Happy Spooktober 👻! I hope you are enjoying the fall weather and the beautiful foliage (at least I am in the Boston area)! Here’s what’s happening within the alumNY community:

Slack Troubles!

Recently, Slack signed people out multiple times over the span of several days. If you lost Slack access and need help rejoining, please reach out to Andrea (andrea@hackny.org) for help!

👾 Projects!

Our alum have been busy working on some cool personal projects. Check them out below!

📖 AlumNY Directory

Sam (h’25) built a little script to display names of various alum and the companies they currently work for. If you are looking for an alum who works at a specific company or just want to see where alum are working these days, check out the project!

https://alumni-viewer.onrender.com/ (password is mamdani)

• Disclaimer 1: this was made by web scraping so there might be inaccurate info. If you spot it you can report it on the site.

• Disclaimer 2: The website is hosted with onrender so it might take ~30 seconds to load.

🎵 Spotipi

I (Gloria, h’24) finished my first ever hardware project! I had this crazy idea to code up an LED matrix panel to display what I am playing on my Spotify and it happened! I am very much new to working with hardware so I am so proud of what I came up with. What a great addition to my apartment!

📕 hackNY Book Club

The next hackNY Book Club meeting will take place Nov 8th at 4 pm! The book to read is The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin. Hope to see you all there! For more details and to RSVP, please check out the Partiful link! https://partiful.com/e/dXBjyB7UtO6ymd2RcycB?c=IqJI7G2q

🔮 Magic the Gathering

Jacob (h’17) is looking for people interested in playing or learning how to play Magic the Gathering. Please message Jacob (@get_swifty) on Slack if you are interested!

🎸 Feaster

Chris Hranj (h’16)’s band, Feaster, has a show at Berlin on Avenue A on Thursday, Nov 5! See more here: https://berlin.nyc/tm-event/feaster-pffu-diary/

💻 Ray to Internet Archive!

Ray (h’18) got a new job at the Internet Archive as a Software Engineer where he’ll be working on their reliability. Congratulations, Ray!

Jobs

We have some amazing alum who are looking for new opportunities. Please take a look and ping them if you have any leads on roles that would be a good fit!

• Name: Amelia Winger-Bearskin

  • Location: Brooklyn, NYC

  • Open to Remote; currently prioritizing NYC.

  • Technologies: REST and GraphQL APIs, JSON, LLM API integrations (OpenAI/ChatGPT), speech-to-text and text-to-speech, headless CMS and content infrastructure (Contentful), and AI-assisted data workflows. My focus is prototyping, developer education, and enterprise technical enablement.

  • Link to Résumé/CV: https://www.studioamelia.com/resume

  • slackNY handle: @amelia

• Name: Jessica Belasoto

  • Location: New York

  • Open to Remote and or Relocation: Yes

  • Technologies: JavaScript, Vercel, Go, Java, React, Node, PostgreSQL

  • Link to Resume:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/18CPmYlEwfFZA2pGPZ5SrbzT8svp9GH4B/view?usp=sharing

  • slackNY handle: @Jessica Belasoto

That’s it for now! As always, if you want your cool things to be on the next newsletter, share them with us via Slack. Have a great day, hackNY! Stay safe on Halloween and wear a fun costume!

Love,

Gloria 👻 🎃 👺