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jackieoutka

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:46PM (#50343481)
Location: US Eastern (MA/CT)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: LLM evaluation and harness engineering, agentic systems; Rust, TypeScript, Python, Scala; Kubernetes, Terraform/Bicep, Azure/AWS/GCP; event-driven and distributed systems

Résumé/CV: On request

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jackie-outka

Self-taught engineer turned engineering leader with 11 years' experience in startups and enterprise across healthcare AI, legal tech, infrastructure, and hardware. Guides teams through change with camaraderie and humor. Enjoys getting to the bottom of a situation, whether technical or interpersonal. Eager to dive into new domains.

Looking for: Senior EM / Director / Head of Engineering or Principal IC / MTS roles. Especially interested in AI evals and platforms, infrastructure and security, healthcare and scientific research, climate and energy, legal/civic tech, and hardware/IoT, but happy to try something new.

(Refrain from totally AI-generated spam/mass messages, please, especially with suspicious links - it's pretty obvious and will go straight to spam).

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) on Sunday October 04, 2026 @06:21PM (#49958529)
Location: Greater Boston

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Rust, Go, TypeScript, Python, Scala; AWS, Azure, GCP; Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform/Bicep; distributed/event-driven systems, streaming and batch pipelines, CQRS; gRPC, BLE; RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus/Event Hubs; LLMs, local models, RAG, agentic systems, evaluation/harness engineering, MLOps.

Résumé/CV: On request

Email: [email protected]

Director and principal IC with 11 years' experience across startups, enterprise, and deep tech, effectively combining technical depth with big-picture thinking. Enjoys getting to the bottom of a situation (whether technical or interpersonal), seeking a true solution to a problem rather than a quick fix. Servant leader, strong mentor and team-builder. Eager to dive into new domains and tackle varied challenges.