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

Remote: Yes, US only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, Next.js, React, React Native, Python, Postgres (internals and extensions), Kubernetes, PyTorch

Résumé/CV: https://alita-moore.github.io/portfolio

Email: alita.moore805@gmail.com

Looking for: one fractional retainer, ~20 hrs/week, $5-6k/month, cash only, no equity, month-to-month.

US-based, founded two companies, and I do the customer conversations and product decisions as well as the code. I'm bootstrapping my own company and want one stable engagement that covers my costs so I can do that. That's the whole reason the rate is what it is. Not looking for a career move, equity, or a path to full-time.

What you get is someone who can be your only engineer, from customer discovery through product, backend, Postgres, infra, and on-call. Some things I've built:

- ethereum/EIP-Bot, the bot that governed the Ethereum Improvement Proposals repo for a year with direct commit rights: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/3351

- deno lsp go-to-definition from 32s to 131ms, six defects found by counting directory opens instead of timing, every result with a repro script: https://github.com/alita-moore/deno-lsp-performance

- At Snackpass: led a team of six, built the React Native point-of-sale, took the Android app from 3.2 to 4.7 stars in three months, and built an inventory system in a weekend that helped land a major partner.

- Co-founded a company that trained a production OCR model on 8 GPUs; owned the model, the training pipeline, and the Kubernetes serving stack.

- 13 tested, self-contained packages rebuilding patterns from those systems (typed Next.js routes, a Postgres extension toolchain, GitOps cluster, PyTorch training harness): https://github.com/alita-moore/portfolio

Best fit: pre-seed or bootstrapped founders who need a senior engineer and can't or don't want to pay for a full-time one. Happy to start with a paid trial ticket.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Email: logandark@logandark.net

I'm a self-taught full-stack software developer with over 10 years of experience. My favorite programming languages are Rust and TypeScript! I've also been dabbling in Haskell lately. My favorite types of projects are systems programming, front-end development and UX/UI.

I have a GitHub with tons of projects and open-source contributions since 2013: https://github.com/LoganDark

I am an owner of many Rust crates: https://crates.io/users/LoganDark

I am a quick learner and have high attention to detail. I often improve team-facing documentation and processes when I enter a role. I also care deeply about developer experience and iteration time.

I am strongest with clearly-defined requirements and constraints, but I love contributing to open-ended problems as well. I enjoy refactoring code to remove bugs and inconsistencies. I will spot any UI imperfection.

I enjoy dog-fooding and do it whenever I can. I am obsessive about solving every issue I come across. I provide detailed documentation with issue reports.

Please contact me by email with any opportunities! Open to freelance/consulting, fulltime preferred. Hourly or salary only.

I am available to interview immediately and can start immediately.

My résumé is available by email upon request, but it's best to ask with an offer to interview.

Remote: Yes (Worldwide / US, EU & APAC overlap)

Willing to relocate: Yes (Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, or international)

Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Express, React, Next.js, React Native, Expo, SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), MongoDB, REST APIs, Git, Docker, PyTorch, Hugging Face (Transformers), LLM/Agent Orchestration

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n91ZrcZhMwNqENfiqBj1Z1Le-9g...

Portfolio: https://akash-portfolio-psi-five.vercel.app/

GitHub: https://github.com/BlxrryFxce17

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akashv10

Email: akashvmsn@gmail.com

Full-stack and applied AI engineer (recent MCA graduate) focused on building high-velocity production systems with zero hand-holding. I write clean, strictly-typed code and care deeply about schema design, query performance, and autonomous agent reliability.

What I've engineered and shipped:

• Autonomous Job Discovery & Outreach Engine — Built a production multi-agent system with web scraping, dynamic schema extraction, multi-LLM orchestration, and automatic failover/self-repair mechanisms to automate targeted developer outreach.

• Fabrica — Engineered a full-stack B2B textile sourcing platform from scratch using React, Node.js, Express, Tailwind CSS, and external APIs for a high-intensity hackathon sprint.

• Applied NLP & Transformer Pipeline — Fine-tuned open-source sequence-to-sequence models (T5) using custom data pipelines and tokenization workflows for automated linguistic processing.

• Database Optimization & Services — Designed modular REST APIs and optimized relational queries, cutting MySQL response latency by ~20%.

• Cross-Platform Mobile — Built responsive mobile applications using React Native and Expo, implementing persistent local storage and reliable navigation state.

I'm looking for an intense, fast-moving environment where I can own features end-to-end. Open to Junior Software Engineer, Full-Stack Developer, Backend Engineer, or early-stage startup founding engineer roles. Available immediately for full-time roles or trial sprints.

I build and repair small business systems and automations. Recent work includes HubSpot support-ticket classification and data enrichment, candidate onboarding and shift-coverage automation with FastAPI, Twilio and ElevenLabs, and PDF-to-Excel transaction extraction with balance reconciliation.

Available for short fixed-scope freelance work or contract work. For a first project, I am happy to agree on a small deliverable and acceptance checks, then take payment after acceptance.