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

Location: Wiltshire, UK Remote: Yes (Remote or London) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: .NET 9/Core, C#, JavaScript, Cloud, Database, APIs + lots (see CV) Resume/CV: https://www.appsoftware.com/cv Email: gareth.brown@appsoftware.com

I am a Senior Software Engineer and Solutions Architect with over 18 years of experience building enterprise-grade systems for the public sector, FTSE 100 companies, and fintech startups.

I specialize in the .NET ecosystem and AWS cloud infrastructure, with a focus on building performant, secure, and maintainable systems. I’m equally comfortable leading a development team through complex technical migrations or being a hands-on individual contributor. I bring a pragmatic, "builder" mindset to software—focused on solving business problems with clean code and robust DevOps practices.

Outside of software, I’m an active and practical person who enjoys woodworking, art, literature and fitness including hiking and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Looking for senior or lead roles where I can take ownership of technical strategy and delivery.

Location: Kiel, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Résumé/CV: Available on request https://www.linkedin.com/in/hauke-eckel/ Email: haukeeckel@posteo.de

Location: Pakistan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Open to discussion

Technologies: Typescript, JavaScript, Python, Go, React, Next, Nest, Node, SQL, AWS, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZaVD5N2-LlCcwIl3QMggCRJxcPL...

Portfolio: https://hamdan-khan.github.io

Github: https://github.com/Hamdan-Khan

Email: hamdankhan212@gmail.com

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A full stack developer with ~3 years of freelance & contract-based jobs experience. I'm a generalist, who learns stuff quickly and likes to solve interesting problems. I'm currently exploring low-level systems and kernel development, and also building an interpreter as a hobby project. Reach out to me for part time / full time collaboration or freelance contracts.

  Location: Denver, CO
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/vncz
  Email: vnczes@icloud.com

API architect with 15+ years transforming how organizations design, build, and scale developer platforms.

At Microsoft, architected Graph APIs serving 100M+ users and established design standards for 200+ engineering teams. Previously led platform engineering at Stoplight and SentinelOne, specializing in OpenAPI tooling, developer experience, and building internal APIs that enable product teams to ship faster with confidence.

Location: Lithuania (EU, UTC+2)

Remote: Yes (12+ years remote experience)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, AWS (S3/EC2 Cost Optimization), PostgreSQL (Citus/sharding), C/C++, Temporal.io, Rust.

Résumé/Web: https://valiukas.dev/resume-linas-valiukas.pdf

Email: linas@valiukas.dev

I am a Lead/Staff Backend Engineer with 15+ years of experience. I specialize in reducing cloud costs, scaling large databases, and debugging systems at the syscall level.

Highlights:

* Saved $500k/year at Automattic: reduced S3 storage costs by 75% for a 2 PB dataset.

* 26x Performance Increase: Architected a bespoke binary protocol for WordPress restores, eliminating the #1 product churn reason.

* Scale: Managed a 30 TB+ PostgreSQL cluster (Citus) and NLP pipelines for MIT/Harvard for 10 years.

* Recent Build: Solo-founded https://aero.zip - a privacy-first file transfer service with E2E encryption and OPAQUE authentication.

I debug GnuPG with strace, migrate petabytes without downtime, and replace brittle Cron jobs with robust workflow systems. Looking for complex backend challenges.