Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

Stratoscope

Location: Menlo Park, CA Remote: Yes, or hybrid if nearby Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, PowerShell, Flask, SQL, PostGIS, Shapely, Unity, Unreal Engine, multiple assembly/machine languages, Windows user code and kernel drivers, Google Maps and other map APIs, geographic and airspace data Résumé/CV: https://www.geary.com/resume.html or https://www.geary.com/resume.pdf and https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgeary/ Email: mike@geary.com Hi, I'm Michael Geary. I've programmed in many languages and environments over the years. Some of my current interests are: • Developer experience. I love helping my fellow developers solve problems, and building tools to make their jobs easier and more enjoyable. • Aviation and geographic data. For example, airspace and obstacle data importers for Wing; election results and voter information maps for Google; many interactive maps for other companies. • Hardware interfacing. In a way, I am a "full stack" developer, but my stack may involve a front end to a piece of hardware rather than the cloud. I first got into programming via ham radio, so RF hardware remains an interest. • Designing and building APIs. Too often an API is designed by exposing the internals of whatever system provides the API. My philosophy is the opposite: start with the apps. I like to build a series of sample apps before starting on the API. This way I can imagine what API will make those apps and others like them easy to build. • Talk with users! I don't like to sit in a back room cranking out code. I want to make sure it's the right code for what my users need, and that it's easy to maintain and improve as we learn more about what they want. Open to full time or contract. I look forward to talking with you!

valzevul

Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes (worldwide) Willing to relocate: Yes (within Canada) Technologies: iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, TCA, Core ML/Vision, Metal, OWASP MASVS, watchOS, iPadOS CV: https://drobinin.com/consulting Senior iOS engineer / consultant (12+ years). I build and fix iOS and Vision Pro apps from medical devices and high-traffic consumer apps to vibecoded startups struggling to pass App Store reviews.

DavidOrGoliath

Seeking MLE and Applied Science Roles | LMU, University of Oxford | ex. AWS Keywords: Computer Vision, Robotics, Inference Optimization, AutoML, Forecasting - Location: Oxford, United Kingdom / Munich, Germany - Remote: In-person preferred - Willing to relocate: Yes, within Europe - Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Scikit-Learn, NumPy, Git, AWS Cloud, Docker, Wandb - Résumé/CV: https://davidbhoffmann.com/assets/pdf/David_Hoffmann_CV.pdf - Email: info@davidbhoffmann.com About: Currently investigating robotics planning with diffusion models at Oxford’s Visual Geometry Group, under joint supervision from João F. Henriques, Björn Ommer, and Christian Schroeder de Witt. Previously, I worked at AWS as an Applied Scientist Dual Student, where I (1) developed a novel inference optimization technique yielding 13.4% higher accuracy against baselines, and (2) improved SageMaker's Autopilot forecasting solution, resulting in a 3.5% error reduction and 16% decreased latency in production. I will graduate with an M.Sc. from LMU in August and am seeking applied machine learning roles to transition my research into production-level systems.

pypt

Location: Vilnius, Lithuania Remote: Yes — US Eastern overlap, async-friendly with Pacific (years of practice), happy to do the occasional late sync call. Willing to relocate: No Technologies: backend, Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AI agent infra (e.g. Temporal), I can fake my way around frontend too Resume: https://valiukas.dev/resume-linas-valiukas.pdf Email: linas@valiukas.dev 15 years backend. Ex-Automattic on Jetpack Backup, ex-Media Cloud (Harvard/MIT, ICWSM 2021 co-author). PGConf SV 2018 and APAC 2019 talks on Postgres at scale. Currently running https://aero.zip + https://www.lobsterpack.com in parallel and vibecoding like crazy. Grug-brain engineer ( https://grugbrain.dev ) and recovering purist. I'd rather push the needle in the wrong direction fast and correct course than design the perfect thing for six months. AI embracer - I treat it as an exoskeleton, not a replacement. Not a big fan of: calculator apps on Kubernetes, six-round interview pipelines, unpaid take-homes longer than 2 hours.

david_allison

Location: Isle of Man/Europe Remote: Yes - Experience working with US/International teams Willing to relocate: Yes - For the right role. Happy to be on-site for onboarding Technologies: Kotlin, Android, TypeScript, React, .NET, Java, CI/CD, Accessibility, i18n Email: davidallisongithub@gmail.com GitHub: https://github.com/david-allison Open source maintainer/top contributor of AnkiDroid: Android client for Anki. 10M+ downloads. ~10 YOE, with 6 YOE open source (4,000+ commits). Ready for stability after years of contracting and maintainership. I lead a global volunteer team and take full product ownership: setting direction over multi-year horizons, planning and implementing architectural migrations, and keeping a project moving via community engagement, triage, fixes, reviews and mentorship. Highlights: - AnkiDroid now releases in tandem with upstream, rather than lagging behind by years - Migrated a 15-year-old codebase from Java 7 to Kotlin, maintaining git blame - Migrated to a common Rust-based backend. Android contributors are fully isolated from this complexity - Improved app rating from 4.5 to ~4.8 stars, dramatically reduced crash rate - Mentored hundreds of contributors and co-launched AnkiDroid's Google Summer of Code programme AnkiDroid continues as a hobby; my day job is fully separate. Looking for: full-time or contract. IC or EM, I'm nontraditional so I'm open to a conversation about which fits. Drawn to work that makes people's lives better, in any stack.

praveen4463

Location: Noida, India Remote: Yes, US hours Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Go, Node.js, TypeScript, Java, React, Next.js, GCP, K8s, Terraform, Temporal Résumé: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n_ND_GJbajELPmjggrhMkg5a... Email: praveen4463@gmail.com 17 yrs shipping software, always remote. - Engineer #2 at Galaxy (NYC AI startup, Oct 25–May 26). Galaxy got acquired; acquirer isn't keeping India based contractors. - Founding engineer at Grub Direct (food delivery + POS, 2023–25): Java Spring backend, React Native. - Frontend at Gumroad (2020–21). - Built outomated.com solo to $200k lifetime revenue (Global X ETFs, Boxabl among customers). Looking for a founding eng or senior backend role. Contractor / EOR / freelance, all fine. Available immediately.

nunoarruda

Angular & Ionic Developer Location: Portugal Remote: Yes, remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, RxJS, Angular, Ionic, Cordova, Capacitor Résumé/CV: https://nunoarruda.com/resume.pdf Email: nuno@nunoarruda.com

cjbconnor

Location: Pittsburgh, PA Remote: Yes, open to a few office visits per year Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Spring, Python, Rust, Bash, Kubernetes, Terraform, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, AWS, Prometheus/Grafana Résumé: Available by email Email: hn@cbyrnes.io Backend/platform engineer with 6 YOE. I started in DevOps consulting, building automation, CI/CD, and Terraform/Packer workflows for Fortune 500 clients, then moved into backend engineering on a healthcare claims/payments platform. Recent work includes owning a greenfield ingestion service from first commit to production, shipping cross-service billing integrations, resolving P1 performance issues, and supporting production services through Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability ownership. Cut runtime by 90% on one client-sensitive workflow.

stakent

Location: Rzeszów, Poland (CET) Remote: Yes — EU hours, or US East Coast overlap Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Go; ML/data pipelines; document → graph extraction; regulatory & legal-domain data Résumé: https://walat.eu | linkedin.com/in/dariusz-walat Email: dariusz@walat.eu Senior software engineer, 20+ years on production systems. Working on neural nets since 1996 (neuroevolution, genetic programming) — multiple AI cycles' worth of perspective on what survives the hype. Currently building a regulatory forecasting system for Polish law: ingesting statutes back to 1944, building a graph of legislation and amendments, reasoning about where the regulatory surface is moving. The hard problems are PDF → structured graph at scale and reasoning under uncertainty, not the model wrapper. I also write about where AI coding agents actually work and where they quietly fail. Best fit when the work is engineering-shaped — application/data rather than infra/SRE/Kubernetes-heavy — and the schedule overlaps EU hours. Comfortable as autonomous IC or small-team tech lead. Domains where messy real-world data meets non-trivial reasoning are where I'm sharpest — regulatory, legal, scientific, financial. HN: news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stakent (since 2009)

tambourine_man

Location: Brazil Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: SysAdmin | Ubuntu, Debian, Centos. Cloud | AWS/Azure/Linode/DigitalOcean/Google Cloud. Backend | PHP, MySQL, Apache, Bash/Zsh CMS/Backend Framework | expert in WordPress, experience with Laravel and CakePHP. Frontend | expert in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Tailwind. Experience with Vue and React. Résumé/CV: https://pedro.estarque.com.br/resume.pdf Email: pedro@estarque.com.br --- I'm a Full-Stack Developer, Web Designer and Image Editor with over 25 years of professional experience. Problem-solver and avid learner, I'm used to working with small and large teams across enterprise, government and third sector. I take deadlines and delivery commitments very seriously.

LoganDark

Location: US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: A lot, but mostly focused around Rust, React/TypeScript, and macOS/Linux. I work mostly in frontend, desktop and compute, but have also done a bit of backend. I can pick up almost any tool or framework. I technically know Python. Résumé/CV: https://logandark.net/resume.pdf Email: logandark@logandark.net Need work badly so send me anything except scams and fraud.

boban-lukic

Location: Belgrade, Serbia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Express, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS), Docker, Linux, CI/CD Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobanlukic Email: boban@lukicengineering.com 13 years in software, last 5+ on backend. Just wrapped 2 years at FuelMe (fuel management SaaS): Senior Backend Dev, then Tech Lead from Aug 2025. Built procurement and invoice-auditing workflows on Node, Postgres, AWS. Wrote OpenEnvoy and QuickBooks integrations. Before that: Cinnamon (fantasy sports, Revaire), DistantJob (multi-client backend), and 7 years self-employed building mobile games. One title passed 10M downloads. Shipping production code with AI tooling daily for over a year. GitHub Copilot throughout, Claude Code for the last 7 months. Three open-source MCP servers on npm: postgres-scout-mcp, mongo-scout-mcp, kontra-mcp. Open to: full-time remote (Europe, US, Canada), B2B via Lukic Engineering DOO (Serbia, EUR or USD), or shorter projects. GitHub: https://github.com/bluwork

dvvalia

Location: Mumbai, India Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: No Technologies: - Python/Pandas - Java/Spring Boot - Data Engineering (ETL/ELT, data pipelines) - Product Development - AI/LLM based development (MCP, agents, ADK, CrewAI, etc) - Other (SQL, Redis, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, DBT) Résumé/CV: https://dvalia.in/blob/Darshan_Valia_Resume_Technical.pdf Email: On Resume Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dvalia/ Data/Backend/Agentic AI engineer for the past ten years (Java, Python, SQL). Experience building data platforms (from scratch!) and ELT pipelines for financial data. Currently working on agentic AI projects, but happy to work at any level for any problem that needs solving. Open to work on product management, solutions architecture, agentic AI or customer engineering. Remote is preferred for time zones spanning Europe to India; onsite/hybrid in Mumbai is also great. Unfortunately cannot relocate. Open primarily to freelance/consulting roles, but full-time roles will also be considered if we're a good fit.

knbrlo

Location: - Lehi, Utah, USA - Remote: Yes, remote-only - Willing to relocate: No - Technologies: Go, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, SpiceDB, Stripe Connect, PostgreSQL, React, React Native, Claude/OpenAI APIs, Eleven Labs 20+ years shipping production SaaS. Currently CTO of Allset (AI-native ops for construction trades) — multi-tenant, Stripe Connect, mobile + web; just shipped to AWS this week. Before Allset: 10 years at a private SaaS where I cut $1M+ from the AWS bill, ending as Principal Engineer. Ex-Microsoft. I ship full features end-to-end using on a real production codebase, not a prototype. Looking for a 12-24 month senior IC seat at a YC or AI-native startup: • Founding Engineer / early eng at a recently-funded YC company • Forward-Deployed Engineer at a funded AI startup • Senior staff IC where speed + ownership matter Email: kenbrlow@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/knbrlo/· X: @knbrlo

azeqsdxwc

Location: Japan (flexible for US/EU async or partial overlap) Remote: Yes/Hybrid Willing to relocate: No Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsokurov/ Email: oleksii.tsokurov@gmail.com Founding engineer -- built OpenReplay's core (YC S19) solo from scratch -- while doing my Math Master degree. Most recently, Spaces Protocol's (Bitcoin) wallets (Rust, TypeScript) -- built 0 to 1, twice. Background in math and theoretical CS -- IPhO bronze, MIPT, Sorbonne. Best fit: early-stage founder who needs someone to own the software end-to-end -- architecture, decisions, shipping. Happy with hard engineering problems -- systems, protocols, infra, anything non-trivial. Math/research background is there if you need it. Looking for: part-time contract, ~20-28 hrs/week, available now and continuing through the upcoming PhD (formal verification + quantum computing).

couchcryptid

Location: Oklahoma City, OK Remote: Yes (US business hours) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AWS (multi-account, Control Tower), Terraform, HashiCorp Vault/Nomad/Consul, Go, Python, TypeScript, EKS, GitLab CI/CD, OpenTelemetry/ADOT, LGTM observability, Kafka, PostgreSQL, PagerDuty Résumé/CV: https://couchcryptid.github.io/ Email: brendanvinson@icloud.com 20 years engineering total, last 5 dedicated to platform/cloud at a regulated bank, leading the replatform of a contractor-built AWS multi-account into FFIEC/GLBA-compliant standards-based architecture. Stood up federated HashiCorp orchestration (Vault Enterprise, Nomad, Consul), GitLab Enterprise from inception, LGTM/OpenTelemetry observability instrumenting Java/Spring Boot services, and developer tooling distributed via a private Homebrew tap. Most interested in observability platforms, data infrastructure, and AI engineering broadly — anywhere AI is sharpening human judgment rather than displacing it. Currently building out infrastructure tooling in Go using agentic workflows (Claude Code). Works across the stack — each layer has its own problems worth solving. Publishes on engineering decision frameworks and AI-augmented development workflows. Pursuing CKA. Not interested in defense, crypto, or gambling.

Danielosthebest

Location: Heerenveen, Netherlands Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JS, CSS, Tailwind CSS, HTML, Python, Cloudflare development Portfolio: https://danielosthebest.pages.dev/ Email: danielosthebest6467@gmail.com I am a Full-Stack Engineer focused on building high-performance, security-first systems engineered for longevity. My recent builds consistently achieve a 100 Performance score on Google PageSpeed Insights. Every project I deliver will have 89+ on all pagespeed metrics, no matter what. This does not sacrifice quality, however. I specialize in end-to-end infrastructure (Website + Dashboard + Backend). I also offer security audits, and bumping your pagespeed scores without sacrificing quality. I offer complex Shopify logic too. I prioritize a "No-Call" workflow. I provide a written plan of action and deliver the code, allowing you to focus on your business without meeting fatigue. You can contact me via my e-mail, or direcly via my portfolio, whichever method you prefer. More info is in my portfolio.

DevOpsMaster

SEEKING WORK: EU, Remote Worldwide I'm a Senior DevOps engineer, Cloud Architect and Infrastructure Engineer. I provide contract or ad-hoc services and support to startups, growth companies and enterprises. I'm often called to set up greenfield DevOps installations, architect and build cloud infrastructures, design platform architectures, build cloud-based, SaaS and mobile products and assist with emergency or short-staffed situations. I also provide fixed-price services which are often ideal for startups: Azure / AWS cloud builds; DevOps greenfield setup; security / DevOps reviews; alerting / monitoring builds; training; support; emergency services. Some examples of my work: * Greenfield Azure DevOps and Azure Cloud implementation for a FinTech company * Ethereum L1 packer-based automation; Solana smart contracts * Global multi-cloud PaaS cloud & DevOps design for a major data platform * Architecture & development for custom clouds * Solr / Lucene search solutions * AWS / Azure startup cloud builds * NodeJS / React mobile app development BOOK YOUR FREE CONSULTATION HERE: https://ondemanddevops.com/?sid=hn2605

sameeep

Location: Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Golang, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, FastAPI, ASP.NET Core, MCP, RAG Résumé/CV: https://sameepshah.com/resume.pdf Email: sameep[at]sameepshah.com About: Graduating May 2026 (CS + Econ) with undergrad. Built production AI systems and full-stack platforms. Avid reader, love sports (especially hockey) & outdoors. Looking for: Full-stack, backend, or AI engineer roles working on enterprise/consumer AI products. Very open to new technologies, as I really enjoy learning and building using cutting-edge tech. At internship: Built AI agents with Semantic Kernel (reduced workflows 40%, 20K+ users), Python/Golang backend with gRPC on AWS, and Angular micro-frontends. Currently: Leading 6-person team on medical QA analysis platform processing 150K+ data points across 4 hospital sites (ASP.NET, Next.js, Docker, PostgreSQL, Nginx). Research: Co-authored 2 papers on RAG systems (Best Paper Award at IMNS 2025, published at IEEE/ACM CHASE 2025: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3721201.3725519 ). Built RAG application achieving 95% accuracy on healthcare automation. Recent projects: - Automated course scheduler using agentic AI + Google OR-Tools (React, SQLite, AWS Lambda and ECR, FastAPI) for econ department - Sidequest: iOS app (React Native + Swift) with on-device OCR + LLM parsing using Vision Framework for receipts Resumé/CV: https://sameepshah.com/resume.pdf

buvanipai

Location: United States Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Open to Remote, Hybrid, and In Person roles Technologies: Python, PyTorch, LangChain, FastAPI, ChromaDB, PostgreSQL, Docker, Google Cloud Run, AWS, GCP, React.js, SQL, spaCy, NetworkX Résumé/CV: https://buvanipai.vercel.app/Buvani_Pai_Resume.pdf#view=FitH Portfolio: https://buvanipai.vercel.app/ Email: buvanipai@gmail.com MS CS (AI/ML) — Northwestern '24 | Currently: AI/ML Engineer Building real-time voice AI pipelines (sub-800ms latency) and RAG systems at Bhuvi IT. Previously shipped distributed 8-GPU training at Argonne National Lab (2TB astronomical data, 1 week → 20 hours) and graph-based entity resolution (0.96 F1) as standalone projects. Comfortable across the full stack from model training to serverless cloud deployment. Open to ML Engineering, Applied AI, AI Infrastructure, Software Engineering or Data Scientist roles.