Posted by whoishiring 7 hours ago
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
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Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.
Searchers: try https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-wants-to-be-hired, https://www.wantstobehired.com.
Technologies: Linux, DevOps, RouterOS (Mikrotik), OpenWRT, Teltonika, Cloudflare, Tailscale, VPN, Qemu/KVM, VMWare ESXi, Docker Compose, Git, Grafana stacks, POSIX filesystems, Restic, AWS S3, OpenLDAP, MS365 (Entra and Exchange Online), Bash, Saltstack, Custom OS builds, and many more.
Background: - 20+ years hands-on GNU/Linux (self-taught, on-field expertise) - 10+ years remote B2B contracts (long-term retention, proven reliability) - Deep specialization: On-premise infrastructure (bare metal & hybrid), disaster recovery, business continuity under critical conditions - Technical leadership: Architecture decisions, strategic advisory, operating autonomously under pressure
Highlights: - Emergency infrastructure migration during active conflict in Eastern Europe, 2022 (datacenter evacuation, 7 days full production recovery, zero data loss) - 5 years: Lead Infrastructure Engineer at German company (datacenter ops, thermal observability, HA architecture) - 2+ years: R&D infrastructure at USA & UK companies (OS integration, test automation, virtualization, orchestration) - Open-source: VM-Babysitter architect & maintainer (Unraid Community Apps) - Languages: Native Spanish / Fluent English
What I'm Looking For: - Fractional CTO / Infrastructure Advisory roles - Project-based infrastructure design / implementation - Board advisor roles
Availability: 20-30 hours/week, flexible Rate: $75-120/hour (projects); $4-8k/month (retainer); open to equity + stipend
Resume: https://static.kindofexpert.page/portfolio/Adrian_Parilli_CV... Email: adrianparilli@yahoo.com
Technologies: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Go, Python, Docker, Helm, Argo, Kong, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Vector, Quickwit
Resume/CV: [available on request]
Email: open4work2026@gmail.com (want to keep it anonymous because coworkers are on HN)
Currently Lead Platform Engineer at a security AI startup where I built the platform team from scratch (0 to 5 engineers) and architected multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure across 40+ clusters with per-tenant KMS encryption and Argo-based progressive delivery.
Before that, spent nearly 6 years as Staff SRE at Iterable where most of my work centered on making infrastructure cheaper and more reliable. Replaced ELK with Quickwit for 65TB/day log ingestion (saved $1.2M/year), migrated Lambda pipelines to Vector ($60k/mo down to $8k/mo), and stood up VictoriaMetrics to replace Datadog for 33M metrics ($30k/mo savings). I tend to find the project that saves the most money and then actually build it.
I write Go -- built Kubernetes operators for RabbitMQ, Redis, and Vector (open source: github.com/zcentric/vector-operator). Terraform is my IaC of choice and I've used it everywhere from a global Predix platform (Japan, EU regions) to scaling Kubernetes clusters from 10 to 300 nodes on spot instances for satellite image processing at Urthecast.
I've managed teams at three companies (up to 6 engineers) and served as product owner for SRE groups, but I'm open to both IC and management roles at the Staff/Principal/Director level.
Looking for: DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles. $200K+ total comp. Remote only, US-based.
Location: Prague, Czech Republic (CET)
Remote: Yes; hybrid works too
Willing to relocate: Open to discuss
Technologies: Go, TypeScript/React, Electron, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes (RKE2), GCP, Linux, MCP / agentic tooling
Résumé/CV: on request by email
Email: editor678@gmail.com
I build self-service kiosks and the POS systems next to them. Real machines, bolted to a shop floor, kicked by customers, unplugged by the cleaner, on whatever internet the landlord is paying for. When a release goes wrong there, nobody types git revert. Somebody gets in a car.
So most of my work is the unglamorous half. Provisioning that takes a device from cardboard box to live fleet with nobody touching a keyboard. OTA updates that can lose power mid-flash and still boot. One codebase that satisfies several certifiers, because the alternative is a fork per market and death by cherry-pick.
The day job for the last few years: ~12 engineers across backend, frontend and QA, most of them hired by me, all of their PRs still read by me. I also built the team's Claude Code setup — CLAUDE.md hierarchies, MCP servers for Jira/GitHub and codebase search, fan-out review with parallel subagents — and got twelve people to actually use it, which was the harder engineering problem.
Looking for: engineering manager, tech lead, or staff-level backend. Remote, EU hours. I'm at my best where software meets physical objects, auditors, or a team that ships but can't tell you when.
Languages: English, Czech. Contractor (B2B) or employee.
Remote: Yes, US time zones
Willing to relocate: No; remote, or onsite in Hillsboro/Beaverton
Technologies: Linux kernel, Rust (Rust-for-Linux), C, C++, device drivers, I2C/SMBus, power-supply, Android/AOSP, SoC bring-up, bootloaders, RT Linux, JTAG, Python
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/brucer42/resume
Email: brucer42@gmail.com
In 2012 I wrote the SMB347 charger driver that is still in mainline Linux (commit ed1a230f, v3.4). This year I ported it to Rust and sent it upstream as an RFC, adding a Rust power_supply class abstraction mainline doesn't have yet. The maintainer replied "having Rust bindings for new drivers sounds good to me" -- direction approved, not merged; v2 in progress.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260708214738.25008-1-brucer42@...
https://github.com/brucer42/rust-smb347
Before that: Intel (AOSP, tablet bring-up, secure-boot firmware), Cisco (C++ firmware and ASIC HAL generators, Catalyst 4500), ClearEdge Power (embedded Linux for a 5 kW fuel cell), then ten years as a startup CTO. 30+ years total.
Looking for kernel, driver, or embedded work -- full-time or contract.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: For the right company and compensation
Technologies: Python, JS, Ruby, AWS, Azure, Docker, Terraform, LLM rollout and integration, etc, etc, etc
Résumé/CV: https://driverdan.com
Email: dan at driverdan dot com
Looking for a leadership position, VPE, Director, fractional CTO or other consulting. Will consider IC manager or tech lead role for the right company. 7+ years director experience, founder, extensive freelance / consulting experience, worked on or led teams building a wide range of B2B web software products.
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zafS427Xm2jX2MXC08WD6Bz3vUq...
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-polla/
Email: leepolla@gmail.com
Data scientist and full stack engineer with 7+ years of experience delivering production solutions to laboratory scientists. Over the last year I have started using Claude, OpenSpec and Beads to automate development tasks. Looking for new data scientist and full stack engineer roles.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Depends, open to travel
Technologies: Go, TypeScript, Node.js, Deno, Nim, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, GCP, Docker, Terraform, Caddy, Linux/VPS infrastructure, REST, GraphQL, Shopify, AI/LLMs
Résumé/CV: Can provide via email
Email: zedeus@pm.me
I'm a senior software engineer with 8 years of experience, primarily focused on backend development, systems architecture, web scraping/reverse engineering, performance optimization, and infrastructure. I work best in small teams where I can operate autonomously and take ownership of difficult problems end-to-end.
I'm the developer of Nitter (https://github.com/zedeus/nitter), an open-source alternative frontend for X/Twitter that I developed and operated for 7 years. At its peak it served millions of users and had a large community around it. I maintained it through major changes to X's infrastructure, including reverse engineering, API usage, caching, performance optimization, anti-bot/WAF systems, and production infrastructure. It was ultimately shut down following legal threats from X.
Outside of Nitter, I've worked on internal logistics systems, APIs and integrations, cloud infrastructure, automation, and various other backend systems. I'm particularly interested in difficult technical problems where I can have substantial ownership, whether that's backend/infrastructure, data acquisition and scraping, developer tooling, or AI-related systems.
I'm anonymous here because of the nature of Nitter and the legal situation surrounding it. I'm happy to verify my identity privately and can provide my CV and additional details by email. Anonymity would not be a requirement after employment.
I'm open to full-time employment or contract work.
Remote: Absolutely
Willing to relocate: Probably not
Technologies: LLMs (because of course), Ruby/Rails, JavaScript (Node.js, React, Express, Next.js, TypeScript), Python, SQL, Java, PHP, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, PostGIS, Redis, DHIS2, Metabase, ODK, CommCare, Mapbox, Leaflet, Amazon Web Services (EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, S3, Lambda, SES, CloudFormation, ElastiCache), Google Cloud (Compute Engine, Cloud SQL), Docker, Terraform, Heroku, Nginx
CV: https://adamwilson.dev/cv.html
Email: adam@bastion.dev
I've run a small consultancy building data management and reporting technologies in the public health and supply chain area for almost a decade now and am open to contracting/fractional opportunities. If you're in the non-profit, privacy, or public health space and need a technical advisor or co-founder I'd love to chat!
I have around 8 years of hands-on experience across real-world AI/ML & Data Science problems.
Currently in my final semester of MS @ Columbia University, NYC, working across ML and AI paradigms including RL, Deep Learning and Foundation Models.
Location: NYC Remote: Absolutely Willing to relocate: Yes Location preference: 1. SF/Bay Area 2. NYC 3. Boston 4. Seattle Focus: ML Applied Research & Engineering
Resume: https://pracha.me/resume Email: pc3197@columbia.edu
Remote: Yes, remote only
Willing to relocate: No
I'm a freelance iOS engineer specializing in augmented reality, computer vision, and spatial AI. I develop on-device AR/CV for Apple platforms – or any type of iOS/macOS app. I've also shipped three visionOS apps and several enterprise client visionOS explorations.
Since 2017 I've built for Mozilla, Walmart, Carnegie Mellon, solo founders, startups later acquired by OpenAI & Shopify, and R&D teams at large corporations. Several apps I've built have been featured by Apple.
Latest solo app: minimap – a realtime 3D map of your home (i.e. a live digital twin) that renders the people inside it in 3D (demo vid: https://youtu.be/86vGyX5AL94).
Technologies:
- AR/CV/Spatial: ARKit, RealityKit, RoomPlan, multi-camera relocalization, LiDAR scene reconstruction, 3D Gaussian splatting, photogrammetry, object tracking, semantic segmentation, person segmentation, depth estimation, image saliency, Metal, Enterprise APIs, room tracking, Object Capture, Vision framework, VideoToolbox, world tracking, Reality Composer Pro, Shader Graph, spatial audio
- Apple: Swift, SwiftUI, SwiftData, Network framework, AVFoundation
- ML: Core AI, Core ML, Create ML
- AI/LLM: OpenAI API, Claude, Gemini
- Backend: CloudKit, RevenueCat, Convex, Supabase, Firebase, Firestore
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atmorales0/
Email: tony [at-symbol] vision [dot] engineer
GitHub: https://github.com/robomex
Website: https://vision.engineer
If you have questions or you want to get a conversation started: Send me a message!