plow-tycoon (u/plow-tycoon)

plow-tycoon commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes

Onsite/Hybrid: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Maybe

Languages/Frameworks: JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, React <19 (classes and hooks), Node, Angular.js <= 1.8, Swift, SwiftUI, Python, bit of assembly, c++, go, java

Tooling: Vite, Webpack, Github Actions, Docker, Jira, ESLint, testing-library

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13U3znCOGAdBZgjCfkjt30fqXRlZ...

Email: luke (at) luketully (dot) ca

Previously: Worked on the frontend team at JLL Technologies inc, formerly Envio Systems, on feature improvement and a big refactoring push from Angular 1.x to React/Typescript/Redux/Jest. We were responsible for a smart commercial building management system dashboard product, and the team was distributed across the EU, NA, and Asia, while I worked remotely from Vancouver.

Currently: Have spent my time learning Swift, SwiftUI while building out a native macOS app, building up my low-level knowledge through the Nand2Tetris course, and learning Nuxt + Django + Tailwind to strengthen my full-stack skills. I have about 8-10 years of experience depending how you count it. I'm just looking to do some decent work over the short or long term, FTE or contract (incorporated), happy to discuss options. I'd be open to both intermediate and senior roles, and am very adaptable, preferring small niche teams.

Goal: I'm based out of Vancouver, but happy to discuss different remote arrangements globally or hybrid in Canada. I enjoy working on sticky legacy problems, improving UX and DX, and making useful products with a good team.

plow-tycoon commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

plow-tycoon · 2 years ago

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes

Onsite/Hybrid: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Languages/Frameworks: JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, React (classes and hooks), Node, Angular.js 1.x, Swift, SwiftUI, Python Tooling: Vite, Webpack, Github Actions, Docker, Jira

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13U3znCOGAdBZgjCfkjt30fqXRlZ...

Email: luke (at) luketully (dot) ca

Previously: Worked on the frontend team at JLL Technologies inc, formerly Envio Systems, on feature improvement and on a big refactoring push from Angular 1.x to React/Typescript/Redux/Jest. We were responsible for a commercial building management product, and the team was distributed across the EU, NA, and Asia, while I worked remotely from Vancouver before getting laid off in early 2023.

Currently: Have spent my time learning Swift, SwiftUI while building out a native macOS app, building up my low-level knowledge through the Nand2Tetris course, and learning Nuxt + Django + Tailwind to strengthen my full-stack skills. I have about 8-10 years of experience depending how you count it, but it's fragmented and I'm just looking to do some decent work over the short or long term, FTE or contract, happy to discuss options. I'd be open to both intermediate and senior roles, and am very adaptable.

Goal: I'm based out of Vancouver, but happy to discuss different remote arrangements globally or hybrid in Canada. I enjoy working on sticky legacy problems, improving UX and DX, and making useful products with a good team.

plow-tycoon commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

plow-tycoon · 2 years ago

Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes Onsite/Hybrid: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Languages/Frameworks: JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, React (classes and hooks), Node, Angular.js 1.x, Swift, SwiftUI, Python Tooling: Vite, Webpack, Github Actions, Docker, Jira

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZvQaOaU5jujGb0mkQqgQZ6dhkig...

Email: luke (at) luketully (dot) ca

Previously: Worked on the frontend team at JLL Technologies inc, formerly Envio Systems, on feature improvement and on a big refactoring push from Angular 1.x to React/Typescript/Redux/Jest. We were responsible for a commercial building management product, and the team was distributed across the EU, NA, and Asia, while I worked remotely from Vancouver

Currently: Have learned Swift, SwiftUI while building out a native macOS app, and currently working on Nand2Tetris and learning Nuxt 3

Goal: I'm based out of Vancouver, but happy to discuss different remote arrangements globally or hybrid in Canada. I enjoy working on sticky legacy problems, improving UX and DX, and making useful products by integrating customer feedback throughout an iterative development process.

plow-tycoon commented on Wonderful $25/HR opportunity -or- Canada LMIA abuse and immigration fraud jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/j... · Posted by u/llm_nerd

llm_nerd · 2 years ago

This really is targeted at the Canadian HN readers per the Canadian job market and the extraordinary abuse that is happening right in the open.

New grads in Canada are having an incredibly rough time finding jobs. Canada is absolutely flooded with new arrivals (this isn't some sort of racist "some people look different!" appeal because of a few migrants, but instead is a factual observation that Canada has seen ridiculous levels of migration, hitting 3.2% population growth YoY. Population trap type numbers).

If you list a job in Canada, as I frequently do, you will get thousands to tens of thousands of applicants. Canada is awash in jobless software developers, particularly in generalized roles, and finding good candidates requires a lot of winnowing through garbage, but they are there.

So it's interesting that this "employer" -- whose only address in Canada seems to be the lawyers that did the provincial corporation filing -- claims that there is so little talent in Canada that they have submitted an LMIA submission to the government. An LMIA is a claim that there are no talents for a given need so they need to bring in someone that the employer selected to Canada.

I guess there are no suitable developers in Canada with their hilarious mix of needs with the acclaimed 7 - 12 months of experience from their 1-2 year education program. It's almost like it's written to be exclusionary.

This program is absolutely rife with fraud. The fact that there are zero credible checks -- note that to apply to this job you email them directly, so the government does not see the number or quality of applicants -- means that the program has widespread reports of employers using it to bring friends or family into the country, or third parties in return for a kickback of some sort. There are rampant reports of individuals paying tens of thousands to be "selected" for a LMIA position.

This is happening throughout Canada. And it is disgusting.

plow-tycoon · 2 years ago

Weird that you're downvoted, I was just nodding along in agreement, although there is some nuance like not being able to find someone on-site in Abbotsford.

That said, the Job Bank has always been this ridiculous, absolute embarrassment. I've seen other posts on there that are straight up fraud in the sense that someone has submitted a fake posting for another company, leaving an obviously fake email as the contact point. (To which I notified the company)

If you're hiring a frontend or generalist/Swift/Python person, I've been out of work for nearly a year now in Vancouver and am spending all day today applying to random general labor work since the software pursuit has stopped paying off; I don't know ML but am curious. Can find my info in my most recent "Who wants to be hired post". Willing to be on-site or meet up for coffee.

plow-tycoon commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

plow-tycoon · 2 years ago

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes Onsite/Hybrid: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Languages/Frameworks: JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, React (classes and hooks), Node, Angular.js 1.x, Swift, SwiftUI, Python Tooling: Vite, Webpack, Github Actions, Docker, Jira

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZvQaOaU5jujGb0mkQqgQZ6dhkig...

Email: luke (at) luketully (dot) ca

Previously: Worked on the frontend team at JLL Technologies inc, formerly Envio Systems, on feature improvement and on a big refactoring push from Angular 1.x to React/Typescript/Redux/Jest. We were responsible for a commercial building management product, and the team was distributed across the EU, NA, and Asia, while I worked remotely from Vancouver

Currently: Have learned Swift, SwiftUI while building out a native macOS app, and currently working on Nand2Tetris and learning Nuxt 3

Goal: I'm based out of Vancouver, but happy to discuss different remote arrangements globally or hybrid in Canada. I enjoy working on sticky legacy problems, improving UX and DX, and making useful products by integrating customer feedback throughout an iterative development process.

plow-tycoon commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

plow-tycoon · 2 years ago

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes, somewhat flexible regarding timezones and travel, but do not have a work Visa for the US, though I am an incorporated contractor in Canada.

Willing to Relocate: Not likely, but not impossible

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, React, Node (largely in-support of frontend build tooling), Angular.js 1.x (ideally only in terms of migrating to something else), Golang (minimal, mostly experimental), Swift/SwiftUI for macOS, GitHub/Jira, Docker, Python (Bit of Django, Flask, etc.. not expert)

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16mR4IqKHMhbUIKNZ-Moq_wUcwpX...

Email: luke (at) luketully.ca

Previously responsible for migrating/refactoring a commercial building analytics/automation dashboard product from untyped legacy angular.js and React class components to React hooks/Redux/Typescript with a small EU startup. I'm based out of Vancouver, but happy to discuss different remote arrangements globally or hybrid in Canada. I enjoy working with colleagues, including juniors, on tricky problems, and making useful products. Currently not interested in moving anywhere else permanently.

Since being laid off almost a year ago, I've been working on a native mac personal productivity tool, and learning more about low-level computing through Nand2Tetris.

plow-tycoon commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

plow-tycoon · 2 years ago

I’m a software engineer based out of Vancouver, Canada, with most of my ~8-10ish years of experience being on small teams, working on complex frontend JavaScript UIs, sometimes remotely and sometimes on-site. My last position was with a medium-sized building management system startup, iterating on their energy consumption and management dashboard interface, with colleagues in wildly different timezones, before being laid off earlier in the year due to downturns in the commercial real estate sector. This was largely in React with TypeScript and Jest, migrating a lot of code off of Angular 1.x. I’ve spent most of my dev time during the summer learning Swift and SwiftUI for MacOS from scratch, am very comfortable jumping into the deep end in tricky codebases, and enjoy the process of becoming a productive member of a new team.

Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes (US/Canada), somewhat flexible regarding timezones and travel, but do not have a work Visa for the US, though I am an incorporated contractor in Canada.

Willing to Relocate: Not likely, but not impossible

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, React, Node (largely in-support of frontend build tooling), Angular.js 1.x (ideally only in terms of migrating to something else), Golang (minimal, mostly experimental), Swift/SwiftUI for macOS, GitHub/Jira, Docker, Python (Bit of Django, Flask, etc.. not expert)

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jBFFqnKlcLD3zzjXjkB0kQCmEfZ...

Email: luke (at) luketully.ca

plow-tycoon commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

plow-tycoon · 2 years ago

Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes please, but am somewhat flexible regarding intermittent travel

Willing to Relocate: If I feel quite secure in that move as on overall opportunity rather than just moving arbitrarily to be on-site. It's not impossible, but I quite like it here.

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue, React, Node (largely in-support of frontend build tooling), Angular.js 1.x (ideally only in terms of migrating to something else), Golang (minimal, mostly experimental), Swift/SwiftUI for macOS, GitHub/Jira, Docker, Python (Bit of Django, Flask, etc.. not expert)

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g4gDBMM8J6VrmpASWxPpGLxHa1R...

Email: luke (at) luketully.ca

I’m a software engineer (mostly frontend web) based out of Vancouver on the west coast of Canada who was laid off a few months ago after the acquisition of the smart building platform startup (Envio Systems) by JLL inc (the same one on all the “for lease” signs in your downtown area). I spent much of my year and half there on a small team working to improve the existing legacy Angular 1.x dashboard application by improving design responsiveness, introducing TypeScript, migrating components to React, and services to Axios/Redux. We used GitHub Actions for code reviewing and test running, Jira for project management, and Slack for communications, and worked across some difficult timezones remotely.

Since then I’ve been enjoying the time off, working on a mac app in Swift and SwiftUI, as well as taking my time with looking for a new role, ideally on a small team where I can either continue as an individual contributor or something slightly higher-level, in a capacity that is challenging and requires the exploration of new systems, but in no specific domain. I enjoy iterative processes, lean development lifecycles, learning new codebases, and experimenting with developer tooling and build systems that reduce the latency in feedback loops, like Vite.