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

Location: Europe / Asia, very flexible with working hours, can accommodate most timezones, experienced remote worker. Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes

Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialize in devops/system tools, workflow automation integrations, and NodeJS web development.

10+ years working in IT, experienced delivering large projects for Fortune 500 companies internationally, and working remotely.

Most recently I’ve been developing social media SaaS and statically generated (a.k.a Jamstack) websites, built using GitHub actions, deployed to Netlify, as well as OAuth 2.0 authenticated REST APIs, Typescript, React frontends. I have also been really getting into working with both cloud hosted (Gemini) and locally running (Ollama, Llama.cpp) LLMs in VSCode devcontainers.

Technologies:

NodeJS, Typescript, Perl, Python, Bash, Git, Express, Mocha, HTML/Javascript/CSS, ES2015-2020, OAuth 2.0, React, JQuery, Bootstrap, AWS, Digital Ocean, Netlify, Heroku, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Mailgun, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, Letsencrypt, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama.

About me: https://markjgsmith.com/about

Portfolio: https://markjgsmith.com/portfolio

Recommendations: https://markjgsmith.com/recommendations

Résumé/CV: On request via email

Email: markjgsmith@gmail.com

Software Engineer (10 YOE) | Backend/Infrastructure

Spent the last 5 years at Google building and operating critical services with huge scale. I designed and shipped distributed monitoring systems, migrated a huge global, sharded database to safe rollout automation, and shipped code in Go, Python and C++, both internal tooling, as well as instrumenting and adding features to user-facing binaries serving many QPS. Half the time I was production oncall for these services too. Before this, moved fast at startups and mid-sized US companies. Now seeking: Backend or infrastructure engineering roles where I can build resilient systems that matter. Strong preference for companies with meaningful mission, but open to any team with high ownership culture. In my work, I care a lot about resilient design, long-term operability, and reliability and would like to work with others who are similarly oriented.

Location: Currently Japan, relocating to US (PNW preferred) or remote Remote: Open to remote or hybrid Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Golang (current focus), Python, C++, Kubernetes, protocol buffers, PostgresQL, AWS, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, batch / streaming pipelines...More than the specific technologies, I think it's important to know what questions to ask of it, its limitations, and how to pick up anything. Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EP4ME2XGhXWFRhf77pgPE6bSlqr... (PII removed) Email: sapien.reversing.entropy@gmail.com