Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Rust, React, React Native, Svelte, Express, Bun, Angular, GraphQL, D3.js, visx, Backbone, jQuery, LangChain, Mastra, FastAPI, pandas, scikit-learn, Optuna, Chrome Extension API, Playwright, Electron, Stagehand, browser-use, Web Audio API, WebRTC, WebSockets, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, EC2, S3, Lambda, Docker, Git, LLM agent design, agent evaluation, reinforcement learning, browser automation, MCP
Résumé/CV: N/A
Email: [HN username]@gmail.com
For one year I reverse-engineered the major education platforms — Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Nearpod, Kahoot, ect. — so that AI agents can drive them on a teacher's behalf and automate classroom workflows. The work runs in over 10,000 classrooms today.
Building agents against production code you don't control is harder than it sounds. The code is mangled, so first you have to understand how the app was built and then take it apart from the outside. It's reverse engineering, but it depends on knowing how to build the thing in the first place.
The role came with monthly compliance and security training centered on FERPA, so I'm fluent in handling student data responsibly. That's not new ground for me. I spent five years building on Drupal, which the most prestigious learning institutions still run today, and version control and access control were the hard part of every project. Student data is the same problem.
I've been building browser agents and browser automation since 2018, well before it was a category. That's paired with 13 years of building dynamic, data-heavy UIs for web and mobile.
I've also built admin dashboards for a custom legal document management system. And a CRM for email marketing, with a drag-and-drop interface for designing and branding email templates for social campaigns. I've taken several companies from 0 to 1, as a consultant and as a full-time employee, across fintech, streaming, real estate, education, marketing, and media. I've worked at a 130-person AI company and on a 7-person team where I wore every hat. I do my best work on small, fast-moving teams.
https://github.com/adam-s
https://adamsohn.com