I'm a deeply technical, hands-on engineer who has founded small companies and led multiple teams. My particular expertise is working with the business to identify high-ROI opportunities and bringing focus to engineering teams to accelerate product delivery. Specialties include:
- Rapid Prototyping: I can quickly prototype ideas leveraging LLMs, DevOps infrastructure, and other cutting-edge technologies.
- Fractional CTO: If you need a technical approach or hands-on help for your team, I can do both. I have been a CTO and Director of Engineering previously and have moved to an IC role as a Staff Developer currently.
- Accelerating Product Development: I take chaotic engineering teams and bring much-needed alignment and focus, ensuring they're working towards a unified goal and delivering products efficiently.
Some of my recent achievements include:
- Took charge of an unfocused team of 13 engineers and data scientists to launch the world’s first free machine learning-based dermatologist app in four weeks. Over 500k uses in 6 months.
- Built a document generation prototype using LLMs in two weeks, leading for it become a major development initiative across multiple teams.
- Lead product management and business development for an AI product I co-founded: aerial.ai. I led and landed deals with Amazon, Samsung, Panasonic, iRobot and others.
- Unlocking mid-market sales for a legal SaaS company by leading performance improvements that delivered 5-10x faster load times
Implementing an observability platform using OpenTelemetry to give insights on how our desktop app is performing.
I'm available for part-time engagements, either as a fractional CTO or as a hands-on technical leader. If you need help bringing clarity, focus, and rapid execution to your engineering efforts, let's connect.
Neat! As an alternative, `home manager (nix)` has an abstraction for defining shell alias[^1] regardless of which shell you use. The main requirement is that home manager also manages your shell for you.
[^1]: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.xhtml#o...
There are a number of fundamental pieces of Scrum that are needed so all the pieces fit together.
In the Sprint, one of the fundamental elements is having a "Sprint Goal". This allows the team to see the big picture and add/remove work during the sprint to get to that goal.
Without a clear sprint goal, then of course it's easy to loose the essence or "big picture" of what the team is trying to achieve during the sprint.
Looking back in my life, I've built sophisticated TODO list and second brain systems to help me manage. Now it's obvious that it's because my working memory is poor because of my neurodivergency. Omnifocus (for GTD) and Obsidian (to be an extension of my brain) are my goto for leveraging my ADHD superpower.
If you're looking for a community to learn more for yourself or for someone else: reddit.com/r/adhd is a great place to start.
Thanks for this playlist. The part describing time blindness and intention deficit hit me on the head. The lack of accountability truly is one of my worst enemies. If I have a task that doesn't have immediate accountability I will not perform it as soon as I should. Looks like I finally found my issue and I can start working on it. You changed my life with just a hyperlink.
originalvichy - You made my week. I hope you find a doc that can support you in this. Don't hesitate to each out to me (email in profile) if you need a sounding board.
If I may suggest, check your magnesium blood levels (and your daughter's).
Magnesium deficiency is also associated with symptoms similar to ADHD. Even for people who really have ADHD, several studies show that magnesium supplementation greatly improves many issues.
Magnesium helps a bit, but sugar in my experience is ADHD in powder form. The least carbs I eat, the better my brain functions. On a complete carnivore (i.e. zero carb) diet experiment, after the initial adaptation, my focus and motivation is increased 10-fold. But then I get bored, I cheat and I go into a deep unmotivated funk for a week.
It makes sense, as ADHD is mostly a dopamine-system imbalance, and carbs tend to increase the levels of tryptophan (serotonin), while proteins increase tyrosine (dopamine). The higher the levels of one, the lower the levels of the other. I'm a layman, this is my pet theory, but there's definitely not enough focus on the dietary aspect of mental health in my opinion.
Primary care docs should be able to walk with you on this. After pushing my doc a little bit, he gave me a questionnaire to complete and two weeks later I was starting different medications. There are all kinds of storied on reddit.com/r/adhd of people having issues with their doc. A psychiatrist would have a deeper expertise in managing ADHD if you can get access to one.
Zapier builds automation tools for small business. We have been remote first since the company start and we are hiring across pretty much all departments: https://zapier.com/jobs
I'm an Engineering Manager on the Data team and we are looking for a Data Engineer experienced in security. We support the Data Warehouse Engineers by building infrastructure and tooling to make their jobs easier and increasing the rate we make data driven decision in the company. If it sounds like you might be a good fit, please apply! https://zapier.com/jobs/5105760002/data-engineer-open-to-mos...
Technologies: Engineering Manager (1 exit), experienced managing/hiring teams of up to 13 engineers in AI space, web/mobile apps. My coding expertise is Java,Rails,React,Python. Expert in rapid development of products.
Fractional CTO & Staff Level Engineer for Rapid Product Delivery. Ex-Zapier
I'm a deeply technical, hands-on engineer who has founded small companies and led multiple teams. My particular expertise is working with the business to identify high-ROI opportunities and bringing focus to engineering teams to accelerate product delivery. Specialties include:
- Rapid Prototyping: I can quickly prototype ideas leveraging LLMs, DevOps infrastructure, and other cutting-edge technologies. - Fractional CTO: If you need a technical approach or hands-on help for your team, I can do both. I have been a CTO and Director of Engineering previously and have moved to an IC role as a Staff Developer currently. - Accelerating Product Development: I take chaotic engineering teams and bring much-needed alignment and focus, ensuring they're working towards a unified goal and delivering products efficiently.
Some of my recent achievements include: - Took charge of an unfocused team of 13 engineers and data scientists to launch the world’s first free machine learning-based dermatologist app in four weeks. Over 500k uses in 6 months. - Built a document generation prototype using LLMs in two weeks, leading for it become a major development initiative across multiple teams. - Lead product management and business development for an AI product I co-founded: aerial.ai. I led and landed deals with Amazon, Samsung, Panasonic, iRobot and others. - Unlocking mid-market sales for a legal SaaS company by leading performance improvements that delivered 5-10x faster load times Implementing an observability platform using OpenTelemetry to give insights on how our desktop app is performing.
I'm available for part-time engagements, either as a fractional CTO or as a hands-on technical leader. If you need help bringing clarity, focus, and rapid execution to your engineering efforts, let's connect.
Email: jevin@quickjack.ca Personal site: https://www.jevy.org Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, Kafka, 20 years with Linux LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jevinmaltais/