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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @03:22PM (#49173622)
Location: Miami, FL, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, Rust, AI/LLMs, RAG, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjamesleonard/

Email: [email protected]

Senior Product Engineer with 15+ years of experience building AI products, SaaS platforms, and consumer applications. I've help found multiple companies, shipped products from zero to one, and worked across startups as a founder, CTO, and senior engineer. My recent work focuses on LLM-powered products, AI agents, speech recognition, and backend systems. Looking for Senior or Founding Engineer roles where I can own products end-to-end and build impactful AI-powered software.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:52PM (#48751523)
Location: US

Remote: Yes, but willing to travel to office for periods of time

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Rust, LLMs, JavaScript, Typescript, Ruby, Rails, Docker, Mobile development, React, AWS, Postgres, etc. Can learn just about anything pretty fast and get up and running

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjamesleonard

Email: [email protected]

Seasoned product engineer (~20 years). Recently helped YC company Attunement launch its first products; last year led and built an AI experience for Beetlejuice that scaled to millions of users. I specialize in turning zero-to-one ideas into profitable, scalable products. I am interested in doing deeper AI work, relative to training models, and or solving hard problems.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) on Monday June 01, 2026 @07:37PM (#48363997)
Location: NA

Remote: Only, but I will gladly travel and stay at the office for a couple weeks at a time, multiple times a month

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Rust, LLMs, JavaScript, Typescript, Ruby, Rails, Docker, Mobile development, React, AWS, Postgres, etc. Can learn just about anything pretty fast and get up and running

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjamesleonard

Email: [email protected]

Seasoned product engineer (~20 years). Recently helped YC company Attunement launch its first products; last year led and built an AI experience for Beetlejuice that scaled to millions of users. I specialize in turning zero-to-one ideas into profitable, scalable products. I am interested in doing deeper AI work, relative to training models, and or solving hard problems.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) on Sunday May 03, 2026 @04:04AM (#47994603)
Location: NA Remote: Only, but I will gladly travel and stay at the office for a couple weeks at a time, multiple times a month

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, LLMs, JavaScript, Typescript, Ruby, Rails, Docker, Mobile development, React, AWS, Postgres, etc. Can learn just about anything pretty fast and get up and running

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjamesleonard

Email: [email protected]

Seasoned product engineer (~20 years). Recently helped YC company Attunement launch its first products; last year led and built an AI experience for Beetlejuice that scaled to millions of users. I specialize in turning zero-to-one ideas into profitable, scalable products. I am interested in doing deeper AI work, relative to training models, and or solving hard problems.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025) on Monday November 03, 2025 @01:12PM (#45802218)
Location: Cancun, Mexico (but I am an American citizen)

Remote: Only, but I will gladly travel and stay at the office for a couple weeks at a time, multiple times a month

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, LLMs, JavaScript, Typescript, Ruby, Rails, Docker, Mobile development, React, Can learn just about anything pretty fast and get up and running

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjamesleonard

Email: [email protected]

Seasoned product engineer (~20 years). Recently helped YC company Attunement launch its first products; last year led and built an AI experience for Beetlejuice that scaled to millions of users. I specialize in turning zero-to-one ideas into profitable, scalable products. I am interested in doing deeper AI work, relative to training models, and or solving hard problems.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025) on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @05:56AM (#44168202)
Location: United States/Mexico (I travel between the two, but a US citizen)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: If the offer makes sense

Technologies: JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Rust, React, Postgres, Mongodb, ElasticSearch, AWS, Kubernetes, AI/ML, more

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjamesleonard/

Email: [email protected]

I am a Senior Product engineer and I have worked for some large startups/movies such as Beetlejuice, MoviePass (first lead developer), Regal Voice, Attunement (y combinator company), and I have run + sold my own development agency.

Re:I’m Not “Black Enough” for Inc. Magazine on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @09:41AM (#13986093)
I love Brian Brackeen. Very smart guy!
Re:Introducing 'waves': a Common Lisp audio synthesizer on Sunday February 26, 2017 @04:01PM (#13739841)
It's so magical and lispy it doesn't exist

Ask HN: Want to make Swift learning materials convert better, but how?

We have a few screencasts that we are selling, but the conversion rate is not where we want it yet. I'm curious as to what people feel would make them more likely to convert to be customers and how we can overall improve our conversion.Here's an example of a screencast that I feel should convert better than it does https://swiftcast.tv/screencasts/making-ios-apps-sexyShould we have a...

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Learning Swift is definitely much easier in my opinion. There are some oddities though that come from the world of Objective-C, but I believe it's pretty easy to understand regardless.

Also something you need to keep in mind is that there is a lot of server-side infrastructure that handles these Social Media apps. The apps just serve up the content for the most part. The server-side aspect of things is doing all the interesting work.

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