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

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: Yes (hybrid-onsite-remote, doesn't matter)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Android (main), Java, Kotlin, PHP/LAMP, JavaScript, MySQL, JSON/GraphQL

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-bohne-71765468/

Email: johnb61590 [at..] gmail

SEEKING WORK | Data Scientist / Consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide

I'm a data scientist with over 20 years of experience specializing in consulting and fractional leadership. I do the data science that AI's can't do. I thrive on gnarly problems where standard off-the-shelf solutions fall short, and recently where Ai just can't complete the task even if walked through the problem. My track record includes saving a German automaker from lemon law recalls and helping a major cloud vendor predict server failures to enable load shedding.

I've tackled a wide range of challenges across various industries, including oil reservoir and well engineering forecasting, automotive part failure prediction, and shipping piracy risk to route ships away from danger. My technical work extends to realtime routing (CVRP-PD-TW) for on-demand delivery, legal entity and contract term extraction, and wound identification with tissue classification. I also work with the current wave of LLMs and agents, and make them do magic.

I've worked with the standard stacks you’d expect: Python, PyTorch, Spark/Ray, AWS, Agentic engineering, etc. But I believe the solution must be driven by the problem, not the tools. I bring years of experience helping companies plan, prototype, and productionize sane data science solutions.

Please reach out if you have a difficult problem to solve. I do love stuff in physical meat-space.

NB: Please do not contact me if you are working on ads, gambling, or "enshittification". I prefer to sleep at night.

  Location: Kelowna area, BC, Canada

  Remote: Yep

  Willing to relocate: Nope

  Technologies: Linux, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform, SaltStack, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Nginx, Python, Django, apt packaging, iptables, VPNs, TCP congestion control algorithms (more than I ever wanted to know)

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

  Email: matt@tansen.ca

I seek contract platform engineering projects. I can help early stage startups set up infrastructure and CICD so founders can focus on PMF. And I can help established software companies with outdated infrastructure adopt modern tools and practices.

I have 15 years of experience in startup software development and DevOps across web apps, cloud, and Linux networking. 10 years of leadership in teams of up to 7 people. I have built infrastructure using Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, and Linode.

Here are a sample of my accomplishments:

* Built a platform for hosting web apps using Kubernetes at a major cloud provider and taught engineers to operate and improve it. Introduced Terraform, Helm, and incident management processes. It operates in 4 regions and has about 250 total CPUs.

* Led a B2B SaaS company through their first SOC 2 Type II audit.

* Created an application CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Gitlab, resulting in a DORA performance score of 8.0 (above average in all scores according to dora.dev)

* Published and maintained the community Apt package for Helm, the Kubernetes package manager, which is downloaded more than 200,000 times per month.

* Created a system to control calls in Asterisk with AI-trained voice commands ("hey asterisk, dial extension 1") https://github.com/mattfox/asterisk-voice-control

Location: Central Maine

Remote: Yes (17+ years fully remote)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Kubernetes, Linux, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Postgres, CI/CD. Some Go and Rust experience.

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/kurtismullins

Website: https://www.kurtismullins.com

Email: kurtis@growdigitalroots.com

GitHub: https://github.com/kurtismullins

Freelance backend and infrastructure engineer. 18 years across startups, SaaS, enterprise, non-profit, and a game studio. Available for project-based or part-time work (~20 hrs/week).

Highlights:

- Equinix Metal: Platform engineering across 50+ global bare-metal Kubernetes clusters — drove log vendor migration and rollout of internal DNS recursors fleet-wide

- Red Hat: Senior dev on Quay.io (~1B requests/month), led Python 2→3 migration, drove Kubernetes operator from prototype to shipping product

- Clockwork Labs: Owned infrastructure for SpacetimeDB and supported BitCraft playtests — multiplayer game backend built on WASM + database

- The Water Institute (FloodID): Owned infra for hurricane flood prediction — converted AWS from ClickOps to declarative Terraform, HPC simulations with post-processing in Kubernetes

- Rackspace: Maintained internal tooling across 10-15 applications including greenfield coordination tooling for a large-scale datacenter consolidation

- Cox Media Group: Maintained Django CMS serving 50+ newspapers/radio stations/TV channels, led migration from on-premise to AWS

Backend development, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, cloud migrations, internal tooling.