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

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go, Ruby (Rails), Perl, Bash, C, Python, S/MIME, PGP, REST APIs, gRPC, Architecture, Security (Transport, Rest), SQL (SQLite, PostgreSQL), Docker, Qemu/KVM, K8s, Authentication & Authorization, CI/CD, Testing, VueJS, Linux, systemd

Résumé/CV: https://tschaefer.org/CV-Tobias-Schäfer-en.pdf

Email: see CV

Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience developing secure, scalable, and innovative solutions in web applications and embedded Linux. Skilled at leading projects from concept to deployment, integrating modern IT security practices, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. I combine technical expertise with a strong consulting background and a pragmatic approach to system operations.

Resume: on request Email: hello@aspiz.uk GitHub: github.com/aspizu (I've built open-source software with over 500+ stars)

Remote: preferred

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: web platform (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), the React ecosystem, TypeScript, Tailwind, Astro. Good enough at UI/UX design to be dangerous.

Résumé/CV: https://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 an MVP of your product to put in front of investors and early adopters.

- Overhauling existing products by adding major new features, fixing performance bottlenecks, or paying off tech debt.

- Helping your team get up to speed with emerging technologies (currently interested in helping with TypeScript, modern React, the Jujutsu VCS, and LLM-driven programming).

- 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 comfortable with vanilla HTML/JS/CSS as well as more complex frameworks (mainly React, but I've worked with others). 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'm currently looking for short to medium term contracts (think 6-8 months).

Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: Open to it

Technologies: React/Next.js/Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Tailwind/Typescript/Python/Django/etc

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZuUttzrImLuoBmBcJL_tu0rP...

Email: actual.edward@gmail.com

My name is Edward. I'm an individual with close to a decade of experience shipping impactful software and leading teams

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-c-040270111/

Quick bullet points:

- Significant experience with working across the stack

- Cooperative engineer with a focus on velocity and revenue

- Wears many hats

  Location: NYC, New York, Brooklyn, Queens
  Remote: Sure, or hybrid
  Willing to relocate: Yea
  Technologies: Python, Js, Go, PHP, React, Django, and more
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dacks-m-9451428a/
 
  About: I'm a hands-on engineering leader who builds teams that ship products and drive revenue. At Quizlet, I led a 30-person org across Ads and Growth, scaling advertising revenue from $20M to $50M+. Before that, I was CTO at Slader, where I grew the engineering team from 3 to 14 and led the company through its acquisition by Quizlet. I'm happy to be hands-on as much as needed.