Location: Vermont, USA

Remote: Yes, happy to travel

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js/Deno, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, React, Elasticsearch, Databricks/Spark, FFmpeg

Résumé/CV: <https://en.masher.media/about.html>

Email: hn@masher.media

I've mostly been a first or founding engineer, owning and evolving end-to-end systems in fast-moving environments. I focus on high-throughput pipelines, messaging platforms, media processing, recommendation engines, and real-time infrastructure.

I also build real-time dashboards and browser-based tooling to observe, debug, and control these distributed systems, using local-first storage and media processing as well as real-time communication workflows. I design systems that remain understandable and resilient under load, retries, and partial failures.

Recent work:

- Built a messaging system delivering millions of emails and push notifications in minutes (retries, deliverability, observability)

- Deployed real-time pipelines and recommendation systems for tens of millions of users

- Launched a browser-based video editing and encoding platform using FFmpeg, Supabase, and AWS serverless

- Scaled event ingestion 100x to power analytics, experimentation, and targeting

I do my best work in small, product-focused teams where engineers stay close to production, communicate early about risks and tradeoffs, and work directly with customers to solve concrete problems.

Currently interested in full-time, part-time, or contract:

- Forward deployed engineering

- Founding or early engineering

- Platform and systems engineering

- Data engineering

Pragmatic about LLMs: effective for exploration, debugging, documentation, and tightly scoped implementation work when paired with strong engineering judgment and rigid testing.

Location: Vermont, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js/Deno, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS (compute, messaging, storage), FFmpeg

Résumé/CV: <https://en.masher.media/about.html>

Email: hn@masher.media

I've mostly been a first or founding engineer, owning systems that have to scale early. I focus on high-throughput pipelines, messaging systems, media transcoding, and recommendations—areas where issues show up under load, retries, and edge cases.

I also build real-time dashboards to observe and control these systems, using local-first approaches and browser-based technologies for media processing and realtime communication.

- Messaging systems delivering millions of emails and push notifications in minutes (retries, deliverability, observability)

- Browser-based video editing and encoding platform using FFmpeg, Supabase, and AWS

- Real-time pipelines and recommendation systems for tens of millions of users

- Scaled event ingestion ~100x for analytics and experimentation

I do my best work in small, product-focused teams, owning systems end-to-end, staying close to production, and communicating early around risks and tradeoffs.

- Founding or early engineering roles (full-time, part-time, or contract)

- Backend or infrastructure-heavy work

- Products with real users or a clear path to them

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS (Lambda, ECS, SQS), FFmpeg, Redis, Deno

Résumé/CV: https://masher.media/doug-anarino-resume.pdf

Email: hn@masher.media

I’m product-focused and have been building web systems for 30+ years, mostly as the first or founding engineer, including 7 years scaling a consumer platform to tens of millions of users. Open to contract or part-time work immediately.

On the backend, I’ve worked at significant scale:

- Built multilingual messaging systems sending millions of emails and push notifications in minutes (deliverability, retries, observability)

- Scaled event ingestion ~100x for analytics, experimentation, and targeting

- Worked on real-time pipelines and ML-based recommendation systems for a global user base

More recently, I’ve been building a SaaS platform around an open source, browser-based video editor and encoding API:

- TypeScript across Node and Deno (Lambda containers, Supabase Edge Functions)

- Distributed media pipelines using FFmpeg and AWS (API Gateway, ECS, SQS)

- Focus on client-side processing, network constraints, and rendering at scale

I do my best work in small teams, owning systems end-to-end from architecture through operating and debugging in production, while partnering closely with founders.

Looking for:

- Founding or early-stage roles (full-time, part-time, or contract)

- Backend / infrastructure-heavy work

- Media, messaging, or high-throughput systems

Not interested in: crypto, fintech, medical, or primarily AI-focused roles.