HubSpot, leading infrastructure security (cloud security, vulnerability management) and a new group we called Threat Operations, responsible for incident response, threat intelligence, offensive security, and product detection engineering.

I'm looking for a position in cybersecurity leadership where I can leverage my breadth of technical experience to lead and strengthen a cybersecurity program. I love grabbing time to chat with people about the industry and challenges I can help with, even if you don't have a position to offer.

Fox News explains Github

pgmcgee — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:53:15 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Huth/status/378306063520374784/photo/1/large

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6380425

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by pgmcgee in "Google 'down,' let's do an experiment"

pgmcgee — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:57:44 +0000

ISP: Sprint 3G Location: Atlanta, GA

A List Apart 5.01

pgmcgee — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:34:37 +0000

Article URL: http://alistapart.com/blog/post/a-list-apart-5-01

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5222010

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

A List Apart 5.0

pgmcgee — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:08:51 +0000

Article URL: http://alistapart.com/article/a-list-apart-relaunches-new-features-new-design

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5117356

Points: 120

# Comments: 85

How To Set Up A Costa Rican Computer Lab

pgmcgee — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:28:43 +0000

Article URL: http://ethertontech.com/2012/09/10/costa-rican-computer-lab/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505012

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Trajan is the Movie Font

pgmcgee — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:12:54 +0000

Article URL: http://vimeo.com/432490

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4484182

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pgmcgee in "Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine"

pgmcgee — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:24:30 +0000

When you first release a product/feature, the people that are going to really use it are the "early adopter" crowd. Once they embrace it, then you can spend the capital to roll it out to the later adopters. I'd be willing to bet that Android has far fewer early adopters than iOS.

New comment by pgmcgee in "Why France Has So Many 49-Employee Companies"

pgmcgee — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:32:54 +0000

You do realize that these things cost real money, right? Costing money for meaningless, valueless endeavors makes a business's overhead go up. When the overhead goes up, it has to be cut in other ways, usually by cutting employees. Unfortunately, that's difficult in France, which is why he is complaining. It's not sociopathy, it's business.

New comment by pgmcgee in "Danish Startup Community Unified Against The Entrepreneur Tax"

pgmcgee — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:37:21 +0000

That's actually an incorrect way to think about it. Actually, Dropbox is paying for the free accounts, in an attempt to convert people to paying accounts.

Dropbox is simply offering a product which is priced around where supply and demand meet. I'm sure if Dropbox believed that they could make more money by increasing or lowering the price, they would. By paying for Dropbox, you're not paying for the free tier, you're paying the price that you think Dropbox is worth. It just so happens that Dropbox can make a good profit at that price point, even with the cost of the free accounts.