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unsolicited mail by farming my OSS publications. douchebags.

completely irrelevant, if they'd bothered to actually look they'd have known that. reading github doesn't make your automated spam bullshit any more acceptable. wankers.

Oh and pick one domain and stick to it ffs. Idiots. Which is it, http://sourced.ai/ or http://sourced.tech/

I don't mind people (humans) reading my published stuff and contacting my personally, but the below is unacceptable.

From your webshite:

We send highly relevant job proposals to the suggested profiles and inform them about all the aspects of the position.

Bulllllshit.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Backend Engineer at 1aim
Date: 	Wed, 30 Dec 2015 09:04:39 +0100
From: 	Georgina Giannoukou <georgina@sourced.ai>
To: 	Tim Abell <tim@timwise.co.uk>

Hi Tim,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, based in Madrid. We are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and believe that you could be a good fit for Backend Engineer position at 1Aim.

1Aim (https://1aim.com) is an exciting new startup providing secure locking systems for homes around the world, and keeping all the keys with you everywhere you go. Besides access systems, they are already putting a lot of R&D effort in creating further new smart home/building automation products. They are an engineering-driven technology company that want to greatly influence how connected devices of the future will look and behave.

For this position, 1AIM is looking for a battle-tested backend engineer with experience in building high quality distributed systems. You would preferably have experience with C or C++ and low level programming. Moreover, knowing Go or Rust would be a plus.

Since you will be working on a greenfield project you would get to define and implement the architecture of this system. Thus, having experience defining a software architecture and following good practices would be highly regarded.

The salary range starts at 45.000€ and depends on your experience and skills.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to evaluate in depth if this is a good fit for you and 1Aim.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss any other potential opportunities we have that are a better fit for you.

Best regards,


Georgina Giannoukou, Developer Relations Engineer http://sourced.tech

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Same here, though I have replied to him until he sent me an email with the review link, which sounds suspicious and I went to check on Github (thus found this topic): "http://sourced.review/-georgina".
Yes and I also set my email not to be shown in GitHub

`Hi Nguyen,

I am a Developer Relations Engineer at source{d}, we are working on improving developer recruitment. We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and we think that you could be a good fit for the position as Backend Engineer at FalconSocial (https://www.falconsocial.com/).

Falcon Social is a Software-as-a-Service provider in the Social Media Management space. They provide a unified approach for marketers, customer service specialists and HR personnel of big international brands to manage their social media presence.

Falcon Social’s stack consists of a lightweight Java8 backend running on JBoss, DropWizard, Scala and PostgreSQL that is deployed to AWS using tools like Ansible. Kafka is the message broker of choice a REST flavored HTTP + JSON API serves a single web application built with AngularJS, Bower, Grunt and d3.js.

They have recently migrated from a monolithic to a microservices architecture and they are facing the challenge of extending and maintaining a fault tolerant system. As a Java engineer, you will be joining an agile team of 18 backend developers in Copenhagen, Denmark. Their workflow methodology is Scrum and their tasks are focused on improving their current infrastructure.

Falcon Social offers a competitive package based on your skills and experience. They offer help with relocation and visa as well.

Should this be something you wish to explore, please let me know and we can set up a call to check if this is a good fit for you and Falcon Social.

Our technology is constantly evolving, so if you think that this position doesn’t match your profile or interests please accept my apologies and feel free to let us know. I will be more than happy to discuss other opportunities that could be a better fit for you. If you are not interested at all, just drop me a line, and I won’t contact you again.

Best regards,


Georgina Giannoukou, Senior Developer Relations Engineer
http://sourced.ai

Read our latest blogpost: 397 Languages, 18,000,000 GitHub repositories, 1.2 billion files, 20 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs (http://blog.sourced.tech/post/tab_vs_spaces/)
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