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

Location: Maine (USA)

Remote: Only. Open-minded to occasional travel.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Postgres, Flask, Containers, k8s, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Linux, various clouds. Currently learning Rust. Etc...

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtismullins or https://www.kurtismullins.com (WIP)

Email: hire@kurtismullins.com

18 Years Web, SaaS, Full-Stack, Backend, and SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering.

Looking for freelance clients/projects and part-time opportunities.

Would love to work with universities, research institutes, public good non-profits, and so forth but open to working with all kinds of wonderful people!

Work-life balance is my goal over getting rich; if you support my lifestyle then I am happy to reciprocate with my time & skills.

At home, you can find me homesteading and exploring merging tech knowledge with the natural, real world. Currently refreshing my old electronics skills to build sensors and automation systems for various projects around the house (e.g. growing food, rain water collection, etc..)

I have recently traveled to Boston a few times (its ~3 hours by train) and its amazing! Would love to make some connections down there as well. I can't come down every day but am open-minded to dropping in every once in a while.

I also really want to check out MIT (swap meet & library!), FSF, and all of this super cool culture in Boston that was too far away when I used to live in Ohio.

Thanks!

Location: Czechia, EU

Remote: Yes, US/EU timezone overlap

Willing to relocate: No, but open to business travel if needed

Technologies: Go, TypeScript, React, PyTorch/LibTorch, C/C++, PostgreSQL

LinkedIn/Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petrbrazdil

GitHub: https://github.com/pbrazdil

Email: p.brazdil at gmail dot com

Lead Engineer with 12+ years of experience building production backend, AI/ML, 3D graphics, data, financial, renewable energy, and cloud infrastructure systems.

I usually work best in technically difficult product areas where correctness, performance, and product quality all matter. I have led engineering for renewable energy platforms (AI-based), built acquired software products, improved pricing systems of public company, and built performance-critical systems for arbitrages/trading decisions on the Blockchain.

Looking for remote full-time, contract, or consulting work.

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Remote: Yes (open to US/EU time zone overlap)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python (FastAPI), backend architecture, async systems, PostgreSQL, TypeScript/React, Celery, Redis, Docker, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JgL6IRUMiXyI1bfy9-MlkjvA...

Email: eniolaarinde1@gmail.com

I am a software engineer with 13 years of experience with javascript, and 3 years at a full stack developer with python. I have experience with SaaS, deploying and maintaining ML models in production, Biotech R&D, and LLM workflows. My latest project is a LLM career coach that guides you through achieving your goals and keeps you focused, based on enneagram and emotional intelligence scores.

https://github.com/thecolorblue/coach-loop

Location: Cleveland, Ohio

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: react, typescript, python, postgresql, AWS, GCP, LLM agents

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pGfDBQkmiCBsoDr0_nInqw6S...

Email: brad.bdavis1@gmail.com

Location: Israel

Remote: Yes (EU hours, async with US)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Java, Python, Go, Postgres, infra and backend generally

Résumé/CV: https://blog.backslasher.net/about/

Email: jobs@backslasher.net

I'm an independent software architect. Companies bring me in for the painful infra and backend projects their team can't get to without derailing core work, usually migrations, reliability fixes, and cost takeouts.

Recent: AWS to GCP migration saving $5K/month with zero downtime. Cassandra to DynamoDB migration, no downtime. Build times 30min to 3min, success rate 70% to 97%. Once replaced a planned 2-month rewrite with a 6-line diff.

Background: 6 years at Facebook (reliability/performance/security at billion-user scale), then architect at two growth-stage startups. Independent since 2025.

Best fit: growth-stage company with a defined infra-shaped problem and budget to have someone senior own it end-to-end. Probably not the right call for ongoing IC work or pure feature delivery. I work fixed-price when scope is clear, hourly when it isn't.

Location: Taiwan (UTC+8)

Remote: Remote (EU friendly, limited US/Canada hours)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby On Rails, Ruby, TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, HTML/CSS, Sinatra, Chartkick, StimulusJS, jQuery, Handlebars, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, Heroku, Render, Git, VS Code, OmniAuth

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s70R5YQDzyx7cFfagbHAJ4oNI9l...

GitHub: https://github.com/yuhruh

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

Portfolio: https://pet-feeding-tracker-v4.up.railway.app

Email: yuhruhgrape@gmail.com

Hello, I'm Rita. I am an independent software engineer with over 4 years of full-stack development experience. Recently, I created an app "Pet Feeder Tracker" using PostgreSQL, Ruby On Rails 8, StimulusJS, Tailwind CSS, OmniAuth(User Authentication), functional test, Gemini CLI to transformed messey datasheet to organized and visualization chart trend.

Looking for: Ruby on Rails Developer/ Fullstack Engineer/ Backend Engineer.

Arup Basak, A frontend heavy fullstack engineer, final year CS student. Comfortable across the stack in TypeScript, React/Next.js and RAG work thrown in. Looking for my next thing(Onsite/Remote).

Email: hello@arupb.com

Location: India

Technologies: Next.js, React, Express, JS/TS

Résumé/CV: https://arupb.com/resume.pdf

Github: https://github.com/arup-basak

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/basak-arup

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland (EU citizen) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Within Switzerland Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Docker, Kubernetes, Slurm, Run:ai, LoRA/QLoRA, RAG, LLM evaluation Website: https://amunozo.com Résumé/CV: Available upon request Email: alberto.munoz.ortiz@proton.me GitHub: https://github.com/amunozo

I'll finish a myPhD in NLP this June. During my PhD, I built NLP systems that work under limited data and developed methods to evaluate what language models learn and how they behave.

Now I want a research engineer or applied scientist role working on LLM evaluation and data-efficient training. Available from July 1st.

Location: Romania

Remote: Only. Have done it for most of my career, have home office and not kitchen table, can work async, used to time zone differences etc etc.

Willing to relocate: Not on the first date.

Technologies: C++, Python, Yocto, windows native, Qt, iot stuff, arm linux, all those buses like i2c, spi, serial, Android, Couchdb.

Résumé/CV: Linkedin link in profile, or same user as here.

Email: Description in profile.

General use developer/architect/lead for those keywords above or other keywords.

Used to working independently, architecturizing and/or coordinating tiny teams.

Have carried a lot of customer's bits from wherever they were generated to wherever they were needed. Either just talking to sensors or doing the whole chain, daemons and GUIs if the project required them.

Have done software archaeology on mature code bases and fixed/improved them. As a matter of fact that's what I'm doing now, bringing an old native windows application to the 21st century.

Not necessarily looking for full time employment, if someone just wants to get to know people via part time / fixed duration projects, that would be just fine(tm). Especially if they're a smaller organization, i might do better in one of those.

Location: Avignon, France (open to relocation)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (France)

Technologies: PHP/Laravel/Symfony, Node.js/Express, React, Vue, Angular, TypeScript, Docker, PostgreSQL, MySQL

Resume/CV: https://lotfi.page

Email: abdallahlotfi97 at google mail

Looking for: apprenticeship (alternance) starting September 2026, rhythm 2 weeks company / 2 weeks university. Summer internship also possible from June 2026.

Master's student in Software Engineering at Avignon University (France). Previously shipped production work at two companies and one freelance project.

Full-stack leaning backend. Comfortable across the stack. Familiar with AI tooling and agentic workflows.