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Steve Purcell shared thisI posted recently that I was available for a new challenge, and I'm excited to say that I've joined the team at LocalStack as Principal Engineer. 🎉 Since 2017, this global team of wizards has built an amazing offline AWS (and Snowflake!) emulator that lets you develop and test your cloud applications locally. The feature set grows daily and our enviable customer list includes the likes of Apple, IBM, McDonalds and Jetbrains. Not only that, we're major Open Source contributors too. Thanks Waldemar Hummer and team for bringing me in to share the fun challenges ahead! P.S. We're hiring, fully remote — check out our Careers page! https://lnkd.in/em3RVypy
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Steve Purcell shared thisChanning is an outstanding engineer and team lead, and you should hire him!Steve Purcell shared thisAfter a recent engagement building a high-performance betting advisory platform at TXOdds, I'm open to new work. What I bring - 30+ years software development experience from award-winning delivery at Barclays to streaming platforms at SiriusXM and ITV - Deep expertise in Scala and the Java platform: Typelevel libraries (Cats Effect, FS2), http4s, functional programming - Team leadership and building high-performing teams What I'm seeking: - Senior developer or team lead roles with quality engineering culture - Companies that value sustainable pace over heroics - Remote preferred - Projects using modern functional programming approaches I am open to both contract and permanent opportunities with the right team and culture. If you're building something meaningful and prioritise both technical excellence and work-life balance, I'd love to connect. #Scala #FunctionalProgramming
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Steve Purcell posted thisHi friends! I’m just now becoming available for a new adventure again, so if you’d like to work with me, this is your chance. 😄 I’ve been a software leader to VP Eng and CTO level, but what I love most is working closely alongside an engineering team, helping them integrate into the wider business, delight users, and grow their skills. A perfect fit for me is leading from the front, occasionally hands-on, in a technical small-to-medium startup environment that leans heavily on Open Source tools. As an extreme generalist, I don’t have a specific single thing I do, but I guarantee I’ll make your org better, even beyond the tech team. Open to full time work, part-time involvement or a short focused engagement. Remote by default (EU), and occasionally on-site. Who should I talk to? Does someone you know need a Steve? Feel free to comment below (or share) if I’m worth working with.
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Steve Purcell reposted thisIt has been a long time coming, but I am proud to finally announce Goalwards®, my new business agility consulting venture. Welcome aboard! https://goalwards.coSteve Purcell reposted thisHello world! I am delighted to announce Goalwards®, a new business and technology consulting practice that puts you, your business and your people at the centre. No one-size-fits-all methodology, no big reorg, no cutesy jargon or made-up roles. Just sensible, pragmatic, authentic advice from people who have been there. Our business model is happy clients wanting our services, not certification Ponzi schemes. From teams of tens to hundreds, from start-ups to scale-ups to household-name enterprises, we have the skills, the techniques and the experience to make a meaningful, measurable difference in your organization. I am so excited about this!
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Steve Purcell reposted thisSteve Purcell reposted thisAfter successfully finishing a complex assignment for a client at the end of December 2024 and taking a break, I'm now looking for new consulting engagements, either full- or part-time. My services include: - Interim and fractional roles: CTO, Director of Engineering, Head of Engineering, and Engineering Manager. - Advising Senior Leadership on management, leadership, technology strategy, development processes, Agile methodologies, and large-scale projects and programmes. - Leading complex initiatives involving multiple distributed teams. - Leading the architecture, design, and hands-on implementation of complex software systems. - Helping companies and teams with the adoption of modern software engineering practices: Automated Testing, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Evolutionary Architecture, Trunk-Based Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, DevOps, (Distributed) Mob Programming, and Pair Programming. If you think I might be able to help you, feel free to contact me directly via LinkedIn or via the contact page on my company's website https://lnkd.in/g_GY53kN
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Steve Purcell reposted thisSteve Purcell reposted thisAI will not 'replace junior engineers' because junior engineers are doing two things simultaneously. They are producing ok-but-could-be-better code, and they are learning voraciously, so that they become tomorrow's mid-level engineers and the day after's seniors. (Gen)AI can do the first one badly, but it cannot do the second one at all. So breathe out and let the hype cycle wash over you while you look forward to the sound of the bubble bursting and all that VC money gurgling down yet another drain. Anyone remember NFTs? #genAI #bubble #hype
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Steve Purcell reposted thisSteve Purcell reposted this🚀 Unlock Your Potential: Free 30-Minute Coaching Slots Available! 🚀 🌟 I'm excited to announce that I am now offering free 30-minute coaching/mentoring slots ☎ 🌟 👉 Who is this for? If you're a Software Engineer or maybe Team/Tech Lead looking to overcome challenges, set and achieve goals, or navigate your career path, these sessions are tailored for you. This is your opportunity to kickstart the new year with some external insight & support - for free ;) 👉 What to expect? ⚒ Problem-solving support for workplace challenges 🔎 Guidance on career development & managing people 🧠 Get new perspectives and challenge your thinking 👉 How to book Simply pick a slot (all in January 2024) using the following link: https://lnkd.in/eMyE7rDm - I am very much looking forward to talk to you ❤️
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Steve Purcell shared thisAny of my tech industry contacts in NZ (or perhaps beyond!) should run, not walk, to hire Andy...Steve Purcell shared thisHi everyone - I've had the pleasure of enjoying some incredible years collaborating with the exceptional individuals at Cogo. Now, I'm looking for my next exciting adventure. I'm on the lookout for opportunities where my unique blend of technical, operational, and executive expertise can have a meaningful impact for an organisation that's making positive contributions to the world, even in subtle ways. Thank you in advance for any connections, advice, or opportunities you can offer. #OpenToWork
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Steve Purcell shared thisGood advice from my friend Tobi — hire him to help your engineering org if you can!Steve Purcell shared thisAre you planning on hiring Engineers? Here are 3 essential documents you should write, discuss and agree upon before you do anything else: 1️⃣ What are we looking for in a Software Engineer 2️⃣ What we expect at different levels 3️⃣ What we don't filter by If you want your interview process to make sense it needs to be more than a string of questions and tasks asked by different people. Those questions and tasks need to be derived from something in order to be meaningful. This is exactly what those documents are for. 📃 What we are looking for in a Software Engineer This document should contain a list of traits that are most important to you for this role. Spend some time finding the right level of detail: A bullet list with 10 items is definitely too short, a 20 page document is too long. You could also try to define categories to structure it. Make sure to provide a short and succinct explanation for each item! 📃 What we expect at different levels This document is closely coupled to the first one and it's basically a grading guide. Let's assume you included something on "Learning, Sharing & Mentoring". Surely your expectation towards someone with 10 years of professional experience is going to differ from those towards a Junior Engineer fresh out of university. This is what this document is for. 📃 What we don't filter by The third document I want you to write is on filters. If you want to be serious about having an unbiased process it's essential to make it explicit what you don't want to filter by. This is of course going to be highly subjective but if it was my list then it would include items such as university degree, previous companies or experience with specific frameworks. This doesn't mean that having a degree at renowned university, experience at big tech companies or knowledge of all relevant frameworks isn't a good thing - it just means that you choose not to exclude people for whom this is not the case. All done, now what? Put those documents in version control and keep on revisiting and revising them. They are the foundation for the rest of your process. 👉 If a question, task or challenge doesn't help in probing any of the traits that matter to you, why does it exist? 👉 When making a decision on a candidate, do you apply the correct expectations according to their level? 👉 Is your decision only based on filters that you haven't explicitly excluded? What are your thoughts and experiences? Let me know in the comments
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Steve Purcell liked thisSteve Purcell liked thisWhen people say, "If you don't like your job, just start your own business."
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Steve Purcell reacted on thisSteve Purcell reacted on this📣 WELCOME TO THE ENGINEERING ROOM Steve Freeman 📣 Steve is a pioneer of the software craftsmanship movement and a foundational figure in the global Agile community. He is the co-author of the seminal book Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests, a winner of the Gordon Pask Award, and the co-creator of JMock. We discuss the true purpose of mocks, the London School of TDD, the power law of team performance, AND MUCH MORE. 🔊 Listen now: Apple - https://apple.co/43s2e0h Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3VqZVIV Amazon - https://amzn.to/43nkkRl Audible - https://bit.ly/TERaudible #TDD #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #programming
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Steve Purcell reacted on thisSteve Purcell reacted on thisThe first major EA update of my game Adaptory is now LIVE! https://lnkd.in/eEPAcyDV "The Materials Update" touches on every aspect of the game – from difficulty levels to refinement, recipes and resource management, balance and polish, and a lot more. The game feels so much more.... interesting and challenging now! I've been having a lot of fun playtesting it 😊 Discounted on Steam for a very limited time only!
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Steve Purcell reacted on thisSteve Purcell reacted on thisHad an absolutely mint day on Wednesday coaching with James from Access Sport at Waycroft Academy in Bristol. The target was to encourage more girls on bikes by giving them a taster BMX session. We had 45 girls from Years 4, 5 & 6 in the morning, then two groups of 15 Year 6 boys. Every single rider was amazing and all showed progression and growing confidence, even in the short time we had them. The school and families should be super proud - this was one of my favourite days coaching ! #moregirlsonbikes #morekidsonbikes #bmxcoach #coacheslife
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Steve Purcell reacted on thisSteve Purcell reacted on thisIt's been a few months already, but I'm very pleased to announce that I have completed my PhD in Computer Science with Tweag by Modus Create and Loria 🎉 : "Formalization and Implementation of Safe Destination Passing in Pure Functional Programming Settings" The PhD thesis has been officially published now: https://lnkd.in/gPPftV4A (https://lnkd.in/gAsWs-gv) I would like to thank again Arnaud Spiwack, Horatiu Cirstea and everyone who made it possible to complete this exciting journey!Formalization and Implementation of Safe Destination Passing in Pure Functional Programming SettingsFormalization and Implementation of Safe Destination Passing in Pure Functional Programming Settings
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Steve Purcell liked thisSteve Purcell liked thisI'm thinking about running evening and/or weekend 2-hour training sessions introducing core disciplines of code craft that are proving to be essential in AI-assisted workflows, too. If your boss won't invest in you, it's a chance to invest in yourself. And maybe get a better boss ;-) I'll need to get a feel for the level of interest first. Please like (and maybe even share 🙏) if a 2-hour reasonably-price live workshop in any of these - with a highly-experienced guide - would interest you. * Specification By Example * Test-Driven Development * Refactoring * Continuous Integration * Continuous Inspection * Modular Design (the secret sauce!)
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Steve Purcell reacted on thisSteve Purcell reacted on thisTwo new Clojure developers have joined the team! Welcome Max Vasiliev and Chris Kaczmarek 25 combined years of Clojure engineering between them - and if you know the language, you know that's not a number you come across often. Max joins us from Kleene.ai, where he spent 6+ years building data pipeline automation. Chris comes straight from Neo4j in London, where he was doing benchmarking infrastructure and graph database work. At Staffer we're building an end-to-end AI hiring platform, making hiring simpler, faster and better for everyone involved. Max and Chris are exactly the kind of people that make that possible to match our ambitions. Welcome, both of you! 🤝
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