Looking for remote contract or freelance work, but generally open to other opportunities. Consulting and hands-on.
I specialize in backend and scripting work, and have worked on a wide variety of projects over a span of more than 15 years. I can ramp up to new tech and environments quickly. My last gig was as a software engineer at Amazon Vancouver for 20 months. I speak German and English and a tiny bit of Chinese. I communicate regularly and precisely and can also talk to clients to refine requirements. Honest and fair.
"We were working on a tight deadline for an accelerator program and he did an excellent job of completing the prototype with enough time to make tweaks and launch before submission. [Leslie] was wonderful to work with: a great listener and understood my vision for the product; he put together exactly what I was looking for despite starting with just a vague idea and several basic sketches. I have a consulting/VC background that lacks in technical experience so I relied on him heavily to make several choices, and he was decisive and worked confidently despite the ambiguity. I would love to work with him again in the future!"
Thanks for reading! Looking forward to hearing about your project.
Looking for remote contract or freelance work, but generally open to other opportunities.
I specialize in backend and scripting work, and have worked on a wide variety of projects over a span of more than 15 years. I can ramp up to new tech and environments quickly. My last gig was as a software engineer at Amazon Vancouver for 20 months. I speak German and English and a little Chinese. I get work done, and can also communicate with clients to refine requirements. I am honest, and I'm striving to be a fair and decent person at all times.
Here's a testimonial from a former client: "We were working on a tight deadline for an accelerator program and he did an excellent job of completing the prototype with enough time to make tweaks and launch before submission. He was wonderful to work with: a great listener and understood my vision for the product; he put together exactly what I was looking for despite starting with just a vague idea and several basic sketches. I have a consulting/VC background that lacks in technical experience so I relied on him heavily to make several choices, and he was decisive and worked confidently despite the ambiguity. I would love to work with him again in the future!"
Thanks for reading! Looking forward to your messages, let's launch your rockets. :-)
Looking for remote contract or freelance work, but generally open to other opportunities.
I specialize in backend and scripting work, and have worked on a wide variety of projects over a span of more than 15 years. I can ramp up to new tech and environments quickly. My last gig was as a software engineer at Amazon Vancouver for 20 months. I speak German and English. I get work done, and can also communicate with clients to refine requirements. I am honest, and I'm trying to be a fair and decent person at all times.
Here's a testimonial from a former client: "We were working on a tight deadline for an accelerator program and he did an excellent job of completing the prototype with enough time to make tweaks and launch before submission. He was wonderful to work with: a great listener and understood my vision for the product; he put together exactly what I was looking for despite starting with just a vague idea and several basic sketches. I have a consulting/VC background that lacks in technical experience so I relied on him heavily to make several choices, and he was decisive and worked confidently despite the ambiguity. I would love to work with him again in the future!"
Thanks for reading! Looking forward to your messages. :-)
Looking for remote contract or freelance work, but generally open to other opportunities.
I specialize in backend and scripting work, and have worked on a wide variety of projects over a span of more than 15 years. I can ramp up to new tech and environments quickly. My last gig was as a software engineer at Amazon Vancouver for 20 months. I speak German and English. I get work done, and can also communicate with clients to refine requirements. I am honest, and I'm trying to be a fair and decent person at all times.
Here's a testimonial from a former client: "We were working on a tight deadline for an accelerator program and he did an excellent job of completing the prototype with enough time to make tweaks and launch before submission. He was wonderful to work with: a great listener and understood my vision for the product; he put together exactly what I was looking for despite starting with just a vague idea and several basic sketches. I have a consulting/VC background that lacks in technical experience so I relied on him heavily to make several choices, and he was decisive and worked confidently despite the ambiguity. I would love to work with him again in the future!"
Thanks for reading! Looking forward to your messages. :-)
Looking for remote contract or freelance work, but generally open to other opportunities.
I specialize in backend and scripting work, and have worked on a wide variety of projects over a span of more than 15 years. I can ramp up to new tech and environments quickly. My last gig was as a software engineer at Amazon Vancouver for 20 months. I speak German and English. I get work done, and can also communicate with clients to refine requirements. I am honest, and I'm trying to be a fair and decent person at all times.
Note: please definitely do not contact me if your vetting process includes "whiteboard" style coding or take-home challenges, or more than one technical discussion round. My preferred hiring process consists of a "getting to know" chat and a quick review of my sample code, taking no longer than a week. Also, no low-ball offers please, I generally charge at or above market average.
Thanks for reading! Looking forward to your messages. :-)
Looking for remote contract or freelance work, but generally open to other opportunities.
I specialize in backend and scripting work, and have worked on a wide variety of projects over a span of more than 15 years. I can ramp up to new tech and environments quickly. My last gig was as a software engineer at Amazon Vancouver for 20 months. I speak German and English. I get work done, and can also communicate with customers to refine requirements. I am honest, and I'm trying to be a fair and decent person at all times.
Note: please definitely do not contact me if your vetting process includes "whiteboard" style coding or take-home challenges, or more than one technical discussion round. My preferred hiring process consists of a "getting to know" chat and a quick review of my sample code, taking no longer than a week. Also, no low-ball offers please, I generally charge above market average.
Thanks for reading! Looking forward to your messages. :-)
I agree focus should be on the positive. At the same time it's important to call out hypocrisy. Big companies oftentimes like to tout guidelines they don't actually follow.
For example, every company nowadays acts like they're big on diversity. Usually they do it to avoid getting sued. But really getting behind empowering women in the workplace does not often factor into any decision-making by HR or management.
It looks good. Of course the real question is whether it's just lip service to look good, or whether the company as a whole really wholeheartedly embodies these values. From what I heard from Google employees online, in a lot of situations political power plays still trump other values like compassion and empathy.
It's easy to ridicule this, but I wish we would be more open towards "crazy" ideas in general. I believe that every person has something to teach me and contribute to the world, and if I have any strong preconceptions in my interaction with them that severely limits my power to benefit.
Now if only they would introduce something like Single Transferable Vote (entertaining CGPGrey video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI), or another more effective voting system.
Probably won't happen though, as it would seriously shake up politics as we know it.
Technologies: Go, Python, Linux, AWS/Cloud. Everything web. Interested in Rust and Terraform.
Feats: Former Amazon. 10+ years of industry experience. Self-starter.
Brief Résumé/CV: http://lpolzer.com/ -- contact me for my detailed CV.
Email: [email protected]
Looking for remote contract or freelance work, but generally open to other opportunities. Consulting and hands-on.
I specialize in backend and scripting work, and have worked on a wide variety of projects over a span of more than 15 years. I can ramp up to new tech and environments quickly. My last gig was as a software engineer at Amazon Vancouver for 20 months. I speak German and English and a tiny bit of Chinese. I communicate regularly and precisely and can also talk to clients to refine requirements. Honest and fair.
"We were working on a tight deadline for an accelerator program and he did an excellent job of completing the prototype with enough time to make tweaks and launch before submission. [Leslie] was wonderful to work with: a great listener and understood my vision for the product; he put together exactly what I was looking for despite starting with just a vague idea and several basic sketches. I have a consulting/VC background that lacks in technical experience so I relied on him heavily to make several choices, and he was decisive and worked confidently despite the ambiguity. I would love to work with him again in the future!"
Thanks for reading! Looking forward to hearing about your project.