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bifrost

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Founder of HashPlane. Previously founded CryptoSeal (YCS11), sold to Cloudflare in 2014. SF Native.

Resume : http://www.minions.com/resume/

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bifrost··on Why drivers risk tickets instead of parking in their garages
Sounds about right.
bifrost··on Mahbod Moghadam: An Obituary
Man was a legend. Ever since I found out my heart has been heavy. RIP MABO.
bifrost··on Do loud pipes save lives? (2021)
Its still total garbage, it was spun.
bifrost··on Do loud pipes save lives? (2021)
Thats gross.
bifrost··on Do loud pipes save lives? (2021)
Uh, up until the last 20 years or so, CHP bikes were like that.
bifrost··on Do loud pipes save lives? (2021)
Bicyclists earn it too.
bifrost··on Do loud pipes save lives? (2021)
This is total garbage lol. You can absolutely watch cars move out of the way when motorcycles with loud pipes come through... Its amazing to experience on your own as well.
bifrost··on After five years I discovered why my network goes down (2020)
Its the right amount of solution IMO.
bifrost··on TV Station Launches Multiple 4K Broadcasts OTA on ATSC 1.0 [video]
This is pretty neat!
bifrost··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)
Network/DevOps Engineer

Location: San Francisco

Remote: Yes, willing to work both onsite and remotely.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: BGP, Global Internetworking, Wireless, Security, Firewalls, VPN, GPU, AI/ML, IaC, Juniper, Cisco, FreeBSD, Linux

Résumé/CV: http://www.minions.com/resume/

Email: bifrost@minions.com

My TLDR; 20+ years of experience in operations and scalability. I'm great with managing large scale buildouts either on-prem or in the cloud. On the management side I'm best when managing 1-15 people, as an IC I am self directing and am fine with any size team. I've been doing consulting for a while but I'm looking to join up with a team that has 1-5 engineers ideally but I'd be fine with a larger org if I think the product is cool. I tinker with embedded stuff, HAM radio and cooking unusual foods from around the world.

bifrost··on Lobste.rs Invite?
Thank You!
bifrost··on Why I Live in IRC (2015)
Basically everything about it.

The clients, the server, the org that manages it.

bifrost··on Why I Live in IRC (2015)
ah ok. I was just curious if we knew eachother back then.

I have the sneaking suspicion that I know your handle but I won't share lol. Feel free to email me or something.

bifrost··on Why I Live in IRC (2015)
For a very long time Rizon was populated entirely with useless trolls, whats the troll/signal ratio like now?
bifrost··on Why I Live in IRC (2015)
Yeah, there were two but for the most part there was administrative cooperation between groups.

It was hard work keeping the trolls at bay and the Lunix spammers/users in check.

bifrost··on Why I Live in IRC (2015)
Discord is annoying AF for highly technical users like myself.

The company itself seems to be riddled with problems so honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it was dead in the next 48 months.

bifrost··on Why I Live in IRC (2015)
Its because Matrix is just that bad.
bifrost··on Why I Live in IRC (2015)
Yep, that was me.
bifrost··on Why I Live in IRC (2015)
As one of the former opers in there, yeah, we talked about it a lot lol.

If you go real deep I went to the same highschool as JKH so sometimes we'd talk about that too...

bifrost··on Why I Live in IRC (2015)
Dianora is on Mastodon.social last I checked
bifrost··on Why I Live in IRC (2015)
There really wasn't an OC1 in use anywhere, OC3s were for sure.
bifrost··on Why I Live in IRC (2015)
Which server?
bifrost··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: BGP, Global Internetworking, Wireless, Security, Firewalls, VPN, GPU, AI/ML, IaC, Juniper, Cisco, FreeBSD, Linux

Resume: http://www.minions.com/resume/

Email: bifrost@minions.com

My TLDR; 20+ years of experience in operations and scalability. I'm great with managing large scale buildouts either on-prem or in the cloud. On the management side I'm best when managing 1-15 people, as an IC I am self directing and am fine with any size team. I've been doing consulting for a while but I'm looking to join up with a team that has 1-5 engineers ideally but I'd be fine with a larger org if I think the product is cool. I tinker with embedded stuff, HAM radio and cooking unusual foods from around the world.

bifrost··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, sorry; Can travel some.

Technologies: Highly experienced in all things network and system. Bare Metal, Cloud (Azure/AWS), AI/ML, Terraform/Ansible/Salt, Python/Ruby/C/PHP/Other, Monitoring, Vault, Linux, *BSD, Juniper/Cisco/Arista/Palo Alto, Postgres, Redis, ECS/Jails/Docker/Kubernetes.

Résumé/CV: http://www.minions.com/resume/

Email: bifrost@minions.com

Bonus Facts: Advised several successful startups on growth and strategy. Worked on HN (yes, here). Not looking for specific comp, more interested in the project than the money. If you're a small project and have no money, hit me up anyways, I'll help you out.

bifrost··on Why we’re dropping Basecamp
The Library seems to not support freedom of thought/association.

I guess we'll see in 30-90 days what happens (if anything).

I donate a reasonable portion of my profits to FIRE so I guess I'll find out where my dollars go :) That said they seem to support mostly noble causes so I'm not gonna stop giving them money.

bifrost··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
SSD's have a finite write life, I talk about this a lot because I've hit it, a lot.

I've also hit a few specific firmware bugs in drives, my favorite was a 49 day uptime bug related to a 32 bit counter.

Its one of those awful ops problems :)

bifrost··on Why we’re dropping Basecamp
Entirely possible they'll be dropped down after this.
bifrost··on Why we’re dropping Basecamp
They're going to be BigMad(tm) when they find out what MSFT does...
bifrost··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: NO

Technologies: Datacenters/Cloud, Infrastructure, Networking, Infosec

Résumé/CV: http://www.minions.com/resume/

Email: bifrost@minions.com

FunFact: I used to help out with HN when I worked at YC.

Looking to go fulltime somewhere that my experience can be useful. Recently I've been doing some infrastructure work for AI companies that are building out compute resources, security/network auditing and automation. I would be open to doing more long-term contracting for the right company but ultimately I'd like to be in-house.

bifrost··on Bifrost: A peer-to-peer communications engine with pluggable transports
huh.
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