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

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

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Post by syntropo »

Most systems work fine until they don't. I build the ones that still behave when things fail.

Location: Vermont, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js/Deno, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS (compute, messaging, storage), FFmpeg

Résumé/CV: https://en.masher.media/about.html>

Email: hn@masher.media

I've mostly been a first or founding engineer, owning systems that have to scale early. I focus on high-throughput pipelines, messaging systems, media transcoding, and recommendations—areas where issues show up under load, retries, and edge cases.

I also build real-time dashboards to observe and control these systems, using local-first approaches and browser-based technologies for media processing and realtime communication.

- Messaging systems delivering millions of emails and push notifications in minutes (retries, deliverability, observability)

- Browser-based video editing and encoding platform using FFmpeg, Supabase, and AWS

- Real-time pipelines and recommendation systems for tens of millions of users

- Scaled event ingestion ~100x for analytics and experimentation

I do my best work in small, product-focused teams, owning systems end-to-end, staying close to production, and communicating early around risks and tradeoffs.

- Founding or early engineering roles (full-time, part-time, or contract)

- Backend or infrastructure-heavy work

- Products with real users or a clear path to them

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

#83

Post by Sniffnoy » 

  Location: New York City
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: If it's on the east coast, yeah maybe
  Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS
  Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resume.pdf
  Email: harry.j.altman@gmail.com
Hi, I'm Harry Altman! I was the maintainer of Truffle Debugger (https://github.com/ConsenSys-archive/truffle/tree/develop/pa...), a Solidity smart contract debugger, for 5 years. I eventually ended up writing my own decoding and encoding libraries to support it, as well as a bunch of other things.

I'm good at this sort of nitpicky work, spotting and thinking about edge cases. I like getting things exactly right, even though that obviously isn't always possible due to various constraints. I've been kind of wondering if I should get into embedded development; I find it appealing when things are low-level or similarly constrained. I've beaten Microcorruption. :) (The original levels, I haven't played the new ones.)

I'm also quite interested in unusual or obscure data formats, and working on Truffle Debugger and its associated libraries certainly involved a bunch of having to figure undocumented formats and interfaces. :) I put down above what languages I've worked substantially in but I'd say I'm a generalist and will figure out whatever you give me (I knew approximately no Javascript, Typescript, or Solidity when I started working at Consensys).

I'm a mathematician by background and in my spare time, so after the Truffle Debugger project was shut down I took some time off to focus on my mathematical projects, including old ones I've been shepherding through publication. But now I'm looking for work again! If you need someone like me, I'm available for hire!

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

#84

Post by hboon »

Location: Singapore (UTC+8)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript (web frontend Vue + backend Fastify+Postgres) + Swift (iOS and some macOS) + heavy coding agent use (Claude Code, Codex and Droid)

Résumé/CV: https://hboon.com/about/

Email: hboon@motionobj.com

30 years experience in software development, ranging from enterprise software, startups to indie software. Open for fractional roles too.

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

#85

Post by agluszak »

Location: Warsaw, Poland, EU Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, Bazel, Kotlin, Scala, Java Résumé/CV: https://agluszak.gitlab.io/cv.pdf | https://www.linkedin.com/in/agluszak/ Email: gluszak.andrzej+hn@gmail.com

Software engineer with 8+ years of professional experience, focused on open-source developer tooling & build systems. 5 years at JetBrains. Ideally, I'd like my next job to be in Rust.

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

#86

Post by gabrieledarrigo »

Location: Milan, Italy Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Google Cloud Platform

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdarrigo/

Email: darrigo.g@gmail.com

I'm a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience; I worked with small teams and enterprises, and I successfully contributed to the success of many products, Hire me if you want to onboard a passionate, team player, used to wear many hats, colleague.

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

#88

Post by govindgupta »

SEEKING WORK | Remote | India (IST, UTC+5:30) | Flexible with US/EU hours

Remote: Yes, 2.5 years onsite in the USA (ADP, Time Warner Cable), now working remotely with global clients Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Stripe, AWS, Claude API, OpenAI Agents SDK, CrewAI, LangGraph, RAG pipelines, multi-agent orchestration

Website: https://govindgupta.com Email: govind@govindgupta.com

15 years building production systems. I ship agentic AI products in 2 to 3 weeks, not months.

What I build:

-> Multi-agent systems with OpenAI Agents SDK, CrewAI, and LangGraph. Tool use, handoffs, planning loops, and guardrails that hold up past the demo.

-> Production RAG pipelines with vector search, reranking, and evaluation. Not just a notebook.

-> AI-integrated full-stack apps on Next.js, Supabase, and Stripe. From MVP to scale.

-> Built and shipped products for US enterprise clients including ADP and Time Warner Cable.

Best fit: founders building agentic AI products who need senior engineering judgment without a full-time hire. You bring a clear spec, a half-built prototype, or a problem worth solving. I bring the speed to ship it.

Open to fixed-bid projects, ongoing contract work, or fractional technical lead engagements. Competitive rates for the quality of work delivered.

Best way to reach me: govind@govindgupta.com

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

#89

Post by toastal » 

    Location: Eastern Thailand
    Remote: Yes, can travel every so often
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: Nix, NixOS, OCaml, PureScript, Elm, JavaScript, CSS
    Résumé/CV: https://toast.al/skills/
    Email: toastal+hn@posteo.net
Looking to transition off of front-end work & into devops. I can help monitor systems from Asian time zones. Flexible hours help & I don’t mind being up at “odd hours” as I am a night owl.

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

#90

Post by sealWithIt »

Location: Pensacola, FL

Remote: Yes

Relocation: Yes (US)

Technologies: C++, Python, Java, Distributed Systems, Networking, Embedded, Full-stack

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zqk69PPyvQaxbKHXvSsydGSM-Xs...

Email: -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfronteddu/

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Research Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building distributed and real-time systems in unreliable and constrained environments.

Background in networking, including custom transport protocols, network monitoring, and adaptive systems. Recent work includes AI-assisted software engineering and intelligent systems.

Experience designing and building systems that need to remain reliable under failure, including tactical and edge environments.

Interested in backend, infrastructure, distributed systems, or AI-driven systems roles where I can build and improve core technology.

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