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

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Maybe (English speaking countries)

Technologies: Ruby, JavaScript, SCSS, anything else (I programmed in many languages)

Resume: https://cubitoo.com

Email: pawel@cubitoo.com

I am a Ruby on Rails developer with strong product skillset — I prevent problems before they have a chance to cost you money.

Location: Vietnam (GMT+7)

Remote: Yes — daily overlap with US-Eastern mornings (~9:30am–1:30pm ET)

Willing to relocate: No (remote only)

Technologies: Python (10+ yrs) — Django/DRF, FastAPI, Celery · LLM agent orchestration (LangGraph, MCP, Claude Code/Codex/Antigravity, Gastown, Openclaw) · RAG (pgvector + Cohere) · workflow automation (n8n, ComfyUI) · PostgreSQL/Redis · Docker, GitHub Actions · Playwright · Stripe

Senior backend/AI engineer. For the last two years I built and ran autonomous coding agents in production: they pick up bug reports, reproduce, fix, write tests, and open PRs - engineers review instead of writing. The same multi-agent harness now runs a fully automated content platform (five sites, no human in the publish loop). Before LLMs: cryptocurrency exchanges, an end-to-end ML training platform, and 10 years mentoring at Vietnam's biggest Python community (Pymi.vn).

What I care about: agent infra where correctness and observability actually matter — building systems where an agent can be wrong without being dangerous (credential isolation, sandboxed tools, review gates). Contract or full-time.

Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/doanhtu

Github: https://github.com/tudoanh

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doanhtu/

Email: tudoanh.fl@gmail.com

  Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (UTC+4, strong US morning overlap)
  Remote: Yes (100%)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native, Expo, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Python, Astro, self-managed Linux
  Résumé/CV: https://k4r.im (direct PDF)
  Email: contact@k4r.im

I'm a founding engineer working part-time, remote, on monthly output-based retainers. You define what needs to exist. I own it from schema to deploy, and I bring the product calls back to you.

What I've shipped:

1. Tenpo (youth-sports marketplace, San Francisco). Built the production verified-reviews system in a 30-day contract: schema, APIs, moderation dashboards, and automated publish and notification flows. Every read and write path secured with Postgres row-level security. 200+ merged commits, and I closed every finding from the CTO's line-by-line review.

2. The Scientific Place (my own edtech platform). 240,000+ visitors on $0 marketing, featured in Morning Brew and Smashing Magazine. A constraint-satisfaction engine generates procedural puzzles, and a separate cryptographic layer handles anti-cheat. Peaked at 11,000 visitors in one day on a single VPS.

3. Himaya71 (emergency response). Founding engineer on a live pilot. Client-side indoor navigation that reroutes around active fire zones in under 100ms, a YOLOv8 headcount pipeline over RTSP streams, and a custom Android background service for persistent GPS. Won a $5,400 prize and a signed pilot contract.

4. AIWAY (fintech). Designed and ran four interconnected production systems as the sole engineer at near 100% uptime, including a Prophet forecasting engine and a Telegram trading terminal for Binance and Bybit.

5. ASOgency (app-marketing agency, Dubai). First tool live five days after onboarding: a Figma plugin that localizes app screenshots across 39 languages in a single pass, replacing hours of manual editing.

I use AI tooling like autocomplete. It makes me faster, but it doesn't make the decisions, and nothing ships that I haven't read.

The shape: async, billed monthly against agreed output rather than hours. Long-term preferred. Cash, no equity. Part-time because I'm finishing a software engineering degree (4.00 GPA). UAE Golden Visa, self-sponsored.

Location: New York, NY

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not specified

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, NestJS, Express, Go (Golang), Python, FastAPI, Django, Java, Spring Boot, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, LLMs, LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, TensorFlow, PyTorch

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-johnson-77271a116/

Email: Joshua.johnson.tech@hotmail.com

About:

Highly accomplished Senior / Founding Full-Stack Engineer with 10+ years of experience across the full software development lifecycle, specializing in designing, building, and scaling cloud-native, high-performance applications. Core expertise includes TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js (NestJS, Express), Golang, Python, Java, GraphQL, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, LangChain, LangGraph, and modern GenAI frameworks (Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI). Proven track record of leading architectural decisions, optimizing distributed systems for high concurrency and low latency, and delivering production-grade AI platforms and data-intensive systems. Experienced across GenAI, SaaS, PropTech (AEC), Healthcare, Data Platforms, and FinTech environments, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and secure system design