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

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Remote: Yes, or possible 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!

Résumé/CV: https://drobinin.com/consulting Email: hn@drobinin.com

Senior iOS engineer / consultant (12+ years). I build and rescue iOS and Vision Pro apps that have to work: medical devices, high-traffic consumer apps, and anything where your previous freelancer said “not possible”.

I am usually brought in for the awkward parts: background reliability, performance/crash triage, architecture refactors, and migrations (SwiftUI, TCA, Swift Concurrency).

Available for MVP builds, agency oversight, joining your team for a sprint or three, and due diligence (I read the codebase and tell you what’s solid, what’s duct tape, and what it’ll take to fix).

  Location: France
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: DevOps, Azure, AWS, Kafka, Node
  Résumé/CV: https://ondemanddevops.com/about/
  Email: welcome@ondemanddevops.com

My technical specialisations include: Cloud (Azure / AWS / GCP - infrastructure, architecture, scalability, performance, networking, security), DevOps (Terraform, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins) and data-processing technologies (Kafka, Solr, Lucene, Elasticsearch, Mongo, RDBMSes, Hadoop, Storm).

My track record of successful, stable and long-running deliverables is the thing that I am most proud of in my IT career.

I also provide on-demand, fixed-price DevOps services for startups, growth companies, emergency services and specialised jobs. Each of my deliverables is tuned to your company, your products and customers, and the way your teams work. I only provide solutions that fit.

https://ondemanddevops.com/services/?sid=hnh2601