Hacker News: coayer

New comment by coayer in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"

coayer — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:46:50 +0000

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Flux CD, Python, Typescript, Go

Résumé/CV: https://copey.dev/copeland-royall-resume.pdf

Email: copeland [at] copey.dev

An infrastructure-focused engineer: I've developed enterprise-scale and PCI-compliant IaC modules for EU product rollout at Visa; built a full-stack NLP-powered news intelligence system for editorial reporting, deployed in self-managed cluster; and designed and deployed a HIPAA-compliant regionally-isolated global AWS platform for pharmaceutical research, hosting a 1.4k-label classification NLP pipeline and SSO-backed DB.

New comment by coayer in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"

coayer — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:45:28 +0000

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Python, Typescript, Go, Flux CD

Résumé/CV: https://copey.dev/copeland-royall-resume.pdf

Email: copeland [at] copey.dev

An infrastructure-focused engineer: I've worked on designing and deploying a multi-region AWS environment to host a 1.4k-label classification NLP pipeline for a pharmaceutical research company, developed enterprise-scale and PCI-compliant IaC modules at Visa, and built and deployed a full-stack NLP-powered news intelligence system for editorial reporting.

New comment by coayer in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"

coayer — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:39:49 +0000

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AWS, GCP, Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, GitHub Actions, Python, Typescript, Go, Docker, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://copey.dev/copeland-royall-resume.pdf

Email: copeland [at] copey.dev

Infrastructure-focused software engineer who has architected and deployed a multi-region AWS environment to host a 1.4k-label classification NLP pipeline for a pharmaceutical research company. I've also developed enterprise-scale and PCI-compliant IaC modules at Visa.

And I made my browser homepage: https://globular-adsb.copey.dev

New comment by coayer in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

coayer — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:15:04 +0000

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AWS, GCP, Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, GitHub Actions, Python, Typescript, Go, Docker, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://copey.dev/copeland-royall-resume.pdf

Email: copeland [at] copey.dev

And I made my browser homepage: https://globular-adsb.copey.dev

New comment by coayer in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

coayer — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:22:33 +0000

Location: Los Angeles, California

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AWS, GCP, Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, Ansible, Typescript, Python, Go, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://copey.dev/copeland-royall-resume.pdf

Email: copeland [at] copey.dev

I'm an infrastructure-focused software engineer who has worked developing enterprise-scale and Payment Card Industry-compliant IaC modules at Visa and was responsible for the coordination and rollout of centralized cost monitoring in 45 production GCP projects.

Recently I architected and built an AWS environment with data residency for pharmaceutical research, with an extreme multi-label (1.4k) classification NLP/LLM ingest pipeline.

And if you like aviation: https://globular-adsb.copey.dev/

New comment by coayer in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

coayer — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:04:25 +0000

Location: California, US (citizen)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AWS, GCP, Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, Ansible, Typescript, Python, Go, Kubernetes

Résumé/CV: https://copey.dev/copeland-royall-resume.pdf

Email: copeland [at] copey.dev

Recently I architected and built an AWS environment with data residency for pharmaceutical research, with an extreme multi-label (1.4k) classification NLP ingest pipeline.

Let me know if you think I could be a fit!

Show HN: Severance Wellness Session

coayer — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:21:42 +0000

For Severance fans in need of a relaxing break from their Macrodata Refinement, I made a site where you can get your very own Wellness Session!

If you haven't watched the show: There are these strange therapy sessions where the characters who are stuck at work (because they have no memory of the outside world, the "Innies") are told odd but comforting facts about their "Outie" life.

I replicated the audio of the sessions using a fish-speech TTS model cloned from the therapist's actress, and displayed the facts on-screen with a WebGL-rendered terminal, styled like the ones used by the protagonists. Deployed from home with K3s, GH Actions etc.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43088695

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by coayer in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)"

coayer — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:47:46 +0000

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, TypeScript, Go, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, GitOps

Résumé/CV: https://copey.dev

Email: copeyroyall at mac dot com

Early career engineer with a passion for infrastructure, cycling (last summer riding 3030 miles from CO to LA!) and airplanes. Excited to learn and grow in a skilled team!

New comment by coayer in "Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era"

coayer — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:25:47 +0000

I say jem-in-eye in my English accent, Google search says jeh·muh·nai

New comment by coayer in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)"

coayer — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:15:32 +0000

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Go, TypeScript, GCP, Pulumi, Terraform, Kubernetes, Flux

Résumé/CV: https://copey.dev/assets/copeland_royall.pdf

Email: copeyroyall[at]mac.com

Cycled 3030 miles from Colorado to my new home in CA! Passionate about infrastructure but open to grow my skills in all parts of the stack.

New comment by coayer in "An electric new era for Atlas"

coayer — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:58:29 +0000

You should watch this Corridor Digital video explaining why the Boston Dynamics videos aren’t CG: https://youtu.be/HQ1WEiMwV7Y

New comment by coayer in "An electric new era for Atlas"

coayer — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:54:49 +0000

You should watch Corridor Digital’s video about this: https://youtu.be/HQ1WEiMwV7Y

New comment by coayer in "Re-creating Disney's sodium vapor process [video]"

coayer — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:42:00 +0000

I've been watching these guys for so long — when Wren's speaking to camera in his solo videos he overdoes it but I think he's naturally pretty excitable. Niko is my favorite though.

New comment by coayer in "Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air"

coayer — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 02:44:40 +0000

The MAX, sure, but the other Boeings in service are good aircraft and liked by pilots (unlike the 737).

New comment by coayer in "Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?"

coayer — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:33:21 +0000

I’m a few years older and in total admiration of you. Just from writing this comment I’m sure you’re already a great role model (at least you are to me!) I hope you get where you want to go too :)

New comment by coayer in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)"

coayer — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:55:28 +0000

Location: London, UK (UK and US citizen)

Remote: No preference

Willing to relocate: US only

Technologies: Python, Go, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://copey.dev/copeland_royall.pdf

Email: copeyroyall [at] mac [dot] com

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Hi — I'm a CS student at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in May. Looking for backend/infrastructure/DevOps roles in the US.

I learned Linux through years of homelabbing and have professional experience in AWS and Terraform from a DevOps internship. I'm also interested in backend SWE — my dissertation project is implementing an aircraft tracking platform using ADS-B data, Kafka, MongoDB, GraphQL and Go.

New comment by coayer in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2023)"

coayer — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 15:48:06 +0000

Location: London, UK (UK and US citizen)

Remote: No preference

Willing to relocate: US only

Technologies: Python, Go, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux

Résumé/CV: https://copey.dev/copeland_royall.pdf

Email: copeyroyall [at] mac [dot] com

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Hi — I'm a CS student at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in May. Looking for backend/infrastructure/DevOps roles in the US.

New comment by coayer in "Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine"

coayer — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:38:22 +0000

I love the iPhone cluster so much!

New comment by coayer in "Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce"

coayer — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 19:28:20 +0000

Godspeed to any other college seniors looking for new grad roles! What a nightmare of a time to graduate.

New comment by coayer in "Stop Interviewing with Leet Code"

coayer — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 20:02:37 +0000

As a student that practiced LeetCode for getting summer internships, I'm getting stressed reading these comments! It's not an enjoyable process at all.