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

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq, Hotwire, JavaScript, Python, AWS, Docker, MCP, LLMs, RSpec

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-morgan/

GitHub: https://github.com/codeprimate

Email: contact at bellingham.dev

I have been shipping software for twenty years, most of it Rails, and what I own has always run wider than the code I write. The work starts in a room where most of the people are not engineers and the problem has not been named yet, and it carries through the data model, the API contract, the authorization boundary, the background queues, the deploy, and whoever holds the pager afterward. Being accountable across that whole span is a broader claim than full stack, and a harder one to fake.

The depth sits in Rails and Postgres, where I have built async pipelines that had to survive real traffic, payments and third-party integrations that could not quietly drop money, and authorization models that grew more intricate every quarter as the business kept inventing new kinds of users. I reach for Hotwire when the product needs a face, run Docker daily, and treat application security as ordinary hygiene rather than a phase, which means reading the CVEs that touch my stack, running Brakeman and bundler-audit, and reviewing changes against OWASP before they land.

I work with agents every day and skeptically, on the same practice I was using before the tooling existed: discovery before implementation, verification before reference, scope control before anything ships.

Two of the more interesting systems I built are ones I argued to shut down, once the numbers showed they cost more than they were worth, and I wrote up the reasoning both times so the decision outlived the project. That judgment matters more to me than shipping volume, because I would rather be right in month three than committed in month nine.

I am looking for senior IC, staff, or principal work on a team with clear direction and problems worth the depth, whether that runs toward Rails and backend architecture, greenfield systems design, or LLM work that has to earn its place in the product. Available now.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes — UK, Netherlands, Ireland (visa sponsorship required). Also open to B2B/contract work as a registered sole proprietor in Serbia.

Technologies: Kubernetes (CKA), Terraform, Helm, Docker, Linux, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, TeamCity), AWS, GCP, Nginx, WAF, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, Go, Python, Bash, TypeScript

Résumé/CV: https://ismd.dev/cv.pdf

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

Email: work-hn@ismd.dev

Senior Platform Engineer with 5+ years building cloud infrastructure at Yandex Cloud (one of the major public cloud providers in Russia/CIS), and 17+ years overall in software engineering.

- Led the migration of Cloud Console and UI services from VM-based instance groups to Kubernetes.

- Launched UI infrastructure for two new cloud regions (Israel, Kazakhstan).

- Coordinated platform work across a team of up to 14 engineers while staying hands-on in architecture and operations.

  Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies:  Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, SQL, PHP, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Ansible, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, Enterprise private cloud, AWS
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dt1QxfkiyFUWgE1eNxW0AOKLeXbFo1mAqstly2QyBDU/edit?usp=sharing
  Email: mingchen1501@gmail.com