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azterizm

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:02PM (#50347893)
Location: Hyderabad, Pakistan (UTC+5)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, SGLang, PyTorch, OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini APIs, RAG, Remix, Prisma, Redis, SQLite

Résumé/CV: https://azterizm.com/Abdullah_Memon_CV.pdf

Email: [email protected]

My verifier catches wrong statements in LLM answers as they are written. It checks each sentence against its source and rewrites the ones that fail. On UK law questions it cut answers containing a wrong statement by up to 86%, while still answering at least 93% of questions: https://github.com/azterizm/legal-rag-verifier

A router sends each legal question to the exact law it cites, before any search runs and without a model call. Across 1,897 real citations it never picked the wrong law, and declined the 4% it could not place: https://github.com/azterizm/legal-rag-router

In October I reported two scoring bugs in Mastra's evals with a reproduction, and their CTO fixed both within nine hours: https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra/issues/28736 . A fix I wrote for keyword scoring in the RAG search of Tether's QVAC is open as a PR: https://github.com/tetherto/qvac/pull/5467

Since 2021 I've built client software in TypeScript on Node.js. The roles I want are full-time and remote, in LLM evaluation, verification, RAG and agent infrastructure.

storage utilisation is substantial. store both inverted indexes and dense embeddings creates significant overhead. with 1k dimension vectors, an average like 20 page doc with 30-100 chunks will be 120-400kb. HNSW tops with 1.5-2.0x the size of db.

although trading disk space for sub second search is good choice. overall great technical execution!

> open source project further and beat the Jev-ers

That is a seriously good idea.

I tested Jev against local models. Confirmed that local architecture outperforms the closed cloud one marginally.

Limits mostly come from the cloud model. We are talking 712ms P50 latency versus 0.14ms locally on intent routing. Scoring costs linearly with volume. Cloud got its own limits.

An open source Jev would resolve all this immediately. Network, billing, RPM ceiling, all resolved. Additionally, we can do fine tuning, scale with hardware and freeze weights.