Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
by naman_411 on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:26AM
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Location: Bengaluru, India (UTC+5:30)
Remote: Yes, remote only
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Qdrant, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, LangGraph, LangChain, MCP, TypeScript, Next.js
Résumé/CV: https://namangupta.dev
Email: [email protected]
AI engineer, ~2 years on production RAG and agent systems. Contract or full-time.
I make retrieval measurable. Most RAG that "feels wrong" has no eval set, so nobody can say whether the fault is chunking, embeddings, reranking or the prompt. I build the eval set from your corpus first, then fix what the numbers point at.
Recent: rebuilt Qdrant retrieval with clause-aware chunking and cross-encoder reranking. Precision ~55% to 95%+ on their internal evaluation dataset, across 500+ queries. Cut manual review ~60% with LangGraph workflows using conditional routing and human-in-the-loop gates.
Chunking writeup on the site: fixed-width severed 57% of clauses in the test corpus, clause-aware kept 99.1% intact.
OSS: MCPHub (MCP server testing harness, JSON-RPC inspector, P50/P95/P99 latency) and AgentMesh (multi-agent orchestrator with approval gates).
AI engineer, ~2 years on production RAG and agent systems. Contract or full-time.
I make retrieval measurable. Most RAG that "feels wrong" has no eval set, so nobody can say whether the fault is chunking, embeddings, reranking or the prompt. I build the eval set from your corpus first, then fix what the numbers point at.
Recent: rebuilt Qdrant retrieval with clause-aware chunking and cross-encoder reranking. Precision ~55% to 95%+ on their internal evaluation dataset, across 500+ queries. Cut manual review ~60% with LangGraph workflows using conditional routing and human-in-the-loop gates.
Chunking writeup on the site: fixed-width severed 57% of clauses in the test corpus, clause-aware kept 99.1% intact.
OSS: MCPHub (MCP server testing harness, JSON-RPC inspector, P50/P95/P99 latency) and AgentMesh (multi-agent orchestrator with approval gates).
4+ hrs US Eastern overlap, full CET.