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

Technologies: Swift / SwiftUI / RealityKit / visionOS / ARKit / SpriteKit, Python / FastAPI / Anthropic Claude API, TypeScript / Next.js / Three.js / Chrome MV3 / Shopify Remix. Heavy Cursor + Claude Code user. Email: markkaminsky99@gmail.com

Solo builder. Live products:

- ElliotAlert (live: https://elliotalert.fly.dev) — Python/FastAPI/Claude futures-trading alert system. Scans 19 instruments, runs Elliott Wave + Williams A/D + 8-10 MAC analysis, dispatches email alerts. Repo includes a 9-vendor data-licensing evaluation (CME / ICE / Databento) and a Tier-A vs Tier-B SaaS pricing/margin write-up.

- iBuy — AI shopping search and product identification. Live consumer site (https://ibuy.quest), iOS app on the App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ibuy/id327608596), demo (https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS9bVfWa6/). Next.js + Swift; affiliate-link revenue channel; camera-based product identify.

In review:

- Gamma — Live radar that shows where your friends are in real time. Radar view + push-to-talk walkie-talkie voice clips + QR-code invite flow. RealityKit, CloudKit, dead-reckoning location filter. Currently in Apple App Store review.

- iBuy for Shopify — B2B subscription SaaS app, in Shopify App Store review. Shopify App Billing API integration, plan-tier system (Free / Starter / Pro), merchant-side AI product search widget.

Packaged and ready to ship:

- WatchRoom — Chrome extension that lets you click anything on Netflix / YouTube / Hulu / Disney+ to identify it via a tiered Gemini → Claude pipeline. Seven packaged builds, store-screenshots ready.

- Progress Timeline — VS Code / Cursor extension, auto-logs Cursor sessionEnd events to a JSONL file in your repo. Packaged .vsix.

Other substantial projects in active development:

- TalkMonitor — speech-monitoring iOS app. On-device Speech framework, sub-100ms haptic feedback for volume + speaking-pace alerts, SwiftData persistence. No server round-trip.

- DronePatrol — SwiftUI / SpriteKit top-down police-quadcopter game. Real Xcode project (~170 files), 4 levels with boss fights, particle effects, physics, full art-asset spec.

- ~25 additional working projects: iOS / visionOS apps, Three.js web demos with physics (WorldRadioDial, Snowboarding2150), Python AI radio pipelines (ParanoidAndroid), and other Chrome extensions.

10+ Claude API integrations across dialog, vision, transcription, and tool-use. B.A. Economics, U Manitoba (2005). Previously hired and managed a remote iOS engineering team to ship App Store apps.

Looking for: Forward Deployed Engineer / Applied AI Engineer / Founding Engineer. Open to Series A/B startups, AI infra, applied AI for fintech or audio.

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Kubernetes (CKA, CKS, CKAD certs, Kubestronaut), Docker, Linux (RHCSA cert), AWS (Practitioner cert), Azure (AZ-900), Terraform (Associate cert), Helm (SC104 cert), Jenkins, Python, C, C++, C#, .NET, Qt, Git, Computer Vision, Machine learning, Deep learning, TensorFlow, SQL, React.js, Next.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, Tailwind, CSS, WordPress, Full Stack, Frontend, Backend, Embedded development, 3D printing...

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qEACgPkJOKiXyzb77v746sihP_f...

Email: eduard.tiron@gmail.com

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

Software & DevOps Engineer with 10yoe. Most of my career I've led research and startup-like commercial projects for companies wanting to modernize their processes, using whichever technology I felt was adequate. Some examples are: deployment of multiple applications on EC2 instances and on Kubernetes (with AKS, EKS, Helm Charts, ArgoCD, Istio), telemetrics pipeline and dashboards with AWS (S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena, Grafana, Postgres) to track millions of daily messages from a fleet of vehicles, firmware for two 1M€ industrial EVs, a plugin for Cura 3D printing software, knitting machine defect detection with computer vision, redid my employer's website from scratch, telemetry of a global fleet of threading machines, a cloud connected tractor using satellite data for fertilization, firmware of a machine that manufactures medical plastic parts with ultrasounds... I've also won the Swisshacks hackathon with an AI RAG tool for financial analysts.

Portfolio with 70+ professional and personal projects: https://etiron.netlify.app

Willing to relocate: Maybe, but planning on staying in Bay Area

Technologies: 15 years full stack - react and ruby, etc.(spent more time in fullstack TS this past year than any other language) -- but very broad bleeding edge. Build 0-1 products with Founders for 10+ years. Built geosite.io first year beta/foundation before entering Y-Combinator in 2019. Building AI in 2025 - competed and won Hacking Agents Hackathon put on by Datastax (Langflow) at Cloudflare in March 1st 2025. Spent 4 months in 2025 building an POC AI marketplace, https://goodbruce.com Building startups (based in San Francisco) @ http://sharedfounders.com/ (helping founders take their ideas built on platforms like v0.dev, lovable.com, replit.com, bolt.new, base44.com from AI generated scaffolding to Production)

Résumé/CV: https://valdezm.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/markavaldez/

Email: hello@valdezm.com

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AWS, GCP, Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, Ansible, Typescript, Python, Go, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://copey.dev/copeland-royall-resume.pdf

Email: copeland [at] copey.dev

I'm an infrastructure-focused software engineer who has worked developing enterprise-scale and Payment Card Industry-compliant IaC modules at Visa and was responsible for the coordination and rollout of centralized cost monitoring in 45 production GCP projects.

Recently I architected and built an AWS environment with data residency for pharmaceutical research, with an extreme multi-label (1.4k) classification NLP/LLM ingest pipeline.

And if you like aviation: https://globular-adsb.copey.dev/