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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:03PM (#49924985)
Location: Munich, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rust, Typescript/JavaScript, C#/.NET, MongoDb, PostgresDb, Kafka, MQTT, React, React Native, RabbitMQ, Similarity Search, Vector Databases, CRDT, AWS, Azure, Pulumi, Terraform

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/ahmad2smile/Resume/releases/download/cv-2...

Website: https://www.shafiqahmad.com

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmad2shafiq

Lead Software Engineer and Software Architect with 11+ years designing and shipping billion-scale distributed systems, event-driven microservices, and data infrastructure across four continents. Redesigned a legacy pipeline from 18M → 1B messages/month (50x throughput) using an Actor Model on Kafka and Kubernetes. Ingested 1 billion rows in 10 minutes on a time-series rewrite, and cut vector-search latency by 60%. End-to-end ownership from R&D PoC to production, spanning on-prem, multi-cloud, IoT (1M MQTT msg/sec), and corporate analytics. 5+ years leading and mentoring teams in Agile / Scrum environments; also Developer Advocate & Pre-Sales Engineer (GITEX Berlin). Contributed to multi-region projects for a Critical Infrastructure Energy provider, ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency, with close collaboration between Engineering, DevOps, and Business Stakeholders. Also worked in pure R&D, reading Distributed Consensus and SHA-256 Cryptography in Verilog papers and implementing them.

Led engineering teams in both startups and large organizations, and equally comfortable designing system architecture as debugging performance issues at 3 AM or implementing the tricky parts myself. Motivated by learning and high impact, and thrive in fast-paced environments where ownership and initiative are encouraged.

Outside of tinkering with Software & LLM/AI, I enjoy hiking in the Alps and play some DOTA2 whenver I have time.

“Rouge Agent” == Worm I let loose
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @06:05AM (#49166429)
Staff Software Engineer

    Location: Munich, Germany
    Remote: Preferred
    Willing to relocate: Possibly
    Technologies: AWS, Azure, Pulumi, Terraform, C#/.NET, Typescript/JavaScript, MongoDb, PostgresDb, Kafka, MQTT, React, React Native, RabbitMQ, Similarity Search, Vector Databases, CRDT
    Résumé/CV: https://www.shafiqahmad.com
    Email: [email protected]

Experienced Software Engineer in Consultancy, Startups and Enterprise. Worked in Electronics, Image Search and Energy Sector. Know how to work with and without AI.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:00PM (#48361846)
Location: Munich, Germany

Remote: Yes (open to remote, hybrid, or onsite)

Willing to relocate: Yes — within Germany, or to Australia or USA

Technologies: TypeScript, C#, Rust, Python, C++. Distributed systems and event-driven microservices — Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, gRPC, GraphQL, Actor Model, CQRS, CRDTs. Data infra — TDengine, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Qdrant, SIMD/AVX. .NET/ASP.NET Core, Node.js/NestJS, React/Next.js/React Native. Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, AWS, Azure, GCP, CI/CD.

Résumé/CV: https://shafiqahmad.com

Email: [email protected]