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

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Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:

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

#2
Location: US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Email: logandark@logandark.net

I am a full-stack software engineer with about 3 years of professional experience. I'm self-taught for about 10 years before I got into the industry. My favorite technologies are Rust, TypeScript and Swift. On the front-end, I have experience in vanilla JS, React.js, Svelte and Angular. (Some jQuery before then.) On the back-end, I have experience in TypeScript on Node.js, Python, various web and application servers and reverse proxies, firewalls, and some databases.

I am opening to learning new frameworks and technologies. I picked up Java/Kotlin for Minecraft modding, I picked up C# for Unity modding, and I was an avid tinkerer with rooted devices (though I do not use them anymore). I will generally pick up any knowledge I need to get something done even if it is something I have never done before. That has not changed in the age of LLMs; I am obsessively critical of their outputs and work hard to understand everything they do. I have done manual work on inference tooling to better understand their inner workings as well.

I have run my own website since I was 12, and owned my own servers since I was 13. My operating system of choice is macOS because it feels better organized than Windows or Linux. I also prefer the profiler tooling that is available on macOS and not Windows. Micro-optimization is one of my pastimes. I manage my own home network, my developer tooling, and personal forks of open-source software.

One of my dreams is to move to a city with faster internet. I am located in the US which is unfortunately notorious for monopolies and anti-consumer practices.

I am available to interview immediately and can start immediately. I am looking for a full-time software engineering role. Please contact me with any interview opportunities.

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

#3
Location: Egypt (Russian passport)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript, Cloudflare Workers, LLM integration, JSDoc

Résumé/CV: kol3x.com

Email: hackernews@kol3x.com

I started as a fullstack JS engineer and grew into product development at my last company. I owned the ingestion layer - collecting 100k relevant messages/month from 4 platforms through a dirt-cheap serverless back-end on Cloudflare Workers.

We worked with LLMs deeply, especially in code generation. I was part of a small team developing SpecGEM, a fine-tuned model that generates Cloudflare Workers code from JSDoc comments and is designed to outperform mainstream LLMs at this narrow task.

I just released an open-source self-hosted LLM assistant on Cloudflare Workers that predictably compounds context across conversations. https://github.com/kol3x/pawmc

Looking for a remote role where I can own work end-to-end. Stack-wise I'm strongest on Cloudflare Workers, JavaScript, and practical LLM integration.

CV, LinkedIn, and GitHub are also linked at https://kol3x.com

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

#4
Location: Kansas City, KS (US Central)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, web scraping and data extraction, ETL pipelines, Playwright, BeautifulSoup, Tesseract OCR, PostgreSQL, SQLite, pytest, GitHub Actions, Astro, Cloudflare Pages, C / ESP-IDF, NumPy

Résumé/CV: https://braedenkeena.pages.dev

Email: braeden@thekeenas.com

I build data pipelines that know when they're lying to you.

GAScout (https://gascout.pages.dev) — Georgia public-records pipeline. Four counties live, each a different ingestion problem resolved into one schema: a 9,915-page fixed-width mainframe PDF (409,142 records, zero dropped rows), a weekly XLSX roll, monthly text PDFs, and scanned sheriff's levy documents via OCR. Adding a county is a config file, not code. The other 155 are labeled planned rather than filled with invented numbers.

FindStorage (https://findstorage.pages.dev) — national self-storage pricing tracker. 4,639 locations, 245,000+ price changes logged, running unattended on a daily schedule. Aborts rather than publishing when the store count moves more than it should, because the failure that costs you isn't a crash — it's a scraper quietly returning less after a site changes and nobody noticing for three weeks.

Also built a WiFi CSI device-fingerprinting array on ESP32 — custom ESP-IDF firmware and a Python DSP pipeline, running as my apartment's security system. Cross-manufacturer separation holds at 11-15 sigma; same-model discrimination tops out near 77% and true clock twins are the open problem.

Before this I ran a 500-acre motocross park in Northern California: acquired dormant land, re-entitled it, directed a 120-person race-day crew, ran the medical plan through a mid-event helicopter evacuation, and sold my stake.

Self-taught, ~18 months in. Interested in data engineering, pipeline work, and anything where messy real-world sources have to become trustworthy structured data.

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

#5
Location: Menlo Park, CA

Remote: Yes, or 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!

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

#6
Location: EU Remote: YES Willing to relocate: NO

Technologies: Agentic Engineering (Claude, Codex, Cohere, Voyage, Mistral, LangChain, LanceDB, LLaMA, Mistral), C/C++/Rust/Node/Typescript/React/Python, Azure/AWS/Docker/K8S, DevOps tooling, ML/BigData/Search tooling ... and much more

Résumé/CV: https://www.artifixsolutions.com?sid=hn202608. Email: lajos [@] artifixsolutions.com

WHO: Technology Polymath. Agentic context & harness engineering.

WHAT: Whether human or AI built, I know how systems break. I build them so they don't. After three decades of battle-tested experience there isn't a failure mode I don't know how to fix. When it comes to AI, I design and architect systems using my own rigorous engineering approach that insures consistent delivery and drift control.

SAMPLE WORK:

  ** Recent agentic builds: 
    - multi-server streaming service (NodeJS, Typescript, Postgres, Claude Code, Codex, custom agentic harness)
    - DevOps deployment tooling (Terraform, CI/CD)
    - DevOps observability platform with RAG pipelines (InfluxDB, LangChain, Claude CodePython, NodeJS)
    - RAG ebook build pipeline for a publishing company (Cohere, OpenAI, Voyage, Mistral, LanceDB, LLaMA)
  ** API-enabled SaaS platform using Solana smart contracts (Rust, Codex)
  ** AI-built mobile & desktop app development (NodeJS, React, C++/QT)
  ** Azure architecture & DevOps for a banking compliance company
  ** Ethereum L1 packer-based automation 
  ** Global multi-cloud, Kubernetes-based PaaS cloud design and DevOps for an IoT data platform
  ** Custom architecture & development for startups and specialised cloud models
I work with companies and teams who honestly want to deliver the best product they can. I'm serious about my work and I work only with equally serious people. If you want systems built right the first time, I'm your guy.

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

#7
Location: Tirana, Albania Remote: Yes, remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Vite, EmberJS, Three.js, Java/Spring Résumé/CV: https://eraldhaklaj.github.io/cv/ Email: eraldhaklaj97@gmail.com

Full-stack engineer, 8 years, front-end deep, CET. I take over live systems and restructure them without stopping the roadmap. At Jebbit (L'Oreal, AutoZone, NFL, ~1M sessions/hour) I led a four-month refactor that replaced a per-row style override system with one merged JSON schema, backwards compatible with both running in parallel. Currently on a consumer AI product where I own features end to end and took page load from 3s to 1.5s and a deep component from ~300 re-renders to ~10.

AI-native: I don't hand-write much anymore, I spec work and drive agents against it, and spend my time on judgment and review. Claude Code and Cursor daily.

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

#8
Location: Remote (UTC+0) Remote: Yes (only) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Next.js 15 (App Router), React, Supabase/PostgreSQL + RLS, Stripe (webhooks, entitlements, dunning), Node.js, Shopify apps, Chrome/Firefox MV3 extensions, Jest, Vercel Résumé/CV: https://redflagsai.app/audit-sample.pdf Email: hire@redflagsai.app

I built and operate a 106k+ LOC production SaaS on Next.js 15, Supabase and Stripe — solo. Zero "any" types in the whole codebase, 743 passing tests.

What I'm actually good at is the part that breaks after launch: the webhook replay, the downgrade that never revokes access, the export gated only in the browser, the URL fetch that can reach your metadata endpoint. I've put my own codebase through repeated adversarial audits and can share a redacted report — real findings, real severities, subject anonymised.

Available ~20-30 hrs/week, UTC+0 — good overlap with European hours and US mornings. Contract or fixed-scope. I also do fixed-price pre-launch audits (security, billing correctness, data exposure) if that's more useful than hourly.

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

#9
Experienced full-stack engineer, open to straightforward contract work or getting a new venture off the ground.

Location: Vermont, USA

Remote: Yes (open to travel)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js/Deno, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, React, Elasticsearch, Databricks/Spark, FFmpeg

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

Email: hn.57@masher.media

I’ve spent about half my time in first/founding engineer roles at startups, and half working directly for clients, agencies, and institutions on a wide variety of products. Folks enjoy my enthusiasm for their ideas and my ability to meet them where they are technically, always providing that extra context that builds trust and understanding.

I’m comfortable owning concerns end-to-end, from initial scoping and architectural tradeoffs through deployment of functional prototypes and user testing. I enjoy iterating and scaling systems from there, while building teams to maintain and build upon them.

Expertise in database design, media rendering systems, engagement platforms, high-volume event ingestion, ML pipelines, and getting it all working in AWS. Top priorities are data integrity, security, and privacy.

Lean on me for:

- Technical scoping and planning for a new product or platform before committing resources

- Architectural review and data modeling to see how a system should flow and which tradeoffs matter

- Greenfield builds where you need someone to plan and ship v1 without much hand-holding

- Forward-deployed engineering, working directly with potential customers to help guide the product

Pragmatic about LLMs: effective for exploration, debugging, documentation, and tightly scoped implementation work when paired with strong engineering judgment and rigid testing.

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

#10
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, RxJS, React, Web Components (Lit), Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Playwright, Jest, Vitest

Résumé/CV: https://martomo.nl/Martijn-Dijkhuizen-CV_2026.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martijndijkhuizen/

Email: hello@martomo.nl

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A passionate problem solver with over fifteen years of experience, currently a founding engineer at a self-funded startup building a design and prototyping tool. Before that, I worked mainly as a full-stack engineer at SaaS companies.

Problem solving for me does not stop at the product/code, I'm always finding ways to improve the development process or help colleagues get unstuck by mentoring and coaching. Also I'm not afraid to learn a new programming language/framework or to dive into the infrastructure.

Are you looking for a seasoned, product-oriented software engineer who cares about user experience and can drive a feature from idea to implementation?

I've been working for equity and now I'm looking for a full-time, long-term remote role that pays. Preferably with a SaaS company working in European time zones (CET/CEST +/- 2 hours).

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