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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026) on Monday February 02, 2026 @04:35PM (#46861929)
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

  ** Full-stack web (Postgres, Express, React, Node), Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, OCI)
  ** PyTorch, Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Apache Aerospike, Apache Flink
  ** Postgres, MongoDB, Redis/Dragonfly, Cassandra
  ** CephFS, GlusterFS, ZFS, scaling and geo-distributing filesystems, LTO/LTFS
  ** LLM Integrations: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, routers
  ** LLM fine-tuning, RAG/CAG, LoRA, MCP, Agentic workflows, GenAI, deep integrations
  ** Cloud Automation: Terraform, AWS Systems Manager, OCI Terraform
  ** Scaling, Clustering, Optimizing heavy throughput systems
Recent History:

  ** SOC and ISO pre-audit reviews for startups in the Storage as a Service, Healthcare, and Finance spaces.
  **  AI Startup Focused on Legal Discovery Management. Exited via acquisition.
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YX3xporepZBDFq_mJQ062u6YHNN...

Email: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) on Friday January 02, 2026 @09:36PM (#46472221)

     Location: San Francisco Bay Area
     Remote: OK
     Willing to relocate: No
     Technologies:
        * Full-stack web (Postgres, Express, React, Node), Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, OCI)
        * PyTorch, Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Apache Aerospike, Apache Flink
        * Postgres, MongoDB, Redis/Dragonfly, Cassandra
        * CephFS, GlusterFS, ZFS, scaling and geo-distributing filesystems, LTO/LTFS
        * LLM Integrations: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, routers
        * LLM fine-tuning, RAG/CAG, LoRA, MCP, Agentic workflows, GenAI, deep integrations
        * Cloud Automation: Terraform, AWS Systems Manager, OCI Terraform
        * Scaling, Clustering, Optimizing heavy throughput systems
     Recent History:
        * SOC and ISO pre-audit reviews for startups in the Storage as a Service, Healthcare, and Finance spaces.
        * AI Startup Focused on Legal Discovery Management. Exited via acquisition. 
     Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YX3xporepZBDFq_mJQ062u6YHNNPz94V/view?usp=drive_link
     Email: [email protected]
Re:Smartphone Cameras Go Hyperspectral on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @01:13PM (#45363239)
Take a look at the phyphox app - https://phyphox.org/
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024) on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @01:14PM (#41711291)
Location: Bay Area, CA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Hyper-scale IaaS and SaaS Infrastructure

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jlssjgy8x3amm9s/Craig%20Carl%20CV....

Email: [email protected]

Relevant previous employers: AWS, Oracle Cloud (OCI), Splunk

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 7 issued patents.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024) on Monday July 01, 2024 @01:37PM (#40848155)
Location: Bay Area, CA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Hyper-scale IaaS and SaaS Infrastructure

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jlssjgy8x3amm9s/Craig%20Carl%20CV....

Email: [email protected]

Relevant previous employers: AWS, Oracle Cloud (OCI), Splunk

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 7 issued patents.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024) on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @02:23PM (#40227161)

  Location: San Francisco, CA USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Hyper-scale IaaS and SaaS Infrastructure
  Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jlssjgy8x3amm9s/Craig%20Carl%20CV.pdf?dl=0
  Email: [email protected]
Relevant previous employers: AWS, Oracle Cloud (OCI), Splunk Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 7 issued patents.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023) on Saturday September 02, 2023 @01:39AM (#37358819)
Location: Seattle WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Hyper-scale IaaS and SaaS Infrastructure

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jlssjgy8x3amm9s/Craig%20Carl%20CV....

Email: [email protected]

Relevant previous employers: AWS, Oracle Cloud (OCI), Splunk

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 7 issued patents.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2023) on Monday July 03, 2023 @02:00PM (#36576579)
Location: Seattle WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Hyper-scale IaaS and SaaS Infrastructure

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jlssjgy8x3amm9s/Craig%20Carl%20CV....

Email: [email protected]

Relevant previous employers: AWS, Oracle Cloud (OCI), Splunk

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 7 issued patents.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023) on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:50PM (#36576471)
Location: Seattle WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Hyper-scale IaaS and SaaS Infrastructure

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jlssjgy8x3amm9s/Craig%20Carl%20CV....

Email: [email protected]

Relevant previous employers: AWS, Oracle Cloud (OCI), Splunk

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 7 issued patents.

Re:Boeing 737 Max production hit by a new defect on Friday April 14, 2023 @02:35PM (#35573091)
While that may be true, it's not what Spirit has said. They have reported that "...a non-standard manufacturing process..." was used to assemble "two of eight points where the vertical fin is attached to the fuselage.".

As an example; this could be as minor as using a riveting tool that hadn't been inspected on the correct schedule but was still operating as expected. It could be far more serious; perhaps that riveting tool was operating at a dangerously low pressure resulting in a poorly attached vertical fin.

We don't know yet. If this had happened before the 737 Max debacle I would have complete trust in Boeing's and the FAA's assessment that "...that there is no immediate safety issue.”. As it is I can't help being a little skeptical, that loss of trust is a real shame.

Starbucks did the same thing, arguing that -

“Wages and benefits are mandatory subjects of the collective bargaining process,” the company said. It rejects the union’s argument that it could offer the wage and benefit enhancements to unionized stores at any time.

The NLRB countered -

"...the NLRB said Starbucks violated labor law by offering raises and benefits — including increased training, career development opportunities, expanded tipping and even looser dress code policies — only to nonunion stores."*

Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/starbucks-shortchanged..., @ https://archive.ph/CrZTh

Wow, they sure do. Page 29 of the user guide for the Nespresso Zenius says -

This coffee machine is equipped with M2M (Machine to Machine) techology which may be activated in due time with your agreement. Thanks to a SIM card already integrated in the machine, such network connections will offer new services (subject to further terms and conditions) to its customers and improve the after sales process by automatically communicating machine troubleshooting / diagnostics to our Customer Relationship Centre (depending on country requirements and specificities).

https://www.nespresso.com/shared_res/manuals/zenius/www_Zeni...

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023) on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:29PM (#35426722)
Location: Seattle WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Hyper-scale IaaS and SaaS Infrastructure

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7a1uss5dhpyjjw2/AAAwEbWB3FFoYdmCO...

Email: [email protected]

Relevant previous employers: AWS, Oracle Cloud (OCI), Splunk

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 7 issued patents.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2023) on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:27PM (#34985220)
Location: Seattle WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Hyper-scale IaaS and SaaS Infrastructure

Resume/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jlssjgy8x3amm9s/Craig%20Carl%20CV....

Email: [email protected]

Relevant previous employers: AWS, Oracle Cloud (OCI), Splunk

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 7 issued patents.

Re:AWS Tape Gateway on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:52AM (#34642706)
The VTL was invented because, at the time (2012ish), none of the largest enterprise backup solutions had a good S3 interface and none supported Glacier. After talking with the backup software vendors (Spectrum, Tivoli, Symantec, Commvault, etc) it became clear that adding another backup target wasn't something we (AWS) could get them to prioritize, for perfectly reasonable reasons. We could (and did) apply pressure via our shared customers, even then they estimated it would take years.

The fastest way to enable large enterprise access to S3 and Glacier for backups was to meet them where they were. We did this by virtualizing a tape library.

Background: I'm one of the original inventors - https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa.... I am no longer with AWS.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023) on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:34PM (#34615256)
Location: Seattle WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Hyper-scale IaaS and SaaS Infrastructure

Resume/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oz2pvrebxdl8sif/Craig%20Carl%20CV....

Email: [email protected]

Relevant previous employers: AWS, Oracle Cloud (OCI), Splunk

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 7 issued patents.

Re:Advanced and easy YouTube archiver now stable on Friday January 06, 2023 @05:31PM (#34282232)
This is how I accomplish basically the same thing - https://gist.github.com/Gestas/30ac0c3a07404174d0d7b66068221....

It requires a local file with a list of channels/playlists. I use Jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/) as the frontend/video player.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023) on Monday January 02, 2023 @01:34PM (#34221710)
Location: Seattle WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Hyper-scale IaaS and SaaS Infrastructure

Resume/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oz2pvrebxdl8sif/Craig%20Carl%20CV....

Email: [email protected]

Relevant previous employers: AWS, Oracle Cloud, Splunk

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 7 issued patents.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2022) on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @01:48PM (#33424712)
Location: Seattle WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Hyper-scale IaaS and SaaS Infrastructure

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oz2pvrebxdl8sif/Craig%20Carl%20CV....

Email: [email protected]

Relevant previous employers: AWS, Oracle Cloud, Splunk

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 7 issued patents.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2022) on Monday October 03, 2022 @11:44AM (#33069105)
Location: Seattle WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Hyper-scale IaaS and SaaS Infrastructure

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oz2pvrebxdl8sif/Craig%20Carl%20CV....

Email: [email protected]

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 7 issued patents.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2022) on Monday August 01, 2022 @06:21PM (#32312854)
Location: Seattle

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Engineering leader building hyper-scale IaaS

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z0nbaewm06ulwmu/Craig%20Carl%20Pat...

Email: [email protected]

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 8 issued patents, https://www.dropbox.com/s/z0nbaewm06ulwmu/Craig%20Carl%20Pat...

Re:Dystopian “Predictive Policing” Program on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @02:49PM (#32005166)
NOTE: The original article title, Florida Parents Partner with IJ to Shut Down Dystopian “Predictive Policing” Program is too long to submit. I took a substring, please adjust as appropriate.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2022) on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:49AM (#31948135)
Location: Seattle

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Engineering leader building hyper-scale IaaS

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oz2pvrebxdl8sif/Craig%20Carl%20CV....

Email: [email protected]

Engineering and product leader focused on building effective teams that deliver solutions to delight customers. As a leader I foster a culture of customer obsession and ownership with a strong bias for action. I build strong engineering teams that deliver excellent product on-schedule. Experience hiring and developing globally distributed teams. Successful in reducing delivery costs and increasing direct and drag-along revenue. Track record of leveraging internal and external customer feedback to iterate on and improve product. Inventor with 8 issued patents, https://www.dropbox.com/s/z0nbaewm06ulwmu/Craig%20Carl%20Pat....

Re:Webb’s 18 mirrors aligned within nanometers on Friday March 18, 2022 @10:54AM (#30723060)
Flexures are generally interesting, these flexures are amazing.

The video references the public documentation @ https://www.esmats.eu/amspapers/pastpapers/pdfs/2006/warden..... They weigh 665 grams (1.47lbs), have a range of 21mm (.826 inches) and a 7.7 nanometre (0.00000030315 inch) step. They work at temperatures down to -253C (-423.6F).

The cryocooler and these flexures have me seriously considering going back to school for a mechanical engineering/materials science degree.

Re:How did the gold standard work? on Saturday March 12, 2022 @10:58PM (#30657810)
I found this - https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/jp-koning/golds-official-p.... The whole article is worth a read, this is the important bit -

“And that is probably why the U.S.’s statutory price of gold stays fixed at a decades-old level of $42.22. The consensus that independent central banking is a good thing (because it keeps a lid on inflation) dictates that the Fed have plenty of ammo. If the official gold price stays at $42.22, the Fed can lay claim to the full 261,498,927 ounces held by the Treasury. If the price is increased, the Fed gets only a sliver of that, the Treasury laying claim to the rest. And with fewer resources, the Fed’s has less control over the purchasing power of currency.”

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