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

  Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (UTC+4, strong US morning overlap)
  Remote: Yes (100%)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native, Expo, Astro, Supabase, Python, self-managed Linux
  Résumé/CV: https://k4r.im
  Email: contact@k4r.im

I work like a technical co-founder, and I'm built to be replaced. I ship your production v1, and when the product proves out, I help you stand up your in-house engineering team that takes over from me.

Who this is for: Funded founders with no engineering leadership yet who need real software shipped before the next raise.

What I've shipped as the sole or founding engineer:

1. An edtech platform bootstrapped to 240,000+ users on $0 marketing, fully organic. Custom constraint-satisfaction engine for procedural puzzles, with a separate cryptographic anti-cheat layer. Peaked at 11,000 users in one day on a single VPS.

2. A live emergency-response pilot. Client-side indoor navigation with sub-100ms routing around active fire zones, a master-worker computer-vision pipeline over RTSP streams, and a custom Android background service for persistent GPS. Won a 20,000 AED grant and a signed pilot contract.

3. A four-system financial intelligence suite at near 100% uptime. Forecasting on Prophet, a news aggregator with cryptographic deduplication, and a Telegram trading terminal for Binance and Bybit.

4. Internal tooling for an international marketing agency. First tool live on day five. One of them translated content across 39 languages in a single pass, replacing hours of manual editing.

I use AI tooling like autocomplete. It makes me faster, but it doesn't make the decisions, and nothing ships that I haven't read.

Async, remote, long-term monthly engagements. Cash, no equity. UAE Golden Visa, self-sponsored.

Remote: Yes, worldwide. Overlap with US/Canada mornings (CET/CEST).

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, C++ (on Win32 and POSIX-compatible platforms, STL, Boost, wxWidgets multiplatform toolkit), C#, Visual Basic, Java, Apex, Pascal, Delphi, assembler (for ARM, mc68k and x86 architectures), Microsoft® .NET framework (WPF, WCF, LINQ, XAML, MVVM, Prism, Unity, TPL / Reactive Extensions), OpenGL®, OpenSceneGraph, Python, PowerShell, Bash, Awk, sed, Windows® Installer, implementation of network-aware applications and networking services (UDP, TCP/IP, SIP, VoIP), ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, implementation of web services (SOAP, JSON/XML-RPC over HTTPS), Mozilla XUL, Prolog, implementation of multi-threaded application components, OO software architecture design, implementation of GIS application components (WMS client, high performance image tile pyramids viewing control), GML, implementation of mission-critical back-end and front-end SCADA system components, software development for embedded systems, computer systems security (implementation of cryptographic algorithms and security protocols), UML, SQL (on Informix®, MySQL, Microsoft® SQL Server®, Oracle®, Postgres and SalesForce® RDBMS), ETL (Talend), TDD

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fvojvodic/

Email: fvojvodic@gmail.com

Location: Islamabad, Pakistan Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (Global) Technologies: C++ (17/20, STL, Boost, Multi-threading), Python (Django, FastAPI), Rust, JavaScript/TypeScript, Linux OS Internals, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure, Network Sockets (IPC/TCP/UDP), Yara-C, Agentic AI Workflows, Blockchain (Cardano, Smart Contracts). Résumé/CV: LinkedIn | GitHub Email:

contact@ehtishamsabir.com

I am a Senior Systems Engineer and Cloud-Native Full-Stack Developer with over 7 years of experience building secure, high-performance applications. I specialize in low-latency systems, high-frequency trading (HFT) infrastructure, and complex decentralized blockchain architectures. In my previous roles, I have optimized C++ trading algorithms for sub-second execution, orchestrated the migration of highly available Cardano stake pools, and developed real-time, multi-threaded malware detection systems using Yara-C. I am deeply passionate about memory safety, zero-downtime deployments, and integrating state-of-the-art AI tooling to significantly accelerate the software development lifecycle.