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Tech Interview: CouponBird’s Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv, a team leader from CouponBirds , a growing e-commerce company specialising in coupon code services and advertising. Now more about you and your career path, what inspired you to become a Software Engineer?

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Just Make It Faster

Feld Thoughts

The folks from the management consulting firm did all the design and analysis; we wrote the code to work with the massive databases that supported this. The database was coming from a mainframe and by PC-standards was enormous (although it would probably be considered tiny today.). One of our software engineers wrote all the code.

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Does Moore’s Law Suddenly Matter Less?

Feld Thoughts

As a result of several of our themes, namely HCI and Glue , we see first hand the dramatic pace at which software can improve. I’ve been through my share of 100x to 1000x performance improvements because of a couple of lines of code or a chance in the database structure in my life as a programmer 20+ years ago.

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Software Engineering. Can do basic database administration, performance optimization, index optimization, write advanced select queries, able to replace cursor usage with relational sql, understands how data is stored internally, understands how indexes are stored internally, understands how databases can be mirrored, replicated etc.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

We needed routers, switches, databases, caching software, load balancers, application servers, browsers, compression algortyhms, streaming technology, low-cost storage, management consoles, programming libraries and on and on. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area.

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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

Check out the infographic for more:

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3 Things You Need To Be Aware Of When Calculating A Budget For An App Like Etsy

YoungUpstarts

Even if you truly believe they can, your team needs to include at least one experienced team leader to guide the rest of the engineers through software development specifics. In average, the hourly rate for software engineering services reaches $47 per hour. Hourly rate.

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