Hacker News: gzapp

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

gzapp — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:49:27 +0000

  Location: USA - San Antonio
  Remote: Yes | Hybrid
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Azure, AWS, Linux, TypeScript, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, C#, MySQL, Java, Groovy, Postgres, React, VueJS, etc.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregzapp/
  Email: greg (dot) zapp (at) gmail

Seasoned software engineer with heavy startup experience and a focus on lean process, velocity, and business outcomes. 15yoe including Rackspace, Rundeck, and PagerDuty. As a full-stack, kitchen-sink product engineer I'm as comfortable running with unsafe pointers as working on React front ends. I look for high impact, ownership, and autonomy roles.

My most recent role was Principal Engineer at HungerRush where I delivered a number of high impact projects, including most recently their next-gen conversational voice AI ordering platform (OrderAI).

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

gzapp — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:16:47 +0000

  Location: USA - San Antonio
  Remote: Yes | Hybrid
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Azure, AWS, Linux, TypeScript, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, C#, MySQL, Java, Groovy, Postgres, React, VueJS, etc.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregzapp/
  Email: greg (dot) zapp (at) gmail

I'm a serial startup engineer with 15yoe including Rackspace, Rundeck, and PagerDuty. As a full-stack, kitchen-sink product engineer I'm as comfortable running with unsafe pointers as working on React front ends. I look for high impact, ownership, and autonomy roles.

New comment by gzapp in "Hacking on PostgreSQL is hard"

gzapp — Fri, 03 May 2024 02:48:15 +0000

I was interested in learning how to created a postgres extension the other week. Not just bundling some SQL scripts, but a proper extension tying into their API.

Trying to find any good information on how to go about this proved super difficult. Well, I wasn't having much luck and just gave up.

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

gzapp — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:00:55 +0000

  Location: USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: AWS, Linux, TypeScript, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, C#, MySQL, Java, Groovy, Postgres, React, VueJS, etc.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregzapp/
  Email: greg (dot) zapp (at) gmail

I'm a serial startup engineer with 15yoe including Rackspace, Rundeck, and PagerDuty. As a full-stack, kitchen-sink site reliability engineer I'm as comfortable running with unsafe pointers as working on React front ends. I look for high impact, ownership, and autonomy roles.

New comment by gzapp in "I quit my swe job to start a startup, regretting it now"

gzapp — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 22:57:25 +0000

This may come as little to no consolation, however I'm in a very similar boat. Left employment over a year ago, and while I don't regret that per-say it definitely wasn't the time for me to try my hand at a startup.

I put feelers out for a CEO/sales type founder leading up to this but came up empty handed. Decided to take the plunge anyway and work on finding funding and partner opportunities along the way. Built out an MVP over the past year, tried shopping around for opportunity, and came up empty.

A lot of this is due to me, having recognized early on but now having fully accepted, not being that CEO/Sales type and having limited success trying to force myself into that role. We would 100% need such a person, with connections, on board to raise and handle business development to move forward. Particularly in this climate.

Now to stop the savings burn, and for family reasons, I'm entering the job market again. And it's ROUGH. Two years ago and for the decade before I would have recruiters reaching out constantly. Two years ago I had easy job opportunities through my network. Now, it's been hard to get on the phone with even 4-5 interested parties in 2-3 weeks of actively seeking. And two of those are through HN who wants to be hired, and 2 are through recruiters I've previously worked with. The interview processes are SLOW right now too; companies dragging their heals and indulging in the glut of options.

I'm happy for those reporting the market is fine for them. But for myself with 14 YOE, "name brand" previous employers, successful startup exit experience, and a somewhat significant body of work on GitHub it's very cold out there ATM. Same story for many I know, even on the hiring side; a friend trying to get more head count for over a year now in a good sized, growing, and successful startup.

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

gzapp — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:45:45 +0000

  Location: USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: AWS, Linux, TypeScript, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, C#, MySQL, Java, Groovy, Postgres, React, VueJS, etc.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregzapp/
  Email: greg (dot) zapp (at) gmail

Staff SWE / SRE. 15yoe including Rackspace, Rundeck, and PagerDuty. I have a rare blend of experience working at a senior/staff level from the system and platform all the way to the UI. My career has been cloud engineering and SRE focused particularly the first half: linux, infrastructure, reliability, performance, automation, build, test, developer experience, and etc. Back half I have been working full-stack development(startup life) in addition to SRE and cloud architecture work.

New comment by gzapp in "Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs"

gzapp — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 07:09:05 +0000

There are also a few good options in a lot of languages for streamlining chromium use.

In C# I'd look to use the Playwright library or perhaps even embed chromium via CerSharp if I were trying to avoid extra processes.

New comment by gzapp in "The end of Airplane.dev"

gzapp — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:38:03 +0000

Heya, ex-Rundeck engineer and founder of https://stepwisehq.com .

Will likely end up releasing MVP OSS this month and have to go back to work while continuing to bootstrap. Would love to chat sometime; may be some ideas in here you'd find interesting.

New comment by gzapp in "You Might Not Need a CRDT: Document Sync in the Wild [video]"

gzapp — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:42:57 +0000

We stuck with ProseMirror steps for these reasons(and more) on my project.

I did, however, create a new collab plugin based on commits from this Google Wave white paper: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/wave/whitepapers/... , and wrote about it here https://stepwisehq.com/blog/2023-07-25-prosemirror-collab-pe... . Anyone needing more performance out of ProseMirror collab while sticking with traditional steps/transactions may find that information useful.

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

gzapp — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 04:19:28 +0000

  Location: USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: AWS, Linux, TypeScript, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, C#, MySQL, Java, Groovy, Postgres, React, VueJS, etc.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregzapp/
  Email: greg (dot) zapp (at) gmail

Staff SWE / SRE. 15yoe including Rackspace, Rundeck, and PagerDuty. Career has been cloud engineering and SRE focused particularly the first half: linux, infrastructure, reliability, performance, automation, build, test, developer experience, and etc. Back half I have been working full-stack development(startup life) in addition to SRE and cloud architecture work.

Looking for a half-time opportunity(with benefits) which could be great for a startup not needing, or not ready, to shell out FT salary for someone with my experience.

New comment by gzapp in "StackStorm: Event-driven automation"

gzapp — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 05:28:36 +0000

Ex-Rundeck engineer here. Would be very interested to here why you initially dropped it and why you are thinking about picking it back up!

New comment by gzapp in "Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq"

gzapp — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 17:44:24 +0000

I'm sure I'm not the only person that got fed up with occasionally needing to do something more advanced and just finding the JQ incantations inscrutable.

Also prob not the first to create a project for personal use that just wraps evals in another language haha: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsling

New comment by gzapp in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2021)"

gzapp — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 15:50:03 +0000

  Location: USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: AWS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, VueJS, Go, Java, Groovy, Docker, Kubernetes.. Too many to list.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregzapp/
  Email: [first name].[last name][at]gmail.com

I'm a Software Engineer with a background in cloud/systems engineering, SRE, and full-stack development. Manager of One.

The startup I was working for was acquired a year ago and I'm moving on in October. I'm primarily interested in mid-size, mid-stage startups of up to 50 people with a great work culture. Bonus points to bootstrapped companies.

New comment by gzapp in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2021)"

gzapp — Mon, 03 May 2021 18:22:35 +0000

  Location: USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: AWS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, VueJS, Go, Java, Groovy, Docker, Kubernetes.. Too many to list.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregzapp/
  Email: [first name].[last name][at]gmail.com

I'm a Software Engineer with a background in cloud/systems engineering, SRE, and full-stack development. Manager of One.

The startup I was working for was acquired 7 months ago and I'm now looking for new opportunities. I'm primarily interested in mid-size, mid-stage startups with a great work culture. Bonus points to bootstrapped companies.