Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)

Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, probably not.

Technologies: Rust, Lua, C, Networking, CoAP, HTTP, TLS, Sandboxing, Docker, and a whole lot more

Résumé/CV: https://psbarrett.com/cv

Email: hn@psbarrett.com

Just to be upfront, I'm not looking for just anything. I left my job about a month ago and usually like to take ~3 months off between each. I'm just starting to look now. But, I'd be willing to hop into something that sounds fun sooner than that.

I seem to have fallen into doing mostly Rust, usually somewhat in the vein of lower-level network programming. I've been doing Rust development since Rust v0.6 (2013) & I've got 12 years of experience as a software dev overall. That work has straddled the line between embedded and cloud side with most being embedded linux application development.

The work I've done that I'm most proud of was designing and leading development for Samsung SmartThings' Edge Device Driver Platform which is a system written in Rust, embedded within an existing C application, which runs sandboxed user-written 'Edge Device Drivers' on user-owned IoT hubs.

I've also got experience doing project & product planning, though I'm really looking to do primarily software dev.

Big plusses for me are: Working with Open Source, Working on Tools for Other Developers, Doing Work "For Good"

Other assorted things I want an excuse to learn/get involved with more deeply: Cryptography, C++, WASM, Large Scale Server Side Programming, P2P, Decentralization, rustc (& ecosystem) Dev, Linux Kernel, Mapping, Autonomous Drones, Spaaaaaaaccce, Guix, Scheme/Lisp, Erlang/Elixr

Location: Pune, India Remote: Yes (from anywhere) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Stimulus, Turbo Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TQiSB4F37H6FpZibeSnBC5z3...

About Me: I have 10 years of professional experience with Ruby on Rails. A friend introduced me to ruby in my final year of college. Its simplicity drew me in - it was refreshing to see that something as basic as adding numbers was as straightforward as 1 + 1, a stark contrast to my experience with C. Since then, I've loved building products in Ruby and Rails.

In my early career, one of the first major challenges I faced was n + 1 queries. This issue was causing application crashes and out of memory errors. Following articles/stackoverflow/rails guides lead me to use "includes" but I quickly realized that sometimes Rails’ magic isn’t enough - sometimes you actually need to jump, get your hands dirty and dig deeper. This meant writing raw SQL queries which was learning in itself, and sometimes it means that problems initially looks complex but actually they are as easy as like removing the redundant http requests.

Navigating through those challenges taught me a lot about the importance of optimizing for scalability and maintainability.

More recently, at Toptal, while working on an analytical tool, I designed a module in the application's code structure with a focus on modularity and ease of extension. This approach ended up being so helpful that we decided to create a Rails generator to speed things up even more. The generator creates the necessary files with boilerplate code, so all that’s left is to adjust them to fit the specific requirements. It saved us a lot of time on repetitive setup tasks and made development much smoother. Read more here - https://medium.com/@ahmadhamza/scalability-through-conventio...

This journey—from discovering Ruby’s simplicity to now writing scalable applications—has been incredibly fulfilling, and I’m always looking to push those boundaries further.

Location: Amsterdam

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, PHP, Python, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y9xU5119aFmt1JPe-G_u8U36vEP...

Email: shuvambosana0705@gmail.com

  Location: Denver, Colorado (CO)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C++, C, Python, (Java|Type)Script, assembly (ARM, MIPS, SHARC), Linux (userspace), Linux (kernel), embedded Linux (buildroot, Yocto, OpenWRT, uboot, grub), networking (802.11n,ac,ax,be,k,v,r,s, hostapd, wpa_supplicant, nl80211), FPGA (VHDL, Xilinx, Intel), Windows (kernel, C runtime, MFC, WPF, C++, C#), Docker
  Résumé/CV: https://tuckerpo.me/
  Email: tuckerpolomik[@]gmail.com

I'm Tucker, an industrious senior software engineer with 7+ years of experience as both an individual contributor and technical lead across non-profits, for-profit product development companies, and research labs.

I am a generalist with a very broad set of experience, with expertise in system's programming using strongly typed languages. I've done everything from bare-metal assembly code, to FPGA gateware, to Linux kernel modules, to Windows GUI work, to front-end web development. Very "T shaped".

I'm also a seasoned public speaker, having given talks at various conferences including NetworkX, prpl Summit, and SCTE Expo. Quite happy giving customer-facing demos, too.

My ideal role is where software is the product, and I can leverage my expertise in high-performance, resource-critical environments that value deep systems knowledge.

If you're looking for an industrious engineer who adapts quickly and delivers reliably, please reach out. :^)

Location: Vancouver, WA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Open to discussion

Technologies: Javascript, Typescript, Web Developer-centric things

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S42MNyfwsewU_k8htRYGFv9F...

Email: nathankerr@gmail.com

Web developer for over 10 years with an emphasis on leading front-end development using React, Typescript, etc.

Very quick learner and have passing interest in most computer things.

Particularly love solving complex problems using simple solutions.

Authorized to work in US without sponsorship.