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chuckblakeon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)

LEA — Founding Engineer — Hybrid NYC (2–3 days/week onsite) — Salary + Equity

Early stage Rails engineer wanted to build AI-driven enterprise wealth tools in NYC. Founding role, high ownership, direct impact.

We’re a seed-stage NYC startup reimagining how wealth management firms work. LEA extracts structured data from complex financial documents and automates workflows—handling everything from document organization to pushing clean data into CRMs and planning tools—so advisors can focus on clients instead of admin.

You’ll be the first technical hire, working directly with me (CTO/co-founder) to ship features fast, shape our development culture, and integrate AI into our Rails + Postgres + Hotwire stack.

Tech stack: Ruby on Rails 7, Postgres, Hotwire, AI Location: Hybrid NYC (onsite 2–3 days/week) Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful equity

Apply here: https://jobs.polymer.co/lea/35348

chuckblakeon Creative Problem Solving with a Deck of Cards

cool, I'll check out "The Primes" book.

chuckblakeon Creative Problem Solving with a Deck of Cards

I recall reading about some other musicians that used I Ching - I think John Cage was one of them.

chuckblakeon Creative Problem Solving with a Deck of Cards

I am in the same boat. I would love to get my hands on one of the original decks one day. That app is very good and is a nice substitution.

chuckblakeon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)

Wallaroo Labs | Developer Evangelist | SF Bay Area | Full-time

We are the makers of Wallaroo - ultrafast framework for building & operating stateful data applications without worrying about scale.

Wallaroo Labs is working on a huge idea, and this is a phenomenal opportunity for a person who enjoys challenges. We believe in open source and strive to build on these technologies. Our distributed team is ten people and growing. We had have generated a lot of interest in our product and vision and raised a large seed round with several well-known VCs.

We are looking for a Developer Evangelist to drive the adoption of Wallaroo open-source offering within the developer community. This position is essential to our success; you will be responsible for identifying friction points with Wallaroo and systematically eliminate to improve the developer experience.

Qualities we are looking for - Ability to learn new technologies quickly. - Comfortable with a variety of programming languages, experience with Python, Go, JavaScript are a plus. - Familiar with Big Data technologies. - Desire and ability to work with enterprise clients and our open source community. - Experience working with open source software, GitHub, etc. -Familiar with software development process in a business setting. Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.

Learn more about Wallaroo

Corporate site: https://www.wallaroolabs.com Wallaroo Community Site: https://www.wallaroolabs.com/community Wallaroo Blog: https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/WallarooLabs/wallaroo

Please email chuck@wallaroolabs.com if you are interested or apply here: http://careers.wallaroolabs.com/apply/99yvBVfMGM/Developer-E...

Thanks!

chuckblakeon Open-source your startup’s code in 60 days

Hello, I'm Chuck Blake from Wallaroo Labs. I was involved in all phases of the process of open sourcing our software, and I'm happy to answer any questions.