Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)

  Location: Takoma Park, MD, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: LLM systems, semantic search, information visualization, product strategy, human-AI interaction
  Experience: 25+ years building digital experiences that connect people
  Email: m5@inotherwords-studio.com
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldouma/

Get in touch if you need a product leader who turns complex AI/data systems into experiences people actually love using. Co-founder of In Other Words studio creating award-winning semantic games (IndiePrize, TIGA, Serious Play). Recently built LLM-powered system navigating 1.5M+ words with 110M+ semantic relationships.

Previously scaled SpicyNodes visualization platform to 40 million users and 350K+ creators. Launched time.gov at NIST (first single-purpose .gov site). Transformed academic medical AI into patient-friendly tools serving 1.5M users. Secured $295K NSF SBIR funding for semantic innovation.

Deep expertise making sophisticated systems accessible - whether that's atomic clocks, medical AI, or language models. Led cross-functional teams up to 40 people. Judge for CODiE, Serious Play, and Reimagine Education awards.

Seeking VP Product / Chief Product Officer role at AI-first companies that need someone who understands both the technical depth and human psychology of information systems.

Portfolio: https://www.michaeldouma.com/projects.html Just launched: https://www.inotherwords.app

Location: Southern US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript/Web, Python, C, Rust, Full-stack, AI/ML

Email: hello @ bad-software dot com

GitHub: https://github.com/soulofmischief

Full-stack JavaScript-focused engineer/entrepreneur with lots of experience in building scalable single page apps in various frameworks, web3, multiplayer web games, building transformers and other networks, all sorts of things. Product-oriented, executive and leadership experience, comfortable in both autonomous and collaborative settings, capable Linux sysadmin.

I've focused for several years now on agentic and generative work such as simulating networked LLM-augmented embodied agents, interface research, too much to list here but always happy to talk more over email. While the rest of the industry is just starting to latch onto agentic systems, I can offer years of experience and product insight.

Available for consulting, projects, anything web or agentic.

Location: Sergipe, Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: PHP, Symfony

Experience: 12+ years building strong legacy codes in many ways of PHP (template engine/MVC, pure, DDD, etc)

Email: alexandredoria.01@gmail.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandredoria/

Location: South Carolina, US Remote: Very much preferred Willing to relocate: possibly Technologies: Typescript/Javascript, Kotlin, Java, Elixir, Swift, C, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, Android/iOS development, Redis, AWS, Digital Ocean, MySQL, Postgres

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KRPNLqL8ziSIAOhAY0WD4Elp...

Email: matt @ laconic[dot]com or email in resume

Hello, I'm Matthew and I'm a professional dev looking for full or part time work. I'm a published mobile app developer and game (hobbyist) developer. Professionally, most of my work has been in mobile app development but I'm quite comfortable with backend and frontend web development. Looking for development work in really any kind of area as long as it's interesting.