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"I’m currently looking for work in a staff or senior staff engineering or data scientist role. If you’ve got interesting technical analysis or optimization prob
by aresant 7y ago
"I’m currently looking for work in a staff or senior staff engineering or data scientist role. If you’ve got interesting technical analysis or optimization problems, please reach out to me and let’s talk."
That is probably the best CV I've ever read by accident.
You should broaden your job hunt criteria to technical content marketing - seriously!
Very rare to possess the skill to tell a story in an entertaining, approachable and detailed technical fashion.
- metaweta 7y agoHahaha, thanks!
- hanniabu 7y ago> If you’ve got interesting technical analysis... FYI, not sure if english is your first language or not but this should be "If you have interesting technical analysis..."
- FroshKiller 7y agoNative American English speaker. "If you've got" like this is perfectly idiomatic.
- dantillberg 7y ago"If you've got" may not be formal "correct" English, but everyone understands it and it's used quite commonly in daily speech (and writing). I would wager that "if you've got" may actually be preferable to "if you have," in order to engage the reader at a more comfortable, personal level.
- andrepd 7y agoThe issue is, I think, "you've got analysis" vs either "you've got an analysis" (singular) or "you've got analyses" (plural). Still, pretty minor thing to nitpick about.
- wyattpeak 7y agoYou're misparsing the sentence: "If you’ve got interesting technical analysis [or optimization] problems". "Technical analysis" is an adjective, not a noun.
- andrepd 7y agoSo I am. I was reading off the GP's (incomplete) quotation it seems.
- Blake_Emigro 7y agoFYI, not sure if english is your first language or not but this should be "If you have interesting technical analysis..." I'm not sure if English is your first language, but this should be, "if you have interesting technical analysis..." Everyone can pick apart the mistakes of others, find mine!
- anyfoo 7y agoSo correct, that I distinctively remember learning it from school books in English class in Germany.
- dkersten 7y agoGermans tend to pronounce A's in English as if they were E's ("cat" is pronounced as "k-eh-t" instead of "k-ah-t" -- which I don't really understand since A in German is pronounced as "ah"), so I'm not sure if everything you learned in English class is correct ;-)
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- wl 7y agoIt may not be formal English, but it's idiomic language that a native speaker would use. > Where have expresses a state rather than an event it is replaceable by the idiom have got. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, 2.5.6(c).
- nickysielicki 7y ago> If you’ve got the time... We’ve got the beer. Miller beer. https://youtu.be/k_HzThfudIk https://youtu.be/k_HzThfudIk
- tmountain 7y agoIf you’ve got the money honey / I’ve got the time. —Willie Nelson (American Treasure)
- Expeditus419 7y agoI saw this post and initially skipped it because I know how crypto threads go on HN. Then saw on LinkedIn it was from you. Can confirm, this gent is a great engineer and is actually a nice guy.
- metaweta 7y agoThanks!
- ogre_codes 7y ago> That is probably the best CV I've ever read by accident. Exactly what I was thinking.
- antonzabirko 7y agoWhat's different from other CVs? Seems similar to pitches on most personal sites.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y agoThis "CV" is the embodiment of show, don't tell: it's a lot more convincing than a bullet point saying "experienced cryptographer".
- antonzabirko 7y agoYeah but that's because you're on his site. Go on other personal sites and you will experience the same, no?
- adamweld 7y agoHe didn't say it was the only job pitch that he'd read at the end of an article. He said it was the best one.
- antonzabirko 7y agoI didn't say it was the only one he read, i was asking how it's any better than all the other same ones lol.
- cptaj 7y agoSadly its not a well paid skill on average (As in, excluding famous youtubers or whatever)
- VSerge 7y agoI share your sentiment. This seems to be a great engineer, storyteller, and a person able to make a complex technical story accessible to a layperson with only minimal dumbing down (except if I'm too ignorant to perceive the magnitude of the possible dumbing down, in which case, oh well). In any case, dear author, thanks for the write up, it makes for great reading, and I hope you receive offers for endeavors that give you as much intellectual stimulation as it is useful to society at large, and a large enough paycheck.