Michael Esteban

rsearch engineer & a dog's best friend. he/him.

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

@paularambles @FedericoNoemie Happy birthday!! 🎈

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

@alixwiessser so wholesome haha

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

I'm usually not one to write thought pieces without much technical depth. But here we go.

Slow the fuck down.

https://t.co/dcOwPK357F

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

@PKodmad If it touches the same files I usually continue, otherwise I start a new one. Perhaps an old habit though

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

@PKodmad @buildstorycom that's cool!!

[The Pudding @puddingviz]

The world feels quite precarious right now—and sometimes we forget what it feels like to pursue happiness. @alv9n digs into a study that asked more than 10,000 people to share their joy. From personal growth to friends & family, here’s our happiness map. https://t.co/E4tCihgRTw

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

@DynamicWebPaige Merry Christmas, Paige! 🙂

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

@lenadroid Merry Christmas Lena! 🙂

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

@alixwiessser this is cool!

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

@DynamicWebPaige Happy birthday!!

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

@TodePond flash 2.0 was always a gem too

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

@odangmcflurry Thanks for the kind words, glad it's useful : )

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

@ZelyanF41974 Thanks, glad you like it : )

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

@joyceerhl No problem : ) Gemini models are so interesting

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

@lenadroid Happy birthday Lena! Hope you had a fun day. So great to see Melbourne city tour guide Suz ☺️

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

Wait... are you talking about Groq or Grok?

[ali @endingwithali]

Life update (Expand to learn more)

I’m back on the job market!

Looking for:
- backend engineering role
- nyc hybrid preferred, but willing to do full in office or strong remote culture

Industry agnostic, but definitely want to be in a role that I can dive deep into the implementation of complex backend system, continue to push my 0-1 skills. I want to be building.

About me:
- 3 years backend engineer experience + 5 years of dev rel experience + founder experience
- wrote golang in previous role, have experience in python - but can pick up any language as needed, have done some work in react and javascript
- strong communication/soft skills - public speaking, documentation, and project organization
- I work hard at work and outside of work - side projects include building my own linux distro, organized the net gala, and do technical content creation across multiple platforms on a regular basis
- MIT grad (MEng + BS in EECS)

Feel free to DM me if you see anything that you think is a good fit or if you want to make a referral.

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As I go through the interview process to find my next job, I’ll be live-streaming interview prep on my twitch, and making short form videos about it.

If you want some company during your job hunt, be sure to follow me!

#womenintech #software #coderlife #softwarejobs

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

I've been playing around with making small animations from GPT-4o image gen. This was a surprisingly fun small project! I've tapped away and written some words here: https://t.co/NLOHmvsklP

[Michael Esteban @MikeEsto]

this is super interesting. have often had to wrangle poorly structured json. i wonder what the equivalents look like for xml?

[OpenRouter @OpenRouter]

Ranking of LLMs by the % of JSON violations we detected over the past week, for the top Structured Output requests

⭐️ Qwen, Mistral, and GPT-4o-mini generally doing the best
‼️DeepSeek v3, Sonnet 4 seeing violations north of 20%