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

  Location: Italy
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: Possibly if still in EU
  Technologies: Rust, python, golang, kubernetes, terraform, kafka, kafka-connect, debezium, ArgoCD, typescript, AWS
  Résumé/CV: Will email on request.
  Email: pauliyobo@gmail.com
  github: https://github.com/pauliyobo

I'm a backend engineer specializing in data services and infrastructure automation, with a proven track record in cutting infrastructure costs through distributed systems design and open source tools. In the past 4 years I have mostly built backend services around our company's data lake as well as maintaining its infrastructure, which consists of several regional kubernetes and kafka clusters. I am also familiar with the argo ecosystem, heavily using ArgoCD and argo-workflows currently.

Location: India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Cybersecurity (Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing, Threat Modeling), Network Security, Python, Automation, DevOps (CI/CD, containerization)

Résumé/CV: https://link.estudely.com/resume Email: info@amanverasia.com

Location: India (Remote)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Terraform, Redis, RabbitMQ, Prometheus/Grafana, CI/CD

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: cypher.dev01@proton.me

Looking for: Contract / freelance work 7+ years as a backend/infra engineer, mostly in Go.

Currently senior at a fintech company working on large-scale payment infrastructure. Things I've done recently: partitioned a 5TB+ PostgreSQL transaction table (~500 RPS) with near-zero downtime, cutting query times by 20% and halving DB costs. Redesigned a reconciliation engine from Excel to XML-based processing, speeding it up 25%. Led cross-region DR drills on Aurora achieving 0 RPO / 10-min RTO. Day to day I own system design, lead a small team, tune Postgres performance at scale (vacuum strategies, indexing, query plans), build out observability with Prometheus, and keep CI/CD pipelines clean with Terraform + Git-based workflows. Previous stints include building backend services at a payments company and containerizing ML pipelines on AWS. Available for contract/freelance engagements — backend, infrastructure, platform, database performance work. Especially strong at Go services + PostgreSQL at scale.

Remote, flexible on timezones. Happy to chat — reach out via email.

Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand (Dutch national)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: TypeScript/JavaScript, Three.js, Client-server networking, C++, Claude Code

Résumé/CV: https://nickvanurk.com/resume.pdf

Email: nickyvanurk@gmx.com

Github: https://github.com/nickyvanurk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickyvanurk

Discord: jycerian

Interests: Gamedev, Game engines, Computer graphics, Computational Geometry, 3D Applications, Robotics, Tool development, Digital twins, Simulations, GIS, Server Engineer/Online Services, UX/UI, FUI Design

Can rapidly learn new technologies. Game, Web, GIS, robotics development experience. Build my own 8-bit computer: https://nickvanurk.com/8bit.mp4 Optimizing things gets me all excited. Check out these Three.js projects I made: https://mechacraft.io https://everwilds.io/ and https://nickvanurk.com/capping/ https://nickvanurk.com/prototype/ In my free time I like to work on web games like Mechacraft.io. Professionally I've worked as an engine programmer on the Modd.io web game engine (TypeScript, sadly offline now) and SPARQ native game engine (C++, to be released). I find I enjoy web/typescript more than native/c++ so I would like to return to that space.

If you have a cool web game (engine) project or web tool with a 2D / 3D graphical / computational geometry component to work on please feel free to reach out by email, LinkedIn or Discord!

Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands (CET/UTC+1)

Role: Product Designer or Design Engineer

Type: Full-time (freelance or permanent)

Remote: Preferably, but open to hybrid in Randstad if dog-friendly office

Relocate: No, but fine with travelling for work on occasion

Technologies: HTML, (Tailwind) CSS, JS, TS

CV: https://mrkdbrn.com/CV_Mrkdbrn.pdf

Email:contact{at}mrkdbrn.com

I’m Mark, a Dutch product designer who codes. Always have, it’s what got me hooked on design over a decade ago. Since, I’ve worn many hats working in startups. I’ve learned a lot about a lot.

I love collaborating with teams that outsmart the competition rather than outspend it. By working across design, engineering, and product, I help them build simple, effective, and reliable software.

I’m ideally looking for a company where I get to go beyond making pictures of interfaces. I want to build products alongside developers in production.

For work and more about me check: https://mrkdbrn.com/