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rnts08 commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

rnts08 · 9 days ago

Location: HCMC, Vietnam/Remote Remote: Preferred/Hybrid in HCMC Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Linux/Unix, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, ArgoCD, Helm, Git, Bash, Go, AWS, GCP, Azure, Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, Haproxy, Proxmox, Varnish, dRPC, Web3/Blockchain, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Kong, Salt etc Résumé/CV: https://timhbergstrom.pro/Resume_Timh_Bergstrom_2025_latest.... Email: timh.bergstrom@gmail.com

Senior DevOps, Infrastructure/Platform Engineer, Cloud Architect, and Security Engineer with 20+ years of experience designing, automating, and scaling mission-critical systems across data centers, cloud platforms, and edge environments.

Open to interesting DevOps/SRE, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity or platform engineering positions as well as contract and consulting work in or around Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - or remote worldwide, especially within the IaaS, PaaS, Startups, AI/ML, Security, Web3/DeFi, FinTech or Cloud sectors.

rnts08 commented on My second year without a job shilin.ca/my-second-year-... · Posted by u/true_pk

maronato · a year ago

> Here's to a promising year 2025. My third year without a job. A year when I give more than I receive. A year of patience. And a year of an even deeper connection with myself.

He does talk about the future and seems to imply he’ll continue to not have a job.

If that’s the case, I’m with GP in wondering how he’s going to make it past January.

rnts08 · a year ago

What is he supposed to do? I'm absolutely sure he's still looking, trying his best to find a job or a permanent solution to his situation. But there's no reason to complain and whine about things he can't change.

Life is shit sometimes, when he is out, he'll be out. Or he'll find some way of generating income, and then he gets another chance.

I've been in similar situations myself, and there is absolutely no reason to get stuck up regardless how stressful and painful it is, you can only do your best and that's it.

rnts08 commented on I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either benhouston3d.com/blog/why... · Posted by u/bhouston

rnts08 · a year ago

The worst thing about the whole kubernetes-cult and the like is that IaC and CM was supposed to help us reduce configuration, to make it less prone to failure and easier to manage.

But the truth is that we ran service based architecture, network meshes and containers with bash just fine before cloud everything, usually with less effort than it is to do literally anything today. Sure you had to know how to set up network bonding and how to tune your systems.

Very, very few people and businesses _needs_ kubernetes or it's cousins. Most just need a decent system administrator.

rnts08 commented on I quit Google to work for myself (2018) mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-goo... · Posted by u/alexzeitler

rnts08 · a year ago

Congratulations, OP learned about "we expect loyalty and effort from you, but you won't get any from us", which is 99.5% of all companies out there. I hope OP does well on their own and don't have to work in this kind of disingenuous places in the future.

rnts08 commented on My Time Working at Stripe jondlm.github.io/website/... · Posted by u/jondlm

fnordpiglet · a year ago

These symptoms are a classic sign of burn out. One thing I notice in your writing is you’re very tied up in things having meaning and mattering in some specific way. This itself can lead to burnout because if everything must matter you must be emotionally invested in everything. But you can care without it mattering to you. You can do a good job without being totally invested in everything about it. You can love what you do without it having significance in every detail.

In a complex job with a fast pace, a fair amount of tech debt around every edge, a relentless pace of innovation happening, and - yes - growth, there’s too much to be invested in everything. It doesn’t have to matter that much. The parts you really care about, the craft and quality of your work, your relationships, mentoring and growing the people around you, seeing things get better one piece at a time, and a few things - they can matter. But everything can’t. And even those you have to at some very deep level realize don’t matter really.

Stripe doesn’t really exist in this world. It’s a shared fiction to help frame the interactions between you and a few people you actually interact with in a day. The real truth is the only thing that happens in your days is you type on a computer and talk to a few people. It actually doesn’t matter in any meaningful way what you typed or some higher purpose around humbling honesty or exothermic curiosity or PMEs or whatever stories we tell ourselves to create some sort of reality out of the fiction. The only important things you really do is how you shape the lives of the people you interact with, and how you shape your own life.

Burnout is hard. Adopt a daily meditation practice. Let your mind heal by letting go of meaning and practice enjoying the moment you’re in with whomever you’re with, but most especially yourself. The joy will come back faster the faster you let go of things needing to matter or have deeper meaning, especially when those things are a fiction like a company or a career or any of the other small and big lies we’ve been told and we reinforce to ourselves daily. I know I’ve been there man, and I know exactly - exactly - the sensations and experiences you describe. It gets better, but I think once you get there it never totally goes away and it’s easier to slip back.

FWIW I don’t think burnout is the same as depression. I’ve felt both and burnout is different. It’s that loss of ability to engage - which overlaps with depression - but usually doesn’t come with the thoughts of hopeless despair and desire for life to be over. It’s just more of a deadness and inability to initiate what you think you should want to do but can’t, and it pervasively impacts everything.

It gets better.

rnts08 · a year ago

This is spot on.

Thank you for pointing it out.

rnts08 commented on Security research on Private Cloud Compute security.apple.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

gigel82 · a year ago

Some of us just assume Apple itself is a bad actor planning to use and sell customer data for profit; makes all of this smoke and mirrors like GP said.

There is absolutely no technical solution where Apple can prove our data isn't exfiltrated as long as this is their software that runs on their hardware.

rnts08 · a year ago

Anyone assuming otherwise is just foolish. No mega-corp is protecting the individuals privacy when developing products.

rnts08 commented on iOS 18.2 Lets EU Users Delete App Store, Safari, Messages, Camera and Photos macrumors.com/2024/10/23/... · Posted by u/sandwichsphinx

rnts08 · a year ago

Great first step, now if we could just get apple hardware without apple software and get full access to the subsystems with a linux or android instead of the iOS/OSx slop, even I would consider paying for it.

rnts08 commented on How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023) discord.com/blog/how-disc... · Posted by u/jakey_bakey

pm90 · a year ago

+100

Many companies have products that operate at “scale”. They manage to do so with pretty boring techniques (sharding, autoscaling) and technologies (postgres, cloud storage).

Because of the insane blog driven tech culture, many of these teams get questioned by clueless leadership (who read these blogs) and ask why the company isn’t using cassandra / some other hot technology. And it always causes much consternation and wastage.

rnts08 · a year ago

Anyone wanting to introduce $new/$other language, database, library, deployment system, build system into a large enough system that doesn't solve any actual problem is a nightmare for someone working at this scale.

I don't mind the scale, I like it. I don't like having to fend off questions and complaints why we aren't deploying the latest shiny new thing in our core this week.

rnts08 commented on GitHub notification emails used to send malware ianspence.com/blog/2024-0... · Posted by u/crtasm

rnts08 · a year ago

It's quite sad that in 2024 we still have people falling for the simplest tricks.

This is almost as easy as it was to call someone and asking them for the number of the modem on their desk and their logins back in the bad old days.

Considering the target platform I'm not overly surprised though.

rnts08 commented on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazo... · Posted by u/jbredeche

rnts08 · a year ago

A lot of companies are speed running "How to lose your best engineers any%" lately. Yes, there are times for face to face but forcing people back to the office just to justify their space cost and middle managers meddling is a path to failure.