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    <p>I like working with good people, building interesting things, and pulling up others to do more.</p> <p>I’m an engineer (PHP/Java/C++/Python/JS/C#/etc). I’ve lead major increases in revenue, while simultaneously improving user quality. I have experience in technical design, process improvement, team leadership, user experiments, and data analysis.</p> <p>I’ve interviewed several hundred people and worked in multiple positions with hire/fire responsibilities. I’ve done extensive K-12 outreach, worked as a teaching assistant, and written an awful lot of patents. Prior to technology, I worked as a cab driver, concert promoter, and bartender.</p> <hr> <p>If there was a course that computer science degrees lack that was designed to make you a much better engineer early-career, even odds that <a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/020161622X" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Pragmatic Programmer</a> and <a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0735619670" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Code Complete</a> would be the texts. As the less-technical guide to working in the software industry, <a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1449302440" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Team Geek</a> is worth a read. (Or it's second version, Debugging Teams.)</p> <p>For interviews specifically, Steve Yegge made a <a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-google.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">post that got me my job</a>, and I wrote a <a href="http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41881.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">later article</a> talking about technical interviews aimed at undergrads. Gayle McDowell's set of books are the full length master class.</p> <p>Meanwhile, some of my responses on stackoverflow:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1326925/what-should-a-developer-know-about-interface-design-usability-and-user-psycholog/1527086#1527086">What should a developer know about UI design?</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1791075/what-to-avoid-when-a-project-has-been-partially-outsourced/1791175#1791175">Pitfalls when outsourcing?</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1521444/so-was-that-data-structures-algorithms-course-really-useful-after-all/1521479#1521479">Why is a data structures course important?</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1799484/when-should-and-shouldnt-you-break-away-from-oop-for-speed-performance/1799506#1799506">When should you break away from xxxx to improve performance?</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21922143/why-isnt-the-referral-removed-for-google-https-http/29505577#29505577">Why isn't the Referral Removed for HTTPS -> HTTP?</a></li> <li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29552651/how-to-take-integer-and-remove-other-data-types-from-the-file-java/29552845#29552845">Meta: in the comments, showing someone how to ask questions</a></li> </ul>
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