Looking for group!

[Timon Vonk]

Hey guys,

Whatup! We're still looking (EXTREMELY HARD :)) for new, awesome people who love a challenge! We're stuffed on Tolq right now, but still looking for people who are willing to work on Exvo or Teamz. However, since we have three startups, we love to do mixing and matching.

Since not so long ago we're based in the Hague, a brand new, shiny office in the centre, with two developers besides myself.

So without further ado, here's it:

We're a young, informal triple startup with 3 (!) running projects:.

We have three promising products and ideas:

The first is the Exvo.com Cloud Operating System. The idea behind it is that local based operating systems are becoming slowly obsolete. We don’t aim to provide solutions for common problems, Google for one does that just fine. We want to provide a platform that removes the limitations of local resources and gives you the full experience where ever you are. This is still in a very conceptual phase, but we’re getting there. Also, we have over 350k users. (YES, that's 150k more than last time I send this email, 3-4 months ago)

Main tech points:

• Hazed with clouds
• Huge distributed architecture (REST)
• Endless possibilities in terms of Tech

The second is Teamz. As a starting entrepreneur one of the hardest parts is finding the right people for the right job. The entrepreneur should be focused on running his business, not endless solicitations and turn offs. The concept is that you define your tasks, put them into a pool, and via a betting system together with a rating algorithm a match is mate. The tasks gets executed by the matchee from the pool and on acceptance, the deal will be closed. We will be providing a full solution here.

Main tech points:

• Fun with math.
• Distributed architecture (REST)
• Very high potential

The final application is Tolq, an automated (website) translation platform. It’s based on the same principle as the first that some things just should be easy, like translating your site. After you change your DNS settings and request a machinal, crowd or 1-on-1 translation and the languages you want, the application crawls your website, distributes the documents over the pool of the second application and reassembles it when it’s done. This application is currently working, and we’re working heavy on getting it more production ready.

Main tech points:

• Distributed architecture (RabbitMQ)
• Linguistics! NLP!
• Complex problems that can make huge differences

You can find an introductory video to Tolq here: http://vimeo.com/35194496

To support these very ambitious plans, we need several additional experienced (Rails) developers.

You can work from anywhere, just as long as you love what you do and enjoy making beautifully code. However, local people have a strong preference.

You will join a team made up of people around the world, who will challenge you to be the best you can be and most of all, have a lot of fun in the process. We currently have two teams of varying sizes.

We’re looking for junior, medior and senior developers!

We’d like you to have:
* A willingness to learn
* Good communication skills
* A passion for Ruby, a love for Rails
* Proficiency in javascript, coffeescript and jQuery
* Experience with behaviour and test driven development
* Experience with agile software development
* And generally good development skills.

And we’d love it if you:
* Have read and understood the pragmatic programmer
* Have experience with Amazon AWS and/or Heroku
* Know other languages besides Ruby and Javascript
* Know a thing or two about UX
* Know a thing or two about distributed architectures
* Know a thing or two about algorithms
* Are an agile evangelist
* Have contributed to open source projects
* A presence in the Ruby community

Hope to hear from any of you guys soon!

Best regards,

Timon Vonk

Exvo.com, CTO

Tolq.com, CTO

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Timon Vonk