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% "postcode city" and "country" arguments can be omitted or provided empty
\phone[fixed]{(805) 699-5690}
-\email{ozzloy@gmail.com}
+\email{ozzloy@challenge-bot.com}
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\homepage{www.challenge-bot.org}
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-\social[code]{http://challenge-bot.com:8080/admin/repos}
+\social[code]{https://gitlab.com/ozzloy}
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\begin{document}
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% recipient data
-\recipient{Hiring Manager}{alpha public schools \\ San Jose}
+\recipient{Hiring Manager}{Ladder Life}
\date{\today}
\opening{Dear Sir or Madam,}
\closing{Sincerely,}
% "Enclosure", or redefine \enclname
\makelettertitle
-I am inquiring about employment for the 5th - 8th Grade
-STEM Teacher position.
+I am inquiring about employment for the Software Engineer
+position.
-During the summer of 2016, I organized a summer camp at Livermore
-Highschool for students of migrant workers. Erin and I taught 2 cohorts
-our challenge-bot robotics curriculum. Students kept their robots, and
-since then, we have been running robotics demos at the Livermore
-Innovation Fair.
+I believe I will be able to implement full-stack features for Ladder.
+For the past few months, I've been learning Clojure's web stack in
+order to create a web app that my grampa and I can play remotely.
-Since I am coming to professional education through
-a non-traditional route, I am not currently certificated. However,
-I would certainly go through the process. For the
-past 3.5 years, Gideon Hausner, a jewish day school for K-8 students
-has employed me. During that time, I have built relationships with
-students, parents, teachers and faculty.
+It is up and running at \httplink{bingo.challenge-bot.com}. You can
+visit it right now, choose any username, log in and get a bingo card.
+It uses websockets to synchronize the game across all logged in
+players. In order to get this running, I had to learn a lot about the
+stack tech that goes into any web page. From http request to A-record
+(and AAAA-record), from Apache reverse proxy to the dynamic duo of
+Ring and Compojure, I have written and configured the tech behind the
+bingo page. Reagent has provided a clean, functional way of updating
+the UI, and I am looking into Reframe to handle state update
+management.
-As a result, I have received many recommendation letters. Hopefully
-these letters can get me into a teaching position that supports me
-while I pursue more traditional certification.
+Those are just some of the technologies I learned specifically for
+this page. In addition, I run GNU and Linux on my laptop and have
+been maintaining a personal virtual server for over a decade.
-\begin{itemize}
- \item \textbf{
- \textcolor{color2}{
- \httplink[Recommendation Letters on Google Drive]
- {drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nAeLSjj6ZsE24migsOrlJwSLihsAPkxu?usp=sharing}}}
-\end{itemize}
+Clojure makes programming for the web fun again, and Clojurescript
+means I can create meaningful connections for people like my grampa,
+who know very little about computers.
I look forward to discussing my qualifications further and can
be reached by email at
-\href{ozzloy@gmail.com}{\textcolor{color2}{ozzloy@gmail.com}}.
+\href{ozzloy@challenge-bot.com}{\textcolor{color2}{ozzloy@challenge-bot.com}}.
\makeletterclosing
\end{document}