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

Remote: Yes (open to hybrid or in-person)

Willing to relocate: Yes (including Bay Area, NYC, or elsewhere)

Visa: F-1 OPT, 3 years of US work authorization (STEM OPT eligible)

Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, LLMs, PEFT/LoRA, RAG, NLP, Computer Vision, PySpark, Vertex AI, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, W&B, Airflow, SQL, C++

Résumé/CV: https://kubershahi.github.io

Email: kshahi@ucsd.edu

ML Engineer / AI Engineer with 3+ years of industry experience across ML systems, NLP, and large-scale data pipelines. Built and shipped production Vertex AI training pipelines (Melio), distributed PySpark ETL processing 5M+ invoices/year and graph analytics driving 15% revenue growth (Vayana Network), and researching uncertainty quantification for medical image registration at UCSD's BIAG Lab. MS CS (AI) at UC San Diego, GPA 4.0. Projects span LLM agent evaluation under adversarial conditions, low-resource NMT with LoRA fine-tuning, and abstractive headline generation. Open to MLE, AI Engineer, Applied Scientist, and Research Engineer roles.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

  Languages: Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Bash
  Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, GCP
  Platform & Observability: OpenTelemetry, Datadog
  Backend: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, FastAPI, Django, REST, gRPC, Node.js
  Frontend: React

Email: alexkosj@gmail.com

Remote: Yes(open to hybrid)

Willing to relocate: For the right role

Technologies: Python/Django, Javascript/React, Javascript/Vue, PostgreSQL, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://codedemigod.com/about/

Email: alaa@codedemigod.com

I am an experienced full stack software developer with 15+ years of experience across the board dealing with dozens of languages and frameworks. Most of my recent work involves working within the Python ecosystem with Django as the framework of choice for web development. My experience includes working directly with customers and managing small teams to launch products and services. I also enjoy working with Linux servers and production infrastructure.