[alumNY news]: Spring is Here!
Happy Spring! We hope you have gotten the chance to enjoy the amazing cherry blossoms around NYC! If not, get out there and enjoy the good weather!
ANNOUNCEMENT: Public Interest Lab Application
The hackNY Public Interest Lab application is live! Please share the application around to those who would be interested! https://hackny.org/pil-fellow
Here’s what our amazing alum have been up to:
💻 👾 alumNY hacks
Several alum recently have built amazing things! Check out what they made:
Jon (h’19) built a coding agent orchestration tool that integrates with issue trackers to launch claude/codex sessions in k8s pods and automate the PR merge process. See here for details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520220
Marley (h’17) submitted a browser extension to the Chrome store for approval. It is not published yet but check it out on Github in the meantime. https://github.com/marley/foqus.
Shy (h’14) built something fun by taking a Japanese toy manual and turning its translation into a bulletproof, AI powered ETL Pipeline. Watch here to learn more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_fE8T-DwiU
🌆 SF Meetup
Ray (h’18) is helping to organize a permacomputing meetup in SF!
The SF Permacomputing Club is a new monthly meetup group discussing and working with the principles of permacomputing. We will explore alternatives to mainstream online and computing infrastructure, focused on resilience and regenerativity. We are especially interested in technology considered obsolete, impractical, small, or obscure — a counter to a Bay Area tech culture dominated by the new, disposable, big, and profitable.
The next meeting will be at The Fold (3359 26th St, San Francisco, CA) on April 12, 2026 at 12PM.
SF Permacomputing Club · Luma
For the latest status, upcoming events, and mailing-list signup, visit: https://alexwennerberg.com/permacomputing.html Please note: the Luma page is only a…
Jobs
One of Sameer’s (h’20) mentees, Haripratiik (GeorgiaTech ‘28), is uniquely intelligent and accomplished, and a thoughtful person. He hasn't secured an internship for the summer yet but has a breadth of skills and projects under his belt. Please go to #jobs to view Haripratiik’s resume and help out if you have any leads!
TreeSwift: Emily (h’15)’s company TreeSwift has several openings. Come build technology for forest fire prevention with a really cool team! See all job openings below:
Emily’s team, software:
Backend Engineer (Senior/Staff)
Data Platform Engineer (mid career+)
Site Reliability and Infrastructure Engineer (first hire, so senior/staff most likely)
Machine Learning EngineerOther openings that might be relevant to alumNY:
Forward Deployed Engineer
Head of Hardware
Robotics Engineer
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 wonderful day, hackNY!
Cheers,
Gloria 🌸 🌻 🌷