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Hi All!

It seems a little bit unusual to me since I haven't seen a similar announcement like mine before.
If this post violates in some ways the rules of this forum then just let me know and I'll remove it.

Anyway, I'm looking for a new job and I'm fundamentally a software developer/engineer with many years
of experience on Windows plus other software skills (with less experience).
I'm posting here because I'm interested in this field or similar fields (like embedded ecc.)

If you are interested please contact me with a private message.

Thank you.

P.S. I'm relatively new here but this post is not spam.

If you're looking for a job, something that will help people is if you list:

* Your key competencies. You mention software, but what languages? what packages? Do you have UNIX experience?

* Your location and availability to move for work.

* Your expected grade - Graduate, Junior or Senior?

Hi JamesM,

I understand your point of view but I don't like writing
my details in public and this is the reason I wrote to
contact me with a private message before if someone
is interested,just that.
At the same time there is no special skills/experiences about
my profile, I'm not a guru. If you are not interested then there
is no problem.

Thank you.

EDIT:
Windows, C/C++, VS and VSS, unicode, dll/lib, multithreading, COM, SQLServer, c#, asp.net, xhtml, css, xml, linux, perl, asm(nasm), gcc.
These are more or less my skills, starting from the left, more experiences.
Graduate.
Available to relocate.

Firstly, you should say more about what you actually know. Secondly what kind of job are you looking for and thirdly where can you relocate?

This is so wrong.

Finding a job is not tell someone I want a job and hope someone reach you, well, unless exception(*).
It's about selling yourself.

You could start with draft a profile and briefly introduce yourself without disclosing your personal information and work experience details.

(*) If you are so famous that you don't need to present anything and people knows you.

If the meaning of my post was "I want a job", sorry, but I didn't mean that and simply discard it.
Probably I'm not a good seller of myself.

Thank all of you for your suggestion.

CodeVisio wrote:If the meaning of my post was "I want a job", sorry, but I didn't mean that and simply discard it.
Probably I'm not a good seller of myself.

Thank all of you for your suggestion.

No problem. You've probably gathered by now that there are people on this forum, myself included, whose employers are hiring. We always need *some* information to tell if you're likely to be an interesting candidate or not. For example, the skills you mentioned aren't really applicable to the jobs available here. But you could have listed "compilers, low level programming, large codebases" in which case we would probably be very interested.

These sort of things are about you piquing the attention of someone else, if nothing other than you have the core competencies they're looking for.

Good luck with your search!

Of course, for jobs that are at least vaguely related to OS development, these hiring employers will be interested in skills that I can't really see in your list. Windows desktop and web applications are definitely not key in this respect.

I believe most of us that have a job related to these topics, have started with doing it as a hobby and gathering experience this way.

Surely listing the computer science releated skills you have wont compromise you privacy.

If the job were somehow related to the low-level programming, the OS development experience (if any) would definitely be worth mentioning. It may actually sound much better than it actually is. Most of the people are not aware of the hobby OS developing being even "possible".

However, it may also cause misconceptions.

From personal experience, I know that OS development skills might give you interesting work. I once got such a job related to Linux, even if I didn't have specific Linux skills. Low-level programming and device-driver development is kind of narrow, but if you are lucky, you can get such a job. But writing desktop / web applications is not likely to be a merit. You either need professional expertise, or expertise related to a homebrew OS project.
However, the bulk of the software jobs are in the desktop / web application area, not in low-level programming. But I for one have no intention of ever writing an desktop or web-app again. It's just too boring.

Dear CodeVisio,

I used to work on a operating system , I worked on memory management , exception handling , shell , time zone and variety of other components as a maintenance engineer. Realistically you need only 2 skills, patience and perseverance. I would suggest that you start learning debugging tools like WinDbg or a crash dump analyzer. Take crash dumps of systems, try to build a picture of how the crash really occurred and solve them. In the end it will be some trivial programming error.

I found debugging more fun than actually writing code. Most of the operating system code in commercial world is fairly static and core sub systems rarely undergo drastic changes. It is very unlikely that you get chance to design and implement a commercial operating system.

If you are looking for a job, try for a Field Engineer position or an SDET position in an operating system group. I think you will learn a lot more that way than being a developer in these positions. That's all I can think of for now . Good luck with your job search !

--Thomas