Exploring for opportunities as a Technical Product Manager (Senior Engineering background in customer facing roles) but if you think there may be a strong fit in another role at your org, it doesn't hurt to chat!
Location: Vermont, USA
Remote: Yes, experience leading and hiring multinational remote teams
Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right opportunity
Technologies: On the engineering side, I'm strongest on the frontend (React and Angular most recently) but I've worked full stack both professionally and on my own projects (see resume for details) Tons of experience in enterprise developer support (wrangling our APIs and SDKs across countless stacks)
I have a few years under my belt of leading and hiring remote engineers, helping to scale a team from 10 to over 100. I'm passionate about enabling others to build successful careers.
Customer facing experience: In my first startup attempt I felt pain from a lack of experience talking to customers, so I took a role in Success and Support engineering to gain customer facing skills. I've now been working on honing my customer development skills and data driven product decision making.
I'm currently consulting with a few startups, providing guidance on their upcoming major product releases.
Misc.: I'm most interested in technical B2B products (developer tools, data, other tooling), fintech, or health. I don't have any experience with blockchain/cyrpto.
I'm interested in working on a lifestyle business rather than chasing a unicorn. I have the classic spreadsheet of ideas tucked away, but I'm certainly open to others ideas.
Strong preference for B2B. No experience in blockchain or ai.
In my previous attempt at putting together a business, I felt pain from a lack experience talking to customers so I spent a few years in a customer facing role as a senior success and support engineer for a fairly well known startup. I now love working with sales & marketing, grinding customer development for ideas, but still keep my coding chops sharp.
Remote: Sure, I have experience working full-time remotely.
Willing to relocate: Yes: CA, CO, maybe international
Technologies:
Mostly front end. MV* usually Angular. I'm excited for React Native to mature some and have the Android support released. Responsive frameworks. Data visualization, living on g.raphrael for a while now. LESS. Git, of course. Outside of my comfort zone, I've pushed projects with NodeJS, Socket.IO, Twilio, NGINX as a reverse proxy, mongoDB. I used to work with WordPress a ton, so I have some super rusty PHP and MySQL chops.
My most recent side project won first place in the Twitch.TV App Challenge that I developed it for, winners were announced just this past Friday https://1800streamer.com/p/landing
For 1800streamer, I had to work with a handful of technologies I've never used before and solve a few interesting problems, like dynamic namespacing for Socket.IO.
I like technical screens in the form of take home projects. I'm terrible at coding within the whiteboard IDE, and I haven't spent time memorizing common interview algorithms.
Since I haven't worked on a team larger than 4 people, I consider myself a junior level applicant, who could (hopefully) quickly move up to mid-level with the opportunity to get some blunt code criticisms and a few nudges in right direction.
I'm most comfortable on the frontend, playing with JS and MV* frameworks. A fair amount of data visualization with g.raphael. I like snowboarding, hiking, biking, and running long distances. I served, briefly, in the Navy before injuries sent me home.
I would like to request that technical recruiters hold off on reaching out unless you _really_ have a position you think is a great fit. Thank you!
My buddy had a status update today that I think sums up the feeling:
"Going to Facebook has become the equivalent of opening the fridge & staring inside, even though you're not hungry."
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5hc7sseHbE