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by anthonyhn 1166 days ago
If you don't mind me asking, what do you use Haskell for at work? Also was the company using Haskell before, or did you bring Haskell to the job? It's always fascinating hearing stories about people using less common languages like Common Lisp or Haskell on the job!
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I've only ever joined Haskell companies (although I did use it for a startup of my own once!)

I would generally categorize what I do as "backend engineering." The domains have been all over the place. Crypto, fintech, adtech, data engineering, SaaS, infra automation. Lots of Postgres and a bunch of other tech (Redis, Kafka, other KV stores).

The places end up finding me (usually through LinkedIn where I make very clear that Haskell is what I'm about).

It's been fun! I've met a lot of nice people, and I got paid to climb way over the Haskell learning curve. Can't complain :)