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alexkappa··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)
Beat | Amsterdam, Athens or Remote | Full Time | Various Roles | https://thebeat.co

Beat is one of the most exciting companies to ever come out of the ride-hailing space. One city at a time, all across the globe we make transportation affordable, convenient, and safe for everyone. We also help hundreds of thousands of people earn extra income as drivers.

Today we are the fastest-growing ride-hailing service in Latin America. But serving millions of rides every day pales in comparison to what lies ahead. Our plans for expansion are limitless. Our stellar engineering team operates across a number of European capitals where, right now, some of the world’s most ambitious and talented engineers are changing how cities will move in the future.

- Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Backend Engineer - Data Engineer - Machine Learning engineers - iOS / Android Engineer - Product Owner - Frontend Engineering Lead - Engineering Managers and Senior Engineering Managers

https://thebeat.co/en/careers/?intl=1&team=engineering

alexkappa··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)

  Role: Engineering Manager, Tech Lead
  Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go, JavaScript, Java
  Résumé/CV: Available on Request
  Email: alex.kalyvitis at gmail.com
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Hi HN! I’ve spent the majority of my time in adtech (sorry!) and briefly in airline revenue management in leadership roles for the past 3-4 years.

I’ve gone through the growing pains of hiring and retaining talented people, helped on the strategic side of things as well as pitched to customers, investors and m&a teams.

alexkappa··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2020)

  Role: Engineering Manager, Tech Lead
  Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go, JavaScript, Java, Kotlin
  Résumé/CV: Available on Request
  Email: alex.kalyvitis at gmail.com
—

Hi HN! I’ve spent the majority of my time in adtech (sorry!) and briefly in airline revenue management in leadership roles for the past 3-4 years.

I’ve gone through the growing pains of hiring and retaining talented people, helped on the strategic side of things as well as pitched to customers, investors and m&a teams.

alexkappa··on Improving Go code: An introduction to the static analysis tool Staticcheck
Staticheck is an awesome tool. I've used it quite a bit and (shameless plug) tried to build a codeclimate engine[1] for it a while back.

I remember trying to integrate it with code climate's tooling but for some reason or another I didn't manage to.

[1] https://github.com/alexkappa/codeclimate-staticcheck

alexkappa··on Show HN: The Segment AWS Stack
Thats the `terraform graph` command.

[0] https://www.terraform.io/docs/commands/graph.html

alexkappa··on FIFA 2014 World Cup live stream architecture
Thanks for sharing this! How long was your team given to complete this project?

  Cassandra response time was increasing with load to a certain point where clients started to timeout and the video playback completely stopped.
and

  After these changes, we were able to achieve a latency in the order of 10ms for our 99% percentile.
How did you test this? Are there any benchmarking/load testing tools for cases such as streaming?
alexkappa··on MongoDB, how to sort results
I'm sorry but how is this post hacker news worthy? One can just read the mongodb manual [1] and find out for himself.

[1] http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/method/cursor.sort/

alexkappa··on DuckDuckHack
This is an awesome idea and a great next step for duckduckgo. Hack your own search engine FTW!
alexkappa··on [dead]
I'm pretty sure this is a repost. This PDF was released for free a couple months ago.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3182-get-your-free-copy-of-ge...

alexkappa··on Instagram Fakes Spreading Malware on Android Devices
The title of this post has nothing to do with the post itself. TNW you suck.
alexkappa··on Secret Computer Code Threatens Science
The title is somewhat misleading. It made me think of a "secret code" hidden behind a bush waiting to cut the throat of Science...
alexkappa··on Orbvt - a Svbtle/Obtvse clone in Meteor
It's nice to see a meteor hack so early on. Meteor seems really awesome. But why does everyone these days try to copy Svbtle? Besides being a sleek blog design I see nothing that special that everyone is trying to copy. Svbtle is the new Bootsrap :-)
alexkappa··on How URL Shorteners Should Change
So what you're basically saying is that url shorteners shouldn't shorten urls anymore?
alexkappa··on PHP-Snow - A concise, dry and beautiful language that compiles to PHP
So true...