ludwigvan

Location: Istanbul, Turkey (UTC+3)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python/Django, Go, TypeScript/Node.js, React/Next.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Vercel AI SDK, LangGraph

Résumé/CV: https://ustunozgur.com/Ustun_Ozgur_CV_Eng.pdf

Email: [email protected]

GitHub: https://github.com/ustun

I'm Üstün, a hands-on engineer with 15+ years building products and infrastructure for US startups. Looking for a remote Senior / Staff / Principal role in backend, platform, full-stack or applied AI. Available immediately for full-time or long-term contract work.

SellerCrowd: Built the entire Django/React application from zero, including database modeling, frontend, authentication and billing. It grew to more than 20,000 members.

Edge Delta: Built Go backend services on AWS, led the successful platform-wide Angular-to-React migration and built Stripe billing infrastructure for an observability platform.

G2I (Jan–Jun 2026, completed contract): Built an internal AI knowledge assistant with custom tools connecting GitHub, Linear and company resources. Automated AWS infrastructure with Terraform and implemented security controls supporting SOC 2 Type II audit readiness.

Braid Health: Worked across healthcare software, infrastructure and enterprise integrations in a 3–4 person engineering team, including implementing SSO for Walmart Health.

I'm particularly interested in developer tools, enterprise integrations and the backend systems behind AI products.

CV and more background: https://ustunozgur.com

It should. They consolidated their AI offerings last week. You may need to link cursor and grok first.

You need the 30$ premium plan.

https://x.ai/news/x-subscription

Location: Istanbul, Turkey (UTC+3)

Remote: Yes; European working hours or US Eastern morning overlap

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python/Django, Go, TypeScript/Node.js, React/Next.js, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Vercel AI SDK, LangGraph

Résumé/CV: https://ustunozgur.com/Ustun_Ozgur_CV_Eng.pdf

Email: [email protected]

GitHub: https://github.com/ustun

I'm looking for a hands-on Staff/Principal or founding engineer role in backend, platform or applied AI. I've spent 15+ years building products and infrastructure for US startups, including as a founding engineer, CTO and VP of Engineering.

Some of my work:

Edge Delta: Built Go backend services and led the platform-wide Angular-to-React migration.

Braid Health: Led engineering in a 3–4 person team building healthcare software for customers including Walmart Health. Worked across the product, EHR integrations and CouchDB/Kubernetes infrastructure.

SellerCrowd: CTO and lead developer of a Django/React platform serving more than 20,000 members.

Most recently, I built an internal AI knowledge assistant with custom tools connecting GitHub, Linear and company resources. The same engagement included AWS/Terraform infrastructure and security controls supporting SOC 2 Type II audit readiness.

I'm particularly interested in developer tools, enterprise integrations, and the backend/platform work behind AI products. I'm also open to broader backend and product engineering roles where I can own substantial parts of the system.

Open to full-time or long-term contract work.

> In 2014 the Philadelphia 76ers drafted Dario Saric, who was playing basketball professionally in Turkey at the time. He announced his intention to finish out his contract in Turkey, meaning he wouldn't come to the USA join the Sixers for a couple of years.

Trivia: Dario Saric returned to Turkey this year after spending 9 years in the NBA.

To the contrary, isn’t the phrase the orange site used as a derogatory sense here? I have seen it used when authors think HN audience just criticize everything without substance.

Accessibility -> Motion -> Vehicle Motion Cues.

This is on Tahoe, not sure about earlier versions.

Just to be clear, enterprise companies are using the enterprise option for security/auditing/enforcement reasons, not because OpenAI or Anthropic forbids them from buying a 200$/month plan for each engineer, right? Do they have any clause forbidding using those individual plans in a company?

I sometimes use SimplyNoise to have brown noise for sleeping or filter out distracting sounds in the office.

Also, iOS has background (white noise etc) sounds built-in: https://support.apple.com/en-us/109346 Android has something similar too?

We also installed triple-layered windows for sound insulation, but I believe it degraded the quality of the air, so sometimes have to open the windows for a few minutes before sleep to get fresh air.

> Can you please share some insights as to what gives it away.

The article uses too much contrast even if not as obvious as "it's not x, it is y". Also some too punchy or over confident stuff like "that era is over blah blah".

Amusingly, you can feed it to an AI to extract the patterns that gives away that it is AI written.

I had the misfortune of having to use Azure back in 2018 and was appalled at the lack of quality, slowness. I was in GitHub forums, helping other customers suffering from lack of basic functionality, incredible prices with abysmal performance. This article explains a lot honestly.

Google’s Cloud feels like the best engineered one, though lack of proper human support is worrying there compared to AWS.

With the recent supply chain attacks that exfiltrate your .env files, it becomes important to find and shield those .env files

React hooks always struck me as object-oriented programming reinvented through the back door of functions. We started with pure components, decided we needed state after all, and ended up with magic functions that stash and retrieve state from some hidden context — essentially re-deriving this with worse ergonomics and an implicit ordering contract. Some part of it was the functional language paradigms like immutability that were popular elsewhere at the time bolted on to JavaScript.

What I find refreshing about Gea is that it doesn't fight the language. Stores are classes. Computed values are getters. State mutation is just assignment. I've been waiting for a framework that embraces the actual paradigms of the language it's written in, rather than inventing a parallel universe of conventions. Excited to try this one.

That said, I'm genuinely curious where the edges are. Was React's complexity accidental due to its architecture or was it the price of solving genuinely hard problems (concurrent rendering, suspense boundaries, fine-grained error recovery) (which by the way most consumers of the library did not care that much about)?

Does Gea's simplicity hold up as apps get complex, or will we eventually hit patterns where the escape hatch is the complexity React already internalized?

I am also interested if this is the case. Anyone have any scientific evidence for this?

> The people in charge of AI keep telling me to hate it

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei deserves a special mention here. Paints the grimmest possible future, so that when/if things go sideways, he can point back and say, "Hey, I warned you. I did my part."

Probably there is a psychological term that explains this phenomenon, I asked ChatGPT and it said it could be considered "anticipatory blame-shifting" or "moral licensing".

Probably referring to the fact that they no longer are independent, do not have a CEO and are a division of a division within Microsoft.

Seems like an official ClaudeBot from Anthropic is in the works, then?

Location: Istanbul, Turkey (remote, overlap with US East Coast mornings & EU business hours)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Go, Python/Django, AI/LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini), PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS/Azure/GCP

Resume/CV: https://ustunozgur.com/Ustun_Ozgur_CV_Eng.pdf

Email: [email protected]

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Founding engineer / fractional CTO — I build AI-powered SaaS products from zero to production.

15+ years, mostly at US startups as employee #1 or early hire:

- *Runy* (2025): Head of Engineering. Built the MVP for a NYC property management startup—led a team of 6, shipped in 5 months.

- *Edge Delta* (2023-2025): Senior Engineer at this Seattle observability company. Built an AI chatbot that lets users manipulate a visual pipeline builder through natural language. Owned billing infrastructure.

- *Braid Health* (2020-2023): VP of Engineering & Principal Engineer. Integrated ML model outputs into clinician-facing radiology tools. Full-stack: React frontend, TypeScript backend, Python for ML models, cloud infrastructure.

- *Toolio* (2019-2020): Founding Engineer. Built the technical foundation for this NYC retail merchandise planning SaaS.

- *SellerCrowd* (2011-2017): CTO. Built a Django/React social network for the ad industry from scratch to 20,000+ users.

*Background:* MSc EE from Bilkent, where I did research under Prof. Erdal Arıkan (inventor of polar codes, now foundational to 5G). Conference speaker (DjangoCon Europe, Øredev).

Open to: founding engineer roles, fractional CTO engagements, or contract work on AI integration / SaaS architecture / observability systems.

I hate mosquitoes with a passion. Might be the only species that I would want eradicated from Earth.

From my experience (based in Turkey), mosquitoes seem to be getting more and more resilient. They have become an annoyance even in autumn, and I recall catching one last winter. A few decades ago, they used to only appear in late spring and summer. Anyone have a similar experience elsewhere?

Location: Istanbul, Turkey (remote, overlap US/EU timezones)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Python/Django, AI/LLMs, ML integration

Portfolio: https://ustunozgur.com

Email: [email protected]

Founding Engineer for hire — I specialize in building AI SaaS from scratch.

I have ~20 years of experience and have been a founding engineer or senior engineer at multiple US startups:

- Edge Delta (observability): built an AI chatbot to manipulate the visual pipeline builder

- Runy (real estate): AI-driven property management platform

- Braid Health (AI radiology): integrated AI outputs into clinician-facing tools

- Toolio (retail SaaS), SellerCrowd (adtech marketplace)

I take products from 0→1: fast MVPs, production-ready SaaS, and AI-powered features that real users rely on. Open to early-stage full-time roles, fractional CTO, or contract positions.

Location: Istanbul, Turkey (remote, overlap US/EU timezones)

Remote: Yes

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Python/Django, AI/LLMs, ML workflows

Portfolio: https://ustunozgur.com

Email: [email protected]

Freelance engineer available for early-stage startups. I specialize in building AI SaaS products from zero to production.

Recent work:

- Edge Delta: built an AI chatbot to manipulate their pipeline builder with natural language

- Runy: AI-driven property management platform

- Braid Health: integrated AI-assisted diagnostics into radiology workflows

- Previously: Toolio (retail SaaS), SellerCrowd (adtech marketplace)

What I offer:

- Rapid AI-powered MVP development (weeks, not months)

- LLM/chatbot/ML integration into SaaS

- Fractional CTO support (architecture + hands-on)

Looking for short- or medium-term freelance projects or ongoing fractional CTO work.

This is one of my all-time favorite talks! So good. Thank you Bryan Cantrill!

Most engineers figured out that the options/stocks of startups are worthless.

Hint as in “Bach”

A corollary of this is “Always visit when a baby is born.”

(In the first few months, if not at the hospital)

I have noticed my love and respect for my friends who never visited after our newborn declined significantly, and it has never been the same. Does anyone have a similar experience?

Mon-Mon has the advantage that it is a single week and you are done. Tue-Tue means it bleeds into the second week.

Did they? My understanding is they replaced gap with padding, didn’t necessarily wrap the input with the label (which they should as you suggest)

The biggest reason this needs to be integrated is that most people simplify won’t know about this tool. Only HackerNews reader in this thread and then some enthusiasts :)

So it would result in magnitudes of more usage if it was integrated, which seems to be the path Bun is taking.