Hey all, I'm a Senior SW Engineer with 10+ years of professional experience. I love to code, and build reliable products and services. With a mixed bag of skills, I've tuned my experience mainly to the Web, Backend (primarily PHP, Python, Go), and system administration side. Well-versed in DevOps/System Administration, in my free time you can find me managing my own lab and colocations, have numerous years on the server end of things. I love tinkering, breaking, and fixing (not in that order). Let's get in touch!
Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Within Canada
Technologies: All things web (HTML/CSS/JS & frameworks like React, Vue), PHP, Python, C++, Typescript, Go.
Email: mike@kuby.ca
Resume/CV: Please email mike@kuby.ca for entire CV.
Do you have any locked down policy on them though? I assume this would only work if you gave blanket access.
I noticed in my tests it found one on port 3000 with blanket access, but didn't see one on port 9999 with restricted access( policy => allow from *.mydomains )
How would that work? I can’t see how the surveillance software would distinguish a benign message from a malign one. For example ”you’re so cool” could be either a compliment or an insult, depending on the context.
> I travel quite a bit and change phone numbers often. Most of the time when I am traveling I am in locations that have poor or nonexistent cellular service.
Use Twilio or VOIP.ms, very cheap. You can do 2fa easily, just top up $20. I find that the biggest cost for me personally doing this is the $1/month phone number rental fee. I use maybe ~50c every month on 2fa. It's an already solved problem.
> I have debated using Twilio to create my own number pool of international numbers and a way to check my messages via a web portal instead of relying on messaging. Are there any current apps / services that already do this effectively?
VOIP.ms has a very nice SMS gateway, they will automatically relay SMS messages to your email address. You pay a bit of a premium for it (eg, of SMS cost 0.001c, you pay 0.0015c if I recall correctly) - but it's almost immediately delivered without issue.
I'm open to consulting, short-term, long-term contracts, and prefer remote work. I'm a team player, I love to have fun, learn, build + test software, teach, and create overall great products. I run my own servers, run my own ISP locally, and always up for a challenge. Shoot me an email, let's get in touch!
I've been developing ever since I was a kid, I'm currently a senior software engineer who's open for a change of pace. I've got a wife, an incredible 1yo son, and a puppy. I don't take no for an answer, I've got this building spirit which can't be silenced. I strive for perfection, and I'm not afraid to speak my mind.
In my experience, I've only gotten an offer of a raise when I threatened to quit.
First Raise:
I asked for an entire year for a $5k bump in salary to meet market standards. My performance, work ethic, etc was all well beyond my pay. After consistent denial of raise and being told "keep up the good work and in 3 months we'll review again" - I went job hunting. I found another job, got the letter of offer.
The next day I walked into my bosses office, dropped the letter on their desk and said "I'd like to stay here, but I'll need a salary boost. In the event you still cannot give me one, I'll send you my resignation letter promptly this afternoon."
Three hours later, the two meetings are done, the new job offered a $25k boost in salary + position change to management. My current employer's retention offer was $35k boost + no position change. Since I didn't care for the position, more the financial aspect, I accepted the retention offer. I was also told, "don't expect another raise unless it's a promotion"
Sometimes, you just need to step on their toes, put them in the hot seat. If they value you, they'll make a retention offer - if they don't, then have fun at your next job.
It was 4 years ago. I have since moved on from said employer. They had been engaging in some questionable business practices, and I had moral issues remaining there. I had never received any raise since then.
As someone who now exclusively hosts in Iceland + Finland for two very freedom of speech and arguably good privacy countries, Iceland costs me twice as much as Finland.
Put into perspective, I pay the equivalent of 100eur in Iceland for a decent sized server (64GB memory, 4TB storage, and my own subnet announced), and in Finland I pay 34eur for the exact same specifications.
Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Within Canada
Technologies: All things web (HTML/CSS/JS & frameworks like React, Vue), PHP, Python, C++, Typescript, Go.
Email: mike@kuby.ca
Resume/CV: Please email mike@kuby.ca for entire CV.
Blog: https://kuby.ca/