Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)

I write words for people and machines.

When writing for machines, it's usually via Ruby/Rails, and the standard b2b saas app. (You know, which does billions of transactions a day around the world)

I like words for machines, but I think my main value is words for people.

I keep thinking this makes me nearly unhirable, then encounter plausible evidence to the contrary.

I'm mostly into things about streets right now and it's maddening - I spend most of my time now talking to real estate developers, who knows nothing of software development, and I being another 3rd perspective not quite native to either - transportation norms from various spots of Asia, especially related to mopeds.

I'm an odd duck. Extremely/surprisingly fun to work with, sometimes, according to nearly everyone that has ever worked with me on anything.

The vast majority of coworkers by count would say I was a top notch co-voyager through this thing called 'the jira board' or 'the sprint '.

A few of the people I've worked with have both said nice things about me, and fired me, take these words with a grain of salt.

Mostly, i am willing to exchange pull requests merged and deployed for money. ('git push, git paid')

I will try to sneak in some other productive work too. Obsessed with Benjamin bloom's '2 sigma problem'.

I'd do 'things' to make 1/2 a developer take-home comp via GitHub sponsors making training data for developers inside of your codebase. On a team of at least 10, could easily earn my keep.

I live in Denver, USA. I ride a moped. I have a long running side project mapping an unbelievable amount of mobility data that I try to use to harrange land use/zoning/development/bank people to do different things with land in the USA.

It's all so screamingly boring.

If anyone does stuff with 'land', it's possible we could and should talk. Especially parking.

https://josh.works/mobility-data

https://josh.works/

    Location: Linz, Austria, EU
    Remote: OK (Any timezone OK)
    Willing to relocate: NO (Except to New Zealand)
    Technologies: LLM (OpenAI), VUI (Voice LLMS), TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Firebase, Supabase, PostgreSQL, GCP, AWS, RAG
    Leadership: mentoring, sprint planning, hiring, board reporting
    Résumé: https://brandstetter.io/Resume_Brandstetter_Jurgen.pdf
    Email: j@brandstetter.io
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-brandstetter
    Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/693687
    Salary: USD 130k/year

I'm a senior full-stack engineer with a good amount of applied AI experience. Eight years ago, I co-founded an AI Math Tutoring company (amy.app). My role was CTO, and we scaled the company to about 25 employees. It was a fully remote company, and we were distributed across all parts of the world. Before that, I completed my PhD in HRI (Human-Robot Interaction) at the University of Oxford, in conjunction with the University of Canterbury, where I focused on the persuasive power of voice agents. My favorite working environments are early-stage startups with high growth potential.

Recently, with the release of the OpenAI real-time API, my interest in VUI (Voice User Interface) was reignited. I really love the VUI paradigm and strongly believe it will be the next big change in the way we communicate with computers.

Here is a project I built during the winter holiday: https://www.callgeist.com. I used almost exclusively Cursor for the UI. The backend uses Twilio + OpenAI real-time.

Here are a couple of other things I did last year:

    - https://www.line-items.com is a simple receipt-to-JSON parser. This was written in just one day, but it landed on the front page of HN.
    - https://distill.fyi is LinkedIn on steroids, auto-generating user profiles given a LinkedIn URL. My task was to build a QA system that detects if generated profiles would regress because of prompt changes. I used my know-how from amy.app, where we had a similar problem of undetected "approved" content regression due to prompt changes. 
    - https://www.spaarkd.com is a company that allows you to prompt a garment, which is then produced and delivered to your doorstep. My job was to set up the entire infrastructure, orchestration (payment, shipping, production line), and team.

Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Hybrid, On-site, Remote

Willing to relocate: Open to consider

Technologies: HTML, CSS/SCSS, Tailwind, Javascript, Typescript, XML, ES6+, Bootstrap, React, Next.js, JSX, DOM, NPM, NodeJS, Express, Axios, Postman, JSON, RESTful API’s, CORS, Web Tokens, bcrypt, Passport.js, MongoDB, mySQL, Salesforce Admin & Health Cloud CRM, Mulesoft, Anypoint Studio, Entra, Agile, Git/Github, RAML

Résumé/CV: https://linktr.ee/arjunsahjpaul

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

Email: a.sahjpaul@gmail.com

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Hi, I’m Arjun! I’m a full-stack developer based in Toronto, Canada. In my most recent role as a Salesforce Developer in enterprise healthcare technology, I’ve worked on major data migrations and developed APIs using Salesforce Health Cloud and MuleSoft.

Last year I launched created and launched Respitely.org: a platform built with React that integrates local shelter APIs to help modernize access to essential services. Respitely provides users with the latest shelter updates, including location info and navigation, and also features a live meal tracker to help improve accessibility for those in need.

I’m looking for any opportunities where I can continue growing, learning new skills, and making meaningful contributions to a team.

Further references available upon request. If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email. Thanks! :)

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https://linktr.ee/arjunsahjpaul

https://www.respitely.org

Location: Bangalore Remote: Preferred Focus Areas: FinTech, LegalTech, Blockchain

Schedule a Chat: https://calendly.com/arpand Dev Shop: Yes Email: arpan@mobilefirst.in

We are working mainly on Fintech + Blockchain products for their ServerOps, mobile & full-stack development.

Recent work:

-Blockchain Payments: Checkout Widget & Components for Merchant Payments in Crypto

- Tech Modernisation 60 Million Users: Middle Ware + Web & Mobile Product for Pension System in India.

Payment Wallet: Supporting mobile wallet and money transfer for Telecom operator apps Technologies: Serverless, NextJS, Java, NodeJS, TypeScript, ReactJS, Tailwind CSS, Shopify, AWS, Kubernetes, Flutter, Java, React Native.