Posts Tagged ‘startup’

New Chapter: Swiftype

Posted by Oleksiy Kovyrin under Blog, General, My Projects

So, after a few weeks of looking for a new job I’m really excited to start my journey in a young, but very ambitious startup called Swiftype which is focused on developing a technology for private site search, that could be used on everything from small blogs to large product sites. The company is growing really fast and I’m going to lead all the work on infrastructure, build the ops team and hope to get a chance to do some coding along the way.

Stay tuned – I really hope to finally get a chance to do more blogging this year. :-)

Rails Developer for a Large Startup: My Vision of an Ideal Candidate

Posted by Oleksiy Kovyrin under Databases, Development, General, Links

Few days ago we were chatting in our corporate Campfire room and one of the guys asked me what do I think about Rails developers hiring process, what questions I’d ask a candidate, etc… This question started really long and interesting discussion and I’d like to share my thoughts on this question in this post.

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