CerteDrive | Senior Software Engineer | Remote | Full Time
CerteDrive is a leading platform for managing DOT Physicals, Drug Screens, Breath Alcohol Testing, Agility Screening, and other occupational health services. Through a custom built application, CerteDrive clients have access to a nationwide network of qualified clinics, discounted rates, and the ability to authorize, track and receive results on their employer portal. CerteDrive actively provides services for many of the largest transportation companies in the country.
We are looking for an individual who has strong technical skills, can understand the intricacies of business, and wants to make an impact. You would be leading projects and a small team to make that happen.
A friend of mine had two Envy’s failing less than 6 months after purchase with light usage. They are disposable printers, and the ink scam is ridiculous. We could never get the supposed override to work, and it would never print b&w if any color cartridge was low.
- If the hack/virus was already installed, a network shutoff won't help much.
- If a car is 10 years old with 10 years of safety updates/patches, resetting to the original firmware might not be a viable solution. But there needs to be a failsafe way of knowing the running software has not been tampered with.
> - If the hack/virus was already installed, a network shutoff won't help much.
Master battery disconnect which auto locks all brakes
> - If a car is 10 years old with 10 years of safety updates/patches, resetting to the original firmware might not be a viable solution. But there needs to be a failsafe way of knowing the running software has not been tampered with.
> Master battery disconnect which auto locks all brakes
probably want to separate those. Kill the engine at 80 mph, you can coast to stop. If you lock the brakes at 80 mph, you immediately lose most of your control, and, since you killed the battery, you lost traction control and probably ABS. And you risk blowing the tires.
"Super simple" would be nice, but as I understand it, even "dumb car" software is incredibly huge and complicated. (It's very unclear to me why that needs to be so)
If self-driving cars really take of, "just be a dumb car" won't help in a few decades. The 'driver' may not know how to drive his car, and even if he did, the car may not have a steering wheel.
Also, I guess one would press this 'I want to take control' button in an emergency. That means the persons suddenly finding themselves driving this vehicle have to be above-average drivers.
It's used to search their site for products. If you want to buy a "571B Banana Slicer" the easiest way to find it on amazon's site is to use their search.
The search feature being broken translates to sales being close to zero for that time period.
'For decades I have been trying to come up with an ideal way to slice a banana. "Use a knife!" they say. Well...my parole officer won't allow me to be around knives....'
CerteDrive | Fullstack Rails Engineer | Grand Rapids, MI
Mike here, CTO of Certedrive. We just started looking to add 2-3 developers to help us expand our product offering. We are a startup with customers in 37 states and looking to expand that number to 48 in the next 6 months.
I moved to Grand Rapids from SF two years ago and I have been very happy here. If you live near Grand Rapids or you are looking to move to an awesome place and you are a great rails developer, contact me: mike@certedrive.com.
No remote at this time (although some do work from home a couple days a week when they want to).
There are people with needs and people with solutions.
I understand where you are coming from, but advertising a solution to people that may have that need is not always evil.
There are many times where I am glad I saw advertising: my favorite band is coming to town, a new product that will save me hours a day just got released, the shoes I have been looking for are being sold at 30% off.
I don't want to give up all of my privacy, but sometimes I don't mind finding a solution to something in my peripheral focus.
Information like "products X, Y, and Z from these manufacturers now solve these problems" or "band Q is visiting your city soon" can be presented in a non-manipulative manner, but current ads go beyond information into manipulation using emotion, repetition, ear worms, and social pressure.
There are two lessons we can learn form "information by itself doesn't sell $WIDGET". One is that properly informed people don't actually want that product, and the product should be changed or replaced to meet their actual needs.
The alternative lesson - which is unfortunately very popular - is that if people that are properly informed won't buy the product, then they should be kept ignorant and scammed into buying it.
Or the reality, which is neither of those: people don't become properly informed when you present them with unprompted information. They ignore your pitch and move on with their life. You never reach the state where there are "properly informed" people deciding not to buy your product.
Of course they do. An unprompted pitch is at best an annoyance and at worst some kind of scam. Why would you expect it to be well received after you wasted their time and energy?
> You never reach the state where there are "properly informed" people deciding not to buy your product.
Sure you do. It's why people pay for things like Consumer Reports - so they can get the information they need to decide if they should buy something. This isn't true in all cases, of course, but most people make informed purchasing decisions regularly.
Just note that they may disagree with you, even when you have the same facts. Situations and opinions are highly variable.
If it wasn't clear, that was only one example. Every reviewer, search engine, friend-who-already-bought-one, and so on is a resource available to get information.
This is, however, straying from my point, which was: just because people aren't informed about your particular product doesn't give make it ok to try to trick them into buying your product with manipulative advertising, and throwing your pitch at someone unsolicited is still (at best) rude.
That could easily change if there were no more advertisements and "things like Consumer Reports" were the way to buy things. It would be like a Costco or Amazon Prime membership.
It would be biased put in the context of "I'm deciding if I should skip college, is that the right decision?" and using those as your main data point to find your answer.
Need help getting a project from idea to production while achieving a good balance of scalability vs time constraints?
Need someone that can come in an help out your team in a crunch?
Need someone to help you with heading up your technical team?
I am a full-stack developer with CTO experience. I take on all types of projects: front end web, mobile, back end server, database, devops, custom software solutions, and hardware integrations.
Cloud Platforms:
Amazon Web Services, Heroku, Windows Azure
Database:
MongoDB, MySQL, GAE Datastore, Elastic Search, MS SQL Server, Berkeley
Management:
I have experience creating company/project budgets, making HR decisions, deciding company/product direction, managing a small team, and creating complete project plans.
Architect:
I have experience in requirements gathering, full stack technology selection, system design, application design, application implementation, systems testing, load/stress testing, system trouble shooting, production rollout, some experience with globalization/localization, as well as some experience with custom circuit board/hardware design and programming.
CerteDrive is a leading platform for managing DOT Physicals, Drug Screens, Breath Alcohol Testing, Agility Screening, and other occupational health services. Through a custom built application, CerteDrive clients have access to a nationwide network of qualified clinics, discounted rates, and the ability to authorize, track and receive results on their employer portal. CerteDrive actively provides services for many of the largest transportation companies in the country.
We are looking for an individual who has strong technical skills, can understand the intricacies of business, and wants to make an impact. You would be leading projects and a small team to make that happen.
Stack: Rails, Angular, MySQL, Kafka, Docker, AWS
If interested send email careers@certedrive.com