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Work Stories

  • You solved a customer pain point.
  • You solved a complex problem.
    • You raised the bar.

    ## IceCondor

  • Complex/Innovation: lmdb-based index, fit in ram constraints
  • Pain point/Challenge: access control, privacy fences
  • Raised the bar: Being early to market with a unique offering

Vault

  • Innovation: balancing algorithm from meetings with domain expert
  • Challenge: correctness
  • Raised the bar: included other developers

ChromaFund

  • Innovation: implementation from public whitepaper
  • Challenge: communicating with meteor daemon
  • Raised the bar: unique offering

More Questions

  • Tell me about a time when you gave a simple solution to a challenging problem.
    • Defining the architecture for the coinmanager part of Chromafund project. Specifically picking a language. The project to date was javascript. Not the best choice for numerical computations, but in the name of developer simplicity, javascript was the best choice for the coin manager piece as well.
  • Tell me about a time when you were working on an initiative and saw an opportunity to do something bigger or better than the initial focus.
    • Instead of outsourcing coinmanager, build in-house
  • Tell me about a time when you found there was a more efficient way to accomplish a task someone was working on. How did you convey it to them?
  • Tell me about your most significant career failure and what you learned from it.
    • preference for startup environments, market fit and timing are hard to get right.
  • Give me an example of a time when you were 75% through a project, and had to pivot the strategy - how were you able to make that into a success story?
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