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

  Location: Portland, OR, USA 
  Remote: Yes 
  Willing to relocate: Yes 
  Technologies: JavaScript, C#, SQL, HTML, CSS, React,   
  GraphQL, .NET, Node, Git, MS-SQL
  Résumé/CV: see linkedin.com/in/oliverfu 
  Email: ofu997@gmail.com

I'm a .NET web developer with 4 YOE and I'm eager to level up in my next role. I build user interfaces and wrangle business logic, queries, and APIs with JavaScript, C#, and SQL. I'm familiar with MVC frameworks, object-oriented programming, and web app architecture. As a passionate and curious developer, I like to mingle with all aspects of stacks. Prefer remote but willing to relocate. Ideally, a role that supports learning, growth, and scaling up.

Open to Work – Senior Frontend Engineer

Location: India

Resume / CV: https://basitqayoom.github.io/cv.pdf

Hi! I'm Basit Qayoom Chowdhary, a Frontend Engineer with 3+ years of experience building products serving 1.05M+ DAUs.

Tech: React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Micro-Frontends (Module Federation), Design Systems, SDKs, Node.js, GraphQL, WebSockets, Firebase, MongoDB, Docker, GCP, System Design & Performance Engineering.

Impact: Reduced bundle size by 83%, improved page load by 67%, led a Micro-Frontend migration, and built a real-time communication platform with chat, audio/video calling, screen sharing, and file sharing.

Open to Remote, Hybrid, Onsite & Global Relocation.

basitqayoomchowdhary@gmail.com

https://linkedin.com/in/basitqayoomchowdhary

https://github.com/basitqayoom

I'd appreciate any opportunities or referrals. Thank you!

20+ years building products, platforms, and distributed systems that remain understandable as they scale.

Location: Vermont, USA

Remote: Yes, happy to travel

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js/Deno, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, React, Elasticsearch, Databricks/Spark, FFmpeg

Résumé/CV: https://en.masher.media/about.html

Email: hn@masher.media

I'm a first/founding engineer by background, and lately I've been taking on contract work that draws on that same skill set: helping teams figure out what to build and how, before committing engineering time to it. I'm comfortable owning a problem end-to-end, from initial scoping through architecture and into a working v1, and I communicate clearly about scope, risk, and tradeoffs along the way.

Good fits for contract work:

- Technical scoping and planning for a new product or platform before a team commits resources to it

- Architecture review and systems modeling, mapping out how a system should be structured, where the risk is, and what tradeoffs matter

- Greenfield builds where you need someone to plan and ship v1 without much hand-holding

- Forward-deployed engineering, embedding with your team or your customer's to take a project from spec to delivery

Recent relevant work:

- Built a messaging system delivering millions of emails and push notifications in minutes (retries, deliverability, observability)

- Deployed real-time pipelines and recommendation systems for tens of millions of users

- Launched a browser-based video editing and encoding platform using FFmpeg, Supabase, and AWS serverless

- Scaled event ingestion 100x to power analytics, experimentation, and targeting

I work best when I can talk directly to whoever owns the problem, and I'm glad to start with a short, well-scoped first deliverable if that's an easier way to size up a fit.

Pragmatic about LLMs: effective for exploration, debugging, documentation, and tightly scoped implementation work when paired with strong engineering judgment and rigid testing.