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

I'm a PhD physicist turned infrastructure engineer. I maintain a 40+ node Linux fleet for an open-source blockchain project; covering automation, monitoring, deployments, and public services. I also run a small web-hosting business and have built cloud automation for bare-metal onboarding and Kubernetes-hosted VMs at a startup. My earlier work was in computational biophysics, ML, and HPC. I'm looking for a hands-on platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps role, ideally on a small, collaborative team.

Android developer, 4+ years professional, shipped apps with 100K+ combined Play Store downloads across social, food delivery, fitness, AI and news categories. Now freelancing and open to contract work. What I am good for: quick turnarounds on existing apps (crashes, Gradle and build errors, Play Store rejections - usually 24-48h), full Flutter apps shipped to both stores, and website-to-app conversions.

Embedded HMI engineer. For 5 years I was the sole software owner of ~12 operator dashboards that shipped to production on heavy agricultural machinery for five OEMs: architecture, C firmware, J1939 modeling at 250 kbps, the entire graphics layer, bench and field validation, and support. Two things I'm proud of: integrating an electronic Cummins engine and a DANA transmission so the machine was commanded from our own HMI/VCU with no OEM display, and replacing European OEM valve controllers with an in-house CAN + HMI module, which cut per-unit cost and license fees.

Software engineer, 2 years, remote for UK companies. I build the layer that makes AI features safe to ship. Spotter — Evaluation and guardrail layer for LLM agents. Deterministic rules run before any model judge, because a rule can't hallucinate a pass. Every call traced before it executes, so when quality drops you query what changed. CLOCKLO — Multi-tenant workforce SaaS. AI attendance verification, RBAC, Stripe, CI/CD on AWS. Shipped solo, end to end.

I'm Victor, a product designer who writes production code, fifteen years in. I can carry the backend and I have led teams, but I engage most with the user-facing parts. I'm most useful where design and build are the same job: 0-to-1 products.

Full-stack web developer with 20 years of experience, currently working at a startup where I was employee #2. My strongest area of expertise, if I had to point one out, is frontend. I've built complex multiscreen dashboards, mobile games, IPTV set-top box interfaces, you name it. Consistent and performant UIs are my jam. I enjoy working with people, I've happily and successfully led teams, conducted dozens of technical interviews and managed cross-team initiatives. That said, I'm a deeply technical person at heart, so I'm not looking for a full-time management position.