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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:15AM (#50339035)
Location: Bangkok, Thailand (UTC+7, UK citizen)

Remote: Yes (Worldwide)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, React, Python, PostgreSQL, REST/Webhooks, OpenAI API, Zod, Playwright

Portfolio: https://antoniowest.dev

GitHub: https://github.com/antonio-west

Email: [email protected]

Full-Stack & Solutions Contractor. Available for customer integrations, technical scoping, and end-to-end feature delivery (10–40 hrs/week). Comfortable working directly with clients and partners to scope specs, wire APIs and webhooks, and get projects into production without hand-holding.

Recent shipped work: - Be Act Change: 23-step dynamic client onboarding engine and document extraction with Zod schema repair loops. - Veribite: Offline-first scanner indexing 70,000+ UK products with sub-second local verdicts and subscription billing. - ChatSDK (Alive Industries): Video stream ingestion pipelines and background transcription workers syncing into PostgreSQL.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) on Saturday October 03, 2026 @01:03PM (#49945930)
Location: Bangkok, Thailand (British citizen, UK expat)

Remote: Yes (Worldwide / UK / EU / US-East friendly)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, Next.js (App Router), React, Python, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, OpenAI API, Zod, Tailwind CSS, Playwright

Portfolio: https://antoniowest.dev

GitHub: https://github.com/antonio-west

Email: [email protected]

Full-Stack & AI Systems Engineer with 3 years of commercial experience shipping production web applications, subscription architectures, and deterministic LLM pipelines. Available for contract work across UK and European business hours.

Recent production work:

Be Act Change: Engineered a 23-step dynamic onboarding state machine and automated document ingestion (PDF/DOCX) with strict GPT-4o Zod schema repair loops.

Veribite: Built an offline-first food safety scanner indexing 70,000+ UK products with sub-second local verdicts and Google Play subscription billing.

ChatSDK (Alive Industries): Architected Whereby video stream ingestion pipelines and background transcription workers syncing into PostgreSQL.