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OtmaneBenazzou··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2026)
SEEKING WORK

Location: France

Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, React.js, React Native, mass scraping/automation/antibot, Puppeteer, Playwright, LLMs, Firebase, MongoDB, AWS/GCP. Some experience with Python, LangChain, Go, C, PHP, SQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, security, comfortable with most popular coding agents workflows.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmane-b-27506b36b/ | reach out for a detailed resume.

Email: Please reach out via Linkedin, too much spam came the last time I posted on these threads it was just impossible to sort between legitimate requests and spam

I'm currently bootstrapping an AI product, I'm only available up to 3 days a week for long term projects, I can do full time for short term gigs.

Background:

- coding since 2010, 6+ years working for startups & scaleups both as a full time employee and freelancer, generalist engineer with strong fullstack experience

- contributed to a few open source projects, reported critical vulnerabilities on a bunch of major websites

OtmaneBenazzou··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)
Location: France

Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, React.js, React Native, mass scraping/automation/antibot, Puppeteer, Playwright, LLMs, Firebase, MongoDB, AWS/GCP. Some experience with Python, LangChain, Go, C, PHP, SQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, security, comfortable with most popular coding agents workflows.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmane-b-27506b36b/ | reach out for a detailed resume.

Email: Please reach out via Linkedin, too much spam came the last time I posted on these threads it was just impossible to sort between legitimate requests and spam.

I'm currently bootstrapping an AI product, I'm only available up to 3 days a week for long term projects, I can do full time for short term gigs.

Background:

- coding since 2010, 6+ years working for startups & scaleups both as a full time employee and freelancer, generalist engineer with strong fullstack experience

- contributed to a few open source projects, reported critical vulnerabilities on a bunch of major websites

OtmaneBenazzou··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2026)
SEEKING WORK Location: France

Remote: Remote only

Technologies: Main ones: Node.js, TypeScript, React.js, React Native, mass scraping/automation, Puppeteer, Playwright, LLMs, Firebase, MongoDB, AWS/GCP. Some experience with Python, LangChain, Go, C, PHP, SQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, security.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmane-b-27506b36b/ | reach out for a detailed resume.

Email: otmanebenazzou.dev@gmail.com

Background:

- coding since 2010, 6+ years working for startups & scaleups, generalist engineer with strong fullstack experience

- contributed to a few open source projects, reported critical vulnerabilities on a bunch of major websites

Currently bootstrapping an AI product, so I'm ideally looking for part-time/freelance work, unless the product is truly interesting and/or beneficial to society (climate change, non-profit, healthcare, education...)

OtmaneBenazzou··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)
Location: France

Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Main ones: Node.js, TypeScript, React.js, React Native, mass scraping/automation, Puppeteer, Playwright, LLMs, Firebase, MongoDB, AWS/GCP. Some experience with Python, LangChain, Go, C, PHP, SQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, security.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmane-b-27506b36b/ | reach out for a detailed resume.

Email: otmanebenazzou.dev@gmail.com

Background:

- coding since 2010, 6+ years working for startups & scaleups, generalist engineer with strong fullstack experience

- contributed to a few open source projects, reported critical vulnerabilities on a bunch of major websites

Currently bootstrapping an AI product, so I'm ideally looking for part-time/freelance work, unless the product is truly interesting and/or beneficial to society (climate change, non-profit, healthcare, education...)

OtmaneBenazzou··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2026)
SEEKING WORK, Location: France

Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies: Main ones: Node.js, TypeScript, React.js, React Native, mass scraping/automation, Puppeteer, Playwright, LLMs, Firebase, MongoDB. Some experience with Python, LangChain, Go, C, PHP, SQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, security.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmane-b-27506b36b/ | reach out for a detailed resume.

Email: otmanebenazzou.dev@gmail.com

Background:

- coding since 2010, 6+ years working for startups & scaleups, generalist engineer with strong fullstack experience

- contributed to a few open source projects, reported critical vulnerabilities on a bunch of major websites

- worked across web, mobile, AI, security, automation and scraping

Currently bootstrapping an AI product, so I'm ideally looking for part-time/freelance work, unless the product is truly interesting and/or beneficial to society (climate change, healthcare, education...)

OtmaneBenazzou··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
Location: France

Remote: Remote only

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies: Main ones: Node.js, TypeScript, React.js, React Native, mass scraping/automation, Puppeteer, Playwright, LLMs, Firebase, MongoDB. Some experience with Python, LangChain, Go, C, PHP, SQL/MySQL, DynamoDB, security.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otmane-b-27506b36b/ | reach out for a detailed resume.

Email: otmanebenazzou.dev@gmail.com

Background:

- coding since 2010, 6+ years working for startups & scaleups, generalist engineer with strong fullstack experience

- contributed to a few open source projects, reported critical vulnerabilities on a bunch of major websites

- worked across web, mobile, AI, security, automation and scraping

Currently bootstrapping an AI product, so I'm ideally looking for part-time/freelance work, unless the product is truly interesting and/or beneficial to society (climate change, healthcare, education...)

OtmaneBenazzou··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Fullstack Developer, automation, bots, mass scraping | REMOTE, France

I started teaching myself to code when I was 10yo, I've been specializing in automation and fullstack JS development since 2015.

I can basically automate or scrape anything you can think of on any device, I've worked as a fullstack & growth engineer for startups and scale ups.

I automated all kind of processes at most of my jobs, in my personal projects and in my personal life.

Worked on a few entrepreneurial projects(mostly MVPs that didn't take off :))

I work mostly with Typescript/Node/React(native), AWS Lambda, Firebase, Puppeteer/Playwright and my own private automation libraries.(also worked with a lot of other languages/technologies that aren't necessarily worth mentioning)

Please get in touch at: otmanebenazzou.pro [at] gmail (dot) com

Github: https://github.com/OB42 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otbedev/

OtmaneBenazzou··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2023)
Hi, the offer seems really interesting, but Breezy.hr really is awful to apply on though(it badly attempts to parse my resume)
OtmaneBenazzou··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)
Location: France

Remote: Full remote, open to travel a few days per year

Willing to relocate: Maybe?depends where, and I'd expect a significant pay bump

Technologies: Typescript, Node.js, React.js, React Native, Firebase/GCP, AWS Lambda, expert at scraping/automation/puppeteer/playwright/circumventing bot protections, MongoDB, (My)SQL, Golang, C, tiny bit of python/AI

Résumé/CV: Most of my background is on linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/otbedev/ Github: https://github.com/OB42/

Email: otmanebenazzou.pro [at] gmail [dot] com

OtmaneBenazzou··on Show HN: PoachMe.dev, Reclaim Your Time
the return button doesn't work on the site that's pretty annoying
OtmaneBenazzou··on Ask HN: Was tech always so scammy?
Whisper is better at speech recognition than humans. Learn about the SOTA instead of mentioning bad mainstream products made years ago.
OtmaneBenazzou··on Tell HN: GitHub forcing 2FA on users has no basis in their ToS
Are you going to cry because a company wants your data to be a bit more safe?
OtmaneBenazzou··on [dead]
You don't need an "AI expert" to learn to code with an AI assistant. Copilot and GPT are pretty straightforward, the next version of Copilot seems even better
OtmaneBenazzou··on [dead]
When you say in combination with AI, are you talking about teaching them ML fundamentals or high level ways of using AI?

I think both fields are going stay separated in most curriculums for a while

OtmaneBenazzou··on Use a laptop as a 2nd display on Linux using FreeRDP
I'm not sure sorry, I was using my macbook from my linux, so maybe
OtmaneBenazzou··on Use a laptop as a 2nd display on Linux using FreeRDP
I tried the same thing. The performance is a LOT better using Parsec, it's free for personal use
OtmaneBenazzou··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2022)
SEEKING WORK | Fullstack Developer, automation, bots, mass scraping | REMOTE, France

I started teaching myself to code when I was 10yo, I've been specializing in automation and fullstack JS development since 2015.

I can basically automate or scrape anything you can think of on any device, I've worked as a fullstack & growth engineer for startups and scale ups.

I automated all kind of processes at most of my jobs, in my personal projects and in my personal life.

Worked on a few entrepreneurial projects(mostly MVPs that didn't take off :))

I work mostly with Typescript/Node/React(native), AWS Lambda, Firebase, Puppeteer/Playwright and my own private automation libraries.(also worked with a lot of other languages/technologies that aren't necessarily worth mentioning)

Please get in touch at: otmanebenazzou.pro [at] gmail (dot) com

Github: https://github.com/OB42 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otbedev/

OtmaneBenazzou··on Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js
Hi! It looks really REALLY cool!

Is there any kind of detection/stealthiness benchmark compared to libraries such as puppeteer-stealth or fakebrowser?

Honestly no matter how feature-complete and powerful a scraping tool is, the main "selling point" for me will always be stealthiness/human like behavior no matter how crappy the dev experience is.(and IMHO that's the same for most serious scrapers/bot makers)

Will it always be free or could it turn into a product/paid SaaS?(kind of like browserless) I'm kind of wondering if it's worth learning it if the next cool features are going to be for paying users only.

Is this something that you use internally or is it just a way to promote your paid products?

Thanks :)

OtmaneBenazzou··on No-one knows what they are doing
If you really know what you're doing, are you learning anything?
OtmaneBenazzou··on Solend seized $170M of user funds
well it already happens with cash, so no
OtmaneBenazzou··on Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it
bold of you to assume that the average user knows how to disable anything on their phone
OtmaneBenazzou··on Undersea Cables Off Hawaii Targeted by Malicious Actors
they're not real submarines they're just boats really
OtmaneBenazzou··on Show HN: Voice Clones for Creators
"JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 2 column 1 of the JSON data" on firefox(bad request to graphql)
OtmaneBenazzou··on Show HN: Impaktek: the best way to find a meaningful job
sorry for the late response. For now I'm not using AI, just some basic data from crunchbase to filter out companies (for example the industry the company is in, I only keep greentech, edtech and medtech companies), but I'm thinking about making a classifier that can detect if a company is doing some "meaningful" work, by looking at it's description, what's it's selling, at how people talk about it on the internet. I scrape them from lots of places(indeed, linkedin, a lot of smaller sites). UMSO is pretty easy and fast to use, but they could do better in terms of functionality