Software engineer with 30+ years building production-ready business applications and 3+ years as a core database engineer building high-performance RDBMs.
Founder and principal engineer of small ISV with a long track record of owning complex systems end-to-end, from low-level design to production reliability.
Driven to learn new domains quickly and choose the simplest effective architecture, tools and paradigms for each problem.
Interested in FDE, deployment lead, product roles; open to others.
Broad and deep experience and expertise across finance, technology, leadership.
- Arbitrage and discretionary trader/PM at bank and hedge funds
- Co-founded VC-backed virtual gift card company, sold to giftcards.com
- CTO/CISO/partner at a $1.4B peer-to-peer lending fund
- Ran bank-wide analytics and then marketing technology at First Republic
Looking to join a high velocity, passionate, talent dense team who execute relentlessly.
I like to work with others to build software, systems, teams, and businesses and am good at it.
12+ years building and scaling systems and teams. I help teams go fast when systems, product, and org are out of sync.
Scaling infra, unblocking teams, and getting things to ship without breaking.
Hi! I'm Graham, a creative technologist, former YC W23 founder, engineer and designer. Especially interested in engineer roles where I can wear multiple hats and creative technologist roles. Need a technical person who knows how to build things zero to one, has strong backgrounds in both tech and art, and soft skills like marketing and communication? I'm your person!
Research Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building distributed and real-time systems in unreliable and constrained environments.
Background in networking, including custom transport protocols, network monitoring, and adaptive systems. Recent work includes AI-assisted software engineering and intelligent systems.
Experience designing and building systems that need to remain reliable under failure, including tactical and edge environments.
Interested in backend, infrastructure, distributed systems, or AI-driven systems roles where I can build and improve core technology.
I'm Govind, a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building production systems across full-stack web, blockchain, and AI.
What I bring to the table:
→ Full-stack development: React + Node.js apps from MVP to scale. Have built and shipped products for US enterprise clients including ADP and Time Warner Cable.
→ Blockchain/Web3: Production Ethereum smart contracts, DeFi integrations, and Solidity development, not just hackathon projects.
→ AI-enabled systems: Integrating LLMs into existing products, RAG pipelines, AI agents, workflow automation. I use AI tools daily in my own development workflow.
→ Fractional CTO / Technical consulting: Architecture reviews, tech stack decisions, and hands-on leadership for startups that need senior engineering guidance without a full-time hire.
Open to: project-based contracts, fractional CTO engagements, part-time ongoing work, and consulting. Strong preference for async-first teams. Competitive rates for the quality of work delivered.
I've mostly been a first or founding engineer, owning systems that have to scale early. I focus on high-throughput pipelines, messaging systems, media transcoding, and recommendations—areas where issues show up under load, retries, and edge cases.
I also build real-time dashboards to observe and control these systems, using local-first approaches and browser-based technologies for media processing and realtime communication.
- Messaging systems delivering millions of emails and push notifications in minutes (retries, deliverability, observability)
- Browser-based video editing and encoding platform using FFmpeg, Supabase, and AWS
- Real-time pipelines and recommendation systems for tens of millions of users
- Scaled event ingestion ~100x for analytics and experimentation
I do my best work in small, product-focused teams, owning systems end-to-end, staying close to production, and communicating early around risks and tradeoffs.
- Founding or early engineering roles (full-time, part-time, or contract)
- Backend or infrastructure-heavy work
- Products with real users or a clear path to them
I started working with AI back in 2014 and consider myself one of the early vibe coders. I’m interested in everything related to AI and security, I’ve worked on benchmarks, optimizations, training and inference, tinygrad, H100, B200, DeepSeek etc. I also developed an ultra-fast programming language for executing complex GPU workloads and created a generative OS for it.
Under 25, I created the core of a security scanner and built a hacking team at a UK startup ($7M investment). We removed the GIL from Python to run 30,000 threads and scan 18,000 exchange IPs for malware overnight.
I have many achievements, I created a Top-10 music app on the App Store and an Instagram filter editor for a social network that had 28,000 users at launch.
I worked on a top-30 cryptocurrency in AI and built a better version of BitChat.
I'm an experienced developer, visionary and researcher. Reach out to me and I will strengthen your team with my experience and knowledge.
Location: New York City
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: If it's on the east coast, yeah maybe
Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS
Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resume.pdf
Email: harry.j.altman@gmail.com
Hi, I'm Harry Altman! I was the maintainer of Truffle Debugger (https://github.com/ConsenSys-archive/truffle/tree/develop/pa...), a Solidity smart contract debugger, for 5 years. I eventually ended up writing my own decoding and encoding libraries to support it, as well as a bunch of other things.
I'm good at this sort of nitpicky work, spotting and thinking about edge cases. I like getting things exactly right, even though that obviously isn't always possible due to various constraints. I've been kind of wondering if I should get into embedded development; I find it appealing when things are low-level or similarly constrained. I've beaten Microcorruption. :) (The original levels, I haven't played the new ones.)
I'm also quite interested in unusual or obscure data formats, and working on Truffle Debugger and its associated libraries certainly involved a bunch of having to figure undocumented formats and interfaces. :) I put down above what languages I've worked substantially in but I'd say I'm a generalist and will figure out whatever you give me (I knew approximately no Javascript, Typescript, or Solidity when I started working at Consensys).
I'm a mathematician by background and in my spare time, so after the Truffle Debugger project was shut down I took some time off to focus on my mathematical projects, including old ones I've been shepherding through publication. But now I'm looking for work again! If you need someone like me, I'm available for hire!
Senior software engineer with 5+ years of experience building large-scale
distributed systems, CDN/edge infrastructure, and developer-facing platforms.
Currently at Disney working on the DTC media platform powering ESPN, Disney+,
and Hulu - designing intent-based CDN policy controls (with Z3 formal
verification), optimizing multi-CDN traffic mix, and integrating with Akamai,
Fastly, and CloudFront for live events. Previously a founding engineer at a
YC-backed messaging startup (Texts) and ran my own infrastructure-heavy SaaS
for several years. Comfortable across the stack but happiest deep in
backend/infra work - distributed systems, networking, performance, and tooling
that makes other engineers faster. Currently pursuing an M.S. in CS at
Georgia Tech (Computing Systems, 4.0).
Remote: Yes, or within a reasonable commute distance in the Bay Area
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: I'm a game developer with web and mobile dev experience, so: Unity, Unreal, C#, Unreal Blueprints, Python, Javascript, Swift, PHP, Ruby. Production and project management experience. Video/audio editing and production, too!
18 years of game industry experience, including as the founding live services producer on Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes ($1bn+ grossing, EA's most successful mobile game). Game design, production, programming, biz dev/pitching experience, and I produce a podcast called Make Games, Drink Coffee.
Most jobs I've had were direct hires by a founder/CEO - I'm a versatile problem-solver and I'll wear whatever hat is necessary to push a project forward.
Location: Eastern Thailand
Remote: Yes, can travel every so often
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Nix, NixOS, OCaml, PureScript, Elm, JavaScript, CSS
Résumé/CV: https://toast.al/skills/
Email: toastal+hn@posteo.net
Looking to transition off of front-end work & into devops. I can help monitor systems from Asian time zones. Flexible hours help & I don’t mind being up at “odd hours” as I am a night owl.
I'm a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience; I worked with small teams and enterprises, and I successfully contributed to the success of many products, Hire me if you want to onboard a passionate, team player, used to wear many hats, colleague.
Senior backend and infrastructure engineer, available for part-time contract work (8–16 hours/week) alongside an existing engagement.
I currently own the full backend and infrastructure layer for a EU company: Python APIs (Flask/FastAPI), PostgreSQL and Redis, AWS infrastructure managed with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes workloads. I've performed cloud migrations between AWS, Azure, and DigitalOcean, and taken ownership of legacy systems that nobody else wanted to touch. Happy to be the person your team pings when something is broken and nobody knows why.
Looking for 1–2 additional clients who need a reliable, senior-level contractor to own a slice of their backend or infrastructure. I invoice through a registered EU company in EUR or USD.
10+ years building backend services, data pipelines, and on-chain infrastructure.
Most recently founding engineer at Moar Market (leveraged farming on Aptos, ~$7.5M peak TVL) — owned the full stack: Move contracts, indexers, off-chain liquidation engine, DB design, and infra end-to-end.
Before that, tech lead at Hubble Exchange — built a custom EVM-forked L1 for orderbook perps that scaled to 50,000 TPS and 30M+ transactions, including the matching engine, indexing stack, and an SDK for market makers. Earlier: backend at Zomato (Hyperpure greenfield) and Delhivery (WMS, marketplace integrations with Amazon/Paytm).
Recent side project: Deploy Terminal — an MCP-based trading terminal exposing Hyperliquid execution to LLM agents (Claude Code, openclaw etc.) with non-custodial wallet signing via Privy TEE.
Looking for: senior/lead engineer roles. I'm interested in web3, fintech, quant infra, and agentic solutions. Comfortable owning systems end-to-end; prefer small teams shipping fast over large orgs.
Not necessarily looking for full time employment, if someone just wants to do a trial via part time / fixed duration project, that would be even better for a start. My last 3 full time roles started like that.
Location: Europe (CET)
Remote: Yes
Relocation: No
Technologies: Python, SQL, React, FastAPI, ETL, AI/LLM systems
Résumé/CV: Available on request
Email: inquire.hn@pm.me
Backend / AI engineer focused on building and stabilizing systems that work with real world data.
Recently:
• Built and deployed a production RAG system (Python, FastAPI, React, Qdrant), including hybrid retrieval, ingestion, and backend APIs with improved retrieval quality and system stability as dataset scaled (ranking fixes, logging, debugging workflows)
Previously:
• 10+ years building and owning backend, data, and operational systems (ERP, BI, internal tools)
• Strong experience with messy data, integrations, and production debugging
• Delivered full systems end-to-end, including APIs, data pipelines, and internal tools
• Led technical delivery across cross-functional teams in complex corporate environments
Best fit:
Backend or AI engineering roles where you need someone to quickly build, debug, or stabilize systems through API design & integrations, data pipelines, or LLM-powered features.
Open to contract engagements with possibility for longer term collaboration.
Location: Hamilton, ON
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, UIKit, Core Data & SQLite
Email: luizfad at gmail
SWE with 10+ years experience building iOS apps for finance/banking and fitness/health industry
Former graphic designer turned software developer with 10+ years of professional experience. Most recently, I've been building highly dynamic frontends with React. Prior to that, I was re-writing legacy desktop applications as web based with Vue + Go + Postgres. I'm comfortable working across the stack, and adapting to new (or old!) technologies.
Currently working on a VST plugin in C++, and I have explored a number of other areas over the years. Such as: mobile, games, graphics programming, and embedded systems.
While most of my work has been web focused, I'm open to working in other areas. Check out my website, sectionfourteen.com, for more detailed info.
Hi! I'm a full-stack developer focused on building production-ready web and mobile products, especially SaaS platforms, internal tools, customer portals, marketplaces, and business process automation.
I work mainly with Django/PostgreSQL on the backend and Flutter or React on the frontend. I can take a project from product definition and technical architecture through implementation, deployment, and maintenance.
I’m especially interested in remote contract or fractional product engineering roles where I can help design, build, and ship practical business software quickly.
I have over 7 years of experience as a backend-focused full-stack engineer and have been coding for over 12 years. I have built both internal tools and large-scale systems used by millions of users.
Robotics and applied AI engineer focused on getting models to work in the real world. I’ve built autonomous golf ball picking robots, vision-guided robotic systems for saffron harvesting, hyperspectral drone sensing pipelines, RL-based flight route planning, and production ML infrastructure. Open to contract or full-time remote work, including US hours.
Technologies: TypeScript (web frontend Vue + backend Fastify+Postgres) + Swift (iOS and some macOS) + heavy coding agent use (Claude Code, Codex and Droid)
I've been working as a software engineer for 6 years. I would describe myself as a generalist. I've worked in different domains such as aerospace, automotive, and telecom. I've taken projects from 0 -1. I'd like to move away from the enterprise environment and work in a smaller, energetic, and dynamic startup. I'm prepared to wear many hats.
Location: Delft, the Netherlands
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: All of the current AI/ML tools you can think of. Computer vision, LLMs, Timeseries forecasting, DSP. Postgres, GIS tooling, Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, PyTorch, CUDA, embedded systems.
Résumé/CV: see strangeloop.nl
Email: hn@strangeloop.nl
Freelance consultant for hire that takes your AI/ML dreams from zero to production.
Built a petabyte scale CV pipeline from scratch using on-prem k8s; a text-to-sql BI tool for 9k B2C users; deployed daily production forecasts for all domestic solar panel installations in The Netherlands.
PhD in computational chemistry (2015), 10+ years of enterprise (airfrance/klm, bmw) and startup experience.
Location: Seattle, WA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, TypeScript, WebRTC, React, Node, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
Résumé/CV: https://rsaul.com/resume/
Email: contact@rsaul.com
Looking for: Engineering Manager role
Hello, I'm an experienced Engineering manager of 9 years with 16 years in the industry. I've led frontend and backend teams, I've also established CI/CD pipelines and IaC at companies without established processes. I'm looking for a new full-time role on an engineering team. Open to IC roles.
Backend engineer with 10 years of experience. Most of my work has been in data ingestion, ETL/analytics pipelines, distributed systems. I'm currently running my own company doing project-based AWS contracting work, but looking to return to a team environment.
In The Loop (intheloop.engineering) | Senior Consulting Engineers | Remote (US time zones)
We’re a small group of senior engineers who help non‑technical AI founders take fragile MVPs to production‑ready systems.
We come in as fractional founding engineers: review code, fix architecture, ship.
Looking for experienced engineers who:
- Enjoy advising non‑technical founders
- Are comfortable reviewing AI‑generated code (Next.js, TypeScript, Python, major cloud providers)
- Have shipped production systems end‑to‑end and can explain technical trade‑offs to non‑engineers
- Have actually used AI tools in their own side projects or daily workflow
- Can handle a mix of architecture reviews, roadmap planning, and hands‑on implementation
Details:
- Part‑time/contract to start (typical 5–20 hours/week, flexible)
- Fully remote with meaningful overlap with US daytime
- Work directly with early‑stage AI founders on short, high‑leverage projects
Compensation: market‑rate contracting, typically 100–200/hr depending on experience and scope
Apply: Email humans@intheloop.engineering with “HN – Human” in the subject, and a brief note on your background, availability (hours/week), and the kind of work you enjoy most.
I love programming and computers. I've done Linux system administration and software development (both independent and as an employee) but also academic research and consulting. After a couple years researching schizophrenia and depression I'm ready for the next chapter.
SWE with 10 years experience building (in remote and hybrid settings) in domains: defense, manufacturing, SaaS. Comfortable with ambiguity/uncertainty.
Location: Hood River, OR
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Vue, React, TypeScript, Ruby, Rails, GraphQL, Claude Code, Convex, PostgreSQL
Résumé/CV: jasonives.com
Email: jason@jasonives.com
SEEKING FREELANCE/CONTRACT WORK — I build production software for founders and growing teams. Full-stack engineering across Rails, Vue, and React, with AI-augmented workflows. 25 years of shipping, leading teams, and owning technical direction.
I spent a decade as CTO at EMEX, growing the engineering team from scratch through private equity acquisition. Today I operate through Brightform Technology, working with founders who need senior-level engineering without a full-time hire. The kind of problems where product sense and architectural judgment matter as much as code output.
Past work:
* Led all frontend architecture for an IoT platform processing high-volume sensor data across nationwide deployments. Built real-time building floorplan visualization, time-series HVAC dashboards, and a modular device configuration system.
* First engineering hire → CTO at EMEX. Built the flagship real-time reverse auction platform that drove seven-figure annual sales. Grew and led a team of 6 through acquisition.
Best fit: founders with a clear idea and the budget to move fast. You might have Figma mockups, a vibe-coded prototype, or just a well-defined concept. I bring product direction alongside the engineering.
Location: California, US
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Not at this time
Technologies: Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite
Résumé/CV: https://allie.goodson.dev/resume-2026-04-29.pdf
Email: allie [at] goodson [dot] dev
I am Allie Goodson, a designer based in California, focused on user centered design. I communicate easily and clearly with technical teams to ensure products are usable and accessible. I am looking for opportunities with companies that provide the chance to get my hands on a variety of products at all stages of development. If you would like to know more about me, please visit my portfolio website: https://allie.goodson.dev/
Full-stack developer with 18+ years of experience building websites and applications across industries including media, finance, and e-commerce. I work across the full stack to create fast, accessible, and scalable solutions. Comfortable owning the entire development lifecycle—from architecture and infrastructure to UI/UX and performance optimization. Deep experience with custom CMS solutions, serverless architectures, and integrations with complex APIs.
Primarily looking for a full-time role on a team, but open to contract opportunities as well.
20+ years as a designer/developer hybrid. Currently sole designer and developer at current company, shipping a Next.js site averaging 40k monthly visits and a hand-coded admin CMS used daily by the team. Founded Makeable Brand LLC and shipped 5 SaaS products solo. Built and sold a WordPress theme business serving tens of thousands of users. Brand and print foundations from a decade of editorial design, including 1,000+ book covers and covers for a NYT bestselling author. AI-assisted workflows with Claude Code/Codex as a core part of how I ship.
Looking for design engineer, founding designer, or senior product roles where I can own a surface end-to-end across design and code.
Summary:
AI Systems Architect with 20+ years in software engineering and 10+ years specializing in AI, ML, and Computer Vision. Former Head of AI at ActiveEon, with a Ph.D. focused on Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Expert in scalable AI systems, MLOps, distributed computing, and fine-tuning of large language and vision models. Passionate about building practical, production-ready AI solutions that bridge research and deployment. Open to roles involving AI architecture, applied research, or leadership in AI strategy and innovation.
Hi, I'm Charles and I have decades of experience with Linux administration, with some cloud and orchestration thrown in for good measure. I am passionate about open source and making people's lives easier. My strengths are clear communication and methodical troubleshooting/analysis. I love learning new things and hope for a job that exposes me to more coding, cloud, orchestration, AI-related development, and nice people.
Well-versed in: Linux, Python, Bash, virtualization, containers, CI/CD, Ansible, git, and more. I am a generalist and love digging deep into new things.
Only open to remote W-2 positions at this time. May consider an on-site job in or around Ann Arbor if the culture is right. Regardless, I'm always happy to talk to anyone about anything so absolutely feel free to reach out for a chat!
Remote: Open to remote or hybrid/in-office in SF Bay Area
Willing to relocate: Open to west coast
Technologies: Full stack web dev for 15+ years in many forms. In recent years I've been focused on game development projects using Babylon/WebGL and working with C++ & Go server-side (MMO servers). Many years of project and product management as well.
I have some cool projects! See my personal site for email and some of those projects:
Coolest released one is probably https://www.idlequest.net/, which is an idle-game web-based version of classic EverQuest, complete with its original 3D graphics in-browser and a real-time MMO server! Had up to 70 players online at the same time a month or two ago.
About to release my biggest project, which is a full reverse engineering and re-implementation of the 2007 MMORPG "Vanguard".
Looking largely for product engineering positions, or project/product management style work. Have done both and enjoy both a lot. Open to contracting or full-time.
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, TeX/ConTeXt, PHP, Jekyll, Tailwind CSS
Portfolio: https://miler.codeberg.page/
Résumé-CV: https://codeberg.org/miler/curriculum-vitae/raw/branch/main/curriculum-en.pdf
Email: Please see Portfolio or CV/Résumé
GitHub: https://github.com/acidrums4/
Graphic designer with experience in both frontend and backend web development (PHP; Wordpress, Framer, some Joomla and some Typo3), iconography, editorial design/typesetting with ConTeXt, general graphic design and webmaster duties. Please feel free to check my portfolio for some examples of my work.
I am a senior developer and consultant with over 15 years in the industry. My expertise is in building robust, secure and scalable backend services and enterprise applications.
My expertise includes data visualization, business intelligence and analytics. I have extensive experience with the TIBCO Jaspersoft BI suite - Jaspersoft Studio, JasperReports Server and Jaspersoft ETL (Talend Open Studio and Server).
I am looking for part-time or full-time freelance / consulting opportunities at the moment (up to 40h/week).
Designed and built Platform-as-a-Service for microservice workloads running on Azure and AWS
to migrate on-prem workloads to the cloud. The platform operates globally, allowing teams to
deploy to several Azure-backed regions worldwide. Helped plan and create regional landing zones
in Azure for application teams wanting to perform globally. Designed platform components using
Terraform, Go, and Node; developed support tooling using Bash, Python, and Azure CLI. De-risk the
platform by addressing security vulnerabilities and ensuring the platform is PCI compliant.
api/devops software engineer @ Harvard Medical School (2 years)
Worked as part of the DevOps team to manage a 15k core CentOS HPC cluster. Designed and implemented
Python-based security scanning pipeline to securely deploy & run Apptainer images via SLURM.
Coordinated cross-team emergency patching efforts. Collaborated with researchers and engineers across
3-letter institutions to deliver secure research infrastructure. Built CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub, Jenkins,
to automate code builds, testing, and deployments. Wrote Puppet modules to manage configuration of HPC fleet.
Wrote custom Puppet module & Python scripts to automatically remediate Tenable findings.
full-stack software engineer @ Global Prior Art (3 years)
Used Django, Celery, Selenium grid, and AWS API Gateway for IP rotation to scrape USPTO patent PDFs,
apply CV for data extraction, and generate reports with relevant claims, saving employees 4-5 hours daily.
Wrote E2E black-box/fuzzing unit tests. Automated on-premise deployment via Github Actions and Ansible.
Introduction: I am a UI/UX designer with a background in graphic design, art direction, and more than six years of experience in the design industry. I am proficient in creating digital products in agile environments for the consumer and healthcare markets. With my strong analytical, research, and teamwork skills, I have successfully led a variety of projects from conception to development in both office and remote settings. I have extensive experience crafting personas, qualitative analysis, user journeys, user flows, user interface design, low and high fidelity prototypes, stakeholder presentations and design systems for UI components.
I am looking for full-time contract or freelance/consulting opportunities at the moment (up to 40 hours/week) in UI UX Design
Remote: Yes (Open to working in Office)
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Java, Python, C++, Rust, Zig, Typescript
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13lej5L8mnIGct1phoryqTWVenaJImObg/view?usp=sharing
Email: mshoosterman@gmail.com
Software Engineer with experience building and scaling real-world financial systems at Nasdaq. Worked across the stack with Java/Spring Boot, React, and SQL to deliver high-performance trading infrastructure and leading onboarding for billion-dollar enterprise clients.
Strong foundation in mathematics (BSc from the University of Toronto) with a deep interest in data structures, algorithms, and computational theory.
Comfortable owning features end-to-end, collaborating and building scalable, reliable software. Looking to contribute to solving complex, high-impact problems.
Location: Ohio
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No (but see below)
Technologies: Kubernetes / Terraform / Ansible / Serverless / AWS / Rust / Bash / PHP / Python / JS / TS / C / Clojure / etc, happy to learn more
Résumé/CV: https://ndouglas.github.io/resume/resume.pdf
Email: See résumé
Site: https://darkdell.net/
I'm a generalist software engineer with most of my experience (14YOE professional) in backend, platform, infra, and DevOps stuff. I'm currently employed and love where I am and what I do, but I intend to relocate to the EU in 2028 and my job (federal contracting) is incompatible with that goal.
I'm very interested in deep learning, formal verification, and compliance automation, but also artificial life, complexity science, robotics, cybernetics (as in Beer), computational social sciences, network science, transit, city planning, etc.
I use Claude Code happily at work, as directed, and seen significant (though not unqualified) productivity gains. I've used it to varying degrees on different personal projects. I'm avoiding it now on personal projects (to retain and build skill). I can work anywhere along that spectrum.
I enjoy learning about what other people are working on, so even if you're not hiring or not interested in hiring _me_, I'd love to connect. I've had some genuinely transformative conversations with people I've met on HN, and I'd love to have more.
Expert backend developer primarily focused on data engineering, mission critical/low latency/highly available systems, and AWS (certs: https://www.credly.com/users/jon-north.ad78f0c8). Happy to deal with greenfield or legacy or any mix of the two. I learn new things extremely quickly.
I prefer long term contract work, though I’ll help you with smaller things as well. W2 employment is a possibility if the fit is right. Whatever you’re doing with AI is also fine by me, and I’ll lead/adapt as appropriate.
My focus has been on browser automation and building browser agents since 2018, with 13 years of enterprise experience building dynamic data user interfaces for web and mobile. I have experience working at both medium 130 person AI companies and small, fast-moving 7 person teams wearing many different hats, which I prefer. I have been instrumental in taking multiple companies from 0 to 1, both as a consultant and as a full-time employee in media, real estate, marketing, streaming services, education, and fintech.
Native application development for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows with over a decade of experience. Creating and/or integrating APIs/SDKs. TV/Video applications on all platforms (Apple, Android, Amazon, Roku.) Extensive experience building products and platforms from the ground up.
I'm a high-agency, high-energy, eclectic, serious, fun, creative techie who's done lots of things at BigCos and startups. My happy place is working hard with smart people on something big and complex that makes the world better.
After several years in the consulting/contracting game, I am looking for an ambitious team to join. Maybe yours!
A few of my spinning plates right now: Golang inference worker, two Expo apps in TS/RN, Python data pipeline, AWS IoT for HVAC-adjacent devices, shared FFI components in Rust, and a HealthTech web app in TS/React.
Interested? Drop me a line, and if you're in the Bay Area let's grab a beverage!
Location: Baltimore, MD
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Python, AWS, serverless (particularly AWS Lambda), Kubernetes, RESTful APIs, SPAs, Flask, Javascript/Typescript, IaC (e.g. Terraform, Cloudformation, Helm, CDK, etc.), Postgres, various devops and monitoring stacks and platforms (including ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
Email: david@d10i.dev
Résumé/CV: please ask
hi! I'm David, a software/devops engineer with a passion for grit and going from 0 to 1. I've been building software and infrastructure for over 10 years, and most recently have built enterprise B2B SaaS products for organizations in the cybersecurity space.
I run a consulting company (atomweight.io), and have provided infosec, devops, and software engineering services to a variety of clients. I am open to both full-time and contract engagements.
I don't particularly enjoy coasting or clocking out at 5pm (mostly since I'm a night owl), so I'm looking for opportunities where I can move fast, build, ship fast, contribute the most value, and grow. If my skills and experience seem like a good fit for your needs, please reach out!
Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HTMX, Datastar, Tailwind, Vue, React, Node, Bun, PHP, Laravel, Drupal, Wordpress, C, Zig, Odin, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Sqlite, AWS, GCP, Azure and more
Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos(dot)com
Email: spiro(at)spirofloropoulos(dot)com
Recently built a pure C http server, by hand, with an online game bundled into it, in C, by hand, served on a website as a modern spin on MUD (multi-user dungeons). Also, recently built a vanilla (no 3rd party libs no AI) html/css/js with css3d card game - https://spirofloropoulos.com/css3dtabletop
Full-stack web, software and game developer, specializing in high-performance, minimal-dependency solutions. Available as an individual contributor, lead developer, or consultant. I excel at simple, efficient code and pushing web technologies to their limits. Can mentor teams or bring expertise to complex projects.
Proven track record of building multi-million dollar websites from scratch to production.
Stellar references.
Also experienced in technical streaming (online content), community engagement, and mentoring developers on modern dev practices.
I'm a Senior DevOps engineer, Cloud Architect and Infrastructure Engineer.
I provide contract or ad-hoc services and support to startups, growth companies and enterprises. I'm often called to set up greenfield DevOps installations, architect and build cloud infrastructures, design platform architectures, build cloud-based, SaaS and mobile products and assist with emergency or short-staffed situations.
I've worked across diverse industries, crypto, tradfi, data platforms, IoT, AI, search, media, etc., which has taught me that that real solutions are rarely one-size-fits-all. I provide solutions tuned precisely to each of my clients: their products and customers, and the way their teams work.
I also provide fixed-price services which are often ideal for startups:
Location: Isle of Man/Europe
Remote: Yes - Experience working with US/International teams
Willing to relocate: Yes - For the right role. Happy to be on-site for onboarding
Technologies: Kotlin, Android, TypeScript, React, .NET, Java, CI/CD, Accessibility, i18n
Email: davidallisongithub@gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/david-allison
Open source maintainer/top contributor of AnkiDroid: Android client for Anki. 10M+ downloads.
~10 YOE, with 6 YOE open source (4,000+ commits). Ready for stability after years of contracting and maintainership.
I lead a global volunteer team and take full product ownership: setting direction over multi-year horizons, planning and implementing architectural migrations, and keeping a project moving via community engagement, triage, fixes, reviews and mentorship.
Highlights:
- AnkiDroid now releases in tandem with upstream, rather than lagging behind by years
- Migrated a 15-year-old codebase from Java 7 to Kotlin, maintaining git blame
- Migrated to a common Rust-based backend. Android contributors are fully isolated from this complexity
- Improved app rating from 4.5 to ~4.8 stars, dramatically reduced crash rate
- Mentored hundreds of contributors and co-launched AnkiDroid's Google Summer of Code programme
AnkiDroid continues as a hobby; my day job is fully separate.
Looking for: full-time or contract. IC or EM, I'm nontraditional so I'm open to a conversation about which fits. Drawn to work that makes people's lives better, in any stack.
Senior software engineer, 20+ years on production systems. Working on neural nets since 1996 (neuroevolution, genetic programming) — multiple AI cycles' worth of perspective on what survives the hype.
Currently building a regulatory forecasting system for Polish law: ingesting statutes back to 1944, building a graph of legislation and amendments, reasoning about where the regulatory surface is moving. The hard problems are PDF → structured graph at scale and reasoning under uncertainty, not the model wrapper.
I also write about where AI coding agents actually work and where they quietly fail.
Best fit when the work is engineering-shaped — application/data rather than infra/SRE/Kubernetes-heavy — and the schedule overlaps EU hours.
Comfortable as autonomous IC or small-team tech lead. Domains where messy real-world data meets non-trivial reasoning are where I'm sharpest — regulatory, legal, scientific, financial.
MS CS (AI/ML) — Northwestern '24 | Currently: AI/ML Engineer
Building real-time voice AI pipelines (sub-800ms latency) and RAG systems at Bhuvi IT. Previously shipped distributed 8-GPU training at Argonne National Lab (2TB astronomical data, 1 week → 20 hours) and graph-based entity resolution (0.96 F1) as standalone projects. Comfortable across the full stack from model training to serverless cloud deployment.
Open to ML Engineering, Applied AI, AI Infrastructure, Software Engineering or Data Scientist roles.
15 years backend. Ex-Automattic on Jetpack Backup, ex-Media Cloud (Harvard/MIT, ICWSM 2021 co-author). PGConf SV 2018 and APAC 2019 talks on Postgres at scale. Currently running https://aero.zip + https://www.lobsterpack.com in parallel and vibecoding like crazy.
Grug-brain engineer (https://grugbrain.dev) and recovering purist. I'd rather push the needle in the wrong direction fast and correct course than design the perfect thing for six months. AI embracer - I treat it as an exoskeleton, not a replacement.
Not a big fan of: calculator apps on Kubernetes, six-round interview pipelines, unpaid take-homes longer than 2 hours.
Location: Mumbai, India
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:
- Python/Pandas
- Java/Spring Boot
- Data Engineering (ETL/ELT, data pipelines)
- Product Development
- AI/LLM based development (MCP, agents, ADK, CrewAI, etc)
- Other (SQL, Redis, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, DBT)
Résumé/CV: https://dvalia.in/blob/Darshan_Valia_Resume_Technical.pdf
Email: On Resume
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dvalia/
Data/Backend/Agentic AI engineer for the past ten years (Java, Python, SQL). Experience building data platforms (from scratch!) and ELT pipelines for financial data. Currently working on agentic AI projects, but happy to work at any level for any problem that needs solving.
Open to work on product management, solutions architecture, agentic AI or customer engineering. Remote is preferred for time zones spanning Europe to India; onsite/hybrid in Mumbai is also great. Unfortunately cannot relocate.
Open primarily to freelance/consulting roles, but full-time roles will also be considered if we're a good fit.
13 years in software, last 5+ on backend. Just wrapped 2 years at FuelMe (fuel management SaaS): Senior Backend Dev, then Tech Lead from Aug 2025. Built procurement and invoice-auditing workflows on Node, Postgres, AWS. Wrote OpenEnvoy and QuickBooks integrations.
Before that: Cinnamon (fantasy sports, Revaire), DistantJob (multi-client backend), and 7 years self-employed building mobile games. One title passed 10M downloads.
Shipping production code with AI tooling daily for over a year. GitHub Copilot throughout, Claude Code for the last 7 months. Three open-source MCP servers on npm: postgres-scout-mcp, mongo-scout-mcp, kontra-mcp.
Open to: full-time remote (Europe, US, Canada), B2B via Lukic Engineering DOO (Serbia, EUR or USD), or shorter projects.
About: Graduating May 2026 (CS + Econ) with undergrad. Built production AI systems and full-stack platforms. Avid reader, love sports (especially hockey) & outdoors.
Looking for: Full-stack, backend, or AI engineer roles working on enterprise/consumer AI products. Very open to new technologies, as I really enjoy learning and building using cutting-edge tech.
At internship: Built AI agents with Semantic Kernel (reduced workflows 40%, 20K+ users), Python/Golang backend with gRPC on AWS, and Angular micro-frontends.
Currently: Leading 6-person team on medical QA analysis platform processing 150K+ data points across 4 hospital sites (ASP.NET, Next.js, Docker, PostgreSQL, Nginx).
Research: Co-authored 2 papers on RAG systems (Best Paper Award at IMNS 2025, published at IEEE/ACM CHASE 2025: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3721201.3725519). Built RAG application achieving 95% accuracy on healthcare automation.
Recent projects:
- Automated course scheduler using agentic AI + Google OR-Tools (React, SQLite, AWS Lambda and ECR, FastAPI) for econ department
- Sidequest: iOS app (React Native + Swift) with on-device OCR + LLM parsing using Vision Framework for receipts
I am a Senior DevOps/Infrastructure/Full-stack engineer. First 10 years of my career was software development (LAMP & C# work). Last 10 years have been DevOps, SRE, and Infrastructure where I often still ended up in the code. I enjoy working in the security, finance, healthcare, and educational industries.
Taught myself Java in 1997 and was able have it do the heavy lifting over the years. Have "kicked the tires" on a lot technologies over the years for side-projects evidenced by the menagerie of repositories on my GitHub.
About: I am a Generative AI Engineer who also happens to be pretty handy across the full stack. Most of my recent work has been building RAG pipelines, AI agents, and natural language search — using LangChain, LangGraph, and vector databases like Pinecone and ChromaDB — with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini APIs under the hood. I care deeply about shipping GenAI features that hold up beyond the demo stage.
Beyond GenAI, I am working on the full stack — React/TypeScript on the frontend, Node.js or ASP.NET Core APIs on the backend, and AWS/Azure for infra. I like owning things end-to-end and building software that's simple and reliable.
- Lehi, Utah, USA
- Remote: Yes, remote-only
- Willing to relocate: No
- Technologies: Go, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, SpiceDB, Stripe Connect, PostgreSQL, React, React Native, Claude/OpenAI APIs, Eleven Labs
20+ years shipping production SaaS. Currently CTO of Allset (AI-native ops for construction trades) — multi-tenant, Stripe Connect, mobile + web; just shipped to AWS this week. Before Allset: 10 years at a private SaaS where I cut $1M+ from the AWS bill, ending as Principal Engineer. Ex-Microsoft.
I ship full features end-to-end using on a real production codebase, not a prototype.
Looking for a 12-24 month senior IC seat at a YC or AI-native startup:
• Founding Engineer / early eng at a recently-funded YC company
• Forward-Deployed Engineer at a funded AI startup
• Senior staff IC where speed + ownership matter
Location: Boston, MA
Remote: Sure (open to office)
Relocate: No
Technologies: Node.js, React, TypeScript, Python, Docker, HTML/CSS, MCP Servers
Resume: https://concourse.codes
Email: see site above
Interested in climate, sustainability, greentech, hardtech, bluetech, etc. or music tech, or anything you need those are just my prefs <3
Location: San Diego, California / Lopez Island, Washington
Remote: Preferred.
Technologies/skills: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Git, Turbo/Stimulus, TailwindCSS/TailwindUI, AWS, Kamal, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, APIs, people
Resume/CV: Ruby on Rails professionally since 2008 at Shopify, Apple, Intuit and a bunch of startups as well. Open to consulting/contract work or salaried positions.
Location: Japan (flexible for US/EU async or partial overlap)
Remote: Yes/Hybrid
Willing to relocate: No
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsokurov/
Email: oleksii.tsokurov@gmail.com
Founding engineer -- built OpenReplay's core (YC S19) solo from scratch -- while doing my Math Master degree. Most recently, Spaces Protocol's (Bitcoin L1 + L2) wallets (Rust + TypeScript) -- built 0 to 1, twice.
Background in math and theoretical CS -- IPhO bronze, MIPT, Sorbonne.
Best fit: early-stage founder who needs someone to own the software end-to-end -- architecture, decisions, shipping. Bonus if the problem space has real research depth -- more than comfortable with math.
Looking for: part-time contract, ~20-28 hrs/week, available now and continuing through the upcoming PhD (formal verification + quantum computing).
I have a decade of experience founding and advising startups; a decade of experience as a software developer and tech lead; and a wide variety of supporting experiences. Let me help your business get to the next stage of success.
Location: Brazil
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:
SysAdmin | Ubuntu, Debian, Centos.
Cloud | AWS/Azure/Linode/DigitalOcean/Google Cloud.
Backend | PHP, MySQL, Apache, Bash/Zsh
CMS/Backend Framework | expert in WordPress, experience with Laravel and CakePHP.
Frontend | expert in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Tailwind. Experience with Vue and React.
Résumé/CV: https://pedro.estarque.com.br/resume.pdf
Email: pedro@estarque.com.br
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I'm a Full-Stack Developer, Web Designer and Image Editor with over 25 years of professional experience. Problem-solver and avid learner, I'm used to working with small and large teams across enterprise, government and third sector. I take deadlines and delivery commitments very seriously.
I am a Lead Systems Architect with 12 years of experience specializing in high-throughput distributed systems and kernel-level performance.
Recent Achievement: Author of the "Crate of the Week" in This Week in Rust (#645) for my tool 'tsastat'—a high-resolution Linux thread state analyzer.
What I do:
* Scale Kafka/NiFi ingestion pipelines to handle millions of daily events.
* Engineer zero-cost Linux observability tools and eBPF network filters in Rust.
* Optimize P99 tail-latency in Python/Go microservices.
* Architect 0-to-1 data platforms for SDN, Cloud and FinTech.
I am a free agent looking for Lead/Staff roles or high-stakes consulting missions where technical excellence is a requirement.
Backend/platform engineer with 6 YOE. I started in DevOps consulting, building automation, CI/CD, and Terraform/Packer workflows for Fortune 500 clients, then moved into backend engineering on a healthcare claims/payments platform. Recent work includes owning a greenfield ingestion service from first commit to production, shipping cross-service billing integrations, resolving P1 performance issues, and supporting production services through Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability ownership. Cut runtime by 90% on one client-sensitive workflow.
I'm looking for monthly/yearly "no-strings" sponsors, not employment, if any individuals, companies (or bitcoin millionaires) would like to help a long-time OpenBSD slacker, unslack, I'd really like to focus more of my time on open source development (and advocacy), rather than making rent. Feel free to contact me (see HN bio).
My primary experience is subscription ecommerce (starting in tech support and moving into fullstack engineering) and fincom. I'm always happy to learn new tech, but I've mostly done Python and JS/TS in the past few years.
Technologies: Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, PowerShell, Flask, SQL, PostGIS, Shapely, Unity, Unreal Engine, multiple assembly/machine languages, Windows user code and kernel drivers, Google Maps and other map APIs, geographic and airspace data
Hi, I'm Michael Geary. I've programmed in many languages and environments over the years. Some of my current interests are:
• Developer experience. I love helping my fellow developers solve problems, and building tools to make their jobs easier and more enjoyable.
• Aviation and geographic data. For example, airspace and obstacle data importers for Wing; election results and voter information maps for Google; many interactive maps for other companies.
• Hardware interfacing. In a way, I am a "full stack" developer, but my stack may involve a front end to a piece of hardware rather than the cloud. I first got into programming via ham radio, so RF hardware remains an interest.
• Designing and building APIs. Too often an API is designed by exposing the internals of whatever system provides the API. My philosophy is the opposite: start with the apps. I like to build a series of sample apps before starting on the API. This way I can imagine what API will make those apps and others like them easy to build.
• Talk with users! I don't like to sit in a back room cranking out code. I want to make sure it's the right code for what my users need, and that it's easy to maintain and improve as we learn more about what they want.
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Remote: Yes (US business hours
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: AWS (multi-account, Control Tower), Terraform, HashiCorp Vault/Nomad/Consul, Go, Python, TypeScript, EKS, GitLab CI/CD, OpenTelemetry/ADOT, LGTM observability, Kafka, PostgreSQL, PagerDuty
Résumé/CV: https://couchcryptid.github.io/
Email: brendanvinson@icloud.com
20 years engineering total, last 5 dedicated to platform/cloud at a regulated bank, leading the replatform of a contractor-built AWS multi-account into FFIEC/GLBA-compliant standards-based architecture. Stood up federated HashiCorp orchestration (Vault Enterprise, Nomad, Consul), GitLab Enterprise from inception, LGTM/OpenTelemetry observability instrumenting Java/Spring Boot services, and developer tooling distributed via a private Homebrew tap.
Most interested in observability platforms, data infrastructure, and AI engineering broadly — anywhere AI is sharpening human judgment rather than displacing it. Currently building out infrastructure tooling in Go using agentic workflows (Claude Code).
Works across the stack — each layer has its own problems worth solving. Publishes on engineering decision frameworks and AI-augmented development workflows.
Pursuing CKA. Not interested in defense, crypto, or gambling.
Senior iOS engineer / consultant (12+ years). I build and fix iOS and Vision Pro apps from medical devices and high-traffic consumer apps to vibecoded startups struggling to pass App Store reviews.
Location: Heerenveen, Netherlands
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: JS, CSS, Tailwind CSS, HTML, Python, Cloudflare development
Portfolio: https://danielosthebest.pages.dev/
Email: danielosthebest6467@gmail.com
I am a Full-Stack Engineer focused on building high-performance, security-first systems engineered for longevity. My recent builds consistently achieve a 100 Performance score on Google PageSpeed Insights. Every project I deliver will have 89+ on all pagespeed metrics, no matter what. This does not sacrifice quality, however.
I specialize in end-to-end infrastructure (Website + Dashboard + Backend). I also offer security audits, and bumping your pagespeed scores without sacrificing quality. I offer complex Shopify logic too. I prioritize a "No-Call" workflow. I provide a written plan of action and deliver the code, allowing you to focus on your business without meeting fatigue.
You can contact me via my e-mail, or direcly via my portfolio, whichever method you prefer. More info is in my portfolio.
- Location: Oxford, United Kingdom / Munich, Germany
- Remote: In-person preferred
- Willing to relocate: Yes, within Europe
- Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Scikit-Learn, NumPy, Git, AWS Cloud, Docker, Wandb
- Résumé/CV: https://davidbhoffmann.com/assets/pdf/David_Hoffmann_CV.pdf
- Email: info@davidbhoffmann.com
About: Currently investigating robotics planning with diffusion models at Oxford’s Visual Geometry Group, under joint supervision from João F. Henriques, Björn Ommer, and Christian Schroeder de Witt.
Previously, I worked at AWS as an Applied Scientist Dual Student, where I (1) developed a novel inference optimization technique yielding 13.4% higher accuracy against baselines, and (2) improved SageMaker's Autopilot forecasting solution, resulting in a 3.5% error reduction and 16% decreased latency in production.
I will graduate with an M.Sc. from LMU in August and am seeking applied machine learning roles to transition my research into production-level systems.
Filed US Provisional Patent #63/942,399 in December 2025 covering an offline memory lifecycle management system for mobile AI. Reference implementation on Android (M3mo Vault): FTS4 + TF-IDF hybrid search at 0.78 microseconds/memory on 10K-entry scale, 7-factor decay algorithm validated via ablation study (12x weight differentiation vs 2x baseline), 7-layer ServiceLocator DI replacing Hilt.
Also building Entropix Engine — a zero-GC browser game engine in vanilla JavaScript sustaining 3,000+ entities at 60 TPS. Structure-of-Arrays memory layout, GridHash spatial partitioning, deterministic fixed-timestep loop, featuring an adaptive grid-sampling fix resolving buffer overflow on high-refresh-rate displays. Live prototype on https://retroindex.org. 60 days into development, 13 milestones shipped. Weekly devlog on r/gamedev.
Past commercial work: scaled an e-commerce operation from $20K/mo to $140K/mo (7x) over 2 years through hand-coded HTML and SEO engineering — 700+ product pages under strict eBay platform constraints (no external CSS/JS allowed), with automated template pipeline reducing launch time 20%.
Background: BS Data Analysis Psychology, UC Davis (2021).
Looking for: contract or full-time remote roles in mobile AI infrastructure, on-device AI memory systems, performance-critical JavaScript/TypeScript, or e-commerce engineering. Open to indie hacker collaborations and Show HN partnerships.
Software engineer with 8+ years of professional experience, focused on open-source developer tooling & build systems. 5 years at JetBrains. Ideally, I'd like my next job to be in Rust.
I do full-stack product design + development in one. In an agentic era, you don't need huge teams. If you have an idea, an LLM will vibe it most of the way, but won't think through real, human UX—I do. When you want to go all the way, hire me. https://inventbuild.studio
Technologies: A lot, but mostly focused around Rust, React/TypeScript, and macOS/Linux. I work mostly in frontend, desktop and compute, but have also done a bit of backend. I can pick up almost any tool or framework. I technically know Python.
Senior Rust / Database Engineer
*Also open to do custom software development!*
Location: Medellín, Colombia Remote: Yes! Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:
* System engineer: Rust · query engines · programming languages · VMs · transactions · storage · performance optimization · data modeling · ERPs · Business Apps
* Databases: RDBMs · PostgreSQL · SQL Server · SQLite · SpacetimeDB
* Backend: Business logic · APIs creation · integration · orchestration · ETLs
* Additional: Python, F#, Swift, Web assembly, Git, Jujutsu, macOS, Linux (NixOS, Debian), Windows
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-alejandro-montoya-cortés-6... Email: mamcx@elmalabarista.com https://www.elmalabarista.com
Software engineer with 30+ years building production-ready business applications and 3+ years as a core database engineer building high-performance RDBMs.
Founder and principal engineer of small ISV with a long track record of owning complex systems end-to-end, from low-level design to production reliability.
Driven to learn new domains quickly and choose the simplest effective architecture, tools and paradigms for each problem.
Location: NYC / Old Greenwich, CT
Remote: In-person or hybrid preferred but would consider remote
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Software, systems, people, finance
Résumé/CV: https://hn-may-2026.jon-cooper.workers.dev/
Email: gazing_recite454@simplelogin.com (forwarded)
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Interested in FDE, deployment lead, product roles; open to others.
Broad and deep experience and expertise across finance, technology, leadership.
- Arbitrage and discretionary trader/PM at bank and hedge funds - Co-founded VC-backed virtual gift card company, sold to giftcards.com - CTO/CISO/partner at a $1.4B peer-to-peer lending fund - Ran bank-wide analytics and then marketing technology at First Republic
Looking to join a high velocity, passionate, talent dense team who execute relentlessly.
I like to work with others to build software, systems, teams, and businesses and am good at it.
IQ+EQ personality, positive-sum mentality.
(Eng Leadership / Systems / Product)
Location: SLC, Utah
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, TypeScript, React, Django, Node, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, ClickHouse, ETL, Airflow, FAISS, vector DBs, vLLM, llama.cpp, local inference
Résumé/CV: https://opertus.systems
Email: mark@opertus.systems
12+ years building and scaling systems and teams. I help teams go fast when systems, product, and org are out of sync. Scaling infra, unblocking teams, and getting things to ship without breaking.
Focus:
- eng leadership: hiring, leveling, process
- org design: early teams, scaling teams
- architecture: systems that hold up under growth
- DevOps / DevEx: CI/CD, tooling, developer velocity
- compliance: HIPAA, security, audit-ready systems
- AI systems: retrieval, local inference, agent workflows
Previously: YC-backed startup, Calm, nonprofit CTO.
Scale: millions of users, and built teams and processes that enabled rapid growth.
Opertus Systems: improve reliability, reduce manual ops, ship automation and AI that hold up in production.
Looking for:
- full-time roles (eng leadership / eng management / product / program)
- fractional CTO and contract work
- teams scaling product + infra together
- orgs introducing AI into real systems
And built some projects like: sandbox for agents with firecracker and rust [ https://github.com/vrn21/bouvet ] ; a key value store in rust[ https://github.com/hrefto/shorterdb ]; a serverless FaaS platform with WASM and rust [ https://github.com/orbit-serverless/server ]; a postgres extension with pgrx for full text search using tantivy, bm25, rust [ https://github.com/vrn21/pdb ]
Location: San Francisco / Bay Area
Remote: Hybrid pref
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python/Django/React, JS/Typescript/React/Redux, AI, LLMs, Art, Music, Vector Graphics
Resume/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rkb2zepov2fxkkduf8c7u/Graham-...
Email: see resume
Hi! I'm Graham, a creative technologist, former YC W23 founder, engineer and designer. Especially interested in engineer roles where I can wear multiple hats and creative technologist roles. Need a technical person who knows how to build things zero to one, has strong backgrounds in both tech and art, and soft skills like marketing and communication? I'm your person!
Location: Pensacola, FL
Remote: Yes
Relocation: Yes (US)
Technologies: C++, Python, Java, Distributed Systems, Networking, Embedded, Full-stack
Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zqk69PPyvQaxbKHXvSsydGSM-Xs...
Email: -> https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfronteddu/
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Research Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building distributed and real-time systems in unreliable and constrained environments.
Background in networking, including custom transport protocols, network monitoring, and adaptive systems. Recent work includes AI-assisted software engineering and intelligent systems.
Experience designing and building systems that need to remain reliable under failure, including tactical and edge environments.
Interested in backend, infrastructure, distributed systems, or AI-driven systems roles where I can build and improve core technology.
SEEKING WORK | Remote | India (IST, UTC+5:30) | Flexible with US/EU hours
Remote: Yes, 2.5 years onsite in the USA (ADP, Time Warner Cable), now working remotely with global clients. Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: React, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3, CloudFront), Ethereum, Solidity, Hardhat, AI/LLM integration (Claude API, OpenAI, LangChain), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, CI/CD
Website: https://govindgupta.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/govind-gupta Email: govind@govindgupta.com
I'm Govind, a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building production systems across full-stack web, blockchain, and AI.
What I bring to the table:
→ Full-stack development: React + Node.js apps from MVP to scale. Have built and shipped products for US enterprise clients including ADP and Time Warner Cable.
→ Blockchain/Web3: Production Ethereum smart contracts, DeFi integrations, and Solidity development, not just hackathon projects.
→ AI-enabled systems: Integrating LLMs into existing products, RAG pipelines, AI agents, workflow automation. I use AI tools daily in my own development workflow.
→ Fractional CTO / Technical consulting: Architecture reviews, tech stack decisions, and hands-on leadership for startups that need senior engineering guidance without a full-time hire.
Open to: project-based contracts, fractional CTO engagements, part-time ongoing work, and consulting. Strong preference for async-first teams. Competitive rates for the quality of work delivered.
Best way to reach me: govind@govindgupta.com
Most systems work fine until they don't. I build the ones that still behave when things fail.
Location: Vermont, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js/Deno, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS (compute, messaging, storage), FFmpeg
Résumé/CV: <https://en.masher.media/about.html>
Email: hn@masher.media
I've mostly been a first or founding engineer, owning systems that have to scale early. I focus on high-throughput pipelines, messaging systems, media transcoding, and recommendations—areas where issues show up under load, retries, and edge cases.
I also build real-time dashboards to observe and control these systems, using local-first approaches and browser-based technologies for media processing and realtime communication.
- Messaging systems delivering millions of emails and push notifications in minutes (retries, deliverability, observability)
- Browser-based video editing and encoding platform using FFmpeg, Supabase, and AWS
- Real-time pipelines and recommendation systems for tens of millions of users
- Scaled event ingestion ~100x for analytics and experimentation
I do my best work in small, product-focused teams, owning systems end-to-end, staying close to production, and communicating early around risks and tradeoffs.
- Founding or early engineering roles (full-time, part-time, or contract)
- Backend or infrastructure-heavy work
- Products with real users or a clear path to them
Location: Ukraine
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: H100, AI, Training, Python, PyTorch, FastAPI, Docker, CUDA, C/C++, OpenCV, Swift, JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, React, NextJS.
Email: pungg10kk@gmail.com
I started working with AI back in 2014 and consider myself one of the early vibe coders. I’m interested in everything related to AI and security, I’ve worked on benchmarks, optimizations, training and inference, tinygrad, H100, B200, DeepSeek etc. I also developed an ultra-fast programming language for executing complex GPU workloads and created a generative OS for it.
Under 25, I created the core of a security scanner and built a hacking team at a UK startup ($7M investment). We removed the GIL from Python to run 30,000 threads and scan 18,000 exchange IPs for malware overnight.
I have many achievements, I created a Top-10 music app on the App Store and an Instagram filter editor for a social network that had 28,000 users at launch.
I worked on a top-30 cryptocurrency in AI and built a better version of BitChat.
I'm an experienced developer, visionary and researcher. Reach out to me and I will strengthen your team with my experience and knowledge.
I'm good at this sort of nitpicky work, spotting and thinking about edge cases. I like getting things exactly right, even though that obviously isn't always possible due to various constraints. I've been kind of wondering if I should get into embedded development; I find it appealing when things are low-level or similarly constrained. I've beaten Microcorruption. :) (The original levels, I haven't played the new ones.)
I'm also quite interested in unusual or obscure data formats, and working on Truffle Debugger and its associated libraries certainly involved a bunch of having to figure undocumented formats and interfaces. :) I put down above what languages I've worked substantially in but I'd say I'm a generalist and will figure out whatever you give me (I knew approximately no Javascript, Typescript, or Solidity when I started working at Consensys).
I'm a mathematician by background and in my spare time, so after the Truffle Debugger project was shut down I took some time off to focus on my mathematical projects, including old ones I've been shepherding through publication. But now I'm looking for work again! If you need someone like me, I'm available for hire!
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes - New York
Technologies: Go, Rust, TypeScript, gRPC/Protobuf, Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker, Terraform, Consul, AWS, Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Grafana, Datadog, Linux
Résumé/CV: https://zhenyangli.me/cv.pdf
Email: contact [at] zhenyangli [dot] me
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Senior software engineer with 5+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, CDN/edge infrastructure, and developer-facing platforms. Currently at Disney working on the DTC media platform powering ESPN, Disney+, and Hulu - designing intent-based CDN policy controls (with Z3 formal verification), optimizing multi-CDN traffic mix, and integrating with Akamai, Fastly, and CloudFront for live events. Previously a founding engineer at a YC-backed messaging startup (Texts) and ran my own infrastructure-heavy SaaS for several years. Comfortable across the stack but happiest deep in backend/infra work - distributed systems, networking, performance, and tooling that makes other engineers faster. Currently pursuing an M.S. in CS at Georgia Tech (Computing Systems, 4.0).
Location: Redwood City, CA USA
Remote: Yes, or within a reasonable commute distance in the Bay Area
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: I'm a game developer with web and mobile dev experience, so: Unity, Unreal, C#, Unreal Blueprints, Python, Javascript, Swift, PHP, Ruby. Production and project management experience. Video/audio editing and production, too!
Portfolio: https://www.aaronnemoyten.com/portfolio/
Resume/CV: https://www.aaronnemoyten.com/resume_files/Aaron_Nemoyten_Re...
Email: aaron (at) nemo10.net
18 years of game industry experience, including as the founding live services producer on Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes ($1bn+ grossing, EA's most successful mobile game). Game design, production, programming, biz dev/pitching experience, and I produce a podcast called Make Games, Drink Coffee.
Most jobs I've had were direct hires by a founder/CEO - I'm a versatile problem-solver and I'll wear whatever hat is necessary to push a project forward.
Location: Milan, Italy Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Google Cloud Platform
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdarrigo/
Email: darrigo.g@gmail.com
I'm a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience; I worked with small teams and enterprises, and I successfully contributed to the success of many products, Hire me if you want to onboard a passionate, team player, used to wear many hats, colleague.
Location: EU (EET, UTC+2/+3)
Remote: Yes - EU or US companies, comfortable with async and timezone overlap
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python (Flask, FastAPI, Litestar, Django), Java (Spring Boot), PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, DigitalOcean, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Linux
Email: hello [at] ensostudio [dot] dev
Senior backend and infrastructure engineer, available for part-time contract work (8–16 hours/week) alongside an existing engagement.
I currently own the full backend and infrastructure layer for a EU company: Python APIs (Flask/FastAPI), PostgreSQL and Redis, AWS infrastructure managed with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes workloads. I've performed cloud migrations between AWS, Azure, and DigitalOcean, and taken ownership of legacy systems that nobody else wanted to touch. Happy to be the person your team pings when something is broken and nobody knows why.
Looking for 1–2 additional clients who need a reliable, senior-level contractor to own a slice of their backend or infrastructure. I invoice through a registered EU company in EUR or USD.
Location: Goa, India
Remote: Yes (async-first, 5 years experience working remotely)
Willing to relocate: Yes(after a remote trial period)
Technologies: Python, Go, TypeScript, relational/nosql databases, smart contracts, AWS/GCP, Terraform, Docker, Prometheus/Grafana, Airflow, MCP, Cursor/Claude Code, Langchain, Pipecat
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rz_DqdTB4pYJg3FgEnxQgoxmRPv...
Email: sgshubham@gmail.com
Technologies: Python, Go, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases, Solidity, Aptos Move, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Docker, Prometheus/Grafana, EVM, MCP, Airflow, Cursor/Claude code
10+ years building backend services, data pipelines, and on-chain infrastructure.
Most recently founding engineer at Moar Market (leveraged farming on Aptos, ~$7.5M peak TVL) — owned the full stack: Move contracts, indexers, off-chain liquidation engine, DB design, and infra end-to-end.
Before that, tech lead at Hubble Exchange — built a custom EVM-forked L1 for orderbook perps that scaled to 50,000 TPS and 30M+ transactions, including the matching engine, indexing stack, and an SDK for market makers. Earlier: backend at Zomato (Hyperpure greenfield) and Delhivery (WMS, marketplace integrations with Amazon/Paytm).
Recent side project: Deploy Terminal — an MCP-based trading terminal exposing Hyperliquid execution to LLM agents (Claude Code, openclaw etc.) with non-custodial wallet signing via Privy TEE.
Looking for: senior/lead engineer roles. I'm interested in web3, fintech, quant infra, and agentic solutions. Comfortable owning systems end-to-end; prefer small teams shipping fast over large orgs.
Not necessarily looking for full time employment, if someone just wants to do a trial via part time / fixed duration project, that would be even better for a start. My last 3 full time roles started like that.
Recently:
• Built and deployed a production RAG system (Python, FastAPI, React, Qdrant), including hybrid retrieval, ingestion, and backend APIs with improved retrieval quality and system stability as dataset scaled (ranking fixes, logging, debugging workflows)
Previously:
• 10+ years building and owning backend, data, and operational systems (ERP, BI, internal tools)
• Strong experience with messy data, integrations, and production debugging
• Delivered full systems end-to-end, including APIs, data pipelines, and internal tools
• Led technical delivery across cross-functional teams in complex corporate environments
Best fit: Backend or AI engineering roles where you need someone to quickly build, debug, or stabilize systems through API design & integrations, data pipelines, or LLM-powered features.
Open to contract engagements with possibility for longer term collaboration.
Location: Ohio, US
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Open to discussion
Technologies: React, Typescript / Javascript, Web Components, CSS, UI Design, Golang, C++, MySQL, Postgres, Docker, Linux
Résumé/CV: https://sectionfourteen.com
Email: anthony[at]sectionfourteen[dot]com
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Former graphic designer turned software developer with 10+ years of professional experience. Most recently, I've been building highly dynamic frontends with React. Prior to that, I was re-writing legacy desktop applications as web based with Vue + Go + Postgres. I'm comfortable working across the stack, and adapting to new (or old!) technologies.
Currently working on a VST plugin in C++, and I have explored a number of other areas over the years. Such as: mobile, games, graphics programming, and embedded systems.
While most of my work has been web focused, I'm open to working in other areas. Check out my website, sectionfourteen.com, for more detailed info.
Location: Guanajuato, Mexico
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Django, Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, Flutter, Bootstrap, Wagtail, AWS, DigitalOcean, Stripe, WhatsApp Business Platform
Portfolio and recent work: https://vaqueiro.com.mx/en/
Email: jaime@vaqueiro.com.mx
Hi! I'm a full-stack developer focused on building production-ready web and mobile products, especially SaaS platforms, internal tools, customer portals, marketplaces, and business process automation.
I work mainly with Django/PostgreSQL on the backend and Flutter or React on the frontend. I can take a project from product definition and technical architecture through implementation, deployment, and maintenance.
I’m especially interested in remote contract or fractional product engineering roles where I can help design, build, and ship practical business software quickly.
Location: Bangladesh
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: TypeScript, Python, NestJS, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, AWS, Docker, Prefect, BullMQ, HAProxy, Redis, MySQL, Prisma, GitHub Actions, Linux
Résumé/CV: -
Email: hn@millon.dev
I have over 7 years of experience as a backend-focused full-stack engineer and have been coding for over 12 years. I have built both internal tools and large-scale systems used by millions of users.
Location: Lisbon, Portugal Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Rust, C++, ROS2, PyTorch, OpenCV, Isaac Sim, FastAPI, TypeScript, Svelte, PostgreSQL, Qdrant, Docker, Linux, ABB RobotStudio, computer vision, reinforcement learning, robotic manipulation, simulation
Robotics and applied AI engineer focused on getting models to work in the real world. I’ve built autonomous golf ball picking robots, vision-guided robotic systems for saffron harvesting, hyperspectral drone sensing pipelines, RL-based flight route planning, and production ML infrastructure. Open to contract or full-time remote work, including US hours.
CV: https://umami.axelwickman.com/q/UK4z4Ugue
Email: axelwickm@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/axel-wickman/
Location: Singapore (UTC+8)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: TypeScript (web frontend Vue + backend Fastify+Postgres) + Swift (iOS and some macOS) + heavy coding agent use (Claude Code, Codex and Droid)
Résumé/CV: https://hboon.com/about/
Email: hboon@motionobj.com
30 years experience in software development, ranging from enterprise software, startups to indie software. Open for fractional roles too.
Location: Denver, CO, USA Remote: Yes (at most 2 days a week hybrid)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Java, Scala, React, Typescript, Python, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, whatever tech you need me to use
AI: Claude, Codex, structured output, schema generated response, etc.. AI enabled
Portfolio: https://www.benraymond.tech/
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tpL0T_AsB9_MkO7iIyQTLBeq6h2...
Email: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminlraymond
I've been working as a software engineer for 6 years. I would describe myself as a generalist. I've worked in different domains such as aerospace, automotive, and telecom. I've taken projects from 0 -1. I'd like to move away from the enterprise environment and work in a smaller, energetic, and dynamic startup. I'm prepared to wear many hats.
Built a petabyte scale CV pipeline from scratch using on-prem k8s; a text-to-sql BI tool for 9k B2C users; deployed daily production forecasts for all domestic solar panel installations in The Netherlands.
PhD in computational chemistry (2015), 10+ years of enterprise (airfrance/klm, bmw) and startup experience.
- Location: Arkansas, United States
- Remote: Yes
- Willing to relocate: Yes
- Technologies: AWS, Python, Java, Node, Kotlin
- Résumé/CV: https://chrisdempewolf.com/Chris_Dempewolf_Resume.pdf
- Email: chris@chrisdempewolf.com
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Backend engineer with 10 years of experience. Most of my work has been in data ingestion, ETL/analytics pipelines, distributed systems. I'm currently running my own company doing project-based AWS contracting work, but looking to return to a team environment.
In The Loop (intheloop.engineering) | Senior Consulting Engineers | Remote (US time zones)
We’re a small group of senior engineers who help non‑technical AI founders take fragile MVPs to production‑ready systems. We come in as fractional founding engineers: review code, fix architecture, ship.
Hiring: Senior Consulting Engineers (part‑time/contract)
Looking for experienced engineers who: - Enjoy advising non‑technical founders - Are comfortable reviewing AI‑generated code (Next.js, TypeScript, Python, major cloud providers) - Have shipped production systems end‑to‑end and can explain technical trade‑offs to non‑engineers - Have actually used AI tools in their own side projects or daily workflow - Can handle a mix of architecture reviews, roadmap planning, and hands‑on implementation
Details: - Part‑time/contract to start (typical 5–20 hours/week, flexible) - Fully remote with meaningful overlap with US daytime - Work directly with early‑stage AI founders on short, high‑leverage projects
Compensation: market‑rate contracting, typically 100–200/hr depending on experience and scope Apply: Email humans@intheloop.engineering with “HN – Human” in the subject, and a brief note on your background, availability (hours/week), and the kind of work you enjoy most.
Location: Germany
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: for the right job
Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Linux System Administration.
Résumé/CV: https://7c0h.com/cv_villalba.pdf (slightly outdated)
Email: probably_wrong_hn@7c0h.com
I love programming and computers. I've done Linux system administration and software development (both independent and as an employee) but also academic research and consulting. After a couple years researching schizophrenia and depression I'm ready for the next chapter.
Location: Buffalo, NY
Remote: Yes or Hybrid
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, LangGraph/LLM pipelines, React, Postgres
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HzlPlQj-tJ2CxAJ7gQS5Habg...
Email: nonnontrivial@gmail.com
SWE with 10 years experience building (in remote and hybrid settings) in domains: defense, manufacturing, SaaS. Comfortable with ambiguity/uncertainty.
I spent a decade as CTO at EMEX, growing the engineering team from scratch through private equity acquisition. Today I operate through Brightform Technology, working with founders who need senior-level engineering without a full-time hire. The kind of problems where product sense and architectural judgment matter as much as code output.
Past work:
* Led all frontend architecture for an IoT platform processing high-volume sensor data across nationwide deployments. Built real-time building floorplan visualization, time-series HVAC dashboards, and a modular device configuration system.
* First engineering hire → CTO at EMEX. Built the flagship real-time reverse auction platform that drove seven-figure annual sales. Grew and led a team of 6 through acquisition.
Best fit: founders with a clear idea and the budget to move fast. You might have Figma mockups, a vibe-coded prototype, or just a well-defined concept. I bring product direction alongside the engineering.
Location: Chicago, IL
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, PHP, WordPress, Tailwind CSS, Hugo, SQL, APIs, AWS, GCP, Vercel, Netlify, CDNs, Shopify, iOS, Swift, Progressive Web Apps
Portfolio: https://scottmakes.tech/portfolio
Email: scottmakestech+hn@gmail.com
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Full-stack developer with 18+ years of experience building websites and applications across industries including media, finance, and e-commerce. I work across the full stack to create fast, accessible, and scalable solutions. Comfortable owning the entire development lifecycle—from architecture and infrastructure to UI/UX and performance optimization. Deep experience with custom CMS solutions, serverless architectures, and integrations with complex APIs.
Primarily looking for a full-time role on a team, but open to contract opportunities as well.
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: Go, Python, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, AI Agentic Tools, JavaScript, CSS, SQL, PHP
Résumé/CV: https://www.wallyjones.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/wally-jones/
Email: wally@wallyjones.com
Location: Boise, Idaho
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, MongoDB, Postgres, Node, NextAuth, Cloudflare, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite.
20+ years as a designer/developer hybrid. Currently sole designer and developer at current company, shipping a Next.js site averaging 40k monthly visits and a hand-coded admin CMS used daily by the team. Founded Makeable Brand LLC and shipped 5 SaaS products solo. Built and sold a WordPress theme business serving tens of thousands of users. Brand and print foundations from a decade of editorial design, including 1,000+ book covers and covers for a NYT bestselling author. AI-assisted workflows with Claude Code/Codex as a core part of how I ship.
Looking for design engineer, founding designer, or senior product roles where I can own a surface end-to-end across design and code.
Resume/CV: https://thomasmcgee.co/resume
Email: hello@thomasmcgee.me
Location: Paris, France (dual citizenship: French & Brazilian) Remote: Yes (preferred) or Hybrid (from Paris) Willing to relocate: No Résumé/CV: https://andrewssobral.pages.dev GitHub Profile: https://github.com/andrewssobral LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewssobral Email: andrewssobral@gmail.com
Summary: AI Systems Architect with 20+ years in software engineering and 10+ years specializing in AI, ML, and Computer Vision. Former Head of AI at ActiveEon, with a Ph.D. focused on Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Expert in scalable AI systems, MLOps, distributed computing, and fine-tuning of large language and vision models. Passionate about building practical, production-ready AI solutions that bridge research and deployment. Open to roles involving AI architecture, applied research, or leadership in AI strategy and innovation.
Technologies: Python, C/C++, PyTorch, OpenCV, scikit-learn, CUDA, FastAPI, Docker, Kubernetes, MLflow, Hugging Face, REST APIs, Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), MLOps, CI/CD, Generative AI, LLMs, HPC (Slurm), Distributed Systems, Dask, Ray
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Remote: YES
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Linux, Open Source, Python, Storage, Git, CI/CD, Ansible, Virtualization (and now getting into self-hosted AI)
Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-ulrich-a1b415266/
Email: charles.hnjorb2605@bityard.net
Hi, I'm Charles and I have decades of experience with Linux administration, with some cloud and orchestration thrown in for good measure. I am passionate about open source and making people's lives easier. My strengths are clear communication and methodical troubleshooting/analysis. I love learning new things and hope for a job that exposes me to more coding, cloud, orchestration, AI-related development, and nice people.
Well-versed in: Linux, Python, Bash, virtualization, containers, CI/CD, Ansible, git, and more. I am a generalist and love digging deep into new things.
Only open to remote W-2 positions at this time. May consider an on-site job in or around Ann Arbor if the culture is right. Regardless, I'm always happy to talk to anyone about anything so absolutely feel free to reach out for a chat!
Hi, I'm Brynn!
Location: SF Bay Area, California
Remote: Open to remote or hybrid/in-office in SF Bay Area
Willing to relocate: Open to west coast
Technologies: Full stack web dev for 15+ years in many forms. In recent years I've been focused on game development projects using Babylon/WebGL and working with C++ & Go server-side (MMO servers). Many years of project and product management as well.
I have some cool projects! See my personal site for email and some of those projects:
https://brynnbateman.com/
Coolest released one is probably https://www.idlequest.net/, which is an idle-game web-based version of classic EverQuest, complete with its original 3D graphics in-browser and a real-time MMO server! Had up to 70 players online at the same time a month or two ago.
About to release my biggest project, which is a full reverse engineering and re-implementation of the 2007 MMORPG "Vanguard".
Looking largely for product engineering positions, or project/product management style work. Have done both and enjoy both a lot. Open to contracting or full-time.
Email/LinkedIn/GitHub is on my website!
SEEKING WORK | Remote
Graphic designer with experience in both frontend and backend web development (PHP; Wordpress, Framer, some Joomla and some Typo3), iconography, editorial design/typesetting with ConTeXt, general graphic design and webmaster duties. Please feel free to check my portfolio for some examples of my work.Location: Europe
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Java EE, Spring, Spring Security, REST, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Node.js, Python, Jaspersoft Studio, Eclipse, Tomcat, MySQL, Oracle, Git
Résumé/CV:
https://www.aroranishchal.com/resume
Email: nishchalaro[at]gmail[dot]com
I am a senior developer and consultant with over 15 years in the industry. My expertise is in building robust, secure and scalable backend services and enterprise applications.
My expertise includes data visualization, business intelligence and analytics. I have extensive experience with the TIBCO Jaspersoft BI suite - Jaspersoft Studio, JasperReports Server and Jaspersoft ETL (Talend Open Studio and Server).
I am looking for part-time or full-time freelance / consulting opportunities at the moment (up to 40h/week).
Website: https://www.aroranishchal.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishchal-arora
sr. cloud software engineer @ Mastercard (5 years)
api/devops software engineer @ Harvard Medical School (2 years) full-stack software engineer @ Global Prior Art (3 years)Location: Europe
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:
Design: Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Experience and Miro
Presentation: Keynote, InVision, Microsoft PowerPoint
Project Management: Jira, Kanban Boards, and Trello
Prototyping Tools: InVision, Axure RP and Figma
Programming: Basic HTML & CSS
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1stXm3PbP-_20SKp-RK-KEPfINGO...
Email: shetyemanasi18[at]gmail[dot]com
Introduction: I am a UI/UX designer with a background in graphic design, art direction, and more than six years of experience in the design industry. I am proficient in creating digital products in agile environments for the consumer and healthcare markets. With my strong analytical, research, and teamwork skills, I have successfully led a variety of projects from conception to development in both office and remote settings. I have extensive experience crafting personas, qualitative analysis, user journeys, user flows, user interface design, low and high fidelity prototypes, stakeholder presentations and design systems for UI components.
I am looking for full-time contract or freelance/consulting opportunities at the moment (up to 40 hours/week) in UI UX Design
Portfolio: https://www.manasishetye.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manasi-shetye
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Email: mshoosterman@gmail.comSoftware Engineer with experience building and scaling real-world financial systems at Nasdaq. Worked across the stack with Java/Spring Boot, React, and SQL to deliver high-performance trading infrastructure and leading onboarding for billion-dollar enterprise clients.
Strong foundation in mathematics (BSc from the University of Toronto) with a deep interest in data structures, algorithms, and computational theory. Comfortable owning features end-to-end, collaborating and building scalable, reliable software. Looking to contribute to solving complex, high-impact problems.
I'm very interested in deep learning, formal verification, and compliance automation, but also artificial life, complexity science, robotics, cybernetics (as in Beer), computational social sciences, network science, transit, city planning, etc.
I use Claude Code happily at work, as directed, and seen significant (though not unqualified) productivity gains. I've used it to varying degrees on different personal projects. I'm avoiding it now on personal projects (to retain and build skill). I can work anywhere along that spectrum.
I enjoy learning about what other people are working on, so even if you're not hiring or not interested in hiring _me_, I'd love to connect. I've had some genuinely transformative conversations with people I've met on HN, and I'd love to have more.
Location: USA
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Expert backend developer primarily focused on data engineering, mission critical/low latency/highly available systems, and AWS (certs: https://www.credly.com/users/jon-north.ad78f0c8). Happy to deal with greenfield or legacy or any mix of the two. I learn new things extremely quickly.
I prefer long term contract work, though I’ll help you with smaller things as well. W2 employment is a possibility if the fit is right. Whatever you’re doing with AI is also fine by me, and I’ll lead/adapt as appropriate.
Technologies: Python, C/C#/C++, SQL, NoSQL, Go, Golang, Docker, Git, Linux/Windows, Bash, Kafka, Redpanda, PySpark, Spark, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Redis, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, SAP HANA, LDAP, Active Directory, OAuth2
Resume/CV: www.adiuvat-consulting.com
Email: jon.north@adiuvat-consulting.com
Location: South America (I'm a US citizen)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, Python, FastAPI, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, MySQL, React, React Native, NestJS, AngularJS, Backbone, Playwright, Drupal, Express, jQuery, D3.js, visx, GraphQL, Chrome extension, Claude Code, and AWS
Résumé/CV: N/A
Email: [HN username]@gmail.com
My focus has been on browser automation and building browser agents since 2018, with 13 years of enterprise experience building dynamic data user interfaces for web and mobile. I have experience working at both medium 130 person AI companies and small, fast-moving 7 person teams wearing many different hats, which I prefer. I have been instrumental in taking multiple companies from 0 to 1, both as a consultant and as a full-time employee in media, real estate, marketing, streaming services, education, and fintech.
https://github.com/adam-s
https://adamsohn.com
Location: NY
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, Obj-C, Kotlin, C#
Native application development for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows with over a decade of experience. Creating and/or integrating APIs/SDKs. TV/Video applications on all platforms (Apple, Android, Amazon, Roku.) Extensive experience building products and platforms from the ground up.
Email: info at squirrelpointstudios dot com
Location: San Francisco
Remote: remote / hybrid / in-office all OK
Willing to relocate: yes (SF/LA)
Technologies: server, fullstack, cloud, applied AI
Résumé/CV: https://biztos.com/hncv/
Email: biztos ~at~ mac dot com
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Greetings fellow hackers!
I'm a high-agency, high-energy, eclectic, serious, fun, creative techie who's done lots of things at BigCos and startups. My happy place is working hard with smart people on something big and complex that makes the world better.
After several years in the consulting/contracting game, I am looking for an ambitious team to join. Maybe yours!
A few of my spinning plates right now: Golang inference worker, two Expo apps in TS/RN, Python data pipeline, AWS IoT for HVAC-adjacent devices, shared FFI components in Rust, and a HealthTech web app in TS/React.
Interested? Drop me a line, and if you're in the Bay Area let's grab a beverage!
I run a consulting company (atomweight.io), and have provided infosec, devops, and software engineering services to a variety of clients. I am open to both full-time and contract engagements.
I don't particularly enjoy coasting or clocking out at 5pm (mostly since I'm a night owl), so I'm looking for opportunities where I can move fast, build, ship fast, contribute the most value, and grow. If my skills and experience seem like a good fit for your needs, please reach out!
Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HTMX, Datastar, Tailwind, Vue, React, Node, Bun, PHP, Laravel, Drupal, Wordpress, C, Zig, Odin, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, Sqlite, AWS, GCP, Azure and more Resume/CV: spirofloropoulos(dot)com
Email: spiro(at)spirofloropoulos(dot)com
Recently built a pure C http server, by hand, with an online game bundled into it, in C, by hand, served on a website as a modern spin on MUD (multi-user dungeons). Also, recently built a vanilla (no 3rd party libs no AI) html/css/js with css3d card game - https://spirofloropoulos.com/css3dtabletop
Full-stack web, software and game developer, specializing in high-performance, minimal-dependency solutions. Available as an individual contributor, lead developer, or consultant. I excel at simple, efficient code and pushing web technologies to their limits. Can mentor teams or bring expertise to complex projects.
Proven track record of building multi-million dollar websites from scratch to production.
Stellar references.
Also experienced in technical streaming (online content), community engagement, and mentoring developers on modern dev practices.
SEEKING WORK: EU, Remote Worldwide
I'm a Senior DevOps engineer, Cloud Architect and Infrastructure Engineer.
I provide contract or ad-hoc services and support to startups, growth companies and enterprises. I'm often called to set up greenfield DevOps installations, architect and build cloud infrastructures, design platform architectures, build cloud-based, SaaS and mobile products and assist with emergency or short-staffed situations.
I've worked across diverse industries, crypto, tradfi, data platforms, IoT, AI, search, media, etc., which has taught me that that real solutions are rarely one-size-fits-all. I provide solutions tuned precisely to each of my clients: their products and customers, and the way their teams work.
I also provide fixed-price services which are often ideal for startups:
I also provide emergency services, support, workshops and training.BOOK YOUR FREE CONSULTATION HERE: https://ondemanddevops.com/?sid=hn2605
I lead a global volunteer team and take full product ownership: setting direction over multi-year horizons, planning and implementing architectural migrations, and keeping a project moving via community engagement, triage, fixes, reviews and mentorship.
Highlights:
AnkiDroid continues as a hobby; my day job is fully separate.Looking for: full-time or contract. IC or EM, I'm nontraditional so I'm open to a conversation about which fits. Drawn to work that makes people's lives better, in any stack.
Location: Rzeszów, Poland (CET)
Remote: Yes — EU hours, or US East Coast overlap
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Go; ML/data pipelines; document → graph extraction; regulatory & legal-domain data
Résumé: https://walat.eu | linkedin.com/in/dariusz-walat
Email: dariusz@walat.eu
Senior software engineer, 20+ years on production systems. Working on neural nets since 1996 (neuroevolution, genetic programming) — multiple AI cycles' worth of perspective on what survives the hype. Currently building a regulatory forecasting system for Polish law: ingesting statutes back to 1944, building a graph of legislation and amendments, reasoning about where the regulatory surface is moving. The hard problems are PDF → structured graph at scale and reasoning under uncertainty, not the model wrapper.
I also write about where AI coding agents actually work and where they quietly fail.
Best fit when the work is engineering-shaped — application/data rather than infra/SRE/Kubernetes-heavy — and the schedule overlaps EU hours. Comfortable as autonomous IC or small-team tech lead. Domains where messy real-world data meets non-trivial reasoning are where I'm sharpest — regulatory, legal, scientific, financial.
HN: news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stakent (since 2009)
Location: United States
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Open to Remote, Hybrid, and In Person roles
Technologies: Python, PyTorch, LangChain, FastAPI, ChromaDB, PostgreSQL, Docker, Google Cloud Run, AWS, GCP, React.js, SQL, spaCy, NetworkX
Résumé/CV: https://buvanipai.vercel.app/Buvani_Pai_Resume.pdf#view=FitH
Portfolio: https://buvanipai.vercel.app/
Email: buvanipai@gmail.com
MS CS (AI/ML) — Northwestern '24 | Currently: AI/ML Engineer
Building real-time voice AI pipelines (sub-800ms latency) and RAG systems at Bhuvi IT. Previously shipped distributed 8-GPU training at Argonne National Lab (2TB astronomical data, 1 week → 20 hours) and graph-based entity resolution (0.96 F1) as standalone projects. Comfortable across the full stack from model training to serverless cloud deployment.
Open to ML Engineering, Applied AI, AI Infrastructure, Software Engineering or Data Scientist roles.
Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
Remote: Yes — US Eastern overlap, async-friendly with Pacific (years of practice), happy to do the occasional late sync call.
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: backend, Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AI agent infra (e.g. Temporal), I can fake my way around frontend too
Resume: https://valiukas.dev/resume-linas-valiukas.pdf
Email: linas@valiukas.dev
15 years backend. Ex-Automattic on Jetpack Backup, ex-Media Cloud (Harvard/MIT, ICWSM 2021 co-author). PGConf SV 2018 and APAC 2019 talks on Postgres at scale. Currently running https://aero.zip + https://www.lobsterpack.com in parallel and vibecoding like crazy.
Grug-brain engineer (https://grugbrain.dev) and recovering purist. I'd rather push the needle in the wrong direction fast and correct course than design the perfect thing for six months. AI embracer - I treat it as an exoskeleton, not a replacement.
Not a big fan of: calculator apps on Kubernetes, six-round interview pipelines, unpaid take-homes longer than 2 hours.
Open to work on product management, solutions architecture, agentic AI or customer engineering. Remote is preferred for time zones spanning Europe to India; onsite/hybrid in Mumbai is also great. Unfortunately cannot relocate.
Open primarily to freelance/consulting roles, but full-time roles will also be considered if we're a good fit.
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Express, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS), Docker, Linux, CI/CD
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobanlukic
Email: boban@lukicengineering.com
13 years in software, last 5+ on backend. Just wrapped 2 years at FuelMe (fuel management SaaS): Senior Backend Dev, then Tech Lead from Aug 2025. Built procurement and invoice-auditing workflows on Node, Postgres, AWS. Wrote OpenEnvoy and QuickBooks integrations.
Before that: Cinnamon (fantasy sports, Revaire), DistantJob (multi-client backend), and 7 years self-employed building mobile games. One title passed 10M downloads.
Shipping production code with AI tooling daily for over a year. GitHub Copilot throughout, Claude Code for the last 7 months. Three open-source MCP servers on npm: postgres-scout-mcp, mongo-scout-mcp, kontra-mcp.
Open to: full-time remote (Europe, US, Canada), B2B via Lukic Engineering DOO (Serbia, EUR or USD), or shorter projects.
GitHub: https://github.com/bluwork
Looking for: Full-stack, backend, or AI engineer roles working on enterprise/consumer AI products. Very open to new technologies, as I really enjoy learning and building using cutting-edge tech.
At internship: Built AI agents with Semantic Kernel (reduced workflows 40%, 20K+ users), Python/Golang backend with gRPC on AWS, and Angular micro-frontends.
Currently: Leading 6-person team on medical QA analysis platform processing 150K+ data points across 4 hospital sites (ASP.NET, Next.js, Docker, PostgreSQL, Nginx).
Research: Co-authored 2 papers on RAG systems (Best Paper Award at IMNS 2025, published at IEEE/ACM CHASE 2025: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3721201.3725519). Built RAG application achieving 95% accuracy on healthcare automation.
Recent projects:
- Automated course scheduler using agentic AI + Google OR-Tools (React, SQLite, AWS Lambda and ECR, FastAPI) for econ department
- Sidequest: iOS app (React Native + Swift) with on-device OCR + LLM parsing using Vision Framework for receipts
Resumé/CV: https://sameepshah.com/resume.pdf
I am a Senior DevOps/Infrastructure/Full-stack engineer. First 10 years of my career was software development (LAMP & C# work). Last 10 years have been DevOps, SRE, and Infrastructure where I often still ended up in the code. I enjoy working in the security, finance, healthcare, and educational industries.
Location: Texas, US
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Terraform, Kubernetes, Python, Golang, Ansible, PostgreSQL, AWS, Ansible, Agentic Coding (OpenCode + vLLM + Local Models + Frontier/ VSCode + Copilot), Bash & Linux (all distros)
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-marlow-37661177/ (full resume on request)
Email: chrismarlow9[at]gmail.com
Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, REST, Scala, Typescript, SQL, Python
Resume/CV: https://daltontf.github.io/Resume.pdf
Email: In resume
Site: https://daltontf.github.io
Taught myself Java in 1997 and was able have it do the heavy lifting over the years. Have "kicked the tires" on a lot technologies over the years for side-projects evidenced by the menagerie of repositories on my GitHub.
Location: Greater New York (US Citizen)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
About: I am a Generative AI Engineer who also happens to be pretty handy across the full stack. Most of my recent work has been building RAG pipelines, AI agents, and natural language search — using LangChain, LangGraph, and vector databases like Pinecone and ChromaDB — with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini APIs under the hood. I care deeply about shipping GenAI features that hold up beyond the demo stage.
Beyond GenAI, I am working on the full stack — React/TypeScript on the frontend, Node.js or ASP.NET Core APIs on the backend, and AWS/Azure for infra. I like owning things end-to-end and building software that's simple and reliable.
Technologies:
Email: jainrasik.pro [at] gmail.comResume/CV: https://www.rasikjain.com/about/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasikjain/
GitHub: https://github.com/rasikjain
Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/1993944/rasik-jain
Location:
20+ years shipping production SaaS. Currently CTO of Allset (AI-native ops for construction trades) — multi-tenant, Stripe Connect, mobile + web; just shipped to AWS this week. Before Allset: 10 years at a private SaaS where I cut $1M+ from the AWS bill, ending as Principal Engineer. Ex-Microsoft.I ship full features end-to-end using on a real production codebase, not a prototype.
Looking for a 12-24 month senior IC seat at a YC or AI-native startup:
• Founding Engineer / early eng at a recently-funded YC company • Forward-Deployed Engineer at a funded AI startup • Senior staff IC where speed + ownership matter
Email: kenbrlow@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/knbrlo/· X: @knbrlo
Linkedin link seems to be broken? Might be bc of the · character
Location: Boston, MA Remote: Sure (open to office) Relocate: No Technologies: Node.js, React, TypeScript, Python, Docker, HTML/CSS, MCP Servers Resume: https://concourse.codes Email: see site above
Interested in climate, sustainability, greentech, hardtech, bluetech, etc. or music tech, or anything you need those are just my prefs <3
Location: San Diego, California / Lopez Island, Washington
Remote: Preferred.
Technologies/skills: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Git, Turbo/Stimulus, TailwindCSS/TailwindUI, AWS, Kamal, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, APIs, people
Resume/CV: Ruby on Rails professionally since 2008 at Shopify, Apple, Intuit and a bunch of startups as well. Open to consulting/contract work or salaried positions.
Email: bradly@rails247.com
More info: https://bradlyfeeley.com
Best fit: early-stage founder who needs someone to own the software end-to-end -- architecture, decisions, shipping. Bonus if the problem space has real research depth -- more than comfortable with math.
Looking for: part-time contract, ~20-28 hrs/week, available now and continuing through the upcoming PhD (formal verification + quantum computing).
I have a decade of experience founding and advising startups; a decade of experience as a software developer and tech lead; and a wide variety of supporting experiences. Let me help your business get to the next stage of success.
Location: Seattle, WA USA
Remote: Only
Technologies: cloud -- AWS, EC2, RDS, Dynamo, Lambda; docker, containers; Typescript, Python; numpy, pandas
Resume: https://zmichaelgehlke.com/misc/zmgehlke-resume.pdf
Email: See resume.
I'm a Full-Stack Developer, Web Designer and Image Editor with over 25 years of professional experience. Problem-solver and avid learner, I'm used to working with small and large teams across enterprise, government and third sector. I take deadlines and delivery commitments very seriously.
Location: Noida, India
Remote: Yes, US hours
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Go, Node.js, TypeScript, Java, React, Next.js, GCP, K8s, Terraform, Temporal
Résumé: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n_ND_GJbajELPmjggrhMkg5a...
Email: praveen4463@gmail.com
17 yrs shipping software, always remote.
- Engineer #2 at Galaxy (NYC AI startup, Oct 25–May 26). Galaxy got acquired; acquirer isn't keeping India based contractors.
- Founding engineer at Grub Direct (food delivery + POS, 2023–25): Java Spring backend, React Native.
- Frontend at Gumroad (2020–21).
- Built outomated.com solo to $200k lifetime revenue (Global X ETFs, Boxabl among customers).
Looking for a founding eng or senior backend role. Contractor / EOR / freelance, all fine. Available immediately.
Location: Seattle
Remote: maybe
Willing to relocated: No
Technologies: web frontend, JS, CSS, Svelte, Swift
Resume: ex-Google, ex-Amazon, see linkedin.com/in/jpsimons
Email: coolcucumber@gmail.com
Location: UK (Yorkshire)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: VueJS,PHP,NodeJS,MySQL,MongoDB,AWS and the rest…
Résumé/CV: https://irphunky.notion.site/Mark-Harwood-5d68c301d33548ebb7...
Email: mark at phunky.co.uk
Looking for contract opportunities.
Location: Lucknow, India
Remote: Yes (Worldwide)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Rust (Aya, Tokio, eBPF), Python (FastAPI, Django), Go, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Linux Kernel ABI.
Résumé/CV: https://ankurrathore.net.in/Ankur_Rathore_Architect.pdf
GitHub: https://github.com/AnkurRathore
Email: rathore.ankur@gmail.com
I am a Lead Systems Architect with 12 years of experience specializing in high-throughput distributed systems and kernel-level performance.
Recent Achievement: Author of the "Crate of the Week" in This Week in Rust (#645) for my tool 'tsastat'—a high-resolution Linux thread state analyzer.
What I do: * Scale Kafka/NiFi ingestion pipelines to handle millions of daily events. * Engineer zero-cost Linux observability tools and eBPF network filters in Rust. * Optimize P99 tail-latency in Python/Go microservices. * Architect 0-to-1 data platforms for SDN, Cloud and FinTech.
I am a free agent looking for Lead/Staff roles or high-stakes consulting missions where technical excellence is a requirement.
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Remote: Yes, open to a few office visits per year
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Java, Spring, Python, Rust, Bash, Kubernetes, Terraform, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, AWS, Prometheus/Grafana
Résumé: Available by email
Email: hn@cbyrnes.io
Backend/platform engineer with 6 YOE. I started in DevOps consulting, building automation, CI/CD, and Terraform/Packer workflows for Fortune 500 clients, then moved into backend engineering on a healthcare claims/payments platform. Recent work includes owning a greenfield ingestion service from first commit to production, shipping cross-service billing integrations, resolving P1 performance issues, and supporting production services through Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability ownership. Cut runtime by 90% on one client-sensitive workflow.
Trying something different again here, sorry.
Location: Canada
Remote: Yes
Technologies: C, OpenBSD
I'm looking for monthly/yearly "no-strings" sponsors, not employment, if any individuals, companies (or bitcoin millionaires) would like to help a long-time OpenBSD slacker, unslack, I'd really like to focus more of my time on open source development (and advocacy), rather than making rent. Feel free to contact me (see HN bio).
https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html
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Location: Marshall NC
Remote: Preferred (some travel is fine)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Typescript/Javascript (React), Postgres, AWS
Résumé/CV: https://resume.lucamasters.com/
Email: luca@lucamasters.com
My primary experience is subscription ecommerce (starting in tech support and moving into fullstack engineering) and fincom. I'm always happy to learn new tech, but I've mostly done Python and JS/TS in the past few years.
Location: Europe
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Rust, Golang, Python (Django, Scikit-learn, Pandas), PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Elasticsearch, Docker, GCP.
Résumé/CV: Reach out and I’ll send a detailed version
Email: ycombinatornews@gmail.com
Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems.
My career has spanned high-growth startups, successful acquisitions, and major enterprise research labs.
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Remote: Yes, or hybrid if nearby
Willing to relocate: Possibly
Technologies: Python, Ruby, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, PowerShell, Flask, SQL, PostGIS, Shapely, Unity, Unreal Engine, multiple assembly/machine languages, Windows user code and kernel drivers, Google Maps and other map APIs, geographic and airspace data
Résumé/CV: https://www.geary.com/resume.html or https://www.geary.com/resume.pdf and https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgeary/
Email: mike@geary.com
Hi, I'm Michael Geary. I've programmed in many languages and environments over the years. Some of my current interests are:
• Developer experience. I love helping my fellow developers solve problems, and building tools to make their jobs easier and more enjoyable.
• Aviation and geographic data. For example, airspace and obstacle data importers for Wing; election results and voter information maps for Google; many interactive maps for other companies.
• Hardware interfacing. In a way, I am a "full stack" developer, but my stack may involve a front end to a piece of hardware rather than the cloud. I first got into programming via ham radio, so RF hardware remains an interest.
• Designing and building APIs. Too often an API is designed by exposing the internals of whatever system provides the API. My philosophy is the opposite: start with the apps. I like to build a series of sample apps before starting on the API. This way I can imagine what API will make those apps and others like them easy to build.
• Talk with users! I don't like to sit in a back room cranking out code. I want to make sure it's the right code for what my users need, and that it's easy to maintain and improve as we learn more about what they want.
Open to full time or contract.
I look forward to talking with you!
Most interested in observability platforms, data infrastructure, and AI engineering broadly — anywhere AI is sharpening human judgment rather than displacing it. Currently building out infrastructure tooling in Go using agentic workflows (Claude Code).
Works across the stack — each layer has its own problems worth solving. Publishes on engineering decision frameworks and AI-augmented development workflows.
Pursuing CKA. Not interested in defense, crypto, or gambling.
Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: Yes (worldwide) Willing to relocate: Yes (within Canada) Technologies: iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, TCA, Core ML/Vision, Metal, OWASP MASVS, watchOS, iPadOS
CV: https://drobinin.com/consulting
Senior iOS engineer / consultant (12+ years). I build and fix iOS and Vision Pro apps from medical devices and high-traffic consumer apps to vibecoded startups struggling to pass App Store reviews.
Location: Charleston, South Carolina. Open to relocation if supported as part of sign-on bonus.
Remote: Preferred.
Technologies: AWS, EKS, GitHub Actions, crossplane, Terraform, Azure DevOps, EC2.
Resume/CV: linkedin.com/in/lsdir
Email: elliotechne42@gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/autotune
Location: Europe
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Web stuff
Resume/CV: https://vladimirslepnev.me
Email: vladimir.slepnev@gmail.com
If you have some fun, non-corporate-feeling stuff to do, drop me a line.
Location: Heerenveen, Netherlands Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JS, CSS, Tailwind CSS, HTML, Python, Cloudflare development Portfolio: https://danielosthebest.pages.dev/ Email: danielosthebest6467@gmail.com
I am a Full-Stack Engineer focused on building high-performance, security-first systems engineered for longevity. My recent builds consistently achieve a 100 Performance score on Google PageSpeed Insights. Every project I deliver will have 89+ on all pagespeed metrics, no matter what. This does not sacrifice quality, however.
I specialize in end-to-end infrastructure (Website + Dashboard + Backend). I also offer security audits, and bumping your pagespeed scores without sacrificing quality. I offer complex Shopify logic too. I prioritize a "No-Call" workflow. I provide a written plan of action and deliver the code, allowing you to focus on your business without meeting fatigue.
You can contact me via my e-mail, or direcly via my portfolio, whichever method you prefer. More info is in my portfolio.
Seeking MLE and Applied Science Roles | LMU, University of Oxford | ex. AWS
Keywords: Computer Vision, Robotics, Inference Optimization, AutoML, Forecasting
About: Currently investigating robotics planning with diffusion models at Oxford’s Visual Geometry Group, under joint supervision from João F. Henriques, Björn Ommer, and Christian Schroeder de Witt.Previously, I worked at AWS as an Applied Scientist Dual Student, where I (1) developed a novel inference optimization technique yielding 13.4% higher accuracy against baselines, and (2) improved SageMaker's Autopilot forecasting solution, resulting in a 3.5% error reduction and 16% decreased latency in production.
I will graduate with an M.Sc. from LMU in August and am seeking applied machine learning roles to transition my research into production-level systems.
Title: Data analyst (4+ exp)
Location: Giza, Egypt
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, SQL, Excel
Résumé/CV:
LinkedIn.com/in/ahmed-a-923790345/
Email: ahmedhakimsadek@gmail.com
25 years working in information security, with a focus on offensive security for defense. Seeking a full time or contract role.
infosec [] duck dot com
Location: India
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native, Node.js, NestJS, Go, Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
Résumé/CV: surajnegi.com
Email: surajnegi@outlook.in
Angular & Ionic Developer
Location: Portugal
Remote: Yes, remote only
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, RxJS, Angular, Ionic, Cordova, Capacitor
Résumé/CV: https://nunoarruda.com/resume.pdf
Email: nuno@nunoarruda.com
Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote: Yes (US time zones preferred)
Willing to relocate: Yes (Salt Lake City, Carson NV, smaller US cities) Technologies: Kotlin, Android (Room/FTS4, Compose, WorkManager), JavaScript (vanilla, zero-GC patterns), HTML/CSS, SQL, FTS4, TF-IDF, ServiceLocator DI
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e-UhVAkgbpoM7MjF_GtCW_PcsYA... Email: zhikun.dev@gmail.com
Independent systems developer, 27.
Filed US Provisional Patent #63/942,399 in December 2025 covering an offline memory lifecycle management system for mobile AI. Reference implementation on Android (M3mo Vault): FTS4 + TF-IDF hybrid search at 0.78 microseconds/memory on 10K-entry scale, 7-factor decay algorithm validated via ablation study (12x weight differentiation vs 2x baseline), 7-layer ServiceLocator DI replacing Hilt.
Also building Entropix Engine — a zero-GC browser game engine in vanilla JavaScript sustaining 3,000+ entities at 60 TPS. Structure-of-Arrays memory layout, GridHash spatial partitioning, deterministic fixed-timestep loop, featuring an adaptive grid-sampling fix resolving buffer overflow on high-refresh-rate displays. Live prototype on https://retroindex.org. 60 days into development, 13 milestones shipped. Weekly devlog on r/gamedev.
Past commercial work: scaled an e-commerce operation from $20K/mo to $140K/mo (7x) over 2 years through hand-coded HTML and SEO engineering — 700+ product pages under strict eBay platform constraints (no external CSS/JS allowed), with automated template pipeline reducing launch time 20%.
Background: BS Data Analysis Psychology, UC Davis (2021).
Looking for: contract or full-time remote roles in mobile AI infrastructure, on-device AI memory systems, performance-critical JavaScript/TypeScript, or e-commerce engineering. Open to indie hacker collaborations and Show HN partnerships.
GitHub: https://github.com/PhantomCyclops0079
Portfolio: https://retroindex.org
Location: Warsaw, Poland, EU Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, Bazel, Kotlin, Scala, Java Résumé/CV: https://agluszak.gitlab.io/cv.pdf | https://www.linkedin.com/in/agluszak/ Email: gluszak.andrzej+hn@gmail.com
Software engineer with 8+ years of professional experience, focused on open-source developer tooling & build systems. 5 years at JetBrains. Ideally, I'd like my next job to be in Rust.
Location: NYC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, React, React Native, Postgres, Next.js, Supabase, Python, etc etc Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FEySkgLCsWPLZEBsyRSXgorrHTw... Email: ted@inventbuild.studio
I do full-stack product design + development in one. In an agentic era, you don't need huge teams. If you have an idea, an LLM will vibe it most of the way, but won't think through real, human UX—I do. When you want to go all the way, hire me. https://inventbuild.studio
Location: US
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: A lot, but mostly focused around Rust, React/TypeScript, and macOS/Linux. I work mostly in frontend, desktop and compute, but have also done a bit of backend. I can pick up almost any tool or framework. I technically know Python.
Résumé/CV: https://logandark.net/resume.pdf
Email: logandark@logandark.net
Need work badly so send me anything except scams and fraud.