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

Location: Menlo Park, CA

Remote: Yes, or hybrid if nearby

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, PowerShell, Flask, SQL, PostGIS, Shapely, Unity, Unreal Engine, multiple assembly/machine languages, Windows user code and kernel drivers, Google Maps and other map APIs, geographic and airspace data

Résumé/CV: https://www.geary.com/resume.html or https://www.geary.com/resume.pdf and https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgeary/

Email: mike@geary.com

Hi, I'm Michael Geary. I've programmed in many languages and environments over the years. Some of my current interests are:

• Developer experience. I love helping my fellow developers solve problems, and building tools to make their jobs easier and more enjoyable.

• Aviation and geographic data. For example, airspace and obstacle data importers for Wing; election results and voter information maps for Google; many interactive maps for other companies.

• Hardware interfacing. In a way, I am a "full stack" developer, but my stack may involve a front end to a piece of hardware rather than the cloud. I first got into programming via ham radio, so RF hardware remains an interest.

• Designing and building APIs. Too often an API is designed by exposing the internals of whatever system provides the API. My philosophy is the opposite: start with the apps. I like to build a series of sample apps before starting on the API. This way I can imagine what API will make those apps and others like them easy to build.

• Talk with users! I don't like to sit in a back room cranking out code. I want to make sure it's the right code for what my users need, and that it's easy to maintain and improve as we learn more about what they want.

Open to full time or contract.

I look forward to talking with you!

Seeking MLE and Applied Science Roles | LMU, University of Oxford | ex. AWS

Keywords: Computer Vision, Robotics, Inference Optimization, AutoML, Forecasting

  - Location: Oxford, United Kingdom / Munich, Germany
  - Remote: In-person preferred
  - Willing to relocate: Yes, within Europe
  - Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Scikit-Learn, NumPy, Git, AWS Cloud, Docker, Wandb
  - Résumé/CV: https://davidbhoffmann.com/assets/pdf/David_Hoffmann_CV.pdf
  - Email: info@davidbhoffmann.com

About: Currently investigating robotics planning with diffusion models at Oxford’s Visual Geometry Group, under joint supervision from João F. Henriques, Björn Ommer, and Christian Schroeder de Witt.

Previously, I worked at AWS as an Applied Scientist Dual Student, where I (1) developed a novel inference optimization technique yielding 13.4% higher accuracy against baselines, and (2) improved SageMaker's Autopilot forecasting solution, resulting in a 3.5% error reduction and 16% decreased latency in production.

I will graduate with an M.Sc. from LMU in August and am seeking applied machine learning roles to transition my research into production-level systems.

  Location: Isle of Man/Europe
  Remote: Yes - Experience working with US/International teams
  Willing to relocate: Yes - For the right role. Happy to be on-site for onboarding
  Technologies: Kotlin, Android, TypeScript, React, .NET, Java, CI/CD, Accessibility, i18n
  Email: davidallisongithub@gmail.com
  GitHub: https://github.com/david-allison

Open source maintainer/top contributor of AnkiDroid: Android client for Anki. 10M+ downloads. ~10 YOE, with 6 YOE open source (4,000+ commits). Ready for stability after years of contracting and maintainership.

I lead a global volunteer team and take full product ownership: setting direction over multi-year horizons, planning and implementing architectural migrations, and keeping a project moving via community engagement, triage, fixes, reviews and mentorship.

Highlights:

  - AnkiDroid now releases in tandem with upstream, rather than lagging behind by years
  - Migrated a 15-year-old codebase from Java 7 to Kotlin, maintaining git blame
  - Migrated to a common Rust-based backend. Android contributors are fully isolated from this complexity
  - Improved app rating from 4.5 to ~4.8 stars, dramatically reduced crash rate
  - Mentored hundreds of contributors and co-launched AnkiDroid's Google Summer of Code programme

AnkiDroid continues as a hobby; my day job is fully separate.

Looking for: full-time or contract. IC or EM, I'm nontraditional so I'm open to a conversation about which fits. Drawn to work that makes people's lives better, in any stack.

Angular & Ionic Developer

Location: Portugal

Remote: Yes, remote only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, RxJS, Angular, Ionic, Cordova, Capacitor

Résumé/CV: https://nunoarruda.com/resume.pdf

Email: nuno@nunoarruda.com