Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

Backend: Java, Kotlin, Python, Node.js, Spring, GraphQL, REST APIs, Kafka, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB

Frontend: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Next.js

AI/ML: LLMs, RAG systems, Prompt engineering, Fine-tuning, Evaluation/guardrails (Bedrock, OpenAI)

Cloud & Distributed Systems: AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, S3, IAM, CDK, Kendra, Bedrock), Docker, Serverless architecture, CI/CD

DevTools & Infra: Terraform, Git, Observability tooling, Event-driven microservices

Resume: https://bit.ly/3KyMDHm

Email: valbaca@gmail.com

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Staff engineer with 14+ years experience building high-scale backend systems (Java, Kotlin, Python, AWS, Kafka, DynamoDB) and full-stack products in React + TypeScript used by millions at Amazon, AWS, and Indeed. Looking for roles where I can own architecture, ship quickly, and work across frontend + backend to deliver real product impact (AI experience included, but not the only thing I bring).

yeah, he was an absolute clown. just laugh at clowns and move on

I have a dumb and probably easily-googled question, but I trust the average knowledge here:

What's the best Video Card / Brand / Model for running games on Linux? I'm considering upgrading my old gaming PC and would rather also switch to Linux for gaming. (I'm already familiar with Linux for regular use and programming, but haven't gamed on it once).

Any modern (last 5 years) amd/nvidia card will do. Intel cards have a few issues in certain games but overall they are fine to. AMD cards are nice and what I prefer because they are plug and play and you dont have to think about drivers as they're baked into the kernel.

So really the best card for linux is the card that makes sense for your budget/PC specs/desired target games.

Thank you for the response!

Amazon writing “culture”

you should really educate yourself on lactose intolerance, or really how you view medical conditions in general. being a "bitch" or not has nothing to do with whether your body produces certain enzymes.

> Just one or two nights of pain

you shouldn't be allowed near children if that's your approach

Guess you are also a little bitch who can't drink milk

Lactose intolerance isn't remotely the same thing as an allergy.

It's even funnier cause that area is white. But even if it weren't, idc

It is very much a race and culture thing across Midwest. Dairy and cows have a connection to being "white Americans" all the way back to Old West and cowboys. A huge number of them are lactose intolerant (native American genes) but insist and even put family pressure on anyone who tries to move away from cheese butter milk dairy etc ..

Is ice cream only popular across the western populace, or does it contain too less milk to cause much issues?

> It never made sense to me how such a ruthless and inhumane culture is sustainable in the long run.

It doesn't need to be sustainable in the long run: just needs to get to the next quarter and there continues to be enough desperate people in the US or India willing to be ground up in the machine for a chance to buy a house in a major metro

(Source: I was at Amazon for 10 years, finally quit last month)

currently on Slack and Zoom, moving away from Chime, and with some people using Teams.

Glad we didn't have you at the Constitutional Convention.

Also "operate in or leave" doesn't make a lick of sense on THE INTERNET

sounds similar to how many remote job applications skirt around posting the actual salary range by not allowing residents of NY, etc. to apply