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simanyay | 1 year ago | on: Nobody cares

Same. Getting a drivers license and car plates in Seattle was a _fantastic_ experience. Start with a simple, fast web app. Finish with a 10 minute start-to-end in person appointment.

simanyay | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)

Kodex | Full Stack Engineer | REMOTE (US) | FULL TIME | NO VISAS

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re seeking an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer to join our growing team and help build the cornerstone of our business: our Law Enforcement Response portal. Kodex is an early stage startup so each engineer wears multiple hats. You will work as part of a small, talented team that includes engineers with experience at successful companies like Medium, HashiCorp, Microsoft, Mozilla, Meta, and Uber. In this role, you will:

- Work closely with our Director of Product to design, develop, and enhance features for our portal.

- Lead projects to optimize system performance, including database usage, encryption middleware, and front-end responsiveness.

- Participate in our on-call rotation (about one week every two months), where you'll address support requests, monitor metrics, and respond to incidents to ensure reliability.

- Review code and contribute to improving engineering best practices.

This role is ideal for full-stack generalists with T-shaped skills who thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy taking ownership.

We're fully remote, the team is distributed across the continent. We meet up twice a year in various locations around the United States (past meetups were in Miami, Nashville, Seattle, and San Francisco).

We don't sponsor visas.

ABOUT KODEX

Kodex creates software that helps private companies handle lawful data requests from governments. Our founders have seen firsthand how difficult it is for public and private sectors to collaborate effectively–preventing real-world harm while respecting user privacy. Slow processes, clunky tools, and misuse by bad actors were common problems. Kodex was built to fix that.

Our platform streamlines case management for Law Enforcement Response and Trust & Safety teams. It combines secure workflows, communication, and file transfers with features like document encryption, audit trails, agency verification, account takeover detection, and API integrations—delivering a complete legal response solution.

Founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz, Kodex helps companies securely and efficiently respond to data requests on time.

Email: [email protected]

simanyay | 1 year ago | on: Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

If it was a recruiter encouraging you to apply, chances are it was a mass campaign to fill the recruiting pipeline.

In my experience that’s how recruiters work and the only thing it indicates is that the company has open roles to fill.

simanyay | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?

A few years ago I got fed up with then-popular JavaScript linter, JSLint, and forked it to make JSHint. I wouldn't say JSHint was the only criteria that landed me the job but it definitely help when interviewing for positions where JavaScript was important. At the very least, it put my name thru the first filter both at Mozilla and then at Medium.

simanyay | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)

Abnormal Security | Multiple Roles in Engineering & ML | REMOTE (USA or Singapore) | Full-Time | https://abnormalsecurity.com/see-open-roles/

Business email compromise (phishing, etc.) is the most common way attackers get into corporate systems. We're working on solving that issue. We've already found our product-market fit and we're now looking for people to help execute through the next phase of our growth.

There are many roles open, check the link above. For my team specifically we're looking for Python & Go engineers to work on our portal and other customer-facing products. We're also looking for people who can help us re-build our foundations to unlock the next phase of Abnormal growth.

Feel free to apply through the link above or email me at anton@[companyname].com

simanyay | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?

I interviewed at Alto a couple of years back. Even though I went to take another offer (it was more closely related to the area I wanted to focus on) their interview process was great and their product/engineering team seemed fantastic.

simanyay | 9 years ago | on: Beautiful JavaScript – Functional JavaScript

Author/editor of Beautiful JavaScript here. I'm very confused by this website. It appears somebody took one chapter (Functional JavaScript) and re-published it as a book.

If you want to purchase the complete book do it from the O'Reilly website or from Amazon. All proceeds go to EFF.

simanyay | 12 years ago | on: Firefox Developer Tools and Firebug

(I'm a member of the Firefox Developer Tools team)

Our RDP (Remote Debugging Protocol) is not interoperable with the one in Chrome or any other browser. There are two reasons:

1) Both us and Chrome team would like to iterate on our protocols and tools as fast as we can. Maybe in future, when tools across browsers stabilize there will be a case for a standard but I personally believe that a wrapper protocol is a better answer.

2) RDPs depend on their platform's architecture. Ours is very SpiderMonkey centric while Chrome's is all about V8.

Google organized a nice Summit during the I/O this year and I attended on behalf of our team (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOO9Kb1-JJU). I shared my thoughts on interoperability and other issues here: https://medium.com/web-developer-tools/1060a9f69e6a

Hope that helps.

simanyay | 12 years ago | on: My Summer at Mozilla

Mozilla is more conservative with money than other companies. No corporate credit cards, no daily travel allowances, no daily breakfast, lunch and dinner (only lunch and only once a week, after all-hands).

However, being too conservative doesn't work in Silicon Valley because you have to compete with companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. for talent with their perks and benefits. Whether it's good or bad in the long term I do not know but it is a fact.

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