Gaiwan: Hire Us!

Hire Us!

We are actively pursuing new work with clients old and new. We're in the first place interested in Clojure/ClojureScript gigs, but happy to chat about any potential leads even if you yourself are not hiring.

Things we can do for you:

• Long- or short-term team augmentation
• Programming new features
• Modernizing old codebases
• Clojure / Clojurescript coaching
• Make your team more productive by improving dev tooling
• Consulting on how to manage YOUR open source and community
• Feature work on OUR open source (all lambdaisland/Gaiwan libraries)
• Architecture review
• Cleaning up vibe-coded code bases that have become unmaintainable

Our colleague Mitesh Shah is open to new work. He's a talented engineer, practical and enterpreneurial with a lot of experience at startups. He knows how to ship, he's a great communicator, and above all he's a great person to work with. He's truly full stack, from UI/UX to the database and back.

Bettina Shzu-Juraschek, who covers legal, tax, HR, and operations at Gaiwan, can create financial overviews and close money leaks for small businesses.

2026 Conferences Preview

This year we're looking forward to attending the Babashka conference on May 8, 2026, and Dutch Clojure Days on May 9, 2026, in Amsterdam. It's always great to get together with the Clojure community in real life! We're booking a sailboat in Weesp with accommodations for up to 16 people; if you want to book a berth either in your own room or in a shared room, sign up here.

Bettina will be at FOSS Backstage and FOSS Backstage Design in Berlin from March 16-18, 2026, to push forward our open source projects. Reach out if you want to connect there.

#tea-break

At Gaiwan we share interesting reads in our #tea-break channel. Here's a selection:

Why there’s no European Google? "Can we just stop equating success with short-term economic growth? What if we used usefulness and longevity? What if we gave more value to the fundamental technological infrastructure instead of the shiny new marketing gimmick used to empty naive wallets?"

The Office according to "The Office." by Ribbonfarm. An oldie but goodie. Are you a sociopath, a loser, or clueless?

The Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton. In the long run, general-purpose methods that leverage massive computation—specifically search and learning—consistently outperform specialized systems built on human domain expertise.

Yayyay events shares the financial statements from their events. "Organizing Lambda World this year came with a price tag of €52,000,...with a €4,000 deficit." If we had included the costs of our salaries in the budget for the Heart of Clojure conference we organized in 2024, we would have also been 5 figures in the red. 🙁

What are you reading these days?