Hacker News: wantguns

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

wantguns — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:02:52 +0000

    Location: India (open to relocation across Europe)
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: Yes
    Technologies: Go, Rust, C/C++, Python, Nix, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, Kubeadm, K3S, Kubespray), Terraform, ArgoCD, FluxCD, AWS, GCP, Cilium, WireGuard, PostgreSQL, Kafka
    Resume: https://bin.wantguns.dev/resume
    Email: mail [at] wantguns [dot] dev

Infrastructure and backend engineer with a low-level systems background. Last 3 years as the sole or one of very few infra engineers at early-stage startups - owning everything from VPC topology to CI/CD to on-call.

Currently building cloud infrastructure for a GPU neocloud (H100/H200) from scratch. Before that, sole platform engineer at an autonomous driving research lab, and before that SRE at a YC-backed video comms startup (acquired by a major cloud provider) managing 20+ Kubernetes clusters across AWS and GCP.

On the systems side - wrote a custom Karpenter provider in Go for a cloud provider, a C++ initramfs to run Gentoo on bare-metal Android phones with Android userland in LXC (GSoC 2020), and ADAS software on Android using Cap'n Proto + ZeroMQ + LMDB serving 275+ vehicles.

Also wrote bin (github.com/wantguns/bin), a self-hostable pastebin in Rust with 300 stars. Outside of work I maintain a multi-continent server mesh across Hetzner, Oracle Cloud and bare-metal, all declared in a public Nix flake (source - https://github.com/wantguns/dotfiles, blogs -https://wantguns.dev/tags/yakshaving)

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

wantguns — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:16:02 +0000

    I'm a Serial YC Engineer who loves to solve complex problems in Systems / Infrastructure / Backend

    Some of my previous works include:
    - Building a Karpenter controller for a cloud provider
    - Building a self-driving (ADAS) stack which can run on your Android phone
    - Running Gentoo Linux on bare-metal Android phones, and running Android userland in a LXC container on the Gentoo userland

    Location: Bengaluru, India
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: Yes
    Technologies: Linux, K8S, Docker/OCI, Cloud, C/CPP, Go, Rust, SQL
    Resume: https://bin.wantguns.dev/resume
    Blogs: https://wantguns.dev/blog
    Email: mail [at] wantguns [dot] dev

New comment by wantguns in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025)"

wantguns — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:10:44 +0000

    SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | WORLDWIDE

    I'm a Serial YC Engineer who loves to solve complex problems in Systems / Infrastructure / Backend

    Some of my previous works include:
    - Building a Karpenter controller for a cloud provider
    - Building a self-driving (ADAS) stack which can run on your Android phone
    - Running Gentoo Linux on bare-metal Android phones, and running Android userland in a LXC container on the Gentoo userland

    Resume: https://bin.wantguns.dev/resume
    Blogs: https://wantguns.dev/blog
    Email: mail [at] wantguns [dot] dev

New comment by wantguns in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)"

wantguns — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 09:19:38 +0000

SEEKING WORK || SEEKING FREELANCER | Relocating to EU preferred

Platform Engineer (SDE 2) with a knack of low level optimisations and Systems Engineering. I am an avid self-hoster as well. Some of my recent work include implementing a K8S cluster bootstrapper and a Karpenter provider for an new cloud provider.

OSS: flowdrive.ai, Google Summer of Code 2020 Scholar at Gentoo Foundation and more at {github,gitlab}.com/wantguns

  Location: Bengaluru, India
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes, relocation to EU strongly preferred
  Technologies: Linux Kernel, Containers, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, Kubespray), IaC, GitOps, AWS, GCP
  Languages: Rust, Go, Bash, Python, C, C++
  Résumé/CV: https://bin.wantguns.dev/cv
  Email: mail+jobs [at] wantguns [dot] dev
  Debugging Blogs: wantguns.dev/blog

New comment by wantguns in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2024)"

wantguns — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 19:43:13 +0000

SEEKING WORK || SEEKING FREELANCER | Relocating to EU preferred

Platform Engineer (SDE 2) with a knack of low level optimisations and Systems Engineering.

OSS: flowdrive.ai, Google Summer of Code 2020 Scholar at Gentoo Foundation and more at {github,gitlab}.com/wantguns

Avid self-hoster and open source advocate

  Location: Bengaluru, India
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes, relocation to EU strongly preferred
  Technologies: Linux Kernel, Containers, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, Kubespray), IaC, GitOps, AWS, GCP
  Languages: Rust, Go, Bash, Python, C, C++
  Résumé/CV: https://bin.wantguns.dev/cv
  Email: mail+jobs [at] wantguns [dot] dev
  Debugging Blogs: wantguns.dev/blog

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

wantguns — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 22:44:48 +0000

Platform Engineer (SDE 2) with a knack of low level optimisations and Systems Engineering.

OSS: flowdrive.ai, Google Summer of Code 2020 Scholar at Gentoo Foundation and more at {github,gitlab}.com/wantguns

Avid self-hoster and open source advocate

  Location: Bengaluru, India
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes, relocation to EU strongly preferred
  Technologies: Linux Kernel, Containers, Kubernetes (Maintenence: EKS, GKE, K3S, Kubespray; Controllers, Operators), IaC, GitOps, AWS, GCP
  Languages: Rust, Go, Bash, Python, C, C++
  Résumé/CV: https://bin.wantguns.dev/cv
  Email: mail+jobs [at] wantguns [dot] dev
  Debugging Blogs: wantguns.dev/blog

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

wantguns — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 22:11:41 +0000

Platform and Site Reliability Engineer with experience in working with AWS, GCP and on-prem infrastructure. Enjoys self-hosting and hacking. Currently working at SDE 2 equivalent role.

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Location: Bangalore, India

Remote: Preferrably (Comfortable in EU and US TZs)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Site Reliability Engineering (Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, FluxCD, Containers, AWS, GCP), Operating Systems (Linux Kernel, AOSP), Web Development (Golang, Rust, Python, Flutter, SvelteKit)

Résumé/CV: https://bin.wantguns.dev/cv

Email: mail [at] wantguns [dot] dev

Pricing and predictability of Financial Derivatives

wantguns — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:58:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5w-dEgIU1M

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39538758

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wantguns in "Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs"

wantguns — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 23:35:00 +0000

Very cool project, any plans to release its source ?

also s/Tailscale/Tailwind/

SilverBullet: FOSS Knowledge Base / Wiki Software

wantguns — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 22:09:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38338831

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Building the Simplest Possible Linux System – Rob Landley [video]

wantguns — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 19:12:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9TatW9ino

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37458965

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wantguns in "Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk"

wantguns — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 21:47:45 +0000

i have always felt some unexplained effect while listening to Veridis Quo [1]. the melody start sounding different from the 0:38 mark, just as the kicks come in. it seems like some supporting keys are added with the kicks, to make the sound more full, but at the same time it could be my brain getting tricked.

sorry for botching the explanation, i have never studied music.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCd6PfxOy0Y

New comment by wantguns in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

wantguns — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 18:44:38 +0000

https://wantguns.dev i don't write that often though

IPC Between Termux and Other Android Apps Using ZMQ

wantguns — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:45:56 +0000

Article URL: https://wantguns.dev/blog/ipc-on-termux/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36421846

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Hacking my Android phone to drive my car

wantguns — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:10:10 +0000

Article URL: https://mankaran32.medium.com/hacking-my-android-phone-to-drive-my-car-9ea98c30e91b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36421338

Points: 7

# Comments: 6

New comment by wantguns in "Show HN: Open sourcing Harmonic, my Android Hacker News client"

wantguns — Tue, 23 May 2023 19:57:43 +0000

I usually refrain from installing apps from Aurora Store instead of F-Droid, but Harmonic is the one app for which I oblige.

Thanks a lot for open-sourcing it.

I wait for the day, where I can finally get a good HN client at F-Droid :)

New comment by wantguns in "Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML"

wantguns — Wed, 17 May 2023 15:47:01 +0000

New comment by wantguns in "Ask HN: Small scripts, hacks and automations you're proud of?"

wantguns — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 03:05:00 +0000

back in the covid period, i wrote a small set of scripts to automatically attend my university lectures on zoom:

https://github.com/WantGuns/auto_meet

it does the bare minimum of:

    - parsing calendar events (which have meet links)  
    - open zoom meets on lecture's starting time  
    - exit meet meets on lecture's ending time  
    - shutdown machine when all the meetings were over

my sleep schedule was f-ed up to say the least. these scripts helped me maintain my attendance :)

New comment by wantguns in "Google added HEVC support in Chrome"

wantguns — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:21:08 +0000

https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco...

New comment by wantguns in "Zoom.us is down"

wantguns — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:24:23 +0000

https://meet.element.io/randommeetname