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

Remote: Yes (hybrid/onsite ok)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Linux, network & firewall security (Fortinet, Palo Alto, Cisco), IPv6, VPN/SD-WAN, Docker, automation (Bash, Python), modern AI tooling (LLMs, agentic workflows, AI governance, EU AI Act-aware setups)

Résumé/CV: https://christianerben.eu/cv

Email: christian.erben@degit.de

Senior network & security engineer with 18+ years in enterprise environments, focused on robust Linux-based infrastructure, firewall hygiene, and pragmatic security.

Remote: preferred

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: web platform (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), React, TypeScript, Tailwind, some Next.js

Résumé/CV: https://archive.ankursethi.com/work/

Email: contact@ankursethi.com

I'm an independent consultant and frontend engineer helping startups (and a few large organizations) bring new products to market since 2012.

I can help you with:

- Building the first MVP of your product to put in front of investors and early adopters

- Overhauling existing products by adding major new features or paying off tech debt

- Helping your team get up to speed with emerging technologies

- Modernizing legacy products and migrating them off legacy tech stacks

- Acting as a bridge between your design and engineering teams

I'm primarily a frontend developer who is comfortable working with vanilla HTML/JS/CSS as well as more complex frameworks (mainly React). I enjoy being a heads-down technical contributor to codebases. However, working with early-stage companies has allowed me to dabble in UX design, hiring, mentoring, technical writing, technical workshops, and product design. I enjoy wearing a ton of hats, and prefer to work at orgs that allow me to use the full set of my abilities.

I enjoy using LLMs, but I do so responsibly. I write regularly at https://ankursethi.com/. I prefer short to medium term contracts (think 4-8 months).

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: - Digital signal processing: linear algebra, estimation theory, statistical/Bayesian signal processing, compressed sensing and others - Programming: C++, C, C#, ARM assembly, AVX/SSE, Python, Bash, PowerShell 5/7.x, GNU Octave, Matlab - Used libraries: Boost (C++), ffmpeg, gSOAP, gRPC, libcurl, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, PyTorch and others - Target platforms: x64, ARM Cortex M0/M3 - Tools: Git, Mercurial, SVN, CMake, GNU Make, Jenkins, Gitlab, rpmbuild - OS: GNU Linux (eg., Arch), Windows

Résumé/CV: - PhD and diploma in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. - PhD study about digital signal processing applied to antenna arrays.

I am a software engineer and researcher with a strong background in digital signal processing. I worked in the field of music recognition (C++ & Python), in embedded systems (esp. ARM Cortex) and in the communication between control centers (ITCS systems) and public transportation vehicles. Currently I am into Integrated Communications and Sensing (ICAS) which brings together Radar and mobile communications.

I like to solve challenging problems - via software engineering, via signal processing, or via a combination of both. Linux and algorithms are topics I have a strong interest in. While I educate myself regarding other technologies like transformers and deep neural networks (e.g. applied to OFDM), and cyber security ("playing" OWASP Juice Shop).

In past jobs, I worked as a Senior Software Engineer and as a Lead Software Developer, respectively. Currently, I am a post-doc researcher at a German university.

Email: quaternion [at] web [dot] de

Remote: Remote or in person.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rust, C++, Python, Bash, Go, Java.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1irE7slDirPM8mXUrD1OsEQnlY8H...

Email: shlomoalon9@gmail.com I’m a programmer with two year of experience. I currently work for Huawei on Gaussdb (a fork of Postgres). I love working on challenging problems and collaborating with teammates. I have a deep knowledge of rust, python and C++. And have worked on a large performance oriented code base as well as a small startup code base where development speed is essential. I’m passionate about the work I do and take pride in my ability to ship good code that gets the job done.