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

couchcryptid — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:05:57 +0000

  Location: Oklahoma City, OK
  Remote: Yes (US business hours)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: AWS (multi-account, Control Tower), Terraform, HashiCorp Vault/Nomad/Consul, Go, Python, TypeScript, EKS, GitLab CI/CD, OpenTelemetry/ADOT, LGTM observability, Kafka, PostgreSQL, PagerDuty
  Résumé/CV:  https://couchcryptid.github.io/
  Email: brendanvinson@icloud.com

20 years engineering total, last 5 dedicated to platform/cloud at a regulated bank, leading the replatform of a contractor-built AWS multi-account into FFIEC/GLBA-compliant standards-based architecture. Stood up federated HashiCorp orchestration (Vault Enterprise, Nomad, Consul), GitLab Enterprise from inception, LGTM/OpenTelemetry observability instrumenting Java/Spring Boot services, and developer tooling distributed via a private Homebrew tap.

Most interested in observability platforms, data infrastructure, and AI engineering broadly — anywhere AI is sharpening human judgment rather than displacing it. Currently building out infrastructure tooling in Go using agentic workflows (Claude Code).

Works across the stack — each layer has its own problems worth solving. Publishes on engineering decision frameworks and AI-augmented development workflows.

Pursuing CKA. Not interested in defense, crypto, or gambling.

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