Location: Baltimore, MD
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Python, AWS, serverless (particularly AWS Lambda), Kubernetes, RESTful APIs, SPAs, Flask, Javascript/Typescript, IaC (e.g. Terraform, Cloudformation, Helm, CDK, etc.), Postgres, various devops and monitoring stacks and platforms (including ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
Email: david@d10i.dev
Résumé/CV: please ask
hi! I'm David, a software/devops engineer with a passion for grit and going from 0 to 1. I've been building software and infrastructure for over 10 years, and most recently have built enterprise B2B SaaS products for organizations in the cybersecurity space.
I run a consulting company (atomweight.io), and have provided infosec, devops, and software engineering services to a variety of clients. I am open to both full-time and contract engagements.
I don't particularly enjoy coasting or clocking out at 5pm (mostly since I'm a night owl), so I'm looking for opportunities where I can move fast, build, ship fast, contribute the most value, and grow. If my skills and experience seem like a good fit for your needs, please reach out!
In WWII, we saved the world from what is now seen as some really evil stuff. Not alone of course, Europe and Russia made huge sacrifices and that's where much of the war was fought. But US arms and blood were the decisive factor, Germany was winning, Japan was winning.
After WWII, the US decided to rebuild the world. We turned our enemies (Germany, Japan) into our close allies.
And the people who did it were really and seriously morally committed to doing what they thought was right. It was about building a country, working together. Not the insane politics of today.
Look, it wasn't all rose-tinted glasses. Bad stuff happened, and McCarthy was worse that what we currently have. And the civil rights movement and all of that. And the stupid wars, Korea, Vietnam, all the smaller police actions. Bad shit was done.
But on balance, the US was seen as the force of good, and the guaranteeor of world peace and the prosperity that allows.
The USA were pretty clearly on the "better side" of conflicts in 1941-1945, during the Cold War (at least as far as Europe and the Marshall plan was concerned). In Koweït and central Europe during the 90s. You may even argue for Afghanistan post 9-11 (although the state building was botched.) in the 2000s. ISIS is a footnote in history because of US intervention (from Trump first term, of all things.) And Ukraine would not be against getting the support it had in 2022 back under Trump.
Does not mean that very bad things were not happening at the same time.
But it's definitely easier to find some "supportable" interventions from the US than, say, Russia or China.
https://ultrasync.dev/ - this was built a few months ago but expanding to support team based features like centralized sharing and management of ADRs to enrich my coding agent's context, the ability to broadcast prompts to team members running the MCP server, and more. the core is open source and provides (i think) a novel approach to improving planning/exploration speed in coding agents, by building an LMDB and using Hyperscan (accelerated pattern matching) to build a lightweight lexical and semantic index for RRF search, all in a single MCP server that runs and indexes chat transcripts in the background, requiring zero prompting or "nudging" or additional setup.
https://mklogo.sh/?utm_source=hackernews - wanted to scratch a personal itch of having to repeat the same process to produce vectorized logos for my personal projects; generate decent quality logo in raster with various LLMs, attempt to vectorize via claude code and vtracer or other tooling, continue to iterate and tweak until various edge cases that result in corrupted or artifact ridden vector images are gone, or give up and try a new design, and then manually try to scale and apply transformations based on the use case (mobile icon, favicon, app icon, header logo, github org logo, etc.). this does that, vectorizes, gives you a branding package as a zip file, and lets you preview the assets in shadcn components so you get a real feel for how they'll look in prod.
In big corporations that's how it is. Developers are told to only implement what is in the specs and if they have any objection, they need to raise it to PM who will then forward it to the system architect etc.
So that creates the notion as if the design was something out of reach. I met developers now who cannot develop anything on their own if it doesn't have a ticket that explains everything and hand holds them. If something is not clear they are stuck and need help of senior engineers.
Technologies: Backend (primarily Python, also Go, Typescript), frontend (React, Typescript, etc.), full stack, and DevOps/infra/DevSecOps (Terraform, K8s, the etc.)
hi there, I'm David; I'm an experienced backend + devops engineer, passionate about building 0-1; specifically end-to-end (backend, frontend, and infra) enterprise grade applications for organizations of all sizes, from startups to scale-ups.
I like it, I listen to it frequently. it often surfaces music that I forgot about that I had on repeat a while ago, kind of like a discover weekly but with a higher density of... certified bangers, and fewer skips.
the voice and "personality" of DJ X is annoying but it's infrequent enough that I can live with it. my only gripe is that in longer sessions, he tends to play music I have no interest in, e.g. "what's hot right now" - my library is 10k+, I would have hoped he wouldn't run out of material and resort to current top 10 country or something.
I'm probably more of an active listener most of the time, where I'll alt-tab or hotkey or whatever to skip or change playlist if I'm not vibing. I'd want super high quality playlist curation in terms of taste and variety if I were to listen to an AI DJ/generated playlist. I like Spotify's new mix feature, been using that with my own playlists and have been enjoying that so far.
after being prescribed Mirtazapine, then Trazadone I realized I don't think I've had restful sleep as long as I can remember. I need a sleep study done probably but until that the quality of life from taking something that has virtually no negative side effects for me is insane.
meanwhile people are like "just take magnesium or melatonin lol"
Nobody should take this as medical advice, but from my own experience, nothing has made a bigger difference in my sleep quality than supplementing with magnesium glycinate. I didn't even start taking it for that purpose - I was taking it for something else and quickly noticed that it made the quality of my sleep significantly better. The only side effect from it is that sometimes I have strange dreams (not nightmares or anything, just odd).
Everyone should check with their doctor, but it's an inexpensive supplement and the effects (if any) show up pretty quickly, so IMO it's worth a shot.
I run a consulting company (atomweight.io), and have provided infosec, devops, and software engineering services to a variety of clients. I am open to both full-time and contract engagements.
I don't particularly enjoy coasting or clocking out at 5pm (mostly since I'm a night owl), so I'm looking for opportunities where I can move fast, build, ship fast, contribute the most value, and grow. If my skills and experience seem like a good fit for your needs, please reach out!