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Tech Interview: CouponBird’s Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv, a team leader from CouponBirds , a growing e-commerce company specialising in coupon code services and advertising. Now more about you and your career path, what inspired you to become a Software Engineer?

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3 Things You Need To Be Aware Of When Calculating A Budget For An App Like Etsy

YoungUpstarts

Develop a software solution. Building a software product, the massive part of your budget is the developers’ salary. Even if you truly believe they can, your team needs to include at least one experienced team leader to guide the rest of the engineers through software development specifics. Hourly rate. Working hours.

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Does Moore’s Law Suddenly Matter Less?

Feld Thoughts

A post in the New York Times this morning asserted that Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law. The rapid pace of software progress, Mr. Lazowska added, is harder to measure in algorithms performing nonnumerical tasks. It’s easy to forget about the software layer, but as an investor I live in it.

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Takeaways from the Domino Data Science Pop-up: Defining a data scientist

Version One Ventures

Source: Data Scientists Are Analysts are Also Software Engineers , William Whipple Neely. It turns out that a data scientist is both analyst and software engineer (and everything in between) as Neely’s presentation was aptly titled “Data Scientists Are Analysts Are Also Software Engineers.”

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Do you need data engineering before data science?

Version One Ventures

A good data engineer: Gathers data, stores it, does batch/real-time processing on it, and serves it via an API to a data scientist (some companies may call this data infrastructure or data architecture). Has extensive knowledge on databases and best engineering practices.

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. Software was expensive. Engineers, however, were relatively cheap. It no longer requires a sophisticated understanding of MySQL parameters to scale a database on Google App Engine, just as it no longer requires a knowledge of the CPU chip it’s all chugging away on.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software). Why do I say that?