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

Location: Bellevue, WA Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes (within the US)

Technologies: Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, Next.js, React, PostgreSQL, pgvector, Redis, Apache Kafka, AWS, Docker, PyTorch, LLMs, RAG, Prompt Engineering

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GN2xjvBOpnON2wI0Heud4uiAMuj...

Email: divyanshusharma17.work@gmail.com

Portfolio: https://divyanshusharma.com

AI/Full-stack Engineer with 3 years of experience across Amazon, NYU research, and high-growth startups. Currently building Elliot AI (https://elliotai.app), a production AI companion with hybrid RAG memory (pgvector + SQL scoring, Previously at Amazon, where I drove $2.1M+ in annualized revenue impact through A/B experimentation across microservices. Before that, scaled a startup's email platform from 400K to 1.5M+ daily sends. Published in IEEE ICIP 2021 on zero-shot action recognition.

Looking for AI engineer / applied AI / full-stack roles at startups building LLM-powered products. I've shipped RAG pipelines, inference optimization, and LLM-powered OCR in production. Need STEM-OPT (no sponsorship cost to employer).

GitHub: https://github.com/divyanshusharma1709

Location: Lima, Perú

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C/C++, Vulkan, Linux, Docker, Typescript, SQL, Java, Python

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/otreblan/cv/releases/download/2026.05/cv-...

Email: otreblain at gmail dot com

Location: Yzerfontein, South Africa

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Program Manager / Delivery Manager / Project Manager / Scrum Master

Résumé/CV: http://www.mariusb.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Mariu...

Email: marius@mariusb.net

Technical Scrum Master and Project Manager with strong experience leading cross-functional teams in fast-paced, technology-driven environments. Proven ability to facilitate Agile ceremonies, remove impediments, and coach teams toward continuous improvement, with a primary focus on Scrum practices and delivery excellence. Skilled in fostering collaboration between engineering, product, and stakeholders to ensure alignment and predictable outcomes. Brings solid technical understanding across software development, APIs, and financial systems, enabling effective communication with developers and informed decision-making. Experienced in managing backlogs, optimising sprint performance, and driving transparency through metrics and reporting. As a Project Manager, capable of overseeing timelines, budgets, and risks while maintaining a delivery-first mindset. Combines servant leadership with structured execution to consistently deliver high-quality products. Passionate about Agile principles, team empowerment, and building scalable processes that support long-term success.

  Location: Atlanta, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Rust, Zig, any CI/CD system. AWS and GCP.
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/142HbgfYmFBUdfbKKzPvEgYC1jdFiKEvTMp67EhOxm0M
  Email: rjosephwright@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Joseph. I have a special love for the cloud and infrastructure as code. I have 20 years experience doing development, systems engineering, DevOps, and data engineering. I've worked with companies to greatly improve uptime and profits and get their processes under control. I've worked in heavily regulated environments and helped companies prepare for major audits and become certified in frameworks like HITRUST and FedRamp.

  Location: South East Asia
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: [yes yes yes, but need visas]
  Technologies: Unity + C#, Java + Spring, PHP + Laravel, C++, Godot, Linux, Git, LLM
  Email: hire@arseniyshestakov.com
  Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/arseniyshestakov

I'm freelance software engineer with 15+ years of experience doing a bit of everything from full stack web development to web automatiom / data scrappimg, custom OpenWRT firmwares and maintaining C++ open source project with Cmake and profiling / debugging with Valgrind and Intel XE Studio.

For last 4 years I've been working as CTO of indie game company I co-founded where we shipped 3 commercial game releases funded by publishers and built countless of game prototypes. Last game released simultaneously on PC and consoles (PS, Xbox, Switch).

In 6 months I also built two complex game demos using exclusively LLM: client server, multiplayer, lots of features, complex 50,000+ LOC projects: one card game and one RTS. So I know how to build fast with AI.

I have recent experience of running company I co-founded, hiring, leading small team of developers, game designers and artists. I know how to make company P&L and cool looking pith slides. I also extraverted so can do a bizdev too.

I looking for opportunities where I can apply my experience in or outside of gamedev. It's can be both one time project or full-time job that I'll dedicate 200% of my time to since my job is my life and other way around.