hijinks

Location: Southern CA | Remote: Yes, remote only | Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Go, Python, Docker, Helm, Argo, Kong, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Vector, Quickwit

Resume/CV: [available on request]

Email: open4work2026@gmail.com (want to keep it anonymous because coworkers are on HN)

Currently Lead Platform Engineer at a security AI startup where I built the platform team from scratch (0 to 5 engineers) and architected multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure across 40+ clusters with per-tenant KMS encryption and Argo-based progressive delivery.

Before that, spent nearly 6 years as Staff SRE at Iterable where most of my work centered on making infrastructure cheaper and more reliable. Replaced ELK with Quickwit for 65TB/day log ingestion (saved $1.2M/year), migrated Lambda pipelines to Vector ($60k/mo down to $8k/mo), and stood up VictoriaMetrics to replace Datadog for 33M metrics ($30k/mo savings). I tend to find the project that saves the most money and then actually build it.

I write Go -- built Kubernetes operators for RabbitMQ, Redis, and Vector (open source: github.com/zcentric/vector-operator). Terraform is my IaC of choice and I've used it everywhere from a global Predix platform (Japan, EU regions) to scaling Kubernetes clusters from 10 to 300 nodes on spot instances for satellite image processing at Urthecast.

I've managed teams at three companies (up to 6 engineers) and served as product owner for SRE groups, but I'm open to both IC and management roles at the Staff/Principal/Director level.

Looking for: DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles. $200K+ total comp. Remote only, US-based.

let me guess.. but its 2x the price?

i had to do this for ssh

host * SetEnv TERM=xterm-256color

thanks.. i'll read up into these.. always amazes me that companies like datadog somehow made log search quick

is there a better way then bloom filters to handle needle in the haystack type searches where the haystack might be terabytes of data and you only want a few lines?

cant wait.. i guess on the 27th they are dropping support for SAML

people have seemed to forget that there were some people in LA that use to walk outside in gas masks due to all the air pollution.

if op was working at Meta for 10 years and they started at 2013 they probably have more then enough money stashed away to not worry about bills for a few years.

they are planning to allow you to run your logs in your own datacenter/cloud and put something like a proxy there or being built into quickwit that your logs show up in the datadog UI

My guess is you will be billed per gig or something but not nearly the cost of shipping your logs to DD

too many people and not enough land in areas where people don't have to drive 3 hours to work.

Want pricing to go down then we need to build more dense housing even an hour drive from the city. The days of wanting a big backyard are coming to an end for most home owners.

you can use the vscode cline to give a task and it uses a LLM to go out and create the app for you.

In django i had it create a backend, set admin user, create requirements.txt and then do a whole frontend in vue as a test. It even can do screen testing and tested what happens if it puts a wrong login in.

does anyone use this?

I'm really starting to get sick of companies that claim they operate at petabyte at scale and find you need to spend 400k a month to support that scale.

solar costs keep shrinking and then you have power companies like SDGE that want to punish solar owners based on their salary and set a $125 min cost to be connected to the grid

as a parent it would be fun to have my kid sit in the middle seat between two random people and let them deal with him on the flight while I relax far away

Take a look at quickwit. Its basically a clone of elasticsearch but in rust.

I have around 380 TBs of logs currently in s3 and have sub 1s searches for needle in the haystack searches. It handles all that with just 5 search nodes running on kubernetes with 6gig of RAM each.

I'm ingesting around 20TBs of logs a day on it.

pghero and/or https://github.com/supabase/index_advisor

If you want to pay for a saas then pganalyze is like $400 a month for 4 dbs is a pretty good pricing model

its a lot of warm moisture that comes up the coast from the southeast and slams into cold air from canada and can drop a lot of snow/wind. It can cause bad storms in the ocean and high seas.

as someone that has been remove for 10 years now and interviewed a lot of people.

You can 100% tell when someone is reading off a screen and not looking at you during an interview via webcam

noticed you mentioned speed.. That's probably why you are going through tires so fast.. ya EVs go through tires a lot faster but if you drive fast and more so accelerate fast then you will really go through tires

barrier is basically a dead project now. The active members of the project forked it and are going to release when ready but

https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap

Keep an eye on that for anything new

it's almost like 5 years ago the old guard car companies might have been paying reporters to hype up all the EV fires.

I was quoted 10k a head unit to install mini-splits in a home in the colorado mountains. I needed 8 head units.

It was nothing but "only rich people are buying these right now so lets cash in" pricing

i would say if you have a gas HVAC there is little point in replacing unless you also have a lot of solar on the roof and sending a lot back to the grid.

If I was building a new home today and in an area that might get down to 10-15F as a low i'd 100% do heat pumps. The nice part about heat pumps for me is that they might get to temp and run at 10% all day long and keep the heat right at 71. Where a gas will turn on at 69 and heat till 73 and continue that cold/hot cycle

being cheaper also depends on current utility rates also

ya electric baseboard are expensive to tun

heatpumps are really cheap to run

tell me you're a narcissist without saying you are a narcissist.

I have a feeling he thinks in his head that going up and just saying he was sorry and mistakes were made are going to make everything ok.

From youtube videos I watch about people that are in the court room reporting on the trail, the prosecutors are very good

wouldnt hold your breathe.. they've been claiming solid state has been around the corner since like 2010

got a laugh that harness is a sponsor.

A company there probably trying to trick people that use argo to pay for their overpriced saas service.

didn't get laid off but got a job 2 weeks after i started to look

depends.. i think it feels saturated if you are a poor performer. I've always said when times were good you had people in tech that shouldn't be in tech but they are able to some sort of bare min task, usually not good but good enough to get the job done. I think its hard on them but if you are somewhat good at your job, finding a new job in this market isn't hard

i agree but some people are so brainwashed from such an early age that they need to go to college and the best one out there or they won't be successful in life.

I should point them to my old neighbor who didn't go to school and worked as a HVAC tech. Then started his own company and he barely works now and is 42.

That's true success in my book