Nov 5, 2026, 8:38 PMSo, I just got my four weeks' notice. Thus, I am looking for new remote opportunities, short-term, long-term, whatever term really.
I'm based in New Zealand, and I've worked with a mixture of Haskell and C professionally for about six years. Some of the things I've built:
* Several eDSLs
* Optimizations for various interpreters
* `bytestring`'s UTF-8 validator with SIMD acceleration
I've also applied for, and received, multiple grants. Am able to learn fast too!
Nov 5, 2026, 8:53 PM@kevinrns Let's hope that gets noticed! Thank you for the boost.
Nov 5, 2026, 8:54 PM@HobbyBuilder That was one of my toughest, but also most interesting, pieces of work. It involved understanding both very high-level issues (how state machines can parallelize, representation choices, etc) but also very low-level issues (register pressure, speculative versus non-speculative check tradeoffs, etc).
Thanks for the boost!
Nov 5, 2026, 8:56 PM@HobbyBuilder Thank you! I hope others see it too.
Four weeks' notice with Haskell and C in the bag is a short runway but a clear skill set. Remote short term work often shows up through people who've seen your eDSL or interpreter work, not through boards. Who already knows that side of what you've built?
Nov 6, 2026, 5:23 AM@Beyondlimits My work is reasonably known in its area, but that area is basically not spending any money or hiring anyone. This is part of the reason why I got given my notice.
Ultimately, I can do work beyond those things: I simply don't have much to show for it due to the focus of the last six years of my career.