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

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    Location: Oakland, CA

    Remote: Exclusively

    Willing to relocate: No

    Technologies: Rust, Axum, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Python, Flask, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

    Résumé: Please email for details

    Email: jimmy@jimmycuadra.com

    I was laid off by Cisco Meraki last summer, where I spent four years as a technical lead for the cloud side of the wireless products. I have experience in both web development and cloud infrastructure roles.

    I have worked for years in open source software development. I created and ran two notable open source projects: Lita, a ChatOps framework for Ruby (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;litaio&#x2F;lita" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;litaio&#x2F;lita) which is used by many companies for automating internal operations and workflows, and Ruma, an implementation of the Matrix protocol in Rust (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ruma.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ruma.dev&#x2F;) which went on to become the basis for the official Rust SDK for Matrix.

    My ideal role would be building software targeting other developers, either as a member of a developer tools team, or for a company whose products are made for developers. I&#x27;m also drawn to companies building &quot;neutral&quot; utilities whose value is fairly self-evident: Things like PagerDuty and Stripe which are generally useful and provide the infrastructure needed for other things to work.

    I would love to use Rust professionally, but I&#x27;m fine with other languages, too. I&#x27;d also be very happy to work on a product with an amount of open source code, given my background working on OSS projects.

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