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by nathan_douglas 53 days ago 

    Location: Ohio
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No (but see below)
    Technologies: Kubernetes / Terraform / Ansible / Serverless / AWS / Rust / Bash / PHP / Python / JS / TS / C / Clojure / etc, happy to learn more
    Résumé/CV: https://ndouglas.github.io/resume/resume.pdf
    Email: See résumé
    Site: https://darkdell.net/
I'm a generalist software engineer with most of my experience (14YOE professional) in backend, platform, infra, and DevOps stuff. I'm currently employed and love where I am and what I do, but I intend to relocate to the EU in 2028 and my job (federal contracting) is incompatible with that goal.

I'm very interested in deep learning, formal verification, and compliance automation, but also artificial life, complexity science, robotics, cybernetics (as in Beer), computational social sciences, network science, transit, city planning, etc.

I use Claude Code happily at work, as directed, and seen significant (though not unqualified) productivity gains. I've used it to varying degrees on different personal projects. I'm avoiding it now on personal projects (to retain and build skill). I can work anywhere along that spectrum.

I enjoy learning about what other people are working on, so even if you're not hiring or not interested in hiring _me_, I'd love to connect. I've had some genuinely transformative conversations with people I've met on HN, and I'd love to have more.

*EDIT*: I mean "I'd love to connect" IF you're not just trying to sell me something - especially your shitty AI résumé- or interview-prep services, you hacks.
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nathan_douglas 50 days ago
As a side note for anyone who sees this, I received an unsolicited email from "Harold Anderson" (harold@signalvapor.org) but signed "Chris", trying to get me to buy an AI service (nspire.ai).

nspire.ai 's company page [1] lists as their head of sales "Chris Kinnard". Perhaps this is coincidental. Perhaps nspire.ai, and their head of sales, has nothing better to do than to spam people. Doesn't say much for the quality of their product.

Anyway, I wanted to share this scummy, shitty, spammy behavior, just in case anyone now or in the future happens to Google™ Theo, nspire.ai, AI career coaches, etc.

[1] https://nspire.ai/company/

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