Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
I am looking for work and sharing my information in this monthly thread. I invite others who are seeking employment to post their details in the specified format, and I encourage readers to contact candidates directly for job opportunities.
I'm a PhD physicist turned infrastructure engineer. I maintain a 40+ node Linux fleet for an open-source blockchain project; covering automation, monitoring, deployments, and public services. I also run a small web-hosting business and have built cloud automation for bare-metal onboarding and Kubernetes-hosted VMs at a startup. My earlier work was in computational biophysics, ML, and HPC. I'm looking for a hands-on platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps role, ideally on a small, collaborative team.
Android developer, 4+ years professional, shipped apps with 100K+ combined Play Store downloads across social, food delivery, fitness, AI and news categories. Now freelancing and open to contract work. What I am good for: quick turnarounds on existing apps (crashes, Gradle and build errors, Play Store rejections - usually 24-48h), full Flutter apps shipped to both stores, and website-to-app conversions.
Embedded HMI engineer. For 5 years I was the sole software owner of ~12 operator dashboards that shipped to production on heavy agricultural machinery for five OEMs: architecture, C firmware, J1939 modeling at 250 kbps, the entire graphics layer, bench and field validation, and support. Two things I'm proud of: integrating an electronic Cummins engine and a DANA transmission so the machine was commanded from our own HMI/VCU with no OEM display, and replacing European OEM valve controllers with an in-house CAN + HMI module, which cut per-unit cost and license fees.
Software engineer, 2 years, remote for UK companies. I build the layer that makes AI features safe to ship. Spotter — Evaluation and guardrail layer for LLM agents. Deterministic rules run before any model judge, because a rule can't hallucinate a pass. Every call traced before it executes, so when quality drops you query what changed. CLOCKLO — Multi-tenant workforce SaaS. AI attendance verification, RBAC, Stripe, CI/CD on AWS. Shipped solo, end to end.
I'm Victor, a product designer who writes production code, fifteen years in. I can carry the backend and I have led teams, but I engage most with the user-facing parts. I'm most useful where design and build are the same job: 0-to-1 products.
Full-stack web developer with 20 years of experience, currently working at a startup where I was employee #2. My strongest area of expertise, if I had to point one out, is frontend. I've built complex multiscreen dashboards, mobile games, IPTV set-top box interfaces, you name it. Consistent and performant UIs are my jam. I enjoy working with people, I've happily and successfully led teams, conducted dozens of technical interviews and managed cross-team initiatives. That said, I'm a deeply technical person at heart, so I'm not looking for a full-time management position.
- boltzmann-brain
Location: EU, overlap with US East+West Time Zones
Remote: Yes
Relocation: No
Technologies: Claude Code, Rust, C++, Python, Go, Zig, Haskell, TypeScript, JS, Nix, K8s, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Linux, PHP, React, infosec, ...
Email: damianjobsites+hn@gmail.com
CV: on request
長 Senior engineer / tech lead (20+ YOE). Former IC → EM → Director → CTO.
宝 Multiple exits. Hands-on, or owning the whole technical org.
勝 Highlights:
— Managed organization of 60 world-class researchers and devs working on AI safety
— Designed and shipped a commercial LLM end-to-end that competed with ChatGPT (algorithms → training → MLops), now used internally at global orgs
— Expert at agentic workflows (Claude Code, harnesses, autonomous agents, LLM-powered dev)
— Shipped prod systems for Oracle, Shell, Time Warner, Bank of America, Sparkasse, Saatchi & Saatchi, Digitas
— Launched and audited major blockchains (e.g. Tezos - core team, Solana - 3rd party auditor)
— Built + scaled a software NGO (2M+ supporters, 1k+ volunteers)
睿 Strengths: Turn ambiguous problems into shipped systems; MVPs that don’t need rewriting; ML, LLMs, Foundation Models, RAGs, vector DBs; 10x–1000x performance wins on legacy systems; FP, Compilers, DSLs, distributed systems, security-critical code
功 Further work: Contributor: Rust Book, Rust By Example, Python docs, Haskell Communities and Activities Report; Dozens of audits, background in cryptography, infosec, formal methods
運 If you need someone who can own […]
- clavoie
Location: Montréal, Canada
Remote: Yes; on-site or hybrid in Montréal also fine
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: TLA+/PlusCal, Alloy, Z3/CVC5, property-based testing, Python, Java, Go, Haskell, Perl, Postgres, Kubernetes, Terraform pipelines
Email: clavoie+hackernews [at] sandreckoning [dot] com
Twenty-plus years building and operating software, including six at Google (Ads, Search, Street View), and nearly two decades running a Montréal consultancy doing technical due diligence and large-scale infrastructure work. Specialised in:
* Applied formal methods. Specification and model checking aimed at the parts that cannot break. TLA+ or Alloy models, SMT-backed invariants, and property-based tests wired into CI. The goal is catching design defects before implementation, not verifying an entire codebase.
* Interviewing and hiring. Calibrated interviews, structured debriefs, work-sample and pairing exercises. Interviewer training.
* Managing AI-assisted engineering. Practical work here: specification-first workflows where the spec is machine-checkable, eval suites and regression
harnesses.
Fully bilingual: French and English.
- xucian
Location: Bucharest, Romania & San Francisco, CA
Remote: Yes (preferred)
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, Django, Svelte / TypeScript, Shell, Linux, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Hugging Face, OpenAI, LlamaIndex, LangChain, AWS, GCP, Unity (C#), Git, Github Actions, Software Design & Architecture, Devops, Product, UX, Sales
Résumé/CV: Available on request
Email: hi [at] lucianlazar [dot] io
GitHub: https://github.com/xucian
hey, I'm Lucian, have 13y of exp as a generalist swe, started as a gamedev then expanded into devops, ai/ml, trading, now working on a pretty diverse range of projects, from games, gamedev courses, ai tools, saas templates etc. more info on my profile looking for a fractional cto role, ideally, but I'm flexible
recent/notable work: maginary.ai (some revenue) and Optimized ScrollView Adapter at u3d.as/xXQ (actively supporting it since 2016)
more: i dealt with rag pipelines on doc2exam.com (launch video: vimeo.com/1035566590), complex ai workflows on maginary.ai on routing prompts to 40+ image/video models with several intermediary steps for processing, fully-featured ai integrations for mores.ai (legaltech) where i also fought hallucinations in drafting documents using long iterative loops and extracting math using abstract syntax trees to be computed separately (llms are bad at math). also implemented an agentic system for finallymet.com (ai dating) using both email and imessage with a real phone number (live right now, you can text […]
- tinthedev
Software engineer / engineering lead. I've run teams (Kiwi, ~20, payments and refunds) and I've been the person who owns the hard system - NBA real-time stats on Kafka + Flink, Semgrep Series B public API auth and RBAC. Looking for freelance, contract, or a full-time seat where I can own a surface - not a backlog.
Location: Brno, EU (UTC+1)
Remote: Yes, 100%. On-site travel possible.
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, TypeScript, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Flink, ClickHouse, AWS (Lambda, Cognito), Docker, CI/CD. Flexible on the rest.
Résumé/CV: https://www.tinthe.dev/
Email: tinmarkoviccs (at) gmail.com
Comfortable across backend and the data layer. Frontend when it serves the product (TypeScript / React), not as a specialty. I use LLMs. I don't outsource the thinking to them. If the product grew faster than the architecture, that's the job.
Not a cog-in-the-machine hire. Happy to start on a scoped piece of work if you'd rather test that than interview.
- nso
Location: Mexico (Norwegian citizen)
Remote: Yes (fully remote since 2022, available for EU or US office hours - I have experience working with both)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: C#/.NET, Perl, Typescript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, Linux, Ansible, Nginx, HAProxy, Xen virtualization, IoT firmware/hardware integration, RabbitMQ, Nuxt.js
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/paaltuv/paaltuv/raw/main/cv_improved.docx
Email: me@paaltuv.no
20+ years building and operating production systems. Most interesting thing I've done: joined an aquaculture startup as the first engineer, built the entire platform (software, IoT firmware, hardware integrations, infrastructure), grew into the CTO role, and helped the company raise $5M Series A.
Before (and after) that, I've spent ~11 years at a Norwegian hosting company doing everything from datacenter buildouts and cloud platform architecture to migrating 50+ systems from Perl to .NET and managing a remote dev team.
I'm strongest where software meets infrastructure meets hardware. Looking for senior/staff platform, backend, or infrastructure roles -- especially at companies doing IoT, energy, climate tech, or anything with real-world integrations. Remote only (or commute to Mexico city).
Current side projects:
- lxchase
Location: New York, NY Remote: Open to remote, I find I enjoy hybrid/in-person
Willing to relocate: Unlikely
Technologies: Python, Git, SQL, HTML/CSS, Data Engineering/ETL platforms, JS, AI implementation, Network Engineering
Resume/CV: On Request via Email
Email: In my profile
I'm an former operator, CEO experience, with a marketing/engineering background. Led marketing at an acquired $350M+ ice cream brand, as well as launched a $1B vertical farming startup. Looking to get back into STEM which I just love. I specialize in marketing and go-to-market (working always with quantitative data to make decisions), breaking through barriers, and leading/hiring teams. Having worked in various industries, with programming and engineering chops, I speak multiple "languages" well; people have described me as the missing piece of the puzzle / Seal Team Six, who can distill the needs of various stakeholders/customers and move projects forward. Can code and defended against Tbps DDoS attacks.
- aasheeshrathour
Location: Delhi, India
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes, including internationally with sponsorship
Technologies: Go, distributed systems, Linux, storage engines, concurrency, mmap, io_uring, TCP/WebSockets, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, gRPC
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ASup-0rcQivWNIMR6mOoYqEkhe...
Email: ashishrathour1102@gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/AasheeshLikePanner
Backend/infrastructure engineer with ~1 year of experience, currently MTS at a YC-backed startup building sandbox and workflow infrastructure for AI agents.
Recent production work:
- Cut persistent workspace setup from ~70s → ~10s and sandbox recovery from ~486s → ~14s while preserving sessions across restarts/code updates.
- Made workflow registration idempotent across retries, duplicate hooks and out-of-order deployments, reducing workflow-sync failures from ~90% → ~1%.
- Built reconnectable multi-client streaming with one canonical agent run per task.
- Previously built a Go backend handling 10k+ concurrent WebSocket connections at sub-100ms latency.
Systems projects:
- lsm-tree-go — LSM-tree storage engine with mmap WAL, bloom filters, sparse indexing and leveled compaction; profiled from ~250k to ~2M writes/sec and 5x BoltDB throughput on random writes.
- vase — Go pub/sub broker using a lock-free ring buffer + mmap WAL; ~62x Redis throughput at 100 subscribers in my benchmark, with zero message loss across 5M messages at 1,000 subscribers.
- Engram Engine — durable agent […]