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

  Location: India
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Rust, Python, Docker, Linux, Terraform, K8s, Sandboxes
  Résumé/CV: vrn21.com/resume
  Email: hello@vrn21.com

I'm KV, upcoming grad, previously interned at 3 startups [1x YC], where most of my work has revolved around Systems [Rust, Python, Docker, Linux]; You could see more info at my resume: [vrn21.com/resume]

And I've built some projects like: sandbox for agents with firecracker and rust [ https://github.com/vrn21/bouvet ] ; a key value store in rust[ https://github.com/hrefto/shorterdb ]; a serverless FaaS platform with WASM and rust [ https://github.com/orbit-serverless/server ]; a postgres extension with pgrx for full text search using tantivy, bm25, rust [ https://github.com/vrn21/pdb ]

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.

Senior software engineer and independent consultant (15+ yrs), currently based in Valencia, Spain (CET). I do primarily backend work in Python (Django/FastAPI/Flask) and PHP (Laravel/Drupal), API development and consumption, data pipeline work, and AI integration features (RAG, LangChain/LangGraph, vector DBs).

Strong infra/ops chops (Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Linux), comfortable owning projects end-to-end and mentoring.

Remote-first, with a reliable 4-hour daily overlap with US business hours; invoicing/tax admin handled on my side. Work authorization in US (SS/EIN) and Spain (NIE). Note: Spanish availability is limited due to DNV limitations of no more than 20% revenue sourced from Spanish companies.

Location: Valencia, Spain

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (FastAPI, Langchain, LangGraph, Django), PHP (Laravel, Drupal)

Résumé/CV: https://ryneandal.github.io/ryne-andal-dnv-resume.pdf

Email: ryne[.]andal@gmail[.]com

James H. | Remote (US) | U.S. Citizen, open to relocate SF/NYC | Full-Time

Founding CTO at an AI startup — built the whole thing from scratch. 170k+ users, 13 microservices, shipped across web, iOS, Android, and desktop. I write code every day and own systems end-to-end from scoping through production.

Day-to-day: Python (FastAPI, Django), TypeScript (React, Next.js, Node), PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, AWS. Built multi-agent pipelines with LangGraph, agentic RAG, structured outputs, production LLM observability. Thousands of agent calls running daily. Also built real-time voice features (STT/TTS streaming) and quantitative ML systems — XGBoost classifiers on 232k bars across 53 assets for volatility regime detection.

Previously co-founded and shipped two other products (event ticketing platform, DeFi protocol). Comfortable with ambiguity, fast iteration, and working directly with customers. I use AI tools heavily to ship (Claude Code, Cursor) but understand what's happening under the hood.

Looking for: Forward-Deployed Engineer, AI/Full-Stack Engineer, Staff/Principal Engineer roles at companies that ship fast and give real ownership. Strong preference for remote. Open to onsite in SF or NYC for the right opportunity.

talents.numbers5z@icloud.com

https://linkedin.com/in/jameslhebert

https://github.com/dlhugly