Hi all,
I recently started working the communications front for a super rad startup called Open Garden. Essentially, OG is a mobile broadband network that uses p2p mesh technology to provide internet connectivity between smartphones, laptops and tablets.
Last night I hopped on a call with some folks in India who run a nonprofit to help rural farmers tackle problems like soil testing, crop planning, seed recommendation, etc; They're planning to install Open Garden on their Android tablets and phones, pooling local networks of 2G and occasionally 3G mobile data to provide internet connectivity to the tablets.
It's a great team doing exciting work. Hit me up if you'd like to hear more, or check out the link below. And btw, if you're looking for work and want to hear about more opportunities, join the sudo-jobs mailing list here:
http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-jobs
From the call-out (https://opengarden.com/careers.html):
Qualifications
* Minimum 5 years of experience with network programming in C
* Minimum BA in CS or another technical field
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Demonstrated ability to write complex network code: e.g., a
high-performance event loop
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Experience in implementing a protocol specification, e.g., an RFC
Additional pluses
* Experience with startup environment
* Contributing or
leading protocol development, e.g., co-authorship or lead authorship of
IETF drafts or another form of specification
* Experience with peer-to-peer systems
* Experience with mobile development
* Being based in or near San Francisco
* Contributions to open-source projects
* Knowledge of Objective C, Java, or Ruby