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

SEEKING WORK | Data Scientist / Consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide I'm a data scientist with over 20 years of experience specializing in solving hair on fire problems. I thrive on gnarly problems AI can't complete even if walked through the problem step-by-step. Often it involves getting hands on or talking with staff to find the data that's really needed. My past work includes: - Saving a German automaker from lemon law recalls. - Helping a major cloud vendor predict server failures to enable load shedding. - Real-time on demand routing logistics work . - Airline flight delay forecasting. - Oil & Gas forecasting. - Shipping piracy risk. - Wound identification and classification. - Revenue optimization, persona identification and dynamic "risk-on/risk-off" risk management for ARM. I'm currently working on (semi) automating the DS loop, building workflows on top of BMAD method AI workflows. I say semi, because some problems you simply must get out of the office and speak with people or find data the AI doesn't have access to. Many problems will have e2e solves in an automated fashion. Things I'm unwilling to work on: - Gambling. - Ads/Surveillance. - Payday loans/rent-to-own. Get in touch if you have a really difficult problem you're trying to solve. Email in profile.

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 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. I'm probably not a great fit for the formal startup/corporate world, I'd fit better helping in a small organization. Assuming someone from a small organization reads these threads. 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 even better for a start.

Location: New York City area, USA Remote: Yes, also open to on-site Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C/C++, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript/React Native/Expo, C#, (System)Verilog/Vivado/FPGAs/embedded, OCaml, Rocq/formal methods and formal verification, relational/logic programming/symbolic AI, SQL, JUCE/audio/music programming. Resume/CV: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/volkov-resume.pdf Email: dmitri at dmitrivolkov.com Website: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/ Finishing up a CS master's this semester, and looking for opportunities starting in the late summer or fall. I have experience as a full-stack (or fullstack, or full stack, whatever people ctrl-f for) developer as part of an intern/consultant position where I worked directly with customers to deliver features across databases/cloud infrastructure/web API integrations/frontends. I've also mostly-independently bootstrapped a commercial music production plugin (Pivotuner, more info on my website). Open to most anything! I'm a fan of functional programming/programming language theory/compilers, currently doing research in logic/relational programming. I also have a background in music (I'm a published composer!) so particularly interested in audio/music-related stuff as well. In general I'm trying to figure out what to do next, so would be up to connect regardless of hiring-related stuff!

Location: Richmond, VA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Typescript, Backend Development, IaC, Terraform, AWS/CDK, CI/CD, Pipelines/Jenkins/Ansible, SQL, Linux Administration, Containers/Orchestration Résumé: On my website! Website: https://www.potluria.com Email: alec / AT / potluri / DOT / dev LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alec-potluri/ Github: https://github.com/apotl Hi, my name is Alec and I build infrastructure and glue systems together. I have completed projects ranging from writing backend application code to building out idempotent infrastructure. I'm looking to branch out into more formal SRE roles as well. If you're worried about the state of your infrastructure, or your developers spend too much time mucking with infrastructure versus feature work, OR if you have no idea what I'm even talking about, then I am certainly going to be a help on your team.

Location: San Jose, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: dbt, Spark, Kafka, Docker, Airflow, Terraform, AWS, Azure, FastAPI, helm, git, copilot/cursor/claude code Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dwt_w0cFJp0SSeac-bsu1XhzNPa... Email: shryunl@smu.edu About: I am a Data Engineer currently at Tesla, where I focus on building scalable backend services and automated workflows for global battery operations. I have experience migrating legacy systems into unified architectures and deploying secure APIs via Kubernetes. Previously, I built automated pipelines at Samsung Electronics and designed end-to-end Azure solutions at 3E Management. I enjoy bridging the gap between raw data and business intelligence through robust ETL/ELT pipelines and predictive modeling. I'm looking for roles where I can leverage my experience in Python, cloud infrastructure, and data orchestration to solve complex engineering challenges. Open to junior to mid level Data Engineer or SWE positions