Senior software engineer, 20+ years on production systems. Working on neural nets since 1996 (neuroevolution, genetic programming) — multiple AI cycles' worth of perspective on what survives the hype.
Currently building a regulatory forecasting system for Polish law: ingesting statutes back to 1944, building a graph of legislation and amendments, reasoning about where the regulatory surface is moving. The hard problems are PDF → structured graph at scale and reasoning under uncertainty, not the model wrapper.
I also write about where AI coding agents actually work and where they quietly fail.
Best fit when the work is engineering-shaped — application/data rather than infra/SRE/Kubernetes-heavy — and the schedule overlaps EU hours.
Comfortable as autonomous IC or small-team tech lead. Domains where messy real-world data meets non-trivial reasoning are where I'm sharpest — regulatory, legal, scientific, financial.
Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.
Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + highly efficient AI capabilities.
Looking for: Remote-first senior IC roles with interesting technical challenges. Particularly interested in Python/Go positions where reliability matters.
Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.
Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.
Looking for: Remote-first senior IC roles with interesting technical challenges. Particularly interested in Python/Go positions where reliability matters.
Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.
Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.
Looking for: Remote-first senior IC roles with interesting technical challenges. Particularly interested in Python/Go positions where reliability matters.
Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.
Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.
Looking for: Teams deploying AI/ML in production. I've documented systematic agent failure modes from building production systems - see walat.eu/series/ai-agents-in-practice/
Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.
Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.
Looking for: Teams deploying AI/ML in production. I've documented systematic agent failure modes from building production systems - see walat.eu/series/ai-agents-in-practice/
Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures.
Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.
Looking for: Remote-first senior IC roles with interesting technical challenges. Particularly interested in Python/Go positions where reliability matters.
Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial control to modern distributed architectures. Currently exploring AI/ML through personal projects (Sejm-Whiz - Polish legal document analysis using NLP).
Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.
Looking for: Remote-first senior IC roles with interesting technical challenges. Particularly interested in Python/Go positions where reliability matters.
Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years building systems that can't fail - from industrial
control to modern distributed architectures. Currently exploring AI/ML through personal
projects (Sejm-Whiz - Polish legal document analysis using NLP).
Unique value: Industrial reliability mindset + modern tech + emerging AI capabilities.
Looking for: Remote-first senior IC roles with interesting technical challenges.
Particularly interested in Python/Go positions where reliability matters.
Remote: Yes — EU hours, or US East Coast overlap
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Go; ML/data pipelines; document → graph extraction; regulatory & legal-domain data
Résumé: https://walat.eu | linkedin.com/in/dariusz-walat
Email: dariusz@walat.eu
Senior software engineer, 20+ years on production systems. Working on neural nets since 1996 (neuroevolution, genetic programming) — multiple AI cycles' worth of perspective on what survives the hype. Currently building a regulatory forecasting system for Polish law: ingesting statutes back to 1944, building a graph of legislation and amendments, reasoning about where the regulatory surface is moving. The hard problems are PDF → structured graph at scale and reasoning under uncertainty, not the model wrapper.
I also write about where AI coding agents actually work and where they quietly fail.
Best fit when the work is engineering-shaped — application/data rather than infra/SRE/Kubernetes-heavy — and the schedule overlaps EU hours. Comfortable as autonomous IC or small-team tech lead. Domains where messy real-world data meets non-trivial reasoning are where I'm sharpest — regulatory, legal, scientific, financial.
HN: news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stakent (since 2009)
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