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

Location: Santa Cruz, CA (Bay Area / California)

Remote: Yes (SF Bay Area / California hybrid for the right team)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, ML, RAG, hermes, claude code, claude design codex, VPS deployment, Vercel, Docker, SQL, duckDB, GA4, MS Clarity + many countless others

Email: horton.alexander@gmail.com

Portfolio: https://alexhorton.dev https://Energyscout.org https://Bitcoinmachinelearning.com https://Propfi.live

Resume: https://alexhorton.dev/resume-bio

I'm a product-minded AI engineer. I thrive where taste meets execution, economics, and real world application. I work best in forward-deployed, or AI-product roles where I own a measurable workflow outcome end to end in an iterative loop: intake → diagnosis → build → deploy → measure → build again. I have a background in General Engineering, Sustainability, and Product Design and I am personally motivated by projects with a strong ethos or mission. Topics that motivate me: sustainability, economic empowerment (design for the developing world), and technological sovereignty-- exploring the connections between technology, society, and sustainability.Thanks for reading, reach out if you would like to connect!

Thanks, Alex

Location: New York City

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

Willing to relocate: Maybe (FLA or TX)

Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Node.js, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenLDAP, OIDC, Docker, ZFS, Linux, Proxmox VE, Git, AWS, GCP, OpenAPI, local LLM deployment (Ollama, vLLM, DeepSeek)

Résumé/CV: https://william.mantly.vip

Email: william@mantly.vip

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Hey HN,

I spent the last few weeks shipping Theta Suite (https://theta42.github.io/theta-suite/)—a zero-friction, self-hosted identity and access plane.

Instead of gluing together disjointed services by hand, it unifies an OIDC provider, multi-master LDAP directory, zero-trust proxy, OpenBao secrets engine, and a directory-driven SSH jump host into a single-line install (`./setup.sh`). It automates everything down to Linux host enrollment (`PAM`/`SSSD`, `sudo`, SSH keys) and multi-site replication.

I built it with Claude and DeepSeek doing the heavy lifting on typing, while I drove architecture, threat modeling, and code sanity. Real systems engineering moving faster than it used to.

Technology is my life; you can read my backstory on my website linked above.

I've done the corporate leadership thing (VP of Software Engineering at JPMorgan, 100k+ servers) and run my own infrastructure consulting firm (Theta 42, since 2017). What I actually want now is to get back in the weeds: write code, own infrastructure, and be the engineer a team calls when something is on fire at 2 AM. I've already managed the managers; I'd rather just build the system.

Real-world leadership & mentorship: I don't just assign tasks, I grow engineers. I've built teams from scratch, run an infra firm, and spent years as a head instructor teaching Python/Django with a 90% job placement rate for graduates. I know how to unblock a team and keep execution high.

Oh, and before you ask, I want to make an impact, that is whats important for me in my next role.

Location: Mumbai, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes — Hyderabad or Bengaluru preferred

Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Express, LoopBack, REST, microservices, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Linux, Jenkins, AWS, Python, React, Next.js, React Native, LangChain, RAG, Qdrant, OpenAI, Gemini

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1McNKRI8AjV41mFbi9iz2hMiKZec...

Email: codeursahil2233@gmail.com

Know more about me: https://www.sahilsdevlab.com/

Senior SDE at Valuefy, a wealth-management fintech — about three years in, promoted to Senior within a year of graduating.

I own backend delivery across three HDFC Bank programs: a domestic portfolio reporting platform, an offshore product for high-AUM clients that I run end-to-end including client communication, and an analytics backend I built from scratch. Cut one report-generation pipeline from 90 minutes to 30 with an architectural refactor, and drove the offshore platform to zero production bugs.

Also shipped ChatDOCX, a production RAG app — multi-query translation plus RAG Fusion re-ranking, OpenAI embeddings, Gemini.

What I'm after: backend or applied-AI work at product scale. Bank systems taught me to be careful with other people's money. I'd like harder problems now.

Location: Bengaluru, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, SQL, React, Angular, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate, REST APIs, JWT, AWS, Docker, Kafka, Git, CI/CD, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Gemini AI

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G1wTw3AlolQoNWvG2wbgmdSQIbR...

Email: hirtic2004@gmail.com

Know more about me: linkedin.com/in/hirtic-s | github.com/hirtic-s

Recent B.Tech Computer Science graduate from VIT Vellore (CGPA 8.09/10), currently job hunting for software engineering roles.

I've built three end-to-end projects spanning backend, cloud, and AI integration: AvailAPI, a multi-tenant SaaS uptime monitoring platform with sub-60-second incident detection via Quartz Scheduler health checks; GooDeals, a multi-source price comparison platform using Java 21 virtual threads for parallel data aggregation, with Gemini 2.5 Flash parsing natural-language queries under a free-tier quota via an LRU cache; and VanishVault, a serverless encrypted file-sharing system on AWS S3/DynamoDB with Kafka-driven event pipelines for lifecycle alerts.

At my Yokogawa UAE internship, I automated remote simulation execution in Python (cutting server boot-up time by 60%), built a CustomTkinter frontend for an Operator Training Simulator, and built LSTM/XGBoost models on industrial sensor data that improved forecast accuracy by 18%.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and Azure AI Fundamentals certified.

What I'm after: backend or applied-AI roles where I can keep building on the Spring Boot/cloud stack and go deeper on system design.

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