Jez Heard

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Senior Golang Engineer - $220k - Immediate

Status: Available
Location: Remote - US
Basic salary: $220000
Exp. years: > 10 years, Go for 4
Specialisms: Go, C++, Python, Rust, Distributed Systems,Tooling, Performance Optimization
Job Type: Permanent,Contract
Overview:

Experienced Golang engineer coming from reputable companies in web2 such as Uber and Intel before making the transition to a major blockchain project creating their own chain (clue it's flow). He unfortunately got caught up in the market conditions and was part of the cut backs. 

Key Accomplishments: 

  • Key contributor to Parallel Transaction Execution and various performance optimization to Flow blockchain.. Achieved 13% performance gain in transaction execution.
  • Initiated, led and delivered Apache Spark flame graph profiler at Uber Spark team. Achieved 43% performance gain to one of the largest machine learning Spark pipelines at Uber.
  • Initiated, led a team of 14 engineers and delivered OpenCV-based Uber maps rendering validation automation pipeline at Uber Maps. Saved hundreds of hours of manual operations and captured various potential rendering issues automatically.
  • Project Lead to Log-based Simulation solution at Uber ATG. Led a team of 4 and delivered it successfully ahead of deadline. It served as one of the primary simulation test pipelines guarding every autonomy code change.
  • Main contributor to the prototype of cloud-based visualization solution at Schlumberger. Successfully adopted and commercialized as an official company product and now serving as part of Schlumberger DELFI platform.

 

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