Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by planet_y » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 1:09 AM UTC

Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada — open to remote; can work PST core hours or relocate to BC with an offer. Resume / portfolio: https://nigelstewart.dev Email: hey@nigelstewart.dev GitHub: https://github.com/1-bit-wonder

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Full-stack engineer, 7+ years. Deep in JS/TS, React, Node, PHP/Laravel, SQL. Also Go and Rust for systems work.

Recent things I've shipped:

• PanelOS — real-time digital signage system: Go backend pushes commands to Raspberry Pi display clients over WebSockets (Centrifugo). Millisecond delivery, self-contained slide rendering so displays never break on flaky connectivity. Has run without intervention since launch.

• Kestrel — solo eBPF runtime-security dashboard: a Go agent captures kernel events (process exec, file access, network) and feeds a SvelteKit UI with a live process tree, network map, and rule-based alerts. Brings a graphical layer to a space (Falco, etc.) that's otherwise headless. https://github.com/1-bit-wonder/kestrel

• Claude-powered customer-service chatbot — grounded in site + brand content, running in production. Learned that scope constraints + grounding beat raw prompt size for eliminating location-specific hallucinations.

• Job Application Platform (tools.nigelstewart.dev) — self-built edge platform on Astro + Cloudflare Workers/D1. Single source-of-truth career profile drives a unified artifact generator (resumes, proposals, screening answers) via Claude with strict-JSON structured outputs, plus an application tracker and conversational refinement loop.

Before this: Tech Lead at BC Children's Hospital (2018–2021) — led a team of 6, maintained 15+ production clinical web apps serving ~20,000 monthly users, migrated the portfolio to Azure with Docker + CI/CD, cut 10+ second load times to under one second.

I took a career-development period after BCCH — stayed technically active with independent projects and systems study — and I'm now fully focused on software again.

Looking for: full-time remote (or hybrid/on-site in BC). Strong preference for roles where I can work deep on real systems — product engineering, infra-adjacent work, or anything touching LLM integration, real-time systems, or security tooling. Open to hearing about interesting contract work too.

https://nigelstewart.dev | hey@nigelstewart.dev

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

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Post by sporkl » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 1:13 AM UTC

Location: New York City area, open to relocate

Remote: Yes, also open to on-site

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: most experience is in C/C++ and OCaml, also comfortable with TypeScript/JavaScript/React Native/Expo, C#, Python, (System)Verilog, Rocq, and of course SQL. I usually pick up new stuff quickly, full laundry list on the resume.

Resume/CV: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/volkov-resume.pdf

Email: dmitri at dmitrivolkov dot com

Website: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/

Recent CS masters graduate, looking for opportunities starting in September. My background is in programming language theory (particularly logic/relational programming), so would be very happy to work with functional languages, compilers, automated reasoning, and/or formal verification. I also have a background in music (I'm a published composer!) so particularly interested in audio/music-related stuff as well. Curious to learn more about embedded/systems stuff. I've also done full-stack work across databases/cloud infrastructure/web APIs/frontends, and independently released a commercial music production plugin (Pivotuner, more info on my website).

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

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Post by gparracl » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 1:13 AM UTC

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes (US / Hybrid)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, C++, PyTorch, AWS, HuggingFace, LangGraph, vLLM, MLOps, Docker, Ads Ranking, Recommendation Systems

Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/gpv-resume2

Email: gparra@dim.uchile.cl

Senior ML Engineer with 8+ years of experience, I combine large-scale ML systems expertise with a strong research background.

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

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Post by jgbuddy » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 1:13 AM UTC

Location: Boston, MA Remote: Open to

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

* AI/ML- AWS Strands, Langchain, Langgraph, Vercel AI SDK. Agent steering, structured output, autonomous workflows, and multi-agent orchestration.

* Web - Rect / Next.js / vercel

* Embedded - C/C++. Broad experience working on bare metal

* Robotics - Warehouse automation at scale

* Infra - Extremely fluent in AWS / terraform / CDK

* Other - Java, Swift, JS / Node, Python

See resume for additional details

Résumé/CV: gasek.net/resume

Email: hnhiredaug26@gasek.net

Highly autonomous, motivated engineer and founder. Experienced in taking products from 0-1 and shipping MVPs to real customers. Seeking Series-A or late seed stage companies with opportunity for broad impact, ownership and growth potential.

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

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Post by grapheneposter » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 1:16 AM UTC

Location: WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ionic (legacy), Angular, Python backend, TypeScript frontends

Resume: available on request

Email: nathanib[at]pm.me

I have years of startup experience and helping teams get a product over the finish line to a smooth exit. I want to work with scrappy startups that need fractional work or short term commitments. I use AI effectively to accelerate development. After 12 years of experience few startup situations surprise me. I enjoy working with legacy systems as needed.

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

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Post by mmh0000 » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 1:23 AM UTC

Linux DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer - Clouds(AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, *), Kubernetes(OpenShift, EKS, k8s), CI/CD, Networking, programming, whatever.

I'm currently a manager of a team of 5 Infrastructure Engineers, and I've also worked as an I.C. in the same role.

If you want fast, secure, stable, scalable deployments and servers, that's me!

  Location: SLC, Utah
  Remote: Preferred
  Willing to relocate: Maybe, probably not.
  Technologies: All Things Linux, DevOps
  Résumé/CV: on request
  Email: mmh-hn49156682@headlee.net

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

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Post by mannanj » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 1:24 AM UTC

Location: Alexandria, VA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, FastAPI, Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Cloudflare, agentic AI (Claude, Claude Code, MCP servers, agent harnesses, RAG)

Résumé/CV: https://mannan.is | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mannanjavid/

Email: hello@mannan.is

10+ years across fintech, healthcare, and national security, most recently Principal Engineer at Capital One (shipped features for 3M+ daily users, delivered a revenue-generating product in two months with a skeleton crew). This past year I've been founding Spirit & Hammer, consulting & shipping AI products end-to-end: built the agent harness for a security startup, released Sun Signal (https://sunsignal.app) for circadian timing, and SkillGuard (https://skillguard.sh) to protect agent skills and harness environments from malicious injection.

I have a Mannan MCP server: https://mcp.mannanteam.workers.dev

Looking for senior/staff product or AI engineering roles. Full-time, part-time or contract.

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

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Post by lxchase » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 1:29 AM UTC

Location: New York, NY Remote: Open to remote, I find I enjoy hybrid/in-person

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies: Python, Git, SQL, HTML/CSS, Data Engineering/ETL platforms, JS, AI implementation, Network Engineering

Resume/CV: On Request via Email

Email: In my profile

I'm an former operator, CEO experience, with a marketing/engineering background. Led marketing at an acquired $350M+ ice cream brand, as well as launched a $1B vertical farming startup. Looking to get back into STEM which I just love. I specialize in marketing and go-to-market (working always with quantitative data to make decisions), breaking through barriers, and leading/hiring teams. Having worked in various industries, with programming and engineering chops, I speak multiple "languages" well; people have described me as the missing piece of the puzzle / Seal Team Six, who can distill the needs of various stakeholders/customers and move projects forward. Can code and defended against Tbps DDoS attacks.

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

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Post by kennyudovic » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 1:32 AM UTC

Location: New Jersey, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Typescript, NodeJS, Rust, git, Algorithms & Optimization

Email: In Resume

Résumé/CV: https://handfish.github.io/Portfolio/KUResume.pdf

Senior Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience specializing in the design and implementation of complex, scalable, and performant front-end solutions. Proven ability to lead projects from architecture to deployment, driving the adoption of modern technologies like TypeScript, React, and Next.js to enhance system quality and maintainability. Passionate about building intuitive user experiences, mentoring junior engineers, and championing best practices in testing, CI/CD, and system observability.

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

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Post by thirdtruck » Tue, Aug 04, 2026, 1:32 AM UTC

Location: New York City, New York, USA

Remote: Yes but in-office preferred

Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel

Technologies:

  Languages: Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, .NET, Perl,  SQL
  Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails, Angular, Svelte
  Services and Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Atlassian and JIRA
  Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), 
  Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, SQL Server
  Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: hire.hn@thirdtruck.org