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

Remote: Yes*

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: [Recently] Go, TypeScript, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tiw5f2bcxp66kzanvvzqi/lukebar... (pw: hackernews)

Email: first @ firstlast co uk

I’m Luke. I’m a high-leverage, big-picture, generalist software engineer w/ 18 years experience, looking for Staff/Principal level roles with broad responsibility where building+improving the engineering org through processes, practices, coaching, and strategic initiatives is a primary responsibility. I can work on any stack, on any kind of problem. The more dimensions the problem has, the more value I’ll bring. My last name is Barton.

I’m open to working with small companies looking to scale (or build something that will scale) and larger companies looking to cultivate a stronger engineering practice.

*I’m open to remote, but I’m a believer that our best work is often done working together in three dimensions, so I’ll be very keen to understand how you’re solving the challenges of working together remotely.

  Location: San Francisco Bay Area
  Remote: Preferred
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Typescript (Node, Express, Svelte), Rust, Postgres, AWS and related technologies
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaspotaire/
  Email: 01jned4cx4sksg3y770v3bppaq+hn625@gmail.com (forwards to my address)

As a co-founder (as well as my prior years), I wore many hats and spent countless hours as a result I can architect and design large codebases, hire and retain talent, lead and manage teams and set company-wide goals. I built and managed an engineering team located all around the globe and built a platform empowering small and medium businesses to run their operations; the company is entering a new phase of growth and it is the right time for me to find opportunities that aligns with my personal goals.

I am looking for a role at an established company. The bigger the problem, the more exciting. A perfect role for my profile may be one that blends my experience of building a successful B2B2C startup (building teams, product and software) and my experience of building B2B tools at a large company (Twitter).

If you need someone that can be an immediate value-add, bringing a ton of firepower, solving big problems and rallying teams to move mountains: hit me up!

  Location: New York City
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Maybe if it's on the east coast
  Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS
  Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resume.pdf
  Email: harry.j.altman@gmail.com

I'm good at this sort of nitpicky work, spotting and thinking about edge cases. I like getting things exactly right, even though that obviously isn't always possible due to various constraints. I've been kind of wondering if I should get into embedded development; I find it appealing when things are low-level or similarly constrained. I've beaten Microcorruption. :) (The original levels, I haven't played the new ones.)

I'm also quite interested in unusual or obscure data formats, and working on Truffle Debugger and its associated libraries certainly involved a bunch of having to figure undocumented formats and interfaces. :) I put down above what languages I've worked substantially in but I'd say I'm a generalist and will figure out whatever you give me (I knew approximately no Javascript, Typescript, or Solidity when I started working at Consensys).

I'm a mathematician by background and in my spare time, so after the Truffle Debugger project was shut down I took some time off to focus on my mathematical projects. But now I'm looking for work again! If you need someone like me, I'm available for hire!

     Location: San Francisco Bay Area
     Remote: OK
     Willing to relocate: No
     Technologies:
        * Full-stack web (Postgres, Express, React, Node), Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, OCI)
        * PyTorch, Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Apache Aerospike, Apache Flink
        * Postgres, MongoDB, Redis/Dragonfly, Cassandra
        * CephFS, GlusterFS, ZFS, scaling and geo-distributing filesystems, LTO/LTFS
        * LLM Integrations: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, routers
        * LLM fine-tuning, RAG/CAG, LoRA, MCP, Agentic workflows, GenAI, deep integrations
        * Cloud Automation: Terraform, AWS Systems Manager, OCI Terraform
        * Scaling, Clustering, Optimizing heavy throughput systems
     Recent History:
        * SOC and ISO pre-audit reviews for startups in the Storage as a Service, Healthcare, and Finance spaces.
        * AI Startup Focused on Legal Discovery Management. Exited via acquisition. 
     Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YX3xporepZBDFq_mJQ062u6YHNNPz94V/view?usp=drive_link
     Email: craig.carl.ca@gmail.com