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

    Location: San Francisco, CA and Los Angeles, CA
    Remote: Yes, hybrid considered for the right money.
    Willing to relocate: Not at this time
    Current Level: Senior Staff / Principle / Lead

    I'm a seasoned generalist with deep focus in certain areas such as game development, performance engineering, systems engineering, low-level engineering and embedded software.

    What I shipped this year for money: Performance improvements to HFT code (Rust & C++) for financial trading. Firmware for the hardware of an ereader (Rust+ARM).

   What I shipped last year for money: High performance (C++) server backend for a video game.

    Current side-project: Deep internals work on VS Code Web: using quilt to maintain patches against upstream, extending it with inline agent panels and custom completion providers, backed by a bespoke C# server replacing the Node.js REH with my own dedicated server - similar in spirit to Coder's Code Server or OpenVSCode-Server.

    Technologies: kernel drivers, systems engineering, video games, AI, LLMs, caching, graphics, rendering, assembly languages, generative AI, heavy focus on back-end systems, and to a lesser degreee, full-stack.

   - Languages: C++, C, C#, Go, Rust, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Lua, + more.
   - Backend: node, FastAPI, Django, PostgreSQL, mySQL, RocksDB, GraphQL, SQLite.
   - Engines: DumpsterFire, UnrealEngine, Unity3D.
   - Platforms: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux, SONY PS2/3/4, XBOX360/One, Switch, embedded, web
   - Frontend: Next, React, Vue, Pixi
   - DevOps/Cloud: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, VMs, Vagrant, VMWare, TeamCity, Jenkins, CI/CD
   - AI/ML: Model training/tuning, LoRa, RAGs, PyTorch, TensorFlow, SciKit, OpenCV, etc, etc, generative AI and computer vision.
   - LLM Integrations: OpenAI, Gemini, Claude plus many others, local and cloud.

    Résumé/CV: https://justin-lloyd.com/ (PDF at the bottom of the page)
    Email: justinrlloyd@gmail.com

    MSc in CompSci and MSc in AI/Robotics

    20+ years of experience in performance critical systems engineering, video game development, embedded (C/C++/Rust/Asm), low-level engineering & AI, full stack and high performance backends.

    Open to full time or contract. Looking for something low-stress and interesting, so open to unconventional setups, but base comp still needs to be grounded in reality.

  Location: Tokyo
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Vue, Node.js/NestJS, PostgreSQL, Docker.
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kk7NF3r6_m3Gs3CFSNhjwI7dj-xcTkUN/view?usp=sharing
  Email: doganrmzn40@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/ramazandogna

Willing to Relocate: Yes, to Barcelona, Roma, Hamburg, Koln, Den Haag, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Stockholm or Switzerland.

Full Remote: Yes. I offer a discount for full-remote work, because it saves me the hassle of relocation and commuting :)

Technologies: Go, Rust, C, Elixir, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, web technologies (HTML/CSS, frameworks, browser APIs), Bash, Zsh, Fish, Linux, FreeBSD, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, mathematics

Email: achenet@fastmail.com

Website: https://arielche.net/

I am a software developer and researcher with half a decade of experience and a Master's degree in mathematics. I have ample experience with Golang in a professional context often on backend services like REST APIs and programs interacting with databases and message queues, am fairly proficient with a variety of other languages and technologies, and am comfortable working on a variety of domains, from accounting/financial management/CRM software, to IaaS products, to scientific and mathematical software and language apps. I enjoy learning, and am always open to learning new things, especially if they happen to ignite my curiosity.

I like free or open-source software, systems programming, web services and the infrastructure required to run them at scale and would love an opportunity to continue to contribute to and learn about them. I enjoy mathematics and quantitative research like biology, engineering and physics. I enjoy writing, and in particular writing documentation for software, educational content, and research.

I am happiest working with people who are open-minded, conscientious and kind, and I try very hard to always embody those qualities.

I am open to both full-time employment and contract work. I am a French citizen and can work freely anywhere within the EU.

Compensation for in person work is location-dependent, and more expensive than full-remote work, due to the extra work involved (physical, moving things around in meatspace work, not just pushing bits around cyberspace). That said, I do really enjoy being in nice offices and hanging out with the team while working, and also really enjoy occasional "team in-person meetups" even when working in a full-remote context.