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

Remote: Yes or Hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, LangGraph/LLM pipelines, Docker, k8s, Postgres, React

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HzlPlQj-tJ2CxAJ7gQS5Habg...

Email: nonnontrivial@gmail.com

SWE with 10 years experience building (remote/hybrid) in domains: defense, manufacturing, SaaS. Comfortable with ambiguity/uncertainty.

Remote: cool, but cool with hybrid as well. Sometimes it's nice to see faces.

Willing to relocate: No. My wife has a brick-and-mortar store in Austin. I can't leave.

Technologies: Man... all of them. I started out printing HTML straight from Perl. Since then I've used Javascript, Ruby, Python, Lisp, Scheme... even PHP. I've dabbled in Haskell and Erlang. I know networks and databases (I love Postgres the most) and cloud stuff (AWS and Akamai). I am kind of a Unix partisan, but I like BSD as much as Linux.

Resume: http://anwu.org/joshua/resume.pdf

Email: morris2357@protonmail.com

Anyone need a tech generalist? I've done just about every damn thing under the sun. Mostly software development, but I began as a system and network administrator. Well... I began in tech support, but that was a looong time ago.

Anyway... let me know if you need an old man to lead some wet-behind-the-ears whippersnappers on the way of things. Seems like a challenge for my old ass to get past the AI/HR hurdles, nowadays. I always had trouble getting past HR to talk to someone who actually understood what I did (I'm kinda shy); and now it feels like I can't even get past the robots to get to that part.

So, yeah, uh... hire me!

Remote: Yes (Remote or hybrid/in-person in NYC)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Go, PostgreSQL, ZFS, Linux (Mint/Debian/Ubuntu), Proxmox VE, Docker, Git, AWS, GCP, OpenAPI, MCP (Model Context Protocol), local LLM deployment (Ollama, vLLM), agentic RAG infrastructure.

Résumé/CV: https://william.mantly.vip (At bottom of page)

Email: william@mantly.vip

Hey HN,

I’m a senior engineer and infrastructure architect who has spent the last 20+ years building everything from high-concurrency data pipelines to bare-metal server clusters. I’ve worn the corporate VP hat at JPMorgan Chase leading teams managing over 100,000 servers, and I’ve worn the founder hat running my own consulting firm, Theta 42.

But honestly? I miss the early stage startup energy. I miss the environments where we pivot fast, build from a whiteboard to production, and where everyone dons multiple hats to smash the next milestone.

What I bring to your team:

Real-world leadership & mentorship: I don't just manage tasks; I grow engineers. I've led development teams from scratch, run a tech consulting firm, and even spent years as a head instructor teaching Python/Django backends—maintaining a documented 90% job placement rate for my graduates. I know how to unblock a team and keep execution high.

Deep infrastructure, backend roots: I'm a self taught engineer who started with Perl in '99 on a WebTV. I’m a native Linux user who deeply understands networking, hypervisors, and storage layers (think Proxmox, LXC, and ZFS), not just cloud abstractions.

Pragmatic AI execution: I’m actively building local AI pipelines, structured tool-use interfaces, and agentic RAG infrastructure. I know how to cut through the LLM hype and implement local models (Ollama/vLLM) that actually solve business problems.

If you’re an early-stage startup or a tightknit team looking for a seasoned technical leader who can anchor your backend, architect your infrastructure, and mentor your engineers without losing the hunger to get into the weeds and write code, let’s talk.