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    Location: Eastern Thailand
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: Nix, OCaml, anything functional (learning concatenative)
    Résumé/CV: https://toast.al/skills/ (I don’t want to give up specific employer data without reason)
    Email: toastal+hn@posteo.net
My 16-year history is mostly FP front-end which no one is doing anymore; I pivoted to going deep into Nix about 3½ years ago. Nix is an amazing technology for getting reliable software, but so few teams have anyone that really understands it leading to bad experiences & gnarly code. I’ve been self-hosting Nix setups in my home cluster (servers & laptops for the family)—much if it required building NixOS modules & packaging all the things I wanted to see where I got to learn a lot about Linux + systemd. For fun, I recently picked up an ESP32 dev kit & am trying to get its toolchain working with `pkgsCross` (cross-compilation) in Nix (planning to try out Mirth which compiles to C99). I would prefer to shift into a more DevOps role or something about tooling/building the software or really just software that isn’t for the web or written in a scripting language at this point. Ideally it would be something that wasn’t full-time as well so I can tend to family matters. As I am in Asia, I can also look after machines when the West is asleep, tho my sleep schedule looks closer to European.


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