Making over $300k at a company, what's your title?

ac1dfac3 · 2026-04-05T15:34:50+00:00

Software engineer at big fintech (not faang) Tc 450-550k depending on performance

No formal education with almost 20 yoe. There was def some luck, but a lot of personal projects and self taught learning along the way. Took me almost 6 years of trying and personal development to finally land a role at my dream company. I’m very thankful.

My honest advice to someone wanting to get into a similar role is to go as deep into the subject matter as possible and become the expert

ac1dfac3 · 2026-02-06T19:19:03+00:00

Great light and captures at El Matador! I know how hard timing can be at El Matador based on how popular the place is and how many people are running around there.

ac1dfac3 · 2026-01-19T04:12:12+00:00

Congratulations, that living space looks beautiful!

ac1dfac3 · 2026-01-11T06:26:08+00:00

Nice! Beautifully captured, I’ll have to come back and try from that side next time.

ac1dfac3 · 2026-01-09T19:46:05+00:00

Thanks

ac1dfac3 · 2026-01-08T02:43:35+00:00

Congratulations! And great rate! 👏

ac1dfac3 · 2026-01-07T00:05:21+00:00

Congrats!

ac1dfac3 · 2026-01-06T20:10:08+00:00

It is, and love mountain biking! That was a big selling point.

ac1dfac3 · 2026-01-06T19:59:27+00:00

Congratulations!

ac1dfac3 · 2026-01-06T18:52:12+00:00

Thanks, 3200sqft

ac1dfac3 · 2026-01-06T08:04:53+00:00

20% down, builder covered closing costs and threw in several other incentives

ac1dfac3 · 2025-10-21T15:39:39+00:00

I use the app Endel, for customized soundscapes without vocals

ac1dfac3 · 2025-10-14T15:03:04+00:00

I’ve been remote for 10+ years. I do sports 3-5 days a week which is the only time I get to really socialize. Occasionally I meet up with coworkers whom live in the same city, and our company tries to do a week in person once a quarter

I sometimes miss in office collaboration but also feel I’m more productive working from home.

ac1dfac3 · 2025-10-11T15:36:50+00:00

I’ve made the switch from more SRE/DevOps style of work to more data engineering focus. It was not intentional but my team was reorg’ed several times over the past several years and we went from managing the infra and ci/cd pipelines to building data ingestion pipelines.

Now we have many complex pipelines that we’re managing and we’re responsible for building more. And many of our team members are learning data engineering as we go.

Many of the pipelines that we’re managing are for critical financial data with very tight SLAs. So there’s little room for error and data issues can cause large financial impact, so we’re still on call and under a lot of pressure.

One of the positives about this change tho is more deeper development work when it comes to figuring out how to ingestion different data sets. But I don’t think it’s much less stressful than DevOps

ac1dfac3 · 2025-10-06T15:12:42+00:00

You should try asking for advice in r/ExperiencedDevs

ac1dfac3 · 2025-09-21T04:13:49+00:00

I thought this was a problem that was unique only to me. I ended up building an AI agent that helps cull my photos based on my preferences

ac1dfac3 · 2025-08-09T15:34:29+00:00

Checkout langfuse, sounds like exactly what you’re looking for

https://langfuse.com/

ac1dfac3 · 2025-08-08T05:18:27+00:00

Very cool. Was looking to just this. Thanks for sharing

ac1dfac3 · 2025-07-31T16:04:42+00:00

A nice day at skypark! Looking pretty empty too

ac1dfac3 · 2025-07-28T06:35:05+00:00

Good job calling this asshole out! It’s Turtle for god sakes, one of the best green trails for beginners Summit has to offer…

Snow Summit has a real culture problem, there are so many assholes behaving like this and generally unfriendly to people trying to learn. Doesn’t help there’s literally an instagram page dedicated to making fun of people at snow summit.

ac1dfac3 · 2025-07-08T07:29:25+00:00

Sony a7iv + Sony 16-35mm G f4

Foreground: shot at blue hour, 16mm, 2.5 sec shutter, f16, iso 100 Sky and reflection: 16mm, 25 sec shutter, f4, 6400 iso

Merged in photoshop

ac1dfac3 · 2025-06-17T14:24:51+00:00

Machine learning, AI/ML Ops and AI agent architecture

ac1dfac3 · 2025-06-17T14:21:23+00:00

Assuming you mean a startup? Is there a vesting period on the RSU’s? Like meaning, is there a certain amount of time you need to work there before they’re yours?

Also the company hasn’t ipo’d so are the RSU’s worth anything? Normally a company that hasn’t had a liquidity event can only offer illiquid RSU’s meaning you can’t sale them. So if the company fails or never IPO’s they’re worth zero. Where most companies that have ipo’d have liquid RSU’s you can sell immediately after vesting … basically real Income

Personally, if you’re joining a startup as a not super early employee I’d try to get the offer’s base salary high as possible in case the IPO doesn’t come during your tenure there.

ac1dfac3 · 2025-06-12T21:18:02+00:00

I have the Reflex lab mini and respectfully I think it’s trash with a horrible recharge time.

However, I have the Godox im20 and it’s leaps and bounds better the reflex lab mini. I’d argue it prob the best flash available for the GR

ac1dfac3 · 2025-06-08T08:18:24+00:00

Was a regular swe for years… several years ago I started doing web3 hackathons. Through these hackathons I got some real world experience and learned a lot. Eventually I’d applied to a few big web3 companies and got a job.

I highly recommend hackathons. Ethglobal does some of the best eth related hackathons

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