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

Location: Netherlands / GMT+2

Remote: Yes. Experienced with US / UK clients; open to timezone overlap.

Willing to relocate: No, occasional travel OK.

Technologies: Backend architecture, data-intensive product systems, event-driven systems, low-latency pipelines, analytics infrastructure, search/retrieval, AI, Node.js/TypeScript, ClickHouse, DuckDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Vue, Tailwind; also comfortable with Python and Rust, and quick to become productive in unfamiliar stacks.

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geert-brits/

Email: gbritsgmailcom

Hands-on principal engineer with 20+ years across backend systems, data-heavy products, search/retrieval, internal tools, and founder-led product work. Technical co-founder, CTO/CPO, architect, fractional technical lead, and engineering owner.

I work best where the business goal is clear but the technical shape still needs senior ownership: unclear requirements, fragmented tools and data, API boundaries, retrieval quality, and architecture that has to stay understandable as the product grows. I can own the technical architecture and system shape where needed, and I stay close enough to implementation to keep latency, operability, failure modes, and tradeoffs grounded in reality.

I work across the whole product system: internal tools, backend services, data/retrieval layers, API contracts, observability, and production behavior.

Selected work: Fractional principal engineer / architect for ground-up KPI/analytics platform rewrite (5-person team); company later exited for ~€10M. Technical founder / CTO / CPO for market-intelligence SaaS: live matching of 1M+ dynamic segments against continuous on-chain/off-chain streams; ClickHouse-backed pipelines processing billions of rows/day with near-real-time downstream availability. Marketplace search/matching rewrite (Elasticsearch, percolator-style saved searches, high-volume notification infrastructure) while keeping the live platform in production.

Looking for freelance, contract, fractional CTO, principal engineer, or technical lead roles where one senior person needs to hold the whole system in their head. Also open to full-time opportunities for an exceptional fit. Best fit: backend-heavy products, analytics/data infrastructure, complex internal tools, search/retrieval systems, or early-stage teams that need architecture + implementation depth without a large engineering org.

Location: College Park, MD, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (Anywhere in the US)

Technologies: Python, SQL, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Hugging Face, QLoRA, DPO, RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, Ollama, Pandas, NumPy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Pinecone, Qdrant, FAISS, FastAPI, Docker, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://www.sahil-chordia.com/resume.pdf Email: chordiasahil24@gmail.com

MS in Data Science from University of Maryland - College Park (graduated in May 2026, 3.77 GPA). Recently, during internship at Raising the Floor, I built an LLM pipeline that cut metadata audit time by 96 percent and a Qdrant-backed Gemma2 chatbot for assistive technology recommendations.

Recent Projects: 1. Clippy Vision, a local-first AI memory assistant with a 3-stage classification pipeline; 2. Launchway - an AI job application automation platform that got application time under 2 minutes with 86 percent field-fill accuracy. 3. A from-scratch speculative decoding engine studying how DPO alignment affects throughput.

Looking for entry-level AI/ML engineering or backend engineering roles, mainly at funded startups where I can own systems end-to-end.

  Location: Detroit, Mi
  Remote: Yes, but open to onsite 
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python, C++, JavaScript (React, some Typescript, Node.js), Java, 
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nasir-sharaf/
  Email: nsrsharaf7 [at] gmail.com

Hello, My name is Nasir Sharaf, I am currently looking for a software developer engineer role, or any adjacent role such as MLOps, Data Engineering, Data Science, etc. I have a master's in computer science and roughly 4 years of experience as a developer. Prior to that I was an energy engineer for 3 years and I also have a bachelors in mechanical engineering. I'm willing to relocate for the right role in the right place, I'm willing to work hybrid or remote and I have been applying to roles outside of the Detroit area.