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Brandon Website
Personal blog · willett.io/posts · on HN as pickledishprogrammingcareerai
Brandon Website is a personal blog at willett.io about programming, career and ai. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
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Location: Currently Washington DC Remote: OK Willing to relocate: Yes (only within [NYC, Philly, DC]) Technologies: Go, Python, Kubernetes, service architecture, SQL, message queues, API servers, load balancers Résumé/CV: https://www.willett.io/assets/resume.pdf Email: brandon@willett.io --- Hi! My name is Brandon. I'm a backend and platform dev with a little over 5 years of experience, most recently as an SRE at Da…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)”Submitted How to build software like an SRE as a story · 316 points
HN discussionHa, this looks great, the list of goals seems really similar to a list I came up with a couple years ago for what I’d consider optimal for a writing device, too: http://www.willett.io/posts/device/ So, I’m of course in total agreement, and interested! Is there any place we can sign up for some kind of mailing list?
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on “PaperTerm Concept, An e-paper remote terminal device”Submitted Let's Build Intuition for Watermarking as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLocation: Northeast US (NYC / Philly / DC) Remote: OK Willing to relocate: Yes (within Northeast US) Technologies: Go, Python, AWS/GCP/Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Postgres, load balancers Résumé/CV: https://www.willett.io/assets/resume.pdf Email: brandon@willett.io --- Hi! My name is Brandon. I'm a backend and platform dev with a little over 5 years of experience, most recently as an SRE at Datadog f…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)”Submitted Exploiting Self-Improvement as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLocation: Northeast US Remote: Prefer in-person but remote could be OK too Willing to relocate: Yes (ideally within Northeast US) Technologies: Go, Python, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Consul, Terraform, load balancers, proxies Résumé/CV: https://www.willett.io/assets/resume.pdf Email: brandon@willett.io --- Hello! My name is Brandon, I'm a backend + platform developer with a little over 5 years of experience.…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023)”Submitted Some anecdotes from vibe-coding a Sublime Text plugin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: Northeast US Remote: Depends, could be OK Willing to relocate: Yes (ideally within Northeast US) Technologies: Go, Python, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Consul, Terraform, load balancers, proxies Résumé/CV: https://www.willett.io/assets/resume.pdf Email: brandon@willett.io --- Hello! My name is Brandon, I'm a backend + platform developer with a little over 5 years of experience. Most of that experience…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)”Submitted A Simple Way to Start Measuring Developer Efficiency as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Software With 4,999 Other People as a story · 1 points
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