Hacker News: rubansk

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

rubansk — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:25:44 +0000

  Location: Singapore, San Francisco
  Remote: Open to on-site, hybrid, or remote
  Willing to relocate: Yes, US H-1B1 (no lottery since Singaporean), HPI for UK
  Technologies: Python, Swift, SQL, TypeScript, PyTorch, FastAPI, Docker, AWS
  Résumé/CV: https://www.skruban.com/resume/
  Email: work [at] skruban [dot] com

MSc Maths from NUS + BEng Aerospace Eng from NTU. Background across quant finance and data platforms with 3 years work experience.

Most recently:

  - 1st place solo at DeepMind × Cactus Compute Hackathon
  - 2nd place solo at Google Gemini 3 Hackathon (https://github.com/sk-ruban/contour)
  - Notchi: Mac notch app for Claude Code sessions (600+ stars in 3 weeks, https://github.com/sk-ruban/notchi)
  - Rates Quant Research Intern at RBC (received return offer).

Looking for: Product Engineer, Solutions Engineer, FDE roles.

  Github: https://github.com/sk-ruban/
  Website: https://skruban.com

New comment by rubansk in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

rubansk — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:27:51 +0000

I recently launched Notchi (https://github.com/sk-ruban/notchi), a tamagotchi that lives in your Mac notch and emotionally reacts to your Claude Code sessions. It cries when you yell at it and gets happy when you praise it. Drew all the pixel art sprites by hand in Aseprite.

New comment by rubansk in "Notchi: A macOS notch companion that reacts to Claude Code activity in real-time"

rubansk — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:06:52 +0000

Hey, dev here! thanks for posting this on HN! :)

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

rubansk — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:36:21 +0000

Location: Singapore (in SF March 11–18)

Remote: Open to remote, hybrid, or on-site

Willing to relocate: Yes, US H-1B1 (Easy to get since Singaporean), HPI for UK

Technologies: Python, Swift, SQL, TypeScript, PyTorch, FastAPI, Docker, AWS, VBA

Résumé/CV: https://www.skruban.com/resume/

Email: work@skruban.com

MSc Maths from NUS + BEng Aerospace from NTU. Background across quant finance and data platforms.

Most recently:

  - Rates Quant Research Intern at RBC (received return offer). 
  - 1st place solo at DeepMind × Cactus Compute Hackathon
  - 2nd place solo at Google Gemini 3 Hackathon (https://github.com/sk-ruban/contour)

Before that: owned Kpler's coal/iron ore/metals data platform for 50+ clients: drove expansion into new regions, scoped ML models with data science, built ETL pipelines and validation tooling.

Looking for: Product Engineer, Solutions Engineer, FDE, or TPM roles.

Also shipped Teletable (Mac menubar sports app, https://teletable.app/) and building OpenPPT + Notchi (open source).

Socials:

  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skruban/
  - GitHub: https://github.com/sk-ruban/
  - X: https://x.com/rubanlah

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

rubansk — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:24:43 +0000

Location: Singapore

Remote: Open to remote, hybrid or on-site

Willing to relocate: Yes (H-1B1 eligible for US, HPI for UK, TTPS for HK - no petition required as Singaporean)

Technologies: Python, SQL, PyTorch, Pandas, NumPy, VBA, Swift, Haskell, Git, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://skruban.com/

Email: work@skruban.com

MSc Mathematics (NUS) + BEng Aerospace (NTU). Background across quant finance and data platforms. Comfortable with ambiguity and fast-paced environments.

Most recently: Rates Quant Research Intern at RBC (received return offer). Before that: owned the coal/iron ore data platform at Kpler, coordinating across engineering, data ops, and 50+ enterprise clients—drove platform expansion, scoped ML models with data science, managed ETL delivery.

Looking for: TPM, PM, Solutions Engineer, or FDE roles where I can sit at the intersection of technical and coordination work. I like being the conductor: scoping requirements, aligning stakeholders, driving projects end to end more than being siloed into pure implementation.

Side projects: Recently placed 2nd at Google Gemini Hackathon (https://github.com/sk-ruban/contour), published Mac app (https://teletable.app/), various ML/distributed computing projects.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skruban/

Github: https://github.com/sk-ruban/

New comment by rubansk in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

rubansk — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:48:39 +0000

https://www.skruban.com/

New comment by rubansk in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

rubansk — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:38:10 +0000

The algodrill post (5th) is already on today’s HN front page. What a time to be alive!

New comment by rubansk in "Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford"

rubansk — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:56:18 +0000

I love cs193p! Paul Hegarty is an incredible teacher. I did the course twice [1], first in 2020 as a programming noob who just threw everything into one file. His teaching of MVVM was my first introduction to proper software architecture. Then I went through it again last year as a refresher before building my first app and even on the second run, his lectures were fun to listen to.

[1] https://github.com/sk-ruban/CS193p

New comment by rubansk in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

rubansk — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:55:05 +0000

Thanks for the the kind words, also in the midst of updating the website since its a bit outdated wrt to the app features now!

I'm using api-football[0], but its paid. Unfortunately, here's not much free sources available that provide the exact data i want + real-time data.

[0]: https://www.api-football.com/

New comment by rubansk in "Ask HN: What are you working on?"

rubansk — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 23:07:09 +0000

Posted about this last month and good some good comments / feedback via email :)

I'm working on Teletable (https://teletable.app), a macOS app that shows live football & F1 standings/results with a teletext interface (think BBC Ceefax). It's free and on the appstore:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teletable-football-teletext/id...

New comment by rubansk in "Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets"

rubansk — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:52:30 +0000

I’m singaporean and have never heard about “marriage offers” in clubs being a thing. Maybe I’m going to the wrong ones.

New comment by rubansk in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

rubansk — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:22:17 +0000

I'm working on Teletable (https://teletable.app), a macOS app that shows live football & F1 standings/results with a teletext interface (think BBC Ceefax). It's free and on the appstore:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teletable-football-teletext/id...

New comment by rubansk in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

rubansk — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:04:54 +0000

decade streak is legit impressive. just hit 30 days of 5k myself. some might scoff at the number of 1mile days but dragging yourself out when you're busy or exhausted is rough.

New comment by rubansk in "Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg"

rubansk — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:33:31 +0000

my mum once bought "japanese rice" from the supermarket that tasted noticeably different (and worse). had to check the label, turns out it was made in Vietnam.

New comment by rubansk in "Solving LinkedIn Queens Using Haskell"

rubansk — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:04:05 +0000

Just started part 2 last week! It’s really one of the best moocs I’ve done.