• Crypto: EVM, Solidity, DAML, and Solana contracts and dApps, ...
• Dozens of infosec audits on crypto codebases (eg Solana), secure gov facilities, defense
• Contrib to books on Rust, Haskell, and other resources
Strongest in: Python and Rust, with deep C++, Haskell, and Go experience. LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, MLOps, K8s, cloud infra, distsys and perf.
Very fluent with AI in my day-to-day dev work. I use GPT, Codex, Claude, Cursor and other current tools extensively. I'm comfortable both building AI systems and using AI aggressively to make software engineering faster and better.
I'm looking for a Senior Software Engineer role, eg:
• AI/ML and LLMs;
• Rust/C++ and perf engineering
• Python/JS backend or full-stack
• Crypto/blockchain
• Infosec and crypto audits
Extensive experience working remotely with US-based companies and global teams. If you're hiring a technically capable Senior Engineer, I'd love to hear from you!
(Please no requests for unpaid work / paid in stock.)
power capacity coming from solar means that at peak, no new non-solar power plants are needed. it does not mean that at nadir everything is solar. legacy power plants continue working around the clock, it either goes to waste or it goes to things that run at night.
that aside, solar also includes storage of energy that comes from solar. you should read up on energy networks.
I applied in February, included answers to your questions, my email was not generic - it was fully handwritten for your post, it only talked about things relevant to Puma, and included a CV. I received no response either.
— Shipped prod systems for Oracle, Shell, Time Warner, Bank of America, Sparkasse, Saatchi & Saatchi, Digitas
— Launched and audited major blockchains (e.g. Tezos - core team, Solana - 3rd party auditor)
— Built + scaled a software NGO (2M+ supporters, 1k+ volunteers)
睿 Strengths: Turn ambiguous problems into shipped systems; MVPs that don’t need rewriting; ML, LLMs, Foundation Models, RAGs, vector DBs; 10x–1000x performance wins on legacy systems; FP, Compilers, DSLs, distributed systems, security-critical code
功 Further work: Contributor: Rust Book, Rust By Example, Python docs, Haskell Communities and Activities Report; Dozens of audits, background in cryptography, infosec, formal methods
運 If you need someone who can own the stack and ship reliably, email me at damianjobsites+hn@gmail.com
命 Considering the following roles, as well as anything else that's interesting: Engineering Manager, AI Engineer, ML Engineer, Research Engineer, AI Researcher, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Software Engineer, Senior Developer, Staff Developer, Principal Developer.
P.S. I thought I'd use graphemes instead of bullet points, since they carry meaning related to the paragraph. Kind of like a mini-heading!
my first internet was on a commodore, on a C128, with a modem hand cut from copper clad, plugged into the user port, and hooked up to pirate radio, that connected to another country. we got insane speeds! seconds per character!
a modem hand cut from copper clad, plugged into the user port, and hooked up to pirate radio, that connected to another country.
Whenever I see people on HN talking about the insane levels of abstraction and indirection the tech industry has built for itself, I remember the crazy things we used to do with little more than bare wires and curiosity.
People on HN complain that they can't get work done because their 48-inch monitor isn't OLED. We would hack mainframes on the other side of the planet with a 40x7 character unlit LCD, and no internet.
Color? Luxury! To experience color, we had to use transparent glass panes painted with stripes of blue, green, and yellow for sky trees and ground respectively! And they didn't make them in the right size for my tv!!
you missed a trick with joysticks. the trick with decathlon was to hold the joystick by the base, upside down, and shake it violently. that always did the trick! i remember a friend of the family showing me that and my mind was absolutely blown.
• Part of original Tezos launch team - blockchain protocol and cryptography
• Built an LLM start to end at Primer.ai - incl algo, training/backfill infra, production code, deployment.
• High-perf systems eg in Rust and Python; latency and throughput improvements of up to 10-1000x.
• Fintech: Low-latency/kernel-bypass networking, FIX, MEV
• Crypto: EVM, Solidity, DAML, and Solana contracts and dApps, ...
• Dozens of infosec audits on crypto codebases (eg Solana), secure gov facilities, defense
• Contrib to books on Rust, Haskell, and other resources
Strongest in: Python and Rust, with deep C++, Haskell, and Go experience. LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, MLOps, K8s, cloud infra, distsys and perf.
Very fluent with AI in my day-to-day dev work. I use GPT, Codex, Claude, Cursor and other current tools extensively. I'm comfortable both building AI systems and using AI aggressively to make software engineering faster and better.
I'm looking for a Senior Software Engineer role, eg:
• AI/ML and LLMs;
• Rust/C++ and perf engineering
• Python/JS backend or full-stack
• Crypto/blockchain
• Infosec and crypto audits
Extensive experience working remotely with US-based companies and global teams. If you're hiring a technically capable Senior Engineer, I'd love to hear from you!
(Please no requests for unpaid work / paid in stock.)