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SteveMorin

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Hacker and Angel

http://www.stevemorin.com

Contact: steve (at the domain) stevemorin.com

http://hnofficehours.com/profile/SteveMorin/

twitter.com/stevemorin

PS I am experienced hacker/engineer looking for technical co-founders. Shoot me a message if your interested in meeting up in SF.

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SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2018)
SEEKING WORK | San Francisco | Remote Okay Steve Morin, Currently CTO for 50+ person startup/company. Looking for new engineering leadership role. I've worked a Yahoo, AT&T and started companies before, so have a nice variety of experience with platforms at scale, dealing with mature organizations and growing small teams to mature ones. I have also opened up international offices for companies for growth and expansion. I have a deep specialty in BigData and Data Systems engineering as I started an ran a large consultancy in the US that specialized in that for large companies. Would consider fulltime in addition to consulting roles.

  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Java, Python, Javascript/React, Elixir/Erlang, Perl, Hadoop, Kafka, Spark Hbase, Elastic Search, Docker ....
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebmorin/
  Email: steve@stevemorin.com
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2018)
Steve Morin, Currently CTO for 50+ person startup/company. Looking for new engineering leadership role. I've worked a Yahoo, AT&T and started companies before, so have a nice variety of experience with platforms at scale, dealing with mature organizations and growing small teams to mature ones. I have also opened up international offices for companies for growth and expansion. I have a deep specialty in BigData and Data Systems engineering as I started an ran a large consultancy in the US that specialized in that for large companies. Would consider consulting roles in addition to fulltime.

  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Java, Python, Javascript/React, Elixir/Erlang, Perl, Hadoop, Kafka, Spark Hbase, Elastic Search, Docker ....
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebmorin/
  Email: steve@stevemorin.com
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Got a CS degree, but I’m unable to be programmer. What can I do?
Happy to chat with you just email me Steve dot Morin @ Tripping dot com. Am a CTO at a Bay Area company happy to give advice.
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
Tripping.com | San Francisco | Full-Tie | ONSITE | VISA | Tech Lead - Frontend

  How you will spend your time:
As Technical Lead you will spend 70% of your time on coding/development 30% in technical leadership and keeping team deliverables on track.

Help architect our front end to improve the dev workflow, create proper separation of concerns and abstractions to optimize development while keeping the site fast.

Make use of our rich dataset to improve the effectiveness of Tripping.com, and delight our customers and partners. Experimenting and testing, validating and shipping product. Collaborating with cross-functional and cross-geography team.

  Mentoring engineers, enhancing our commitment to learning, inspiring the leader in each of them, promoting peer code reviews and innovation.

  Tech Stack, React, Javascript, Erlang, Elixir, Ruby, Python, AWS, Kafka, Postgres, AWS Lambda
Apply below and you can email the CTO steve.morin@tripping.com

https://jobs.lever.co/tripping/05dfa448-53ca-4861-90d4-a0681...

SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
Tripping | San Francisco, CA | FULLTIME | http://www.tripping.com Do you love Travel?

Frontend/Fullstack Architect Salary + Equity You are an experienced frontend engineer / architect who knows how to build the solid front end architectures. Experience refactoring frontend technologies. You know the right abstractions to organizing the site, technologies and components to allow teams to separate concerns and know how to maximize workflows of engineers and designers. Frontend technologies are React/Javascript. Middle tier is a combination of Ruby on Rails, Erlang/Elixir and Node.js. Data Science and Analytics is mostly Python.

  - At least 7 years of relevant experience
  - Experience in developing front end web technologies
  - Strong front end experience: Javascript React
  - Understanding of HTTP protocol, RESTful APIs
  - Knowledge of MVC (Ruby on Rails or similar)
  - Bonus knowledge of Erlang, Elixir or Phoenix 
  - Bonus knowledge of GraphQL
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Trippingcom/743999663276768...

Can email CTO at steve.morin@tripping.com

SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)
Tripping | San Francisco, CA | FULLTIME | http://www.tripping.com

Do you love Travel?

Frontend/Fullstack Architect Salary + Equity You are an experienced frontend engineer / architect who knows how to build the solid front end architectures. Experience refactoring frontend technologies. You know the right abstractions to organizing the site, technologies and components to allow teams to separate concerns and know how to maximize workflows of engineers and designers.

  - At least 7 years of relevant experience
  - Experience in developing front end web technologies
  - Strong front end experience: Javascript React
  - Understanding of HTTP protocol, RESTful APIs
  - Knowledge of MVC (Ruby on Rails or similar)
  - Bonus knowledge of Erlang, Elixir or Phoenix 
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Trippingcom/743999663276768...

Can email CTO at steve.morin@tripping.com

SteveMorin··on Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you change them?
I am very interested in this, and would like to contribute. How do I get in touch with you?
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
Frontend Architect, San Francisco FULL-TIME, Salary 140K-180K + Equity You are an experienced frontend engineer / architect who knows how to build the solid front end architectures. Experience refactoring frontend technologies. You know the right abstractions to organizing the site, technologies and components to allow teams to separate concerns and know how to maximize workflows of engineers and designers.

  - At least 7 years of relevant experience

  - Experience in developing front end web technologies

  - Strong front end experience: Javascript React

  - Understanding of HTTP protocol, RESTful APIs

  - Knowledge of MVC (Ruby on Rails or similar)
 
  - Bonus knowledge of Erlang, Elixir or Phoenix 
https://hireclub.com/jobs/senior-front-end-architect-trippin...
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
Tripping.com | Senior Front End Engineer | San Francisco CA | Full-Time

TRAVEL -> Do you love travel? We do it's at the heart of everything we do. Tripping is the vacation rental travel search engine.

We are looking for a front end veteran, who's ideally lead teams and re-architected sites to make all components modular and easily tested isolated sections so changes can be made quickly. This is going to be a key role for the team.

Main technologies are React and Rails for the front end.

https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Trippingcom/101599015-front-...

You can email the CTO directly at steve@stevemorin.com

SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2017)

  Current: CTO
  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Yes
  Specialties: Advertising, TV, Media, Data Systems, Scalable Platforms
  Former Founder: Yes
  Experienced Exit: Yes
  Willing to relocation: Yes
  Techologies: Java/Python/Ruby/C, Hadoop/Postgres/Oracle/Mysql/Hbase, AWS, Google Cloud, Kafka Spark/Flink Kinesis, Kubernetes, Mesos, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, React, Angular2 
  Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebmorin/
  Email: steve@stevemorin.com
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2017)

  Current: CTO
  Location: San Francisco
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocation: Yes
  Techologies: Java/Python/Ruby/C, Hadoop/Postgres/Oracle/Mysql/Hbase, AWS, Google Cloud, Kafka Spark/Flink Kinesis, Kubernetes, Mesos, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, React, Angular2 
  Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebmorin/
  Email: steve@stevemorin.com
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2017)
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco - Remote OK - Travel Possible Experienced CTO/Software Engineer with a history in startups and fortune 500 companies. Have a engineering team if needed.

Proficient in:

  * Python, flask
  * Javascript, React/Redux
  * Java
  * Shopify, Subscription (Recurly, Strip)
  * Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Hbase ...
  * Ansible, Chef, Jenkins
  * AWS, Google Cloud - API Gateway, Lambda others
  * Kubernetes and app scaling
We've worked on full applications, to also integrating as an extension of your team. Have provided due diligence for acquisitions, project oversight, product management expertise all the way to just core development.

Previous engagements include Autodesk, GE, Kixeye, Twilio, Hortonworks among others.

For more info see our page at http://www.conceptm.com, or talk to us at hn@conceptm.com

SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2017)
SEEKING WORK Location, San Francisco or Remote

Consultant Experts in data ingestion, big data, nosql and traditional data systems. Kafka, AWS Datapipelines, AWS Lambda, Hive, Druid, Spark, Flink, Presto, Impala, Mysql, Posgres, Oracle, Snowflake, Redshift, HDInsights, MapR, Cloudera, Hortonworks

If your a fortune 500 company or a startup we'll be able to get your data, ingested and or migrated for what ever you need, streaming batch or both. Also work on data monitoring and profiling systems

http://www.conceptm.com/ our site is more general but specialty is data.

Email: steve at conceptm.com

SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)
Comcast | Sunnyvale, CA | Full Time | Onsite | Backend

We have 3 roles open - Senior Backend Engineer - Big Data Engineer - Sr DevOps Engineer

Technologies: Hadoop, AWS..., Lambda, Spark, Flink, Hive, Druid, Airflow, React, Redux, Java, Python ....

We are building data systems to support new advertising and data systems for Comcast

Here is the link to one of the roles: http://jobs.comcast.com/job-149761-software-engineer-4-hadoo...

If your interested email me at steve@stevemorin.com not considering any recruiters sorry (not budgeted)

SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2016)
SEEKING FREELANCER - SF - REMOTE

Rate 20-30 US Dollars Per Hour - 20+ hours per week preference for fulltime dedicated candidates.

Required Skills ---------------

  - python  - git  - aws (some experience with any set of users)
  - network programming experience aka not web/rest
  - intermediate to advance linux skills
  - Jenkins or other continous integration system
  - programming in atleast 1 compiled language (Java, C, C++ ...)
  - experience with atleast 1 open source project contributions (can be just a bug fix on the low end)
  - experience with test driven development and unit testing
Nice to have Skills -------------------

  - aws lambda, twisted or other async framework (reactor pattern) non-blocking io, erlang/elixir, creating packages
Expectations -------------------------------------------

  - Ability to get on a call atleast 3 times a week between 8am-10am PT
steve at stevemorin.com
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2016)
SEEKING FREELANCER - SF - REMOTE

10-20 USD hr looking

Required Skills ---------------

  - python  - git  - aws (some experience with any set of users)
  - network programming experience
  - intermediate to advance linux skills
  - Jenkins or other continous integration system
  - programming in atleast 1 compiled language (Java, C, C++ ...)
  - experience with atleast 1 open source project contributions (can be just a bug fix on the low end)
  - experience with test driven development and unit testing
Nice to have Skills -------------------

  - aws lambda, twisted or other async framework (reactor pattern) non-blocking io, erlang/elixir, creating packages
Expectations -------------------------------------------

  - Ability to get on a call atleast 3 times a week between 8am-10am PT
steve at stevemorin.com
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Any unfinished side projects to give away?
S3b why?
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2016)
SEEKING WORK: San Francisco, On location or remote anywhere worldwide

I am an Engineering and Product leader with diverse experience leading teams and projects at both Fortune 500 Companies and Startups. Have lead projects from Management Consulting engagements that have involved 150+ interviews, to project review/oversite and have been head of product and engineering. If you need a senior consultant to fill a special project contact me. steve@stevemorin.com

- Interim CTO - Acquisition Due Diligence - Management and Strategy Consulting - Product Development Consulting - Specialties in Advertising/Media and Big Data Technologies

Languages: Java, Erlang, Python, C, Ruby, Javacript

Full Stack Engineering:

Specialty Technologies:

  - Hadoop
  - Kafka
  - Cassandra 
  - Riak
  - Erlang
  - Hive
  - Cascading
  - Spark
  - Flink
  - Drill
  - Docker
  - Mesos
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebmorin
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: What's it like to work at Adobe?
I have worked as a consultant at Adobe, it's very 9-5 on the teams I have worked with. People are nice, campus is good. Pretty corporate but overall think would be good experience. Like anything else who your manager is and which team your on will greatly affect your experience there.
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2016)
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco Bay Area, Remote or Anywhere USA

I am a Big Data Expert with 15 years of experience. I started my Big Data experiences at Yahoo! over 9 years ago. I started a AdTech company sold to AOL, Director at AT&T, VP of Product at Sociocast and CTO/Founder at Nvent. Advisor to Concurrent Inc

Business:

  - Extensive experience with AdTech
  - Specialty building Data Pipelines
  - Expertise building Centers of Excellence
  - Hands on Software Architecture and CTO Consulting
  - Experience building Unified Data Platforms and DMPs
  - 360 View of Customer Projects for fortune 500 companies
  - Developing Marketing/Advertising Cross Channel Platforms (Search, Display, TV, Email) for fortune 500 companies
  - Marketing Optimization
Tech:

  - Certified in Apache Spark
  - All Hortonwork and MapR Certifications (6 in total Admin, Developer and Hbase)
  - Certified DataStax Cassandra Architect
  - Most Cloudera Certifications (3 in total)
  - Developed BigData centers of Excellence
  - Kafka Experience
  - Streaming experience with Storm, Flink and Spark
  - Certified Docker Consultant
  - Certified Cascading Developer
  - Hadoop - Hive, Drill, Sqoop, Flume
  - Mesos Development and Admin Experience
  - Search: Elastic Search and Solr
  - Main Languages: Java, Python, Ruby
  - Ansible, Puppet, Chef experience
  - Fullstack and Mobile Experience as well
Website: http://www.nventdata.com Website: http://www.stevemorin.com Github: https://github.com/smorin Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevebmorin

You can email me at: steve (at) stevemorin.com

SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
Nvent | Full Time | Onsite | Hungary, Budapest

Sr Software Engineers at our Budapest Office. We are looking for Sr team members to join our new Budapest office to work on our BigData Software Platforms and Solutions. We'll be interviewing this week in Budapest and considering one engineer to run the Budapest office.

  - Strong Experience with Java 
  - Excellent English communication skills, written and spoken.
  - Bonus for experience with BigData Technologies: Storm, Spark, Kafka or Hadoop 
Email: Steve Morin - smorin@nventdata.com
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
ANYWHERE USA - Nvent - Nventdata.com Nvent is currently looking for several Big Data Hadoop Architects, Software Engineers and Infrastructure Engineers for full time positions as a consultants with Nvent. If you want to know more, send me an email back and let me know. Then we can set up a time to chat and I can tell you all about Nvent and the open roles. If you don’t have an updated resume, that’s ok, we want to know more about you and what you can bring to the team. We can work with you on getting your resume together. Must be willing to travel every week to the client site as needed, all travel paid for by Nvent.

We are open to sponsoring Visa's and greencards.

Open Positions:

   1. Infrastructure Automation Engineer and DevOps
   2. BigData and Hadoop Software Engineer
   3. BigData and Hadoop Architect
   4. BigData and Hadoop Sr Architect
   5. Big Data Hadoop ETL and Data Pipeline Software Engineer or Architect
   6. BigData Specialist: Realtime Streaming Software Engineer or Architect
   7. BigData Specialist: Cascading Software Engineer or Architect
   8. BigData Specialist: NoSQL Software Engineer or Architect
   9. BigData Specialist: Enterprise Search (Solr/Elastic+Other) Software Engineer or Architect
   10. BigData Specialist: Apache Spark Software Engineer or Architect
   11. BigData and Hadoop Infrastructure Administrator
   12. BigData and Hadoop Infrastructure Architect
   13. BigData and Hadoop Infrastructure Sr Architect
   14. BigData Specialist: Hadoop Infrastructure and Security Software Engineer Architect
Contact me: Managing Partner CTO/Steve Morin smorin@nventdata.com OR Kendall Battleson Director of Recruiting 843-213-1049 kbattleson@nventdata.com­
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2015)
SEEKING FREELANCER - San Francisco

We're a BigData company looking for a Systems/DevOps girl/guy with some exposure to Hadoop ecosystem. Other technologies used are ansible, nagios, ganglia, openstack.

It's a fulltime 6 month contract till the end of the year and must be local on site in downtown SF.

If your interested please email me (Steve Morin) your resume at smorin at nventdata.com

SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)
ANYWHERE USA - Nvent - Nventdata.com

Nvent is currently looking for several Big Data Hadoop Architects, Software Engineers and Infrastructure Engineers for full time positions as a consultants with Nvent. If you want to know more, send me an email back and let me know. Then we can set up a time to chat and I can tell you all about Nvent and the open roles. If you don’t have an updated resume, that’s ok, we want to know more about you and what you can bring to the team. We can work with you on getting your resume together. Must be willing to travel every week to the client site as needed, all travel paid for by Nvent.

Open Positions:

   1. Infrastructure Automation Engineer and DevOps
   2. BigData and Hadoop Software Engineer
   3. BigData and Hadoop Architect
   4. BigData and Hadoop Sr Architect
   5. Big Data Hadoop ETL and Data Pipeline Software Engineer or Architect
   6. BigData Specialist: Realtime Streaming Software Engineer or Architect
   7. BigData Specialist: Cascading Software Engineer or Architect
   8. BigData Specialist: NoSQL Software Engineer or Architect
   9. BigData Specialist: Enterprise Search (Solr/Elastic+Other) Software Engineer or Architect
   10. BigData Specialist: Apache Spark Software Engineer or Architect
   11. BigData and Hadoop Infrastructure Administrator
   12. BigData and Hadoop Infrastructure Architect
   13. BigData and Hadoop Infrastructure Sr Architect
  14. BigData Specialist: Hadoop Infrastructure and Security Software Engineer Architect
Contact me: Managing Partner CTO/Steve Morin smorin@nventdata.com OR Kendall Battleson Director of Recruiting 843-213-1049 kbattleson@nventdata.com­
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)
Nvent - San Francisco - [ Hadoop Architect :: Data System QA :: Big Data DevOps ]

Apply to me the CTO steve@nvent.solutions

Our firm is the McKinsey/Marines of Data System and Big Data Engineering are looking for people that are passionate about data. We specialize in all things data from Ingestion, Storage, Processing to Querying, Analyzing and Visualization. We work with tools like Hadoop, Storm, Cassandra/Hbase, Kafka, Tableau, D3, QlikView, R and Sas.

Open Positions:

  - Hadoop Architect
  - Data System
  - QA Engineer
  - DevOps - General
Salary Based on Experience and fit: 120K-180K
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2014)
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote I am looking for the development of a brand guide and logos for my company and our main products.

Background: The company works in the Big Data space and is inherently technology focused. DemandCube is a high-end technology (BigData) consulting company and that logo will require a somewhat classic feel.

NeverwinterDP is a data pipeline which is the main umbrella product that contains the rest of the products names (Scribengin, Queuengin, Sparkngin). The logos will be used initially for branding on some internal websites/document, powerpoint presentation headers and various other branded items.

A data pipeline is software that help move large volumes of data from one place to multiple destinations to be saved, filter and processed in real-time and in batch.

This company and product is being built in the BigData ecosystem which is the Hadoop ecosystem. Hadoop (http://hadoop.apache.org) Generally when people are thinking about BigData they are thinking about thing like visualizations like you find in D3 (http://d3js.org/)

If your interested the I would like to talk as see if there is a way to work together.

steve@demandcube.com

SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2014)
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote or SF

We are hiring someone fulltime to help setup/develop and run performance benchmarks in Hadoop against various SQL Engines for compatibility and performance (Hive, Impala, Spark SQL). This is to be fulltime for 4 to 6 weeks tentatively longer.

   * Hadoop
   * Impala
   * Shark
   * Drill
Send your resume, and explain why your perfect for this project. Describe all the hands on experience you have with Hadoop which distro's and any experience with Hive, Impala, Drill, Spark SQL and other related

   Email: steve@demandcube.com
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
REMOTE We are hiring/sponsoring a developer to join the team and work fulltime on the Open-Source Data Pipeline for Hadoop NeverwinterDP.

    The Open-Source Team is based internationally and is distributed with founding
    members in San Francisco.
Do you love data systems, distributed computing, high availability, high performance systems that take advantage of the state of the art in technologies and best practices.

It's be a lead and help drive the future of the Hadoop Ecosystem

Technologies

   * Hadoop and Ecosystem Components
   * Yarn
   * Kafka
   * Netty
   * Storm
   * Hbase
   * Java Chronicle
   * Hazelcast
   * Docker
   * Jenkins
   * Ansible 
You:

   * Self Driven
   * You can dive the project future and vision
   * Your looking for something full time and remote
Send your resume, and explain why your perfect for this project/team. What will your first contributions be.

   Email: steve@demandcube.com
See the Project at https://github.com/DemandCube/NeverwinterDP
SteveMorin··on Setup a single node Hadoop 2 cluster with 1 command
Do you use hadoop much?
SteveMorin··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014)
SEEKING FREELANCER - Philadelphia PA, Looking for an person with consulting for 2 to 4 week consulting project that is business process, systems and information architecture modeling. This is a full-time role for these few weeks. To start in 1 week.

  - Information Architecture
  - Business Process Modeling
  - Consulting Experience
If interested email me at steve@demandcube.com
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