About the Kull Cave and Rascalnikov.
The Kull Cave stand to be my own corner of the internet, where I share my
Blogs about Philosophy and Technology and my love for Gaming; as well as my
Streams of consciousness, where I wax philosophical about the books I read
and the ideas that such books wrestle with. It will also strive to be a
place where like minded individuals can hangout and interact with myself
and each other; to hopefully create a space where a casually intellectual
community can gather and thrive. But who am I; who is behind all this?
Humble beginnings at KloutMachine
Well, I am just a self made developer; striving to make it in the
professional world, and the world in general. I started my professional
journey with a company called KloutMachine, aiming to be one of the first
to help college athletes capitalize on their Name, Image and Likeness
(known as NIL) amongst the law change; allowing aforementioned athletes to
do so. Here, I served as a front end engineer with a decent sized small
team of three. Being as hungry and eager as ever to accumulate work
experience, and to put my passionate love for programming to good use --
I typically got all my assignments coded, reviewed and completed early and
would always attempt to work on the backlog until the two week "sprint"
was up, and I recieved my new assignments. I worked both on the company
website and the front end of the company's product using JavaScript and the
React framework; along with HTML and CSS of course. This work was unpaid,
as the company was still at its earliest beginnings and couldn't afford to
pay; even in the second year they hired me back for some work, they could
only afford paying me 100 USD a week, which I accepted gratefully.
My most recent professional experience, was working with TrueCast; and
since I am bound by an NDA, I cannot talk much about what exactly it is
that I was working on there -- only that it was new and innovative
technology that hasn't been done before. This, though it only lasted a
year, was my first professional experience being a full-stack developer;
working on the company's demo web application on both the front and the
back end, as well as providing lots of back end scripting using both
Python and JavaScript as needed to support the main application, developed
by the lead developer that was the actual core of the prototype we worked
on. It really pushed me, even my creativity, to find solutions to the
problems that would arise as we approached our goals -- even tested both
of our resolve's at various times. But it was a great experience to work
with the clients we had -- big, national and successful clients were very
interested in purchasing and using a product that I had a big help in
developing. This was the first time I felt that I was performing on a
grand level as a developer; that I really "pulled myself up from my own
boot-straps" so to speak. Unfortunately, I was laid off, as they said they
couldn't afford to continue paying me at the time. Though it was sad for
me, I understood and said my fairwell's to everyone -- and my thanks for
providing a fun and relaxed, yet focused and driven atmosphere for me to
push my skills as a developer and as a professional in my small part of
interacting with clients.
Now, I seem to be struggling to find my next professional career move in
software engineering industry, as they all seem to require so many years
of experience; even for the entry-level jobs. I am hopeful as I throw my
applications into the pit of the hundreds of applicants who applied before
me, and trying to juggle other gigs outside of the industry to sustain
myself until then. From one internet cowboy to another,
See You Later, Space Cowboy.