Alex G.

UPDATE: only interested in Director/Senior Director/management positions. No longer interested in predominant IC role. 100hr/week workaholic, graduated early (3.5years) from Carnegie Mellon SCS (7% acceptance rate, ranked #1 in US), 100,000+ lines of code (20k JS, 10k Go, 10k PHP, 4k shell, 30k C/C++, 5k Java, 5k Python, 3k Perl, 3k C#, 1k Rust), 300+ books read, Vim master, touch typist, * Graduated early from Carnegie Mellon SCS (3.5 years). Course work highlight: --- Operating Systems (OS) --- Distributed Systems --- Mobile Apps --- Real world Algorithms --- Minor in Machine Learning, neural networks * 4 years of experience as a software engineer at a Silicon Valley company. * Graduated early from High School (3 years) * Extremely experienced: Over 100,000+ lines of code written professionally at a Silicon Valley company * Extremely well read: 2015, 120 books. 2016, 70+ books. 2017, 50+ books. * Workaholic! I read, study, or work 100+ hours a week. It really adds up. Like you can't believe. * Extremely proficient with vim, a beast code editor. * Touch typist. I have to mention this because I've actually *seen* a professional software engineer hunt and pecking! How do you get any work done like that? * My superpower is shell scripting - this allows for incredible automation ability of my work. * Proficient in ALL of these languages (thousands of lines of code in each of these): Golang, C++, C, C#, Python (Flask, bottle), Javascript (VueJS, Angular, Backbone, jQuery, React, NodeJS, TypeScript), Rust, Java, PHP, CSS, HTML, Applescript * Experience with all of these: --- Wordpress (Elementor, Divi) --- MySQL --- SQL --- Git --- Linux (especially CentOS) --- Docker --- Arduino, Raspberry Pi --- Mongo DB --- Assembly language * Unusual contracts I have taken! --- Linkedin crawler, Linkedin bot --- Runescape bots! (I'm ashamed to say I had insane fun with this one. Used Dreambot) --- porting 10,000 lines of C# sharpcompress to Javascript for RAR uncompress. --- AWS cost consulting. I've seen some crazy AWS bills ($10,000+ per month. Crazy) --- Mail server with Postfix --- shell automation --- Google Sheet/Google Script "macros" --- surveyjs.io surveys. --- automate Google's Indexing API. Automate Requests to Index a URL that changed. --- automate Amazon AWS Cloudfront Invalidation. Actually a lot easier than you think. --- setup SSL certificates using Lets Encrypt. Automate SSL renewal. Have also done extensive work in marketing (which I realized I needed to learn if I ever wanted to start a business) * Shopify stores, Facebook Ads, Google Adwords, custom funnels + landing page * Spent $11,000 on Facebook Ads, $10,000 on push notification ads, $1000 on search PPC ads (Bing + Google) * Which is not that much compared to the "big boys", but enough for me to get the basics of paid traffic, and have huge respect for the marketing skill. * affiliate marketing, StackThatMoney Favorite books (I write this section in the hopes of connecting with anybody out there who shares the same interests!): * Nassim Taleb's writings, by far. I've re-read parts of Antifragile many times. I'm also a huge fan of his twitter. If you like Taleb, chances are pretty good we'll get along. And if you hate him, then we probably won't. * Munger's talks. His first commencement speech given at USC was what kickstarted super massive personal growth in me, starting around January 2015 when my career first started. * Scott Adams How to Lose at Everything * Feynman's writings * Some of TimFerriss's stuff. Not all of it. Special section for Shopify Apps: I've interviewed ~50 Upwork developers for Shopify Apps when trying to hire someone for my own Shopify App. I've seen so many outrageous quotes (hall of fame stupid was 6-7 weeks for something that should take 8 hours). I'm telling you now to really watch who you hire for Shopify Apps. P.S. Read my testimonials! Long track record of happy clients:)