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markik

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) on Friday August 07, 2026 @01:17PM (#49213502)
Location: Kentucky, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rust (systems, async, no_std embedded), wgpu, nRF52/ESP32 firmware, LoRa mesh (Reticulum), P2P protocols

Résumé: merelyllc.com or linkedin.com/in/markik

Email: [email protected]

Independent Rust developer, one-man Kentucky LLC. Current work, all public at https://github.com/merely-made:

• Retinue: a wire-compatible Rust implementation of the Reticulum mesh protocol, verified live against successive versions of the Python reference (RNS 1.3.8, 1.4.0, 1.4.2): identity, announces, links, request/response, multi-segment resource transfer, multi-hop transport routing. Also runs on real LoRa hardware (nRF52840/ESP32 nodes exchanging data over the air), building toward county-scale emergency mesh pilots

• A wgpu render host (Genet, Servo-lineage) and a maintained Xilem-lineage UI stack (Cambium / Meristem / Sprigging)

• Mere: the graph-native, p2p workbench served by the above

Strong fits: protocol implementation, embedded/no_std, async/concurrency, rendering, and the gnarly-systems-bug tier of work. I did an English degree and freelance editing before the code career, so hopefully I write documentation and technical prose people actually read.

I usually do contract but am interested in laying down roots with a good team!