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Dear Hiring Manager,
I’m interested in the position of developer for an IOT platform. I am writing code with in Golang from 10 months. During these 10 months I have written code for an open source honeypot project named Glutton. I am working as a collaborator on this project. I have also contributed in some other golang open source project. You can view my contributions in those projects with the help of links shared below.
Before golang I was using JAVA, I have designed couple of commercial application based upon SWING and JAVAFX. Java was my primary tool before golang.
Well moving towards your requirements, You had mentioned that you were looking for developer with proven problem solving skills, good in mathematics and fluent English, Well I have good problem solving skills, you can evaluate from my github contributions. I am good in mathematics, In these days I am studying a Book 'Mathematics for Computer Science' in free time. Honestly English is not my native language but you I have good enough to communicate with people at real time. Regarding technologies you have mentioned:
- Go (Golang) and/or Java/Kotlin
I have good experience with Golang and JAVA.
- SQL and NoSQL databases and document stores.
I have good knowledge about SQL, I have written couple of commercial application using SQL. I have also worked with elastic search and MongoDB.
- Docker and/or LXC
I have very handful skills at Docker, In these days I am trying to write a module for an open source project what will spawn containers on new connection and destroy on connection closing.
- Message queues, distributed computing
I have used Kafka and studied about rabitMQ once, never practically worked! I will fell great for having this opportunity.
- API design with Swagger/OpenAPI
I have now knowledge about this, I have just added these to my TODO list.
- Data science / Machine Learning / AI
I have studied AI in university, I have also taken AI course of MIT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjZBTDzGeGg&list=PLUl4u3cNGP63gFHB6xb-kVBiQHYe_4hSi) from youtube.
Moving forward, I can dedicate 35 hours/week to your company, and my daily hours are negotiable. I’m very excited to work for IOT. I am willing to work with all technologies you have mentioned accept JAVA. My hobby is to learn about new technologies and reading technology news. I am also willing to give any kind of test for selection if you have. Optimistically its gonna be my first job as a freelancer – please feel free to contact me directly to discuss this position further.
My Github Profile: https://github.com/furusiyya
My contributions in Golang open source projects:
- Glutton: https://github.com/mushorg/glutton/commits?author=furusiyya
- SSHProxy: https://github.com/dutchcoders/sshproxy/commits?author=furusiyya (One pull request is in open state)
- Freki: https://github.com/kung-foo/freki/commits?author=furusiyya (One pull request is in open state)
Thanks :)
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