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

Technologies: Python, Go, TypeScript, PyTorch

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/fabmilo

Hi, I’m Fabrizio Milo, a senior AI/ML engineer, large-scale systems architect, and former technical co-founder. I’ve spent my career building production AI, ML infrastructure, and high-scale backend systems across startups and growth-stage companies.

Most recently, I’ve been building AI platforms for LLM training and fine-tuning, RAG databases, local and remote LLM inference, semantic retrieval, and agentic orchestration for business intelligence and code generation. I’ve also contributed to open source ML projects including GPT-Neo, TensorFlow and published research on synthetic data from LLMs.

Previously, I was VP of Technology at ZELIG, where I led the virtual try-on AI research roadmap and managed a cross-functional team building ML/3D systems for fashion retail. Before that, I was Head of Machine Learning Engineering at Recurrency, where I hired and led a 6-person ML/platform team and shipped demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, and recommendation systems on AWS/Snowflake/SageMaker. I also co-founded Passio, where I built the technical foundation for an on-device Nutrition-AI SDK with real-time computer vision inference.

Earlier in my career, I built scalable systems at TheRealReal and Scopely, optimized CUDA kernels at NVIDIA, and worked on real-time market-data and high-performance systems. I’m strongest where AI research, production engineering, and startup execution meet: taking ambiguous technical/product goals and turning them into shipped systems, teams, and infrastructure.

I can architect and build anything you need given enough compute and time.

Location: Croatia, EU/Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: 18 years of iOS development, Swift, Objective-C, UIKit, SwiftUI, Product and Design

Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/y5p7ddh4

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

GitHub: https://github.com/tomislav

Email: tomislav@me.com

Lead iOS developer for multiple award-winning apps, featured by Apple, The New York Times and Forbes. Working remotely world-wide.

  Location: Europe, Budapest
  Remote: Yes 
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go, Python, svelte, search engines, scrapers, crawlers, data gathering, privacy, free software
  Résumé/CV: https://github.com/asciimoo
  Email: asciimoo+hnjob@gmail.com

~20 years of development experience. Author of many somewhat successful free software projects like Searx, and Go-Colly.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Swift / SwiftUI (native macOS), production LLM pipelines (Whisper, Llama 3.3, GLM-5.1, OpenAI / Anthropic APIs), Promptfoo eval suites, Postgres + queue-based job infrastructure, self-hosted GPU (RTX 3060), Figma, Next.js / Vercel.

Résumé/CV: https://doubleabattery.com/work-with-me

Email: hello@doubleabattery.com

25-year design-led product builder. Apple Design Award winner (2003, Tubatomic, commercial work for Warner Bros, HGTV, Turner). Ran Hoff & Pepper hot sauce 10 years (1M bottles, 5,000 retail doors, Hot Ones S16) before winding it down. Past 12 months: shipped Steadcast (native macOS podcast app, live in the Mac App Store at https://steadcast.co) and its Knowledge Engine: queue-based Whisper on self-hosted RTX 3060 (17.9× realtime), 410-rule editorial voice guide, Promptfoo eval gates blocking bad output before it persists, mixture-of-models routing (Llama 3.3 for structured extraction, GLM-5.1 for prose), cost ceilings, monitoring, soak windows.

Best fit: AI features that need to actually work in production. Non-technical founders burned by agencies. CPG/DTC operators who want an operator-builder, not a consultant. Fractional Product Lead engagements.

Remote: Yes, some travel ok

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Strongest in web-stack + python + all manner GOFAI and modern AI

Résumé/CV: kemendo.com/andrew/KemendoResume2026.pdf

Email: andrewkemendo@icloud.com

I run givedirection.com, a cohort-based education program for AI workflow practitioners. My focus is on teaching people how to actually build and operate with AI individually or for companies integrating agent/AI workflows.

Background: USAF intelligence, founded and sold Pair Inc. (AR platform, 1M+ users, acquired 2019), CTO at Kessel Run, Principal Engineer at Unity Technologies, CTO at Gambit AI. Built findcovidtesting.com here with other HN people. Co-authored IEEE 7010 on ethical AI.

Open to AI training, education, curriculum design, or advising on long-horizon strategy. Ideal engagements align with or extend what I'm already building at Direction but I'm open to any 1099 or contract work, and the right full time job.

Note: I will not work for the US defense market so please don't reach out about US based defensed roles.