Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2016)

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Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.

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SEEKING WORK - Based in Cologne, Germany, remote or Europe preferred

I do custom electronics, robotics, and embedded software development - I specialize in quickly turning ideas into prototypes. I've built custom automation equipment for chemistry labs, sensors that are in use in household/utility applications, control circuitry for construction equipment, 3d printing electronics, data acquisition equipment. No project too small. Few projects too large. Deep discounts for open source hardware work.

I would also be happy to come over (anywhere in Europe) and teach any of the above skills to a small group of interested people. I've taught courses in electronic assembly (SMD), 3d printing (building/using printers, iterative 3d model design using programming) and robot design and construction. I've taught courses at several universities, hackspaces, and conferences.

Contact me on Freenode IRC (nick Kliment) or by email at kliment@0xfb.com

SEEKING WORK - Primarily Remote, with potential for short on-site trips.

10 years experience across a mixture of Ops/Infrastructure and web application architecture and development, with a focus on solving unique/uncommon problems.

I’m looking for opportunities to help companies with backend/server-side architecture & development (primarily PHP MVC), system integration and/or server infrastructure setup/maintenance.

I mostly work remotely from Thailand, on a very flexible schedule (I can schedule work hours to get overlap with most other timezones when required) but on-site visits to pretty much anywhere are a possibility if required too.

Contact me via email to stephen.reay@me.com or via Jabber/XMPP to stephen.reay@dukgo.com if you want to have a chat about what you’re working on!

SEEKING WORK - Remote, San Francisco, Washington D.C

I'm a full stack developer and designer.

I'll build you a minimal lovable product or a Facebook Messenger Chat Bot for a fixed $9K and in 4 weeks.

For iOS apps, I use Swift. For web apps, I use Ruby/Rails, JavaScript.

To see some of my recent work:

http://breue.com/

https://dribbble.com/zachvanness

My email: zach@breue.com

SEEKING WORK - London UK or remote. NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES.

I'm a senior/lead DevOps with 15 years experience tuning & hosting web applications and I'm on the lookout for the next challenge.

I work closely with developers throughout the application lifecycle to build scalable and long-term robust architectures. Load testing, CI, deploy systems, monitoring, config management, security audits, dev projects of my own - you name it I've done it. For larger organisations I've even led whole infrastructure teams.

Recent work includes:

+ AWS/Kubernetes/Docker deployment to support a large, distributed (15 microservices + persistence layer) application. Worked closely with developers to ensure services were the best possible fit for containerized hosting, resulting in a very scalable application that makes great use of k8s' scaling & resiliency features. Multiple stacks namespaced onto same k8s cluster for efficiency; containerization of all services; automated deploys from CI. Persistence layer comprising Cassandra & Kafka with service discovery through Zookeeper. Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring.

+ AWS/Docker platform to securely host a large public-sector microservice-based web app taking millions of pounds per month in payments.

+ Chef-managed deployment of large microservice stack across varied configurations on cloud and physical servers

+ Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated cryptocurrency trading. Didn't get rich, still posting on the HN freelancer thread.

+ Jenkins + docker-compose platform for efficient builds of microservice-based projects

+ Lots, lots more.

hn-2016-10@mbird.biz / https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alex-hewson/b6/50a/8b4

SEEKING WORK - NYC, REMOTE PREFERRED

Full-stack ruby developer specializing in web apps and SAAS. 6 years professional experience.

mail(a)citizensinspace.com

SEEKING WORK - Remote, New York City based.

Full-stack developer who just started a brand new digital agency! We specialize in Skills (applications) for the new Amazon Alexa ecosystem. Also back-end integrations and other interesting data projects.

Primary toolset is Ruby, Sinatra, Rails, JavaScript, Node, Express, Backbone, React.js. Also experienced in Devops with Heroku, and a contributor to Dokku (free Heroku alternative). Have setup a server from scratch before many a time as well.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

hi@zachfeldman.nyc http://zachfeldman.nyc

SEEKING WORK - REMOTE ONLY - UX/UI/Visual Designer & UI Developer

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Design: Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, InVision, Keynote, Litmus Fluent in: HTML5, CSS3, LESS, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Middleman, Git, Wordpress, and Marketo

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I specialize in creating beautiful, clean, and intuitive designs that encompass a balance of both form and function. With over 8+ years of experience, I have worked with a variety of clients from individuals to startups to small businesses to enterprise corporation, like Oracle.

I am a meticulous problem-solver, do’er, and mother of two who loves food, KQED, and arts and crafts and can’t help but look at the world with a designer’s eye.

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Portfolio: http://bit.ly/hellojen

Just an update. Hourly rate high $$ to $$$. Minimum project cost to work on: $3000 and up.
SEEKING WORK - Remote, San Diego

• Full stack front-end and back-end developer, designer (plus others on team if needed)

• Mobile: Swift, iOS

• Front end: JavaScript, Ember.js, HTML, CSS

• Back end: Elixir, Phoenix, Ruby, Rails, JSON APIs, Postgres, Docker

• Design: Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop

• Experience in analytics, customer acquisition and retention

Website: http://coderly.com/ and http://talkingcode.com/

GitHub: https://github.com/joshsmith

Email: josh@coderly.com

I run a small consultancy but willing to work individually. You can see some of our projects at our website.

Three of us with similar skill sets available to work on projects. Prefer working on new projects as first technical team to build an MVP, but also enjoy team augmentation with the right team.

Currently on a project but we love meeting other companies and are happy to introduce you to someone we trust if your timing is urgent.

SEEKING WORK / based in Germany / remote or on-site (Europe/US preferred) I'm a passionate generalist developer with two decades of experience.

I'm focusing on:

• games, minigames, and interactive experiences

• browser-based apps with WebGL (mostly Pixi and Three.js)

• Unity3D customization and gameplay programming in C#

• UnrealEngine customization C++

About me:

  * I started my career at an advertising agency
  * made a toy programming language called np: http://np-lang.org 
    and I'm generally a language design enthusiast
  * I'm a Ludum Darer: http://ludumdare.com/compo/author/udo/
  * Github: https://github.com/Udo/
  * My (sporadic) indie game project: http://udven.com/
Profile: http://udo.click/

Contact me at udo@openfu.com

SEEKING WORK

Location: Chicago Suburbs, IL

Remote: Yes and preferred

I specialize in Clojure.

I work with companies that are in the process of adopting Clojure save time and money by avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls.

If you need another hand on a Clojure project or somebody to guide you, send me an email.

Email in profile.

SEEKING WORK -- New Jersey/Remote.

Hi -- I'm Julius, I do mobile app development for iOS and Android as well as backend APIs using Rails or Django.

Objective-C, Swift, Java, Ruby, and Python are the languages I use on a regular basis.

I have immediate availability for a new project if you're looking for someone to work with on your next mobile app. In the past I've built the Fitocracy apps (featured on the App Store), the Daily Burn Apple TV app (featured in retail Apple Stores), the Charlie App iOS app (top of PH) and a number of other apps. You can find more info at my site: http://www.juliusparishy.com/

I also make http://RunSwiftLang.com if you've ever seen that.

I'm in NJ and I mostly work remotely from my office in Princeton. Happy to talk in person if you're in the city, though.

You can reach me at hello@juliusparishy.com if you have any questions, want to talk about a project, or just say hi.

SEEKING WORK - Lisbon, Portugal or Remote

Full-stack web developer specialized in Python (Flask and Django) with 10+ years of experience on software development.

I have a PhD and published work in statistical Natural Language Processing, so am also looking for interesting opportunities on NLP. I have experience as teacher, so if you need one-to-one consulting or mentoring on any of these subjects (software architecture and development, web development, NLP, programming, algorithms, data processing, developing with Python, C, Java, others?), I'm used to make complex things seem simple.

I'm currently bootstrapping my own software company (http://flatangle.com) with an online product (http://elements.flatangle.com/) and an Android application (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flatangle....). I have experience on designing application architectures including implementing and releasing working products.

You can check my personal website for more information, http://joaoventura.net/ or my github accounts: https://github.com/joaoventura/ and https://github.com/flatangle/.

SEEKING WORK - Remote (from USA, currently in Europe)

Offering a unique, unusual, but useful set of skills:

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- Scraping: Lots of experience in creating high volume, high speed scrapers for any data source, whether on the web or in an app (after reverse engineering it).

- Reverse engineering: Experienced reverse engineering iOS apps, whether to gain insights into the protocols used, identify how an app is doing something, or review the security of your own app.

- Proxy servers: Need a custom setup of proxy servers for scraping? I can help. I have relationships with multiple data centers and can get you cheap deals on IP addresses. I can also setup custom rule-based proxies (i.e. rotate IP every minute, change IP based on header, auto-solve CAPTCHA, route through Tor, etc)

- Cloud architect: Experienced with both AWS/EC2 and Google Cloud. Especially good at setting up AWS VPC.

- parse-server: I maintain the python library for parse-server (https://github.com/milesrichardson/ParsePy), and have also setup parse-server multiple times on AWS, google cloud, and locally.

- VPN setup: Need a VPN for personal use or your business? Need a VPN to connect to your VPC? Or maybe some custom networking logic? I can help.

- fullstack dev - For the right project I am interested in fullstack development, but prefer scopes limiting development time to a few weeks.

- API integration in Python or nodejs - experience with stripe, PayPal, Amazon SES, various others.

- server setup / general sysadmin - very experienced with the most common server stacks, including Nginx, docker, redis, and others. If you need a production server setup and are feeling lost, I can help.

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Skills: Python (flask, bottle), Javascript (node, express), Bash, MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, parse-server, postgres, squidproxy, docker, redis, zeromq, html/css/basic frontend JS, nginx, haproxy, dns

Platforms: AWS/ec2, google cloud, parse, digitalocean, bare metal

Github: https://github.com/milesrichardson

LinkedIn (out of date): https://linkedin.com/in/milesrichardson1

Email: milesrichardson@gmail.com

Please reach out by email if you need something. :)

SEEKING WORK - remote, Chattanooga, TN Based Full-stack ruby developer with 6 years Rails experience, Rails 2.3-5.0 - mysql/mssql/postgres hi@tmbeihl.com github.com/tmbeihl
SEEKING WORK (Denver; Remote) Full Stack senior engineers We are a rails shop with two senior developers that have been using Ruby since 2005. We attended the first Rails conf and have a decade of experience developing full stack solutions.

Code examples available upon request. We <3 bootstrappers and startups. Email me at mikkel[at]255bits.com Keywords: Ruby, Groovy, Devops, Docker, Node, React, CouchDB, SQL, Rails

We also have web apps used by thousands daily, using a variety of languages and technologies. https://www.255bits.com/

CloudGear | DevOps/Software Engineer | 60-100% | Germany

CloudGear is a startup based in Zurich, Switzerland. We offer Docker and Kubernetes consulting and are working on a Kubernetes-as-a-service product to help companies adopt a modern infrastructure based on containers. We are looking for talented freelance engineers to support our customers with building and operating a Docker and Kubernetes based platform. The project will last multiple months or longer. Required skills: solid Docker and automation knowledge (Ansible, Puppet or similar), decent programming skills in at least one language e.g. Ruby, Python or Go. Experience with Kubernetes is a plus.

Location: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, travel required Please send further questions, your resume and your GitHub username to georg (at) cloudgear.net - https://www.cloudgear.net No recruiters or agencies, your email will be marked as spam.

SEEKING WORK - Washington DC or Remote

I am the maintainer for the Primrose WebVR Framework (https://www.primrosevr.com), with which I build Web-based Virtual Reality applications for Google Cardboard, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive. WebVR is great for getting users into your product very quickly, before they have second thoughts about installing your app. I do fixed-cost, fixed-timeline, focused on getting your MVP out quickly. Primarily focused on non-gaming applications, but I'll do games, too.

Email in profile.

SEEKING WORK / New Delhi or Remote

I'm a full-stack developer with about 9 years of work experience who's worked with several startups in the past including SlideShare-LinkedIn, Naukri.com etc. in various senior engineering and system architect roles. I started SquareBoat in 2013 - a company to help startups build and scale successful web and mobile products.

Here are some links to my profiles:

Company - http://www.squareboat.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravgupta123 Personal - http://gauravgupta.in

SEEKING WORK

Location: Rhine-Ruhr, Germany / remote. I'm fine with travelling as well though.

Remote: Yes

IT consultant, web and enterprise software developer with more than 15 years of experience.

I'm experienced in JavaScript, HTML5 and many other web-related technologies. I'm a long-time Java developer and I have lots of experience with RDBMS as well, particularly PostgreSQL and Oracle DB.

In the past 3 years I've mainly been developing AngularJS applications (having started with Angular 2 recently) with Java / Spring back-ends and PostgreSQL databases. Among other things, many of these applications make of use complex data analysis and data visualization (using D3.js, NVD3, Chart.js).

I help companies with the quality and knowledge transfer aspects of software development: Testing (both front-end using tools like Protractor and back-end with frameworks like JUnit and Mockito), continuous deployment, improving collaboration within teams, training developers regarding best practices and new technologies.

Website: https://bjoernkw.com

GitHub profile: https://github.com/BjoernKW/

Please contact me via the contact form on my website or send an email to bjoern / at / bjoernkw.com

Seeking work, Europe, remote only

I can speed up any website, with focus on WordPress and WooCoomerce sites. Full stack performance optimization.

mario.tomic (at) pageperf.com

SEEKING WORK: India

I’m the designer of the Brand Identity for io.js [1] I will design an awesome brand and website package for your product/service for 2500 USD in 4 weeks. Package includes...

- 1 logo (I provide 3 options, each with their own presentation)

- 1 Multi-page WordPress website with domain registration, Nginx setup, security and SEO, Contact Form

- 1 landing page optimized for conversion

- 2 social media profile pages, one each for Facebook and Twitter with custom header images and profile avatars

Other skills: full-stack developer on the React/Node.js stack

Email: vijay@dffrnt.com

Portfolio: www.dffrnt.com

[1] https://www.behance.net/gallery/23269525/IOJS-logo-concept

SEEKING WORK (Denver; Remote) - Full stack engineers focused on machine learning with Tensorflow.

We have full stack background and keep up with the latest machine learning techniques. We build custom models focusing on end-to-end integration.

Contact me to find out if ML is a good fit for your organization.

Keywords: Tensorflow, ML, machine learning, full stack, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Java

martyn.garcia at gmail.com

SEEKING WORK / Remote, New York, San Francisco, travel possible

I'm a full-stack web developer with lots of experience bringing new applications to market and helping to reduce technical debt on existing projects. I thrive under tight deadlines and can help to build refine ill-defined projects into successful MVPs.

Some recent projects I've built include an analytics pipeline processing 300M+ events a day on Docker/AWS, an automated platform for managing Bing & Google advertising, and a sales/qualifying tool for real estate investors.

In terms of technologies, I excel with Python, JavaScript (including Node, React, and Angular), PHP, and Docker/AWS.

You can find out more about me at https://www.morgante.net/ or contact m@morgante.net.

SEEKING WORK / based in the Netherlands / remote (maybe on-site for a bit)

3x startup founder (1x failure, 1x exit, 1x profitable) looking to do help some companies achieve terminal velocity. I have experience working in/with/founded bay-area companies, so I know the startup drill.

I can build anything in pretty much any language, but my talents are mostly valuable in a lean architecture/team-lead type of role (or setting up the basic architecture).

Have hands-on experience with:

- Been writing code last 16 years

- Have been building companies for the last 8

- RoR / JS/CoffeeScript / React / MySQL / Postgres

- High performance .NET / SQL Server

- iOS development

This posting is more of an experiment to see if I can run into interesting startups tackling interesting problems.

Any takers? :-) wsmsdq@gmail.com