You'd want to start with the United States Digital Service (USDS). They're basically a consultancy inside the executive branch to build tech solutions for the various 3 letter agencies. You basically do a "tour of duty" for a year or so (however long you want), tackling one of these solutions. And they go out of their way to hire folks like you, from FAANG and other tech companies, so you work with good people.
I had a product to help political campaigns canvas neighborhoods door to door. In the early days there was a "smart walk sheet" feature, which would magically pick the optimal doors to knock given how much time you had (e.g. 2 hours after work).
While I was building out this feature, I'd stay up late in the night manually selecting clusters of houses and setting them for the customer, so the next morning they'd be greeted with what looked like our backend systems auto-magically picking the perfect cluster of houses.
The bonus of doing it manually for a while is that I found a lot of edge cases I would have missed otherwise. The initial release of the finished feature was rock solid thanks to what I learned.
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Co-founder of a funded startup that's winding down due to lack of traction. Looking for a new home in the DC area or remote. I've previously written software for The Washington Post, Truth Initiative (anti-smoking campaign), and ADP (among others). Happy doing full-stack, or working exclusively in the front-end or back-end.
An app I worked on had a similar feature to Snapstreaks, but it was used to help people quit smoking. This bill would have killed this feature that helped many people lead healthier lives.
No, it's still being worked on. To quote their latest blog post:
We're working on a large-scale rearchitecture of React Native to make the framework more flexible and integrate better with native infrastructure in hybrid JavaScript/native apps.
First, I should note that political strategy varies depending on the office. A race for a single seat between a republican and a democrat is very different from a non-partisan city council race that has 5 seats, with two incumbents running leaving 3 open seats.
Second, there's a book recently published that focuses on running for smaller offices and aimed at Millennials. You may find it interesting:
Is this actually true? It doesn't feel that way to me (American based out of Washington DC area), but maybe I'm naive. Anybody else agree with this statement?
Truth Initiative | Washington, DC | Full Time, Onsite | Senior Software Developer
We're a Python shop, creating smoking cessation apps for a research institute inside of Truth Initiative, the people behind the truth® anti-smoking campaign. Most of our work provides the technological muscle behind various research grants, with an emphasis on online social networks, text messaging, and mobile applications.
Basically, we write apps that help people quit smoking...FOR SCIENCE!
We're a small time that uses Python, Django, MySQL (sorry), Phonegap/Cordova, Sencha Touch, Heroku, and other neat things to build web and mobile apps. We're in Chinatown directly across from the metro, with a crazy awesome benefits package and competitive salary. I personally think this is one of the best Python jobs here in DC, but you should apply and come talk to us to find out yourself.
The same thing happened to my brother. He's been teaching himself software development for a while, and learned the same painful lesson about securing your keys. This was despite the things he did right, like:
1. Used IAM roles (but he didn't lock down it's permissions nearly enough clearly)
I should note Amazon forgave the money his account owed, given it was his first time making this mistake on their systems. Amazon told him the servers were probably being used to mine bitcoins.
edit - Oh, and on his blog he says it was $2000 over 12 hours. It turned out to be $5000 over 2 hours!
