Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
by The_Fox on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:31AM
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Location: Kelowna area, BC, Canada
Remote: Yep
Willing to relocate: Nope
Technologies: Linux, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform, SaltStack, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Nginx, Python, Django, apt packaging, iptables, VPNs, TCP congestion control algorithms (more than I ever wanted to know)
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/foxmatthew/
Email: [email protected]
I have 15 years of experience in startup software development and DevOps across web apps, cloud, and Linux networking. 10 years of leadership in teams of up to 7 people. I have built infrastructure using Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, and Linode.
Here are a sample of my accomplishments:
* Built a platform for hosting web apps using Kubernetes at a major cloud provider and taught engineers to operate and improve it. Introduced Terraform, Helm, and incident management processes. It operates in 4 regions and has about 250 total CPUs.
* Led a B2B SaaS company through their first SOC 2 Type II audit.
* Created an application CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Gitlab, resulting in a DORA performance score of 8.0 (above average in all scores according to dora.dev)
* Published and maintained the community Apt package for Helm, the Kubernetes package manager, which is downloaded more than 350,000 times per month.
Here are a sample of my accomplishments:
* Built a platform for hosting web apps using Kubernetes at a major cloud provider and taught engineers to operate and improve it. Introduced Terraform, Helm, and incident management processes. It operates in 4 regions and has about 250 total CPUs.
* Led a B2B SaaS company through their first SOC 2 Type II audit.
* Created an application CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Gitlab, resulting in a DORA performance score of 8.0 (above average in all scores according to dora.dev)
* Published and maintained the community Apt package for Helm, the Kubernetes package manager, which is downloaded more than 350,000 times per month.
* Created a system to control calls in Asterisk with AI-trained voice commands ("hey asterisk, dial extension 1") https://github.com/mattfox/asterisk-voice-control