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Location: Seattle

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, some Kubernetes / Docker / GCP

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ddurdik/

Email: [email protected]

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Experienced senior backend engineer aspiring towards leadership and management. 9 years background in B2B / professional services / compliance worlds. Expert in:

* Scoping RFPs, editing and ratifying SOWs, and acting as engineering liaison for sales conversations (“can we build this?”)

* Navigating murky requirements and helping stakeholders understand their options, tradeoffs, and costs

* Leading implementation teams and architecting features and products with an eye towards maximum reuse, minimum maintenance, and meeting the client’s unique needs

* Driving internal engineering discussions to align teams, enhance communication, and minimize friction

I’m a process geek, a “cultural asset”, and a proud mentor with demonstrated skill at growing junior developers into great engineers.

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If you’re open to hiring me into my first management role, then you’ve got my undivided attention!

Location: Seattle Remote: Sure Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python 2.6 & 3.7, Django 1.6 & 1.8 & 2.1, Flask, SQLAlchemy, pytest, git, Mercurial, some Kubernetes and Docker. Willing and able to learn anything. Résumé/CV: Available on request Email: ceo at dagan.enterprises

I’m an experienced software dev who’s looking to get hired into his first dev management position. I’m a calm, empathetic, meticulous communicator with a shrewd sense of what’s important to succeed as a business. I love mentoring and teaching, so if you’ve got junior engineers with big ambitions, I can grow them into first-class developers. I’ve “grown up” in the startup world, so I have a knack for balancing competing priorities: reliability vs. shipping speed; team focus vs. bus-factor; work-life balance vs. business objectives; trust vs. oversight. I have the judgment that it takes to navigate these tensions and lead teams of happy developers that create quality software.

If all that sounds like a lot of hubris from someone with no formal management experience, just know that I deleted about fifty “I think”s and “people say”s from the above paragraph. That said, I do honestly and earnestly believe I’m qualified for a management role. My last company would agree; I spent years as the management “heir apparent” at my last job. Unfortunately, the timing was wrong when the position opened up (see: https://i.imgur.com/5lUjWzA.jpg), and I missed my chance. Now I’m on the lookout for a new opportunity.

I understand and appreciate that companies are reluctant to take a chance on an unproven manager. Your people are your most valuable resource, so it’s appropriate to be conservative about who you’ll entrust them to. All I can do is invite you to vet me as thoroughly as you’d like. You’ll find that my temperament and skills are well-suited for the role.

PS: I want to do management as my full-time job, so dev lead, sorta-manager-but-also-IC, or "we'll hire you as an SDE and then re-evaluate in X months" offers will be politely declined :)