Daniel Immke

For the past year and some months, since leaving Amazon I have been building a web app called Pickwick. I launched it last month and I’m really happy with how things have turned out and plan to make regular contributions to the site in the form of content updates, new features, and bug fixes.

It’s the first time I have ever taken on the task creating a web application completely by myself — designing all the views, implementing the front-end, designing the database schema, a completely custom backend, and even designing the deployment infrastructure with Docker containers and setting up a continuous deployment process. I learned a ton and enjoyed being able to explore new technologies without having external pressures placed on me.

Pickwick

However, building an entire product alone can be isolating. I have decided that I want to continue work on Pickwick on nights and weekends.

I would like to return to a full-time role as a front-end developer working on a product team.

Consider interviewing me

The interview process for software developers is infamous and nobody can quite agree on how to fix it. Resumes falling through the cracks and never reaching a human because they don’t contain enough of the right keywords, gatekeeping hiring managers or recruiters who may not even know a lot about the role they are hiring for, arbitrary mix of Data Structures and Algorithms whiteboarding, long take home tests and 5 hour interview loops.

Instead of adding an #opentowork badge to my LinkedIn and shotgunning applications into the void, I thought I’d try a different approach. I have been writing this blog since 2017 and have had some of my posts achieve a wide degree of popularity, getting hundreds of thousands of views — I would like to think that I have established myself as a skilled developer who cares about the work I do, especially to peers in my field. I’d like to take this as an opportunity to see how much blogging has made a difference in my career.

If you know of an opening on your team or are in a position to hire front-end developers and my work or career has been of interest to you, I’d like to ask that you consider interviewing me for your role.

To make things easier, I will add pertinent information:

• I’d really like to work on a product team instead of doing some form of consulting/agency work.

• I’m happy to do a take home test or work through a Ds/A problem on a call. My Leetcode skills are a bit rusty, though!

• I have been working very heavily with SvelteKit over the last year, but my React skills remain solid.

• The total compensation I am looking for is 185 — 250k per year. I am flexible around the details, but that’s the range.

• I am a U.S. citizen, I am authorized to work in the United States and will never need any kind of assistance with a work visa.

• I’m open to relocation for the right role, and I’m comfortable working across all timezones in the United States from Eastern to Pacific and have experience doing so.

• Demographic Answers:

  • I identify as male
  • I am White (Non hispanic or latino)
  • I am not disabled
  • I am not a veteran

Here’s a copy of my resume. And I am reachable at hello@daniel.do.

Maybe this post will help me land an exciting new job or at least some interviews, maybe it won’t at all and I will draw the ire of the internet and get a bunch of hate emails.

Either way, I’ll post an update in a month or two. I think this is will be an interesting experience!