Location: UAE Remote: Preferred Want to relocate: No

Philosophy: Brutally Efficient

More: https://aazar.me

Do these ever really even work? Can one person say that they've gotten a job from one of these?

  Location: Redmond, WA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python, C, postgres, react, express, node, laravel, php, pyside, pyinstaller, fastapi, bash, nix, nixos, kiro, vibecoding
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W5kPtwoTa8kAqKgsFYdBifP0gml0O9h5ukNeiEB--v0/edit?usp=sharing
  Email: mail@cadocary.com

I have recently gotten a really killer job building a second space internet for the other billionaire, so it's kind of impossible to compete on salary. That said, I have a contract relationship with this entity which does not include IP agreements, so I am both capable and excited to sign equity deals.

Reach out if you think a talented contractor can unblock you, or if you can take on a cofounder who can work for free as long as he's working part-time.

Location: Novi Sad, Serbia (Europe) Remote: Yes (CET/GMT+2, highly experienced with US time zones) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java (Modern LTS / JDK 21-26), Spring Boot/Cloud, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes (MicroK8s), Elasticsearch, Neo4j, Redis, Hibernate, Linux, Infrastructure & Platform Engineering. Website: https://swarcs.com GitHub: https://github.com/boskomijin LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/boskomijin Email: bosko.mijin@swarcs.com

I am a hands-on Software Architect and Systems Recovery Lead with over 20 years of experience in the Java ecosystem. I operate through my company, SWARCS, acting as a tactical B2B contractor for businesses facing critical production anomalies, heavy technical debt, or scalability ceilings.

My background is a mix of rigorous engineering and extreme stress tolerance—including an M.Sc. in Software Engineering (GPA 9.64) and 8 years of active military service as an Air Defense systems engineer and commander. I specialize in stepping into degraded production environments where data integrity and system availability carry major operational risks.

What I bring to the table:

- Technical Forensics & Legacy Rescue: Code-level, zero-downtime decoupling of enterprise monoliths and structural diagnosis of complex distributed runtime anomalies. - High-Concurrency & Performance Tuning: Designing thread-safe write loops, low-latency state synchronization models, and optimizing memory footprints under strict CPU/RAM constraints. - Regulated & Event-Driven Platforms: Translating multi-jurisdictional compliance rules into deterministic server-side logic, and stabilizing high-throughput messaging meshes (Kafka/RabbitMQ).

Recent production execution examples: - Re-architected core transaction pathways into deterministic state engines to resolve distributed locking issues and database connection starvation under intensive write loads. - Designed and built core event-driven microservices for a public safety emergency notification infrastructure, maintaining zero dropped messages during heavy event bursts. - Refactored graph traversal paths using low-level Java primitive arrays to lock in maximum CPU cache locality for a European renewable energy grid routing system.

I am looking for challenging part-time or full-time consulting/contract (B2B) engagements where you need senior technical authority to unblock your architectural roadmap, handle high-stakes refactoring, or stabilize infrastructure mid-flight.

In this comments section: a deep pool of talented people that make my imposter syndrome go "foom!"...

I'm an international prizewinning academic likely to reduce my hours due to health concerns but very interested in fun, physics-heavy problems and out-of-bag collaborations.

Location: UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Medical Imaging, Magnetic Resonance and biomedical research in general -- and in a more nerdy context, HPC, MPI, C, C++, R, a bit of python (though, frankly, I do not like it) /tensorflow, and bash / mathematica / matlab. Not popular, I know. Oh, and LaTeX. I'll write a shopping list in LaTeX. You probably don't want that.

Website: Have a glance at https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=LhYjunkAAAAJ for a flavour of the many random things I've worked on

Email: See my HN Userpage.

Location: Chattanooga, TN (Eastern)

Remote: Yes (US)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, macOS, Apple Intelligence (on-device), Python, Postgres, LLM pipelines (Llama, Whisper, GLM), Promptfoo evals, product design, front-end

Resume/CV: doubleabattery.com/work-with-me (full resume on request)

Email: hello@doubleabattery.com

Fractional product lead / design-led AI builder, 25 years shipping commercial work. I help non-technical founders and operators decide what to build, then ship it as production software. Not prototypes, not demos.

Recent ships: Steadcast (steadcast.co), a native macOS podcast app in the Mac App Store, plus its production AI backend: queue-based Whisper transcription on a self-hosted GPU, eval gates that block bad model output before it persists, mixture-of-models routing, cost ceilings, monitoring. Currently building an on-device Apple Intelligence macOS app that fills distributor and retailer paperwork for CPG brands.

Background: Apple Design Award winner (2003, Tubatomic; commercial work for Warner Bros, HGTV, Turner). Ran Hoff & Pepper hot sauce for a decade: 1M bottles, ~5,000 retail doors, Hot Ones Season 16. I've sat on both sides, operator with a P&L and the person shipping the software.

Best fit: AI features that need to actually work, founders burned by agencies, CPG/DTC operators who want a builder who has run a real business.

  Location: Sacramento, CA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: After a year
  Tech: Python, Wagtail/Django, SQL, ChromaDB + LangChain. Historically 5+ ecosystems: PHP, Java, Node, Clojure, Flash/Flex in no particular order. C-based program in school, comfortable at system level.
  Resume: 8+ years solo building + various food industry. Prior: Senior Software Engineer + Tech Lead and B. Sci. Comp. Sci. degree. E-Commerce and Web Agency Developer prior to college.
  Email: h.iverson@gmail.com

I'd like to land contract work, 10-40+ hours per week. I currently spend about 100 hours a week in my office building tech demos and seeking my first consulting/contract client in my new practice. I've probably done something similar to what you need, if you need backend or data engineer or CI/dev automation projects done. I'm not exactly a generalist but I've worn so many hats. I can start at a low intro rate for 90 days, I picture building long term relationships with trust established via increasingly important and urgent projects.

I can travel on site as needed and work from my office normally. I've lived in the Bay Area for over a decade since college and am familiar with the lay of the land and culture and everything, happy to visit. Thanks.

Location: Austin

Remote: cool, but cool with hybrid as well. Sometimes it's nice to see faces.

Willing to relocate: No. My wife has a brick-and-mortar store in Austin. I can't leave.

Technologies: Man... all of them. I started out printing HTML straight from Perl. Since then I've used Javascript, Ruby, Python, Lisp, Scheme... even PHP. I've dabbled in Haskell and Erlang. I know networks and databases (I love Postgres the most) and cloud stuff (AWS and Akamai). I am kind of a Unix partisan, but I like BSD as much as Linux.

Resume: http://anwu.org/joshua/resume.pdf

Email: morris2357@protonmail.com

Anyone need a tech generalist? I've done just about every damn thing under the sun. Mostly software development, but I began as a system and network administrator. Well... I began in tech support, but that was a looong time ago.

Anyway... let me know if you need an old man to lead some wet-behind-the-ears whippersnappers on the way of things. Seems like a challenge for my old ass to get past the AI/HR hurdles, nowadays. I always had trouble getting past HR to talk to someone who actually understood what I did (I'm kinda shy); and now it feels like I can't even get past the robots to get to that part.

So, yeah, uh... hire me!