Cohesive Flexible Technologies (http://cohesiveft.com/) is expanding, especially our Engineering and Support teams. Our products help traditional IT departments transition out of the datacenter and on to cloud-based solutions. We touch all aspects of the stack, including software-defined networking, virtual machine manufacture, and automation deployment. We some room for experimentation and research, and some of our products are direct results of those endeavors.
What we want out of you:
* Multiple years of paid professional Ruby, Python and/or Java experience on infrastructure systems.
* For support, minimum of 24 months of paid professional technical support roles working with multi-tier, multi-server architectures.
* Supplemental work on open source projects a plus.
* If you have done Erlang, Clojure, Objective-C and want to use Ruby or Python, keep us in mind.
* Linux or Windows based, multi-tier, multi-server application architectures.
* Git is our standard.
* Computer Science Degree is highly desired; but willing to talk to experienced "wildcards" who can deliver despite the lack of formal credentials.
* Candidates who have built event-oriented, asynchronous architectures will get preference.
If this program only selected 10% of the applicants, I am sure that they chose the top 10% that would have succeeded anyways. I would be more impressed if they were less selective in their admissions process.
If the guy is so excited about this concept, has he tried prototyping in as an (emacs/vim/eclipse/etc.) plugin? And if not, why? It seems that at least a few of those features could be shown off before he goes asking for $200K.
I was a software engineer for a company doing open-source backup software for two years. Almost all of the code I worked on was released under the GPL (there were a few proprietary components I worked on).
It's entirely possible to find a salaried position where you develop open source software professionally. However, your employers will most likely not consider that a factor when assigning work.
Maybe a device like this would be better paired with a tablet or some larger device. I could see a device like this plus a tablet be suitable for work hours. I don't think it would be useful enough for casual usage, however.