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

    Location: USA
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: Python, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Ruby, Rails, Django, Express, Next.js, React, Vercel, PostgreSQL, Linux, Bash, AWS, HTML, CSS, Claude Code, LLMs, agentic.
    Resume/CV: 20 years experience as a full-stack engineer (web, native, frontend/backend, firmware, devops). Contact for resume.
    Email: ptx2 at-sign ptx2 dot net

Recent technical write-up and open-source project I made that reached #1 on HackerNews: https://ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi

Some things I've designed/built/launched/maintained professionally: high-traffic web frontend/backends, realtime interactive graphics apps, data visualizations, computer vision apps, firmware, reverse engineering, video/image processing, apis, api integrations (payments/social/data), distributed systems, linux sysadmin, refactoring/maintaining legacy systems, managing small engineering teams, remote work, customer facing work.

Some areas of interest: the outdoors, health and fitness, art, music, environment, games, human computer interaction, product design, ui/ux, embedded/iot devices, privacy, security, networking, optimization, unusual companies/products, web, linux.

Looking for interesting software engineer or tech co-founder/director/advisor opportunities!

Willing to relocate: No [would be open to NYC, LA]

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), GCP, Containerization (ECS, EKS Kubernetes, Docker), IaC, Terraform, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Observability, Datadog, Splunk Cloud, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Python, Bash, RDS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas, Aurora, HIPAA, HITRUST

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13yB2rIMWCbbNXSo9NUpvsZ4T...

Cover Letter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QbdFkvDpmWk2ILnHw_3QQw7i...

Email: See resume

I consistently earn the trust of my teams and organizations through a combination of technical depth, operational judgment, and a genuine drive to improve the systems I work in - both technical and departmental. I tend to ramp up quickly and take on expanded responsibility early. See my cover letter (linked above) for more details.

Seeking roles in the realm of DevOps and Site Reliability|SRE.

Remote: Yes (open to remote, hybrid, or onsite)

Willing to relocate: Yes — within Germany, or to Australia or USA

Technologies: TypeScript, C#, Rust, Python, C++. Distributed systems and event-driven microservices — Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, gRPC, GraphQL, Actor Model, CQRS, CRDTs. Data infra — TDengine, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Qdrant, SIMD/AVX. .NET/ASP.NET Core, Node.js/NestJS, React/Next.js/React Native. Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, AWS, Azure, GCP, CI/CD.

Résumé/CV: https://shafiqahmad.com

Email: ahmad2shafiq@icloud.com

  Email: c410.f3r (at) gmail.com
  Location: Brazil
  Remote: Yes
  Résumé/CV: https://c410-f3r.github.io/curriculum.pdf
  Technologies: AI, Blockchain, C, C++, Cryptography, Docker, Svelte, GCP, Go, Kubernetes, Node, PostgreSQL, React, Rust, ZK
  Willing to relocate: No

Up to anything, be it backend, frontend, blockchain, compilers, DevOps, embedded or mobile. Bonus point if there is a little bit of Rust involved.

If you are curious my greatest project is WTX, a fast WebSocket framework and Database client that gave me a lot of insights about performance and code architecture. See https://github.com/c410-f3r/wtx.

For more information, take a look at my CV (https://c410-f3r.github.io/curriculum.pdf).