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Early-stage engineer focused on small teams and high-ownership work. Led products to 6-figure ARR and material revenue growth. Currently consulting and building.
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humility··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

• Languages: Python, TypeScript, PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, YAML, TOML

• DevOps & Cloud: AWS, GCP, Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, bash, nginx, Vercel

• Frameworks: React, React Native, Electron, Django, Django Rest Framework, Django Ninja, FastAPI

• Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, InfluxDB, Redis, SQLite

• Tools: Playwright, Git, Subversion, pytest, Jest, Vite, supervisor, pm2, Taskfile

Email: navdeepone at icloud dot com

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FmP3nY6H6SHqGTi41sy0wQX_dLE... --

Hi HN!

I'm an experienced full stack web developer + devops engineer with 6+ years' experience working in small teams and driving change. In my last major role I brought a fintech product from 0 to EUR 300.000 in ARR while leading a small team. I've recently been working as a consultant developer, would like to join a full time role.

humility··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)
Location: Bengaluru, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

• Languages: Python, TypeScript, PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, YAML, TOML

• DevOps & Cloud: AWS, GCP, Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, bash, nginx

• Frameworks: React, React Native, Electron, Django, Django Rest Framework, Django Ninja, FastAPI

• Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, InfluxDB, Redis, SQLite, Pinecone

• Tools: Playwright, Git, Subversion, pytest, Jest, Vite, supervisor, pm2, Taskfile

Email: navdeepone at icloud dot com

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FmP3nY6H6SHqGTi41sy0wQX_dLE...

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Hi HN!

I'm an experienced full stack web developer + devops engineer with 6+ years' experience working in small teams and driving change. In my last role I brought a fintech product from 0 to EUR 300.000 in ARR while leading a small team. I have so far only worked in small teams that drive big change and have a product ownership mindset. Recently I've delved into functional programming with Haskell after working with Node.js/Python for the better part of a decade. I'm also a quick learner and having dealt with lots of technical debt in the past, I can get up to speed with any new technologies / codebases quickly.

I work best in IC capacity and I'm looking to join a fast/impactful team that needs to get things done. Thanks for reading!

humility··on Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
Great post OP.

I myself took my type from ~65 wpm to 124 average wpm[1] in about 6 months as opposed to 1 year by OP by moving to zsa moonlander. If anyone wants I can share the journey in a post. But can definitely recommend improving your typing speed for all the reasons already outlined!

[1] https://monkeytype.com/profile/navxio

humility··on I conditioned myself to fail
going through similar emotions while building, I wonder if the author’s attitude is aligned to the ‘fail rapidly’ adage. I go through the same, although I gave my landing pages a couple of weeks at least to garner feedback (no success so far). But whether it should be 2 weeks to give up on the project or 2 days is anybody’s guess imo.
humility··on Show HN: Python with do..end in place of strict indentation
> Does it also support braces? No :)

> the source is written as a long herestring and then executed that's correct but only for single file modules. you can actually have a python like structure comprising entirely of dopy files and it will be compiled in place or in temp dir and executed as a normal python package with distributed source

> Does it have the same speed than normal Python It's just a transpiler so the code is actually executed by the python interpreter itself. So same speed as python with an extra build step

> Does it support numpy, numba, other packages that use jit? Not now

> Can a function inside the modified... Certainly

> Is it possible to do something similar with a decorator instead of a herestring? Could you explain?

humility··on What Makes Music Sound Good? (2010) [pdf]
Recently, I watched a documentary in which some characters sat in the middle of the jungle next to a gushing stream, only to be spellbound by the croaking of toads—sometimes solitary, sometimes in unison—for hours on end. I wonder if there's a connection between the natural harmony of sounds and mental stimulation, or a sense of 'mental peace' in a certain mental state, which music taps into as well?

Speaking as someone totally new to music theory, I found it quite interesting to arrive at this question.

humility··on Good code is like a love letter to the next developer who will maintain it
'Good documentation is a love letter you write to your future self' vibes anyone?
humility··on LazyVim
A true IDE layer for neovim.

The best part is that the developer(Folke) is very active with development and basically helping with all sorts of problems- the other day, I opened a pull request and it was resolved within hours..

Thank you Folke for the amazing work around neovim not limited to lazyvim.

humility··on Lua: The Little Language That Could
The author fails to mention a super use case for lua which is celebrated by productivity nerds like myself - configuration.

I use neovim, hammerspoon which can be configured using lua richly. In a world of ever complicated software, I think lua is coming out as a gold standard for configuration files.

humility··on Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
what's wrong with hoppscotch?
humility··on Using AI to decipher languages that remain a mystery to us
Tsakonian Greek :)
humility··on Using AI to decipher languages that remain a mystery to us
> If I understand correctly, Hindutva people have a vested interest to want this ....

Don't know, don't care about this 40 year old concept as much as I do for a 5000 year proto language.

humility··on Using AI to decipher languages that remain a mystery to us
I don't know how Hindutva is related to this discussion.

I'm just interested in this from a coherence point of view. I believe that learning a super language like PIE would help me understand a lot about human relation to language and vice versa.

humility··on Using AI to decipher languages that remain a mystery to us
> meaning a scholar of Sanskrit or something else? I studied Sanskrit for 5 years in middle school, so I'm familiar with more than the basics.

> Optimist in what sense The one who wants to see a script for PIE discovered :)

humility··on Using AI to decipher languages that remain a mystery to us
Oh my, I've wondered about this a lot since I come from a Sanskrit background and I love etymology. I'm also cataloguing the superb similarities between Sanskrit and English despite several mutations spanning millennia.

The optimist in me thinks this is the written script for an early version of Proto-Indo-European. Would love to see what like minded people think :)

humility··on Show HN: I created a minimal, secure, terminal native chat application
It can probably be easily written in curses/similar.

By native, I mean that it's not a tui for an existing chat service :)

humility··on Show HN: I created a minimal, secure, terminal native chat application
thanks :)
humility··on Show HN: I created a minimal, secure, terminal native chat application
added :)
humility··on Marktext – Elegant Markdown Editor for Linux, macOS, Windows
I've been using Typora which works really well imo but I don't want to spend money on a markdown editor(yet).

This looks promising. Thanks for sharing!

humility··on Ask HN: What is the easiest/fastest way to set up a blog for a developer?
Found https://hashnode.com/

anyone know?

humility··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2021)
Location: Bangalore, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes, preferred

Technologies:

- Backend: Node.Js, Python3, Hapi.Js, Fastify, Express, Sockets.io, Flask, FastApi, PHP, GraphQL

- Frontend: React, Svelte, jQuery, Bootstrap, Sass, Webpack, Parcel, ESBuild, Rollup, Babel, Relay

- DevOps: Ubuntu, Gitlab CI/CD, nginx, varnish cache, supervisord, bash, pm2, MongoDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Docker

- Other: Redis, Jest, Storybook, React Testing Library, Git, SVN, puppeteer

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8pres74ntti77fs/Nav%20Saini%20CV.p...

GitHub: https://github.com/navxio

Email: navdeep at mailbox dot org

humility··on Xterm.js
TIL chrome has an ssh client extension which can be used in a browser tab. Anyone care to share their experience with it?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell-app/p...

humility··on Show HN: I created a dead simple task manager
you'd have to be distracted from a task to be able to 'prioritize'

If you think it's bohemian, so be it, but I think it's complete.

humility··on Show HN: I created a dead simple task manager
I feel like choosing/getting accustomed to a task manager is a task in itself..I created a task manager that follows the principle of first come/first serve and encourages you to focus on one task at a time.
humility··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2021)
Location: Bangalore, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes, preferred

Technologies:

- Backend: Node.Js, Python3, Hapi.Js, Fastify, Express, Sockets.io, Flask, FastApi, PHP

- Frontend: React, Svelte, jQuery, Bootstrap, Sass, Webpack, Parcel, ESBuild, Rollup, Babel

- DevOps: Ubuntu, Gitlab CI/CD, nginx, varnish cache, supervisord, bash, pm2, MongoDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Docker

- Other: Redis, Jest, Storybook, React Testing Library, Git, SVN, puppeteer

Resume: On request

GitHub: https://github.com/navxio

Email: navdeep at mailbox dot org

humility··on Neovim v0.5
Well, don't know how to respond.

As an inveterate vim user, I jumped to neovim in hopes of a leaner, meaner and faster editor with an easier configuration process ( i don't like vimscript as compared to emacs lisp). After 5 years, neovim has hit a lot of milestones and I see it going places, yet the only thing that still attracts me to it is the energy and enthusiasm of the community.

I still don't fancy learning an entirely new language to configure my editor, but that's the fun part! ymmv I guess.

humility··on Neovim v0.5
I stand corrected. Is your experience based on nvim v0.5?
humility··on Neovim v0.5
lots of stuff. but mainly:

* ease of getting started. nvim is just vim, you can bring over your vim config and it'll just work.

* integrated lsp. you could have vscode like auto completion natively

* tree-sitter. google it to believe it

and much, much more

humility··on Show HN: Songbird- a command line snippet manager
well I am a late millenial, so believe me when I say, I had never heard of Mozilla Songbird until you mentioned it.

I suppose I don't want to change the name just yet, will cross that bridge when we reach it :)

Thanks for your insightful and elaborate response though!

humility··on Show HN: Songbird- a command line snippet manager
with due respect, what's the issue with a previously used name?
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