Hello future colleague! I'm Max Bigras and I'm on the hunt for my next Infrastructure/SRE/Production/DevOps Engineering role! I like to work with excellent people and create lasting professional relationships. These are some details about me:
1. I'm a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 7+ years of experience. My favorite type of company is a startup looking to level up (50–100 people). I've worked on infrastructure teams ranging from 1–6.
2. In general, I'm skilled at creating multi-tier, multi-account infrastructure as code architectures and application delivery workflows with Terraform and my speciality is creating self-service workflows by documenting the details; I maintain meticulous notes about my thinking process which I publish internally.
3. I tend to solve problems which no one else wants to—arcane Docker/Linux gotchas, IAM permissions, networking, CI/CD issues, updating docs—then I automate the solution in code and document the details.
4. My favorite days at work are when I start to see others solving their own problems in a self-service way by linking to my Slack threads, wiki pages, GitHub discussions.
Thank you for considering me and please freely reach out!
Shoutout to Richard Feynman! I didn’t immediately see his name appear on the page; but once I began reading his words, I glanced at the URL and I see, yes, it is a Feynman lecturer! Lucid and clear; slicing through obscure jargon in a fun and playful—but masterful—way; Feynman totally rocks and is worth reading further!
Excellent to see a fellow SE user! I still happily run my iPhone SE (1st generation). I might take 5 minutes to boot Notion or run out memory and crash when I try to boot Amazon; but, my EarPods pair instantly—I just plug my 3.5 mm jack in my 3.5 mm port and then I can freely listen to music or do a phone call (works every time)! Also, I can easily swap connections from my laptop to my phone with the same workflow—simple (but sadly not futureproof).
I would rather have a gen1 SE than my current iPhone 12 mini. Had an iPhone 5 before, but AT&T stopped serving data to it. I thought maaybe it'd be ok not having a headphone jack, but nah, this sucks.
Please accept my sympathy. I do understand and soon enough I'll be in the same predicament. Every iOS 15 patch feels like a gift. I seriously don't know what I'm going do when iOS 15 becomes end of life; there aren't any modern phones that have my critical—and arguably reasonable—hardware requirements.
The other requirement being the home button instead of these awful swipe gestures and facial unlock? And compact size.
Man, Steve Jobs got it right before.
Precisely that and I couldn’t agree more. I even ditched my case about a year ago—live for today.
The hardest thing is the strain the whole experience puts on my relationships. I already used up all my fiancé’s patience with my chronic melancholy about my perfectly functional but ultimately doomed phone; and end of life hasn't even happened yet.
Seeing iOS 12.5.7 was bittersweet, a glimmer of hope, a reason to hold on.
Nah, swipe gestures are way better imo. Anecdotal, but there is a story that the design team (who were used to the previous button design) got so used to the swipes that they tried to do that constantly on their old phones as well.
I would have agreed with you on the fingerprints being superior, but I have to say that I really can’t say anything bad about the face scanner. It is fast and accurate and very rarely fails (which would be the same with fingerprints, you may have gloves on, or your hands are dirty, etc)
I've been using this phone for a year and haven't gotten used to it. There are too many scenarios where the swipe you want is difficult to pull off. It used to be common UI guidance to use gestures for extra convenience but not to rely on them.
Like if I'm using the map, it's swipe up from near the bottom to open nav options or swipe up from slightly below that to open app switcher; keep in mind I'm probably doing this hastily at a red light. Lock screen is swipe up to unlock but also to look at notifications. Home screen is swipe down for notifications or control center, depending on which side, I always forget.
Facial unlock has a hard time with my glasses. I have to input my pin half the time. If I'm driving, I can't look at my phone. Also idk why it has to auto-lock immediately like I'm paranoid; there used to be a setting to delay auto-locking for 30min unless I press the lock button myself.
Buy the $9 dongle from Apple and keep it permanently connected to your headphones. Then it's just a plug in scenario, the same as a headphone jack whenever you want to use them. Sure, you can't charge and use your headphones at the same time but I get 2 full days of battery life from my iPhone 12.
I did, and I got the typical outcome for dongles. Left it plugged into my car aux until my wife wanted to play music off her iPhone 6... turns out it can't use that dongle. She disconnected it, then it got lost beneath the seat eventually. Had another for my headphones, turns out it can't use the wired mic so it's kinda useless. Third one broke. Other car has Bluetooth, but it sucks, often doesn't auto pair or the phones fight over it.
This is a bad compromise that didn't need to happen; I should just be able to plug headphones into my phone. In the end, I took my old iPhone 5 and left it in the car for playing music. It's the better phone.
Do the Technical Writing One course [1] and consider Google developer technical documentation style guide highlights [2]. Both those links are about technical writing which is primarily about clarity. Since I started focusing on clarity when writing, I find any writing fun and engaging.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Terraform, Bash, Python, Go
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbigras/ and https://github.com/mbigras
Email: mbigras22+hn@gmail.com
Hello future colleague! I'm Max Bigras and I'm on the hunt for my next Infrastructure/SRE/Production/DevOps Engineering role! I like to work with excellent people and create lasting professional relationships. These are some details about me:
Thank you for considering me and please freely reach out!