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Careers: Tamale Life
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RICH, Software Engineer
BS in Computer Science, and in Mathematics
Brandeis University
"I spend my days working on interesting, challenging problems in an intelligent atmosphere, where everyone else is doing the same, and we're all excited to discuss any aspect of it." |
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A big fan of languages (computer and spoken) and ergo communications between all sorts of entities, Rich has touched nearly every aspect of our product, whether directly within the components, or oiling the cogs between them. |
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What do you tell friends and family who ask what you do? |
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I tell friends and family that I'm a software engineer, working on client-server applications. Tamale makes software for hedge funds. Our customers are great at giving us lots of feedback and fueling our ideas for the future of our product, so anyone I talk to about my job knows I'm excited to come to work.
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What do you love to do outside of work? |
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There's never enough time to do all the activities I'd like! I enjoy reading (even though my unread list keeps getting longer), and playing my sax. But mostly, I spend time listening to music rather than playing; I also have been doing some martial arts.
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What's the coolest thing you've done at Tamale? |
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Early on, I created a unit testing framework for our server. This feature may lack a flashy user interface, but it validates the work we've all done and improves our efficiency, providing us with automated testing of the server's code. Seeing my co-workers add their own tests using this framework validates my work and improves our product and our company.
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What is your favorite part of your job at Tamale? |
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I am given a feature that has grown over time into this organic mass of code, and I redesign the code to be more efficient, scalable, and relevant, while preserving the features and improving upon them. Plus, I get to do this in at least three programming languages!
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