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Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (open to travel) Fractional / advisory: Fractional CTO or CISO, or vCISO. Open to interim and part-time engagements.
Technology and security leader, first engineer to CTO and CISO over 8+ years at a healthcare ePRO startup. Built the platform from the first line of code to a secure, audited system serving ~100K users at 99.9% uptime. Led ISO 27001:2022 certification from scratch in 6 months with zero major nonconformities. Clean record: zero security incidents, 100% audit pass rate across HIPAA, GDPR, and FDA 21 CFR Part 11. Hired and led a 10-person eng team. Cut infra cost ~66% via an AWS to OCI migration.
Good fit if you need someone to stand up a security and compliance program, get audit-ready to unlock regulated or enterprise deals, or provide senior engineering leadership without a full-time hire.
Technologies: AWS, Oracle Cloud, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, backend APIs, iOS/Android, healthcare interoperability (HL7/FHIR/DICOM)
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/armandomonroys/ Email: armando [at] kirinlabs.net
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Location: Canada
Remote: Yes
Technologies: C, OpenBSD
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Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada — open to remote; can work PST core hours or relocate to BC with an offer. Resume / portfolio: https://nigelstewart.dev Email: [email protected] GitHub: https://github.com/1-bit-wonder
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Full-stack engineer, 7+ years. Deep in JS/TS, React, Node, PHP/Laravel, SQL. Also Go and Rust for systems work.
Recent things I've shipped:
• PanelOS — real-time digital signage system: Go backend pushes commands to Raspberry Pi display clients over WebSockets (Centrifugo). Millisecond delivery, self-contained slide rendering so displays never break on flaky connectivity. Has run without intervention since launch.
• Kestrel — solo eBPF runtime-security dashboard: a Go agent captures kernel events (process exec, file access, network) and feeds a SvelteKit UI with a live process tree, network map, and rule-based alerts. Brings a graphical layer to a space (Falco, etc.) that's otherwise headless. https://github.com/1-bit-wonder/kestrel
• Claude-powered customer-service chatbot — grounded in site + brand content, running in production. Learned that scope constraints + grounding beat raw prompt size for eliminating location-specific hallucinations.
• Job Application Platform (tools.nigelstewart.dev) — self-built edge platform on Astro + Cloudflare Workers/D1. Single source-of-truth career profile drives a unified artifact generator (resumes, proposals, screening answers) via Claude with strict-JSON structured outputs, plus an application tracker and conversational refinement loop.
Before this: Tech Lead at BC Children's Hospital (2018–2021) — led a team of 6, maintained 15+ production clinical web apps serving ~20,000 monthly users, migrated the portfolio to Azure with Docker + CI/CD, cut 10+ second load times to under one second.
I took a career-development period after BCCH — stayed technically active with independent projects and systems study — and I'm now fully focused on software again.
Looking for: full-time remote (or hybrid/on-site in BC). Strong preference for roles where I can work deep on real systems — product engineering, infra-adjacent work, or anything touching LLM integration, real-time systems, or security tooling. Open to hearing about interesting contract work too.
● Remote ● Branding, product design & development ● https://nirmata.studio ● [email protected]
Nothing great is created alone. Let's talk.
Location: Amman, Jordan
Remote: Yes (preferred)
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: PHP, Laravel, Java, Rust, Node.js, ReactJS, Flutter, REST APIs, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQL Server, Patroni, AWS, GCP, Docker, Linux, Grafana, etcd, BI, Azure AI.
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11mT1qXo293lziWXvfEUae3xYBolD-4FiZef5hcq6508/edit?usp=sharing
Email: [email protected]
Github: https://github.com/saifalkatoutj*b??
Lagos, Nigeria
Yes
Yes
Figma, Figjam, Notion, Responsive Designs, Information Architecture, Design Systems, Interactive Prototyping, UX Research, Accessibility (WCAG Fundamentals), Auto Layout, Components, Variants
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1guMsBmqsXnw2F6bZGO1cIm8Q...
Location: Kansas City, KS (US Central)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, web scraping and data extraction, ETL pipelines, Playwright, BeautifulSoup, Tesseract OCR, PostgreSQL, SQLite, pytest, GitHub Actions, Astro, Cloudflare Pages, C / ESP-IDF, NumPy
Résumé/CV: https://braedenkeena.pages.dev
Email: [email protected]
I build data pipelines that know when they're lying to you.
GAScout (https://gascout.pages.dev) — Georgia public-records pipeline. Four counties live, each a different ingestion problem resolved into one schema: a 9,915-page fixed-width mainframe PDF (409,142 records, zero dropped rows), a weekly XLSX roll, monthly text PDFs, and scanned sheriff's levy documents via OCR. Adding a county is a config file, not code. The other 155 are labeled planned rather than filled with invented numbers.
FindStorage (https://findstorage.pages.dev) — national self-storage pricing tracker. 4,639 locations, 245,000+ price changes logged, running unattended on a daily schedule. Aborts rather than publishing when the store count moves more than it should, because the failure that costs you isn't a crash — it's a scraper quietly returning less after a site changes and nobody noticing for three weeks.
Also built a WiFi CSI device-fingerprinting array on ESP32 — custom ESP-IDF firmware and a Python DSP pipeline, running as my apartment's security system. Cross-manufacturer separation holds at 11-15 sigma; same-model discrimination tops out near 77% and true clock twins are the open problem.
Before this I ran a 500-acre motocross park in Northern California: acquired dormant land, re-entitled it, directed a 120-person race-day crew, ran the medical plan through a mid-event helicopter evacuation, and sold my stake.
Self-taught, ~18 months in. Interested in data engineering, pipeline work, and anything where messy real-world sources have to become trustworthy structured data.
SEEKING FREELANCE WORK | US | Remote OK
I am a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Google Style, with experience at both large and small organizations. I can help you build a Platform Engineering practice from the very beginning. I'm looking to help small dev teams increase their velocity by implementing best-practices of Devops: CI/CD, Kubernetes Deployments, and effective Monitoring frameworks.
I'm particularly selling my skills in PKI/TLS. My clients are rapidly moving to MTLS for all service-to-service authentication and even for browser-to-service authentication for internal tools.
My resume: https://resume.gauntletwizard.net/ThomasHahnResume.pdf
My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-hahn-3344ba3/
My Github: https://github.com/GauntletWizard
Location: California
Remote: OK
Willing to relocate: OK
Technologies: Flutter, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Amazon Cognito, Firebase, GCP…
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yVFMVAWlgulX-GS_sEBq6bb1o24flEwm/view?usp=drivesdk
GitHub: https://github.com/Livinglist
Email: [email protected]Location: Alexandria, VA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, FastAPI, Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Cloudflare, agentic AI (Claude, Claude Code, MCP servers, agent harnesses, RAG)
Résumé/CV: https://mannan.is | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mannanjavid/
Email: [email protected]
10+ years across fintech, healthcare, and national security, most recently Principal Engineer at Capital One (shipped features for 3M+ daily users, delivered a revenue-generating product in two months with a skeleton crew). This past year I've been founding Spirit & Hammer, consulting & shipping AI products end-to-end: built the agent harness for a security startup, released Sun Signal (https://sunsignal.app) for circadian timing, and SkillGuard (https://skillguard.sh) to protect agent skills and harness environments from malicious injection.
I have a Mannan MCP server: https://mcp.mannanteam.workers.dev
Looking for senior/staff product or AI engineering roles. Full-time, part-time or contract.
Location: Southern US
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript/Web, Python, C, Full-stack, AI/ML
Email: hello @ bad-software dot com
GitHub: https://github.com/soulofmischief
Full-stack TypeScript-focused engineer/entrepreneur with lots of experience in building scalable single page apps in different frameworks, web3, multiplayer web games, building transformers and other networks, all sorts of things. Product-oriented, executive and leadership experience, comfortable in both autonomous and collaborative settings, capable Linux sysadmin. I know how to ship, end to end.
I've focused for several years now on agentic and generative work such as simulating networked LLM-augmented embodied agents, interface research, too much to list here but always happy to talk more over email. While the rest of the industry is just starting to latch onto agentic systems, I can offer years of experience, product insight and leadership.
Available for consulting, startups, projects, anything web or agentic.
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Location: State College, PA
Remote: Yes, 3 years remotely working
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Physics-informed AI, interpretable networks, fundamental & applied research
Résumé/CV: https://gergltd.com/cv_isaac_gerg.pdf
Email: first.last at gergltd.com
Former research professor. Worked for DARPA, IC, ONR.
High on thinking, low on theater.
Location: Gulfport, MS
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: C, C++, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Lisp (if I can get it), PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS, Docker, AI integration (esp. MCP)
Résumé/CV: Available upon request
Email: [email protected]
I'm Jeff, an experienced developer with pretty broad experience. I've done things like robotics control software and video processing software, all the way up to scalable enterprise applications and big-data ETL automation. In my free time I write games, language runtimes, and hack the NetBSD kernel for fun. I freakin' love to program, and I love crafting straightforward, effective solutions that serve the user.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Remote: No. SF onsite or hybrid.
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Rust, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, microservices, real-time systems, multi-tenant, WebSockets/streaming, NATS, AWS (EKS, ECS), GCP/Firebase, Kubernetes, Docker, Pulumi, PostgreSQL, Firestore, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, agent orchestration, LLM integration, RAG, MCP, human-in-the-loop, LLM-as-judge, evals and observability, OpenTelemetry, fine-tuning (LoRA)
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13tDwa9HFDxqJVPsYg-9IhlwJ65k...
Email: [email protected]
Ava, a real-time captioning platform for one-on-one and group conversations, online and in person. 11+ years, zero to product. I co-founded it and was CTO, but the backend was mine throughout, first building it and later as Backend Lead. What that covered: the live captioning pipeline, where latency, accuracy, and reliability all had to hold at once. Drove the backend from a monolith into a monolith plus microservices plus serverless, over an event-driven layer, to keep service stable. An observability stack with Prometheus and Grafana, built from scratch. A datastore migration across 100K+ accounts with no downtime, running both databases live instead of taking a batch window. The subscription and enterprise licensing backend behind customers like Disney and Nike. Penetration test remediation three years running across four teams. On call for all of it. None of this was a fresh start. Everything was already running, with real users on it, and it had to keep running while I changed it.
How I work: most of what I've built started as a vague idea, and my job was making it specific enough for other teams to build against. I own my scope end to end, and once people start building, the spec always changes. That back-and-forth is where the design actually gets figured out.
Two projects I'm working on now:
Clearway: audits websites for accessibility and drafts the compliance report a specialist would write by hand. False alarms 43% to 23%, real issues caught 74% to 83%. My first AI reviewer scored well on my own gold set and near zero on the external W3C one, because it shared a rubric with the drafter. A second reviewer reading independently now catches 53% of those errors. Small-sample measurements, not proof.
VOX Personalis: fine-tuned Whisper with LoRA on my own Deaf-accented speech, because no off-the-shelf ASR handles it. WER 238.69% to 34.05%, now with sub-second streaming output. Next is sub-20% and on-device.
Communication style: I'm Deaf and work best with text-first collaboration, clear written specs, async updates, and captions/transcripts for meetings. This is how I've worked for 11 years, including with enterprise customers.
Looking for: Senior Backend IC, MTS, or Founding Engineer scoped to backend and agent infrastructure. Seed to Series B, applied AI, SF onsite or hybrid, full-time. Going deeper, not wider. I want to put a deep backend foundation to work on the part that’s hard: making a service reliable on top of an LLM that isn’t deterministic.
Location: Vijayawada, India
Remote: Yes (worldwide — 2pm–11pm IST, overlapping full EU business hours plus US-East mornings)
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, C/C++, Docker SDK (Sandboxing/cgroups), LangGraph, Numba JIT, POSIX, FastAPI, WebSockets, Thread-Safe Queues, SQLite (WAL), Linux
GitHub: https://github.com/sriramvarun0636
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sri-ram-varun-dittakavi-4103a428...
Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XXZ-d2hf8wEJYx0O-kX310qkeHr...
90s Sandbox Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/104cf5ebcfc144a09f49c62830755408
Email: [email protected]
I build the systems plumbing, concurrent pipelines, and secure runtime isolation that AI coding-agent startups are racing to ship. Happy to prove it directly on your codebase first — I'll take on a 2-3 week paid trial sprint on a real backend bottleneck before any longer-term conversation.
Computer Science Engineer (MNNIT Allahabad). Formerly Software Engineering Intern @ DeeveloX (preprocessed 5GB+ vector search datasets with Gemini APIs).
Recent High-Agency Projects:
• AutoPatch-AI (https://github.com/sriramvarun0636/AutoPatch-AI): Autonomous, self-healing code remediation agent built on a LangGraph state machine. Engineered a zero-trust Docker execution layer (network_disabled=True, 256 MB RAM / 128 PID cgroup hard limits), streamed real-time telemetry over thread-safe queues via SSE, and built an AST-based line-level parser (cutting context/generation bloat by ~80%). Achieved a 100% resolution rate (5/5) on a custom Micro-SWE-bench harness with an average time-to-resolution of ~205 seconds.
• SentinelPrime (https://github.com/sriramvarun0636/SentinelPrime): Multi-threaded, regime-aware options trading system for live WebSocket market data. Releases the CPython GIL during numerical computations using Numba JIT compilation (nogil=True) and an Actor Model architecture over daemon threads to isolate DB I/O and API calls. Built thread-safe O(1) queues and fixed-size circular memory buffers to eliminate allocation overhead under 24/7 continuous operation.
• HydraPrime (https://github.com/sriramvarun0636/HydraPrime): Systematic XAUUSD strategy in MQL5 (C++ derivative), developed and iterated solo over two years — OTE/Fair-Value-Gap structural entries with ATR-adaptive sizing and multi-layered drawdown circuit breakers. Backtested across 96M+ real ticks over a single two-year window (2024–2026) that included a strong gold bull run: 1.37 profit factor, 13.8% max drawdown, 252% net return. Not yet forward-tested live, so I hold that return number loosely until it survives a different regime.
What I'm looking for: Backend/infra/agent-systems roles at early-stage teams, pre-seed to Series A — founding engineer or engineer #2–5, wherever you're at. Standard interview loops work fine too, not just trial sprints.
Location: Lyon, France
Willing to Relocate: Yes, to Barcelona, Roma, Hamburg, Koln, Den Haag, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Stockholm or Switzerland.
Full Remote: Yes. I offer a discount for full-remote work, because it saves me the hassle of relocation and commuting :)
Technologies: Go, Rust, C, Elixir, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, web technologies (HTML/CSS, frameworks, browser APIs), Bash, Zsh, Fish, Linux, FreeBSD, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, mathematics
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://arielche.net/
I am a software developer and researcher with half a decade of experience and a Master's degree in mathematics. I have ample experience with Golang in a professional context often on backend services like REST APIs and programs interacting with databases and message queues, am fairly proficient with a variety of other languages and technologies, and am comfortable working on a variety of domains, from accounting/financial management/CRM software, to IaaS products, to scientific and mathematical software and language apps. I enjoy learning, and am always open to learning new things, especially if they happen to ignite my curiosity.
I like free or open-source software, systems programming, web services and the infrastructure required to run them at scale and would love an opportunity to continue to contribute to and learn about them. I enjoy mathematics and quantitative research like biology, engineering and physics. I enjoy writing, and in particular writing documentation for software, educational content, and research.
I am happiest working with people who are open-minded, conscientious and kind, and I try very hard to always embody those qualities.
I am open to both full-time employment and contract work. I am a French citizen and can work freely anywhere within the EU.
Compensation for in person work is location-dependent, and more expensive than full-remote work, due to the extra work involved (physical, moving things around in meatspace work, not just pushing bits around cyberspace). That said, I do really enjoy being in nice offices and hanging out with the team while working, and also really enjoy occasional "team in-person meetups" even when working in a full-remote context.
Location: US
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Email: [email protected]
Technologies: I am full-stack and have been almost everywhere in the consumer market:
- Rust, TypeScript/JavaScript/Node.js/Bun/Deno, Swift/Obj-C, C/C++, Python, Go, C#
- Windows, Linux desktop/server, macOS/iOS, some BSD (mostly from macOS)
- Tokio/Rayon, React.js/Svelte/Angular, SwiftUI/some AppKit, wxWidgets, Asyncio/Twisted
- Desktop, embedded, web, backend, some mobile (mostly iOS)
- Burn, GGML, NumPy, some JAX, some Mojo, some MLX
Rust is definitely my favorite and TypeScript is up there as well.
At my last company, I worked on developer experience and performance optimization. The one before that on user experience and polish. I work best on storms of small things, tend to get wrapped up on big projects.
I am fully self-taught, have been doing this for over 10 years & have a beefy personal machine (macOS or Windows). I have about 3 years of professional experience. I am available to interview immediately and can start immediately. Contact me with anything.
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I am an electrical engineer based in Ontario, Canada. I'm very interested in the energy transition, especially the shift to electric vehicles, electric heat and the opportunities this creates in the electricity sector.
Looking for contract, part-time or volunteer work, specifically in renewable energy or smart grid consulting. I can also help write/review grant applications for Canadian federal/provincial support, but outside my areas of direct work.
Preferably smart grid technology, wind energy, solar PV, energy policy. Happy to chat about the long term revenue streams on the electricity grid, especially opportunities on the distribution system.
Location: Remote, prefer opportunities in US/Canada
Experience - Fifteen years total. Wind energy design background (Netherlands), Power systems degrees, experience working with the Canadian Federal government.
Remote: Yes, please. Willing to relocate: No.
Résumé/CV: On request. See linkedin: https://www.linkedin.co/in/eldrichrebello Email: eldrich [at] eldrichrebello.ca Scientific publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=a0oog-YAAAAJ
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Location: Brazil
Remote: Yes (remote only)
Willing to relocate: No
Languages/Tech: Python, Java, Linux, pydantic-ai, FastAPI, pydantic, AST-manipulating libraries (libcst, tree-sitter, JavaParser, jscodeshift, Roslyn, etc.), SAST Algorithms, etc.
Résumé/CV: https://andrecsilva.github.io/static/andre_cv.pdf
Email: see CV
Proven solid problem solving, research, and mathematical skills (Computer Science Phd. with thesis on Topological Graph Theory). Over 4 years of experience in building AI-powered SaaS solutions and AppSec SAST tools.
Quite flexible over tech/languages and not limited by what is listed above.
I'm fine with freelance/contract work.
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