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

Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: iOS/Swift, Android/Kotlin, React Native, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, GCP, GraphQL, Postgres, Docker, Jenkins, Firebase, Objective-C, JavaScript

Résumé: https://www.rodneygainous.com/resume.pdf Email: rodney.gainous@gmail.com Website: https://www.rodneygainous.com

Summary: Ex-founder and founding principal engineer shipping products with 100k+ users and millions in funding. I bridge engineering and product to solve real problems. Hands-on technical leader with product sense and a track record of driving measurable business results.

Highlights: * Led engineering for SafeDose, an AI-powered dosing assistant using computer vision to eliminate syringe and vial measurement errors in clinical and home use.

* Built a public-key-encrypted Chrome extension protecting users from phishing.

* Founded Safe from Upfront Ventures’ residency, securing $1.5M seed.

* Shipped mobile features at Bird that supported rapid scaling from 3 cities to 100+ in under a year.

* Pushed OTA firmware upgrades to a 100k-scooter fleet with zero downtime.

* Reduced firmware update time from 6 min to 2 min via delta patching at Nima Labs.

* Built rider-experience modules at Bird touched by 3M+ trips per month.

Location: India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: (feel free to throw anything my way) Python, JavaScript (Node.js) / TypeScript, Golang, FastAPI, Django, ReactJS, Next.js, Postgres, Redis, ClickHouse, etcd, Meilisearch, Typesense, qdrant, Kubernetes, Ansible, Nomad, Terraform, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Kafka, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Cloudflare, LangChain, Livekit, Ollama

Résumé/CV: https://resume.codingcoffee.me

Email: shenoy.ameya@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/codingcoffee

Portfolio: https://codingcoffee.dev/portfolio

Website: https://codingcoffee.dev

One of my most impressive accomplishments is building a social networking platform from scratch, where I now serve as the CTO, leading a team of 7 engineers. I've helped grow the company from inception to securing $3M in seed funding by single-handedly architecting a scalable backend infrastructure using Django, PostgreSQL, and Redis, supporting over 600,000 users with 99.9% uptime by hosting it on Kubernetes. Additionally, I designed and deployed a real-time data pipeline with Kafka and ClickHouse, enabling ingestion of 1M+ daily events. My work also included implementing advanced search capabilities (semantic + keyword based) and working on a real-time, voice based AI-powered interview platform.

You can also checkout my latest project at https://semaphore.chat. The is a chat application that offers a streamlined, no-nonsense AI chat experience. It provides access to multiple large language models (LLMs) from various vendors. Key features include markdown rendering of AI outputs, syntax highlighting for code, and the ability to display Mermaid.js diagrams on a canvas. The app supports real-time synchronization and resumable streams using Zero (sync engine), enabling users to share links, and allows for collaborative use of LLMs with peers. Authentication is handled via Google OAuth, the database is Postgres, frontend is in NextJS, self-hosted on an Hetzner server. You can checkout the source code here: https://github.com/codingCoffee/semaphore

Ideally I'd like to work for a product startup in capacity as the CTO or engineering manager or staff / principal engineer. (Not super interested in crypto or Web3)

Hi, we're hiring @ SiPhox Health. reach out to me at jordan.moradian@siphox.com