Dream job is alignment research at Anthropic, where I've already applied. Otherwise looking for exciting full-time work ideally within the following domains: AI Safety, Computational Science, Crypto, Research, Dev Tooling.
Currently doing very cool full-time contract work porting research simulation workflows from PhD laptops to the cloud, which I'd keep doing but need benefits!
Focusing on senior / principal / management full-time roles. 10+ years tech startup experience at varying stages of growth, high-agency generalist, enjoy leadership, remote since 2017, have maintained LLM workloads, familiar and comfortable with LLM-assisted coding. Most of my career has been working in data-intensive settings, backend application development, and handling devops on AWS infrastructure. Started my professional career at Warby Parker, and before that I taught myself to code trying to start a company building LED wearables for raves out of college. Physics and philosophy degrees, interested in everything, especially governance and complexity reduction in technical systems.
$ curl -L ryantuck.io/resume.json | jq '.buzzwords'
{
"Wisdom": "Complexity is the velocity killer. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Code is meant to be read by humans and only incidentally executed by machines. Don't be smart, just restart. Stop duplicating state, network is fast in the cloud.",
"LLMs": "Up-to-date with the latest developments, hallucinations are a headache to work with, read Bostrom in 2015, Yudkowsky is generally correct",
"Python": "You probably actually want to use setup.py but are using requirements.txt because you read to do that online when you set up your deployment two years ago and don't understand why you're seeing dependency issues with pip. Also, pandas is overkill.",
"SQL": "Not every problem calls for a relational database, CTEs help readability, Postgres is a fine choice, UPDATEs are an antipattern for large workloads, online alembic migrations are painful at times",
"AWS": "Good default cloud, IaC is the ideal, battle scars from RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, EC2, Fargate, IAM, API Gateway, etc etc etc, GCP is the same thing with a prettier interface",
"Localdev": "vim, make, jq, xargs, unix pipes is a fine toolkit",
"Docker": "Containers are virtuous if you can get Docker installed on your machine correctly, k8s is probably overkill",
"BI": "BigQuery, dbt, Looker is a sweet stack, dimensional modeling and Kimball are probably overkill, spreadsheets are the lingua franca of data, pivot tables are cool",
"Hardware": "I went from dabbling with Arduino and Raspberry Pi to raising thousands of dollars on Kickstarter for a hardware product I built from scratch, unleaded solder is harder to work with"
}
Location: NYC
Remote: Remote or Hybrid
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: AWS, Python (EC2, Fargate, Lambda, Localdev), SQL (Postgres, dbt, Redshift, BigQuery), docker, unix, make, vim, Arduino, Ruby, TypeScript, LLMs
Resume (JSON): curl -L ryantuck.io/resume.json | jq
Resume (PDF): https://ryantuck.io/resume.pdf
GitHub: https://github.com/ryantuck
StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/1700270/ryantuck
Email: ryan at ryantuck.io
Looking for exciting full-time or contract work ideally within the following domains: AI Safety, Computational Science, Crypto, Research, Dev Tooling.
Focusing on senior / principal / management full-time roles or short-term contract engagement. 10+ years tech startup experience at varying stages of growth, high-agency generalist, enjoy leadership, remote since 2017, have maintained LLM workloads, familiar and comfortable with LLM-assisted coding. Most of my career has been working in data-intensive settings and backend application development and handling devops on AWS infrastructure. Started my professional career at Warby Parker, and before that I taught myself to code trying to start a company building LED wearables for raves out of college. Physics and philosophy degrees, interested in everything, especially governance and complexity reduction in technical systems. Reach out to chat!
Beginning to look for the next opportunity, focusing on senior / principal / management roles. 10+ years tech startup experience at varying stages of growth, high-agency generalist, enjoy leadership, remote since 2017. Most of my career has been working in data-intensive settings and backend application development on AWS infrastructure. Currently managing a backend team, started my professional career at Warby Parker, and before that I taught myself to code trying to start a company building LED wearables for raves out of college. Physics and philosophy degrees, interested in everything, especially governance and complexity reduction in technical systems. Reach out to chat!
What: Songspace is an online song catalog for musicians and businesses to manage their songs, demos, rights, master recordings, pitches, and more.
Why: Without us, all this usually happens by emailing around Excel spreadsheets, storing files in Drive, Dropbox, etc, and copying and pasting SoundCloud links like a bunch of chumps.
You: You're a seasoned PHP developer with a strong sense of ownership and ambition looking to support and grow the best catalog platform in the music industry. You value well-tested code, best practices, and automating everything. You know how to create solid and maintainable technical solutions from scratch, making smart trade-offs given business priorities. You know few greater joys in life than merging PRs that rip out thousands of lines of tech debt while having the support and license to do so.
Us: We're a small, tight-knit, and fun team mostly based out of Nashville, TN (Music City USA, baby). Post-COVID, we're looking forward to our next absolutely hog-wild team off-site. Flexible hours, super friendly people, and all the runway in the world for growth.
This is sweet. I've been building and working in a markdown-based zettelkasten locally for a while, and this does provide the added killer benefits of the graph visualizer and pretty-preview functionality that I'm currently missing in the terminal. Nice job, looking forward to playing around with it!
Wow, wanderlog seems very cool! Way more intuitive than my custom google map / sheets that I've set up for a two week honeymoon around the corner. Will give it a whirl!
Do you have plans to support some sort of markup language instead of requiring properties to be added to models one at a time, similar to the DBML used by https://dbdiagram.io ?
Location: NYC hybrid or remote
Technologies: AWS, Python (EC2, Fargate, Lambda, Localdev), SQL (Postgres, dbt, Redshift, BigQuery), docker, unix, make, vim, Arduino, Ruby, TypeScript, LLMs
Resume (PDF): https://ryantuck.io/resume.pdf
GitHub: https://github.com/ryantuck
StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/1700270/ryantuck
Email: ryan at ryantuck.io
Dream job is alignment research at Anthropic, where I've already applied. Otherwise looking for exciting full-time work ideally within the following domains: AI Safety, Computational Science, Crypto, Research, Dev Tooling.
Currently doing very cool full-time contract work porting research simulation workflows from PhD laptops to the cloud, which I'd keep doing but need benefits!
Focusing on senior / principal / management full-time roles. 10+ years tech startup experience at varying stages of growth, high-agency generalist, enjoy leadership, remote since 2017, have maintained LLM workloads, familiar and comfortable with LLM-assisted coding. Most of my career has been working in data-intensive settings, backend application development, and handling devops on AWS infrastructure. Started my professional career at Warby Parker, and before that I taught myself to code trying to start a company building LED wearables for raves out of college. Physics and philosophy degrees, interested in everything, especially governance and complexity reduction in technical systems.
More very cool stuff over at my website: https://ryantuck.io
Peace :)