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

  Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (UTC+4, strong US morning overlap)
  Remote: Yes (100%)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native, Expo, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Python, Astro, self-managed Linux
  Résumé/CV: https://k4r.im (direct PDF)
  Email: contact@k4r.im

What I've shipped:

1. Tenpo (youth-sports marketplace, San Francisco). Built the production verified-reviews system in a 30-day contract: schema, APIs, moderation dashboards, and automated publish and notification flows. Every read and write path secured with Postgres row-level security. 200+ merged commits, and I closed every finding from the CTO's line-by-line review.

2. The Scientific Place (my own edtech platform). 240,000+ visitors on $0 marketing, featured in Morning Brew and Smashing Magazine. A constraint-satisfaction engine generates procedural puzzles, and a separate cryptographic layer handles anti-cheat. Peaked at 11,000 visitors in one day on a single VPS.

3. Himaya71 (emergency response). Founding engineer on a live pilot. Client-side indoor navigation that reroutes around active fire zones in under 100ms, a YOLOv8 headcount pipeline over RTSP streams, and a custom Android background service for persistent GPS. Won a $5,400 prize and a signed pilot contract.

4. AIWAY (fintech). Designed and ran four interconnected production systems as the sole engineer at near 100% uptime, including a Prophet forecasting engine and a Telegram trading terminal for Binance and Bybit.

5. ASOgency (app-marketing agency, Dubai). First tool live five days after onboarding: a Figma plugin that localizes app screenshots across 39 languages in a single pass, replacing hours of manual editing.

I use AI tooling like autocomplete. It makes me faster, but it doesn't make the decisions, and nothing ships that I haven't read.

The shape: async, billed monthly against agreed output rather than hours. Long-term preferred. Cash, no equity. Part-time because I'm finishing a software engineering degree (4.00 GPA). UAE Golden Visa, self-sponsored.

Remote: Yes, worldwide. 4-5 hours of overlap with Europe, US East mornings.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript/Node (NestJS, Next.js, SvelteKit, React), Python (FastAPI), PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes on GCP, GitHub Actions, AWS, Azure, Cloudflare. LLM work in production for the last two years: retrieval over pgvector, multi-agent workflows, eval harnesses, voice AI.

Résumé/CV: on request by email. Code: https://github.com/kafle1

Email: kafleniraj@gmail.com

Five years full stack, strongest on the backend. Right now I am the engineer who builds and runs the services at a small US company: NestJS APIs on Postgres, the Next.js and SvelteKit front ends on top, and the delivery side too (Docker images, k8s on GCP, Cloudflare, CI/CD, rollbacks). The last two years of that included LLM features people actually use, not demos: retrieval pipelines, agent workflows, a voice sales bot, and the eval harness that keeps a non-deterministic pipeline honest with a golden set and step traces.

Looking for contract or full-time, and I prefer work scoped to deliverables over seat time. I invoice from Nepal as an independent contractor. If you want to read code before replying: a queue-weighted max-pressure traffic signal controller validated on real junction footage (github.com/kafle1/relay), and a single-camera cricket LBW review tool (github.com/kafle1/pocket-drs).

  Location: Istanbul and Kaunas

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: No

  Technologies: React, React Native, Python, PHP, C# (Unity), Go

  Resume: https://serdar.work

  Email: serdar at gamevase.com