Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2018)

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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 FREELANCER

Worldwide, REMOTE, near-total flexibility on hours. $70-100/hr. Expert Interviewer at Karat (https://karat.io)

Work from anywhere in the world that has a solid internet connection. Work as much or as little as you want. Work any day, any time of day, any number of hours -- you can do 0 one week, 50 the next week, and back to 0 the next week. Only requirement there is that we want you to roughly average at least 10 hours a week, or else the training/time investment doesn't make as much sense from your end or ours.

I know the above might sound a little strange, so a bit about the company for context: Karat is a Seattle-based startup that does software engineering interviews on behalf of other companies -- primarily first-round phone screens. Quickly-growing companies can spend a significant fraction of their engineers' time interviewing; we help take the load off. We've done a lot to make the interview experience better for all stakeholders that I could write whole essays about, but suffice it to say that candidates love working with us, clients love working with us, and we're well-funded and growing quickly as a result.

Because of this quickly-growing demand, we're looking to hire more Expert Interviewers. The ideal candidate is a software engineer with strong written and verbal English skills with at least a few years of professional experience. Interviewing experience would be great, but we spend 25 hours (paid) training you before you even start, so if you're strong technically and love working with people we can usually make it work :) Interviews are conducted over video chat, using a collaborative code editor.

Some of our interviewers are freelancers who use our scheduling model to backfill hours; others are full timers at top tech companies looking to make some extra cash; others have quit their jobs to work with us full time; some are digital nomads; one of our interviewers is road tripping around North America for a year and a half, doing anywhere from zero to 40 interviews each week depending on where he is and what the weather's like.

The application form is here: https://jobs.lever.co/karat/d44ab283-c7c0-4bbd-b8c3-4dc0ced6...

I know it's a pretty unique job, so if you have any questions reply here or email me at josh@karat.io and I'm happy to talk through any of it.

I'm wondering, how long is each interview?

If someone wants to work 20 hours, does that mean 20 hours of interviewing?

Are there enough interviews available to be able to maintain the hours?

Just curious what a 20 hour work week would look like doing this job.

Hey, thanks for the questions. Interviews are mostly 60 minutes, though we are experimenting with longer formats (90 and 120). We leave 30 minutes at the end of each interview to complete and submit your write-up on the candidate's performance (we have a detailed rubric that you grade against for each section of the interview). As you become more experienced, you tend to need much less than 30 minutes to complete this writeup.

If you wanted to work 20 hours, that could be 20 hours of interviewing, but we also have other work you can do as you become more experienced, like helping to review interviews, mentor newer interviewers, develop and test new interview content, build features on the platform, etc. Some people prefer to only or mostly interview though, and that's fine.

There's some seasonality to interview supply just because of the nature of recruiting cycles, but we're growing pretty quickly and we've got people focused on capacity management, so that smooths things out a bit.

A 20 hour work week for some people is just 20 hours of interviewing on their own schedule; for others it's a mix of interviewing, reviewing others' interviews, and mentoring. We have some interviews who do mostly non-interviewing tasks like mentoring, or working with clients, just based on their preferences and skillsets.

Hope that answers your questions, but let me know if you'd like me to elaborate on any of this.

SEEKING WORK | Front-End Angular Developer

Location: Portugal

Remote work: Yes

Portfolio: https://nunoarruda.com/#portfolio

GitHub: https://github.com/nunoarruda

Resume: https://nunoarruda.com/resume.pdf

Email: nuno@nunoarruda.com

Hi, I'm Nuno, a Result-Oriented Front End Angular Developer with a strong technical skill-set, attention to detail, and 16 years of experience. I have a passion for translating beautiful designs into functional user interfaces and building great web applications.

I actively seek out new technologies and stay up-to-date on industry trends and advancements. Continued education has allowed me to stay ahead of the curve and deliver exceptional work to each employer I’ve worked for - both full-time and contract.

I've successfully delivered projects like a CSS UI library used by 17,000 employees, a mobile app that now has 15,000+ users, and an award-winning payroll system. I've done frontend work for Adobe, 21st Century Fox, Bayer, among other companies.

I've been working remotely for the last 5 years for clients worldwide and I can be flexible in order to have overlapping working hours with a distributed team.

SEEKING WORK - REMOTE Highly experienced VP of Engineering & Lead Web Developer. Skills:

* Crypto/Blockchain - building Crypto infrastructure (multiple Blockchains), customized libraries and APIs, as well as front-end (MetaMask) solutions - Highly motivated to continue working with this.

* NodeJS/Meteor/SailsJS

* Serverless (going heavy on that one)

* Cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP)

* Wordpress/CodeIgniter/Yii/Drupal (Components, Hacks, Themes) - less motivated, unless truly cutting edge (or WP VIP projects)

* CI & Unit testing - Jenkins, Mocha & Karma for JS, Toast for PHP, as well as Selenium

* Django (general Python too) - to a lesser extent

Seeking: Challenging projects. Most recently worked extensively with Serverless & AWS APIs, building cloud-related prototypes, before that worked as an AngularJS specialist.

Example work: Upon request

Location: EU

Contact: dev (at) azdv.co

SEEKING WORK

Location: Europe/US (an American split between two continents)

Remote: Yes (with three years experience working remotely)

Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right opportunity

Technologies: Fullstack LAMP/LEMP (Laravel 5.x, Symfony 2.x, CakePHP, PHP 7.x), MySQL/MariaDB, JS (Vue.js, React, jQuery, etc.)

Resume: I am from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and have been building web applications since 1999. The majority of my career has been full-stack web application development in both the United States and also Europe.

I am the author of Mastering Laravel (Packt) and other peer-reviewed publications, an invited speaker at LaravelDay, phpDay, and PHP UK.

http://linkedin.com/in/chrispecoraro

Email: chrispecoraro@gmail.com

SEEKING WORK -- Gainesville, FL -- remote/freelance

I am an experienced Python developer, having used the language in all kinds of areas and situations, including web development (Flask, Django, Pylons, Google App Engine, etc), GUI development, database access (using MS SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres), scripting, backend development, automated testing, web crawling/scraping, data extraction and parsing/ETL, etc.

I am looking for full-time or part-time work, either one is fine. If you are looking to get a small project done, or you have an existing project where some maintenance work needs to be done on a regular basis, then I would love to hear from you.

I am also available for technical writing (I kept a programming blog for many years, mostly about Python).

(For the record: Although Python is my main programming language, I am also interested in, and have worked with, many other programming languages, including C, D, Delphi, Go, C#/Mono, Ruby, OCaml, Prolog, Lisp, Scheme, etc, on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems. I am also available to work on projects in these languages.)

Website: http://aquila.blue

Email: zephyrfalcon at gmail.com

SEEKING WORK, Big Data Engineer, Primarily Remote (based in Eindhoven, NL)

I am a strong data engineer who is passionate about large-scale distributed systems and streaming pipelines, and cares about producing clean, elegant, maintainable, robust, well-tested Scala / Spark code.

Core Skills:

● Kafka, Spark Streaming, Avro

● Cassandra (DevOps, Data Modeling)

● Distributed Systems Coordination (ZooKeeper)

● Programming Languages: Scala (highly proficient, 8 years exp.), Python (proficient), Kotlin (getting there)

Other Skills: Git, Docker, Akka Streams, HBase, HDFS, ElasticSearch, AWS (EC2/S3/EMR).

Educational Background: Computer Science.

Solid experience working remotely.

All of my recent work history (8 years) is exclusively with startups (early-stage for the most part).

Profile: https://angel.co/dan-serban

Rate: $125/hour.

E-mail address in the profile.

SEEKING WORK

Location: Bengaluru, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rust, PHP, JS (incl ES8), HTML, CSS

CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vld4vHBkE- cPeGnleJSJiNZ4RtrHxXXTNHranVdFjE8/edit?usp=sharing

email: dylan.dpc@gmail.com

SEEKING WORK: Montevideo, Uruguay. GMT -3. | Remote Only | Full Stack Web Developer

I've been working remotely with Django for around 6 years now, delivering web apps and MVPs for startups.

Email: saizar.martin@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinsaizar/

Website: https://msaizar.com

Drop me a message, let's chat!

SEEKING WORK – remote or Philadelphia

Freelance application development. We have done it all before. We are not an agency, just two programmers who are colocated and share an office.

We also offer NO RISK PROTOTYPING, only pay if you want it. http://www.hyperfiddle-consulting.com/

React.js, Redux, Javascript, ClojureScript, Clojure, Scala, Java, Meteor and MongoDB, Datomic

SEEKING WORK - remote, short to medium term projects - zak.wilson@gmail.com I make software - mostly full-stack web development and HTTP APIs, but I'm adaptable. I have some interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning. I have a little experience making Android apps, and my open-source Android app Ceilingbounce has happy users.

I can do stuff that's harder than basic CRUD apps. Stuff I know well: Clojure, Ruby (with or without Rails), Python, Django, Javascript, Lua, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SASS, responsive CSS.

Other stuff I've used for something non-trivial at least once: Common Lisp, Scheme, Java, SASS, C, PHP, Haskell, Bash, Perl, MongoDB, Mirah, Android development with Clojure. Yes, I can probably pick up that language or tool you're using that nobody has ever heard of.

Github: https://github.com/zakwilson

Some public facing things I've worked on:

https://priceonomics.com

https://survis.com

https://remarkbox.com

Zak is awesome, I wish I had enough cash flow to keep him busy full time. Right now he is helping me build out intelligent user defined digest notifications for Remarkbox.
Thanks for the endorsement. Remarkbox is a fun project to be working on - like a lightweight, ad-free Disqus.
SEEKING WORK, Senior Data Engineer, London UK and remote

Software engineer with 13 years of experience. I have been doing data engineering projects for 7 years now.

Core langages : Python / Java / Scala / Bash

Core techs : Hadoop / Spark / Hbase / Airflow / Kafka / Solr / Zookeeper

I have been using AWS & DigitalOcean for few users now and can easily adapt to use other cloud providers.

Exmaple of a recent project :

  - Built and productionised a workflow management solution based on Apache Airflow for a client of mine.

  - Delivered an apache airflow docker based solution running on AWS ECS cluster. I have built terraform scripts to build AWS ec2 infra and ecs services.

  - Migrated various existing pipeline (doing various stuff such as spark jobs...etc.) to airflow and setup best practises for the data engineering team.
I have worked successfully in the past remotely with startups and people on different timezone (SF).

Contact : illy2kevin at hotmail.com

SEEKING WORK- remote full time and freelance consulting

I'm a Lean Startup and Lean marketing expert/growth marketer, Europe based. I work at the intersection of marketing, product and data. I speak German, English and Croatian on a native level.

Freelance over Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~0140c61711ca62fc44 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anakolarevic/ Angellist: https://angel.co/anakolarevic Can be contacted through the above channels

SOME OF THE THINGS I CAN HELP YOU WITH: - Business Model Canvas/ Business Modelling: Spot potential weaknesses & strengths, identify untapped opportunities and opportunities of scale

- Customer Development Process & Lean startup methodology: Framework to understand your customers and what they pay for, and how to interview customers

- Marketing strategy: Converting customer aqcuisition strategies using Lean startup and smart digital marketing hacks

- Marketing execution: Google Adwords, Bing, Facebook & Instagram Ads, Reddit Ads, Social Media & Community management advice, paid & earned demand creation

- Pitches /Investor decks: Creation of quality content, metrics and delivery for pitch decks or audience pitches, diction and speech training included

SEEKING WORK

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not right now (just had a baby), but probably in about a year

Technologies: angular 1, angular 2, es6, react, redux, react-native, webpack, html5, css3, sass, scss, jade, node, php, building restful api’s, git, grunt, jenkins, jira, mysql, postgres, redis, mongo, firebase, aws, heroku.

Resume: http://www.jasperschulte.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/curri...

Website: http://www.jasperschulte.nl

Email: You’ll find it on my site

Linkedin: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/jasperschulte

Rate: €85/hr

As a Javascript front-end developer, my main experience lies in enterprise scale single page JavaScript applications (SPA’s), preferably built with the Angular 1/2 or React framework. Beside that I have strong business development and leadership skills. Having successfully built my own company from the ground up and run it for 10 years, I know what it takes to build, lead, grow and maintain a business.

SEEKING WORK - Houston, TX / Remote / Travel OK

I am a full-stack web developer writing front-ends with React, Redux & TypeScript and back-ends with Python, Django or Flask, and postgresql.

I'm comfortable doing anything from simple maintenance & feature addition to creating an MVP for your project.

Some technologies I have experience working with:

    Backend => Python, golang, node.js

    Frontend => React, Redux, preact, riot, SASS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, TypeScript

    Storage => postgresql, sqlite, redis

    Cloud & devops => AWS, Docker, dokku
I cut my coding teeth writing compilers in C++ and Scheme, so I'm happy working with pretty much anything. Recent client testimonials: "Solid & dependable", "top notch coder and a compiler ninja"

You can check me out further at:

My website: https://upvalue.io

My GitHub: https://github.com/ioddly

If you're interested in working with me, you can contact me at phil@upvalue.io - my phone # is available on my website.

SEEKING WORK / Remote / Based in Los Angeles

Designer + Developer

I have over 10 years of experience as a graphic designer and web developer. I create websites, brand identities and marketing material for a variety of companies including startups, agencies and non-profit organizations. In addition to my design skills, I have thorough knowledge of full-stack web development.

DESIGN: websites, mobile apps, logos, banner ads, marketing material, advertising, billboards, trade show displays, packaging, 3D modeling, photo retouching

DEVELOPMENT: HTML, CSS, LESS, JavaScript, Angular, jQuery, Node, PHP, Django, MySQL, Bootstrap, Foundation, REST APIs, Contentful, Webhook, Wordpress, Modx, Git, Grunt/Gulp, Static Site Generators

PORTFOLIO: http://sunderlandstudio.com

LINKEDIN: http://linkedin.com/in/stevesunderland

CONTACT: stevesunderland[at]gmail.com

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

I'm a full stack developer and designer.

I'll build you a minimal lovable product 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:

https://breue.com/

https://dribbble.com/zachvanness

My email: zach@breue.com

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SEEKING WORK - Remote

UI/UX designer and front-end developer from Iceland with solid solutions to your frustrating problems.

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I can help you with:

UX Design - The most important aspect of every product if you ask me. Let's work together to make user flows, wireframes and prototypes to get a clear overview of the products goals and how the user will achieve them.

UI Design - This is where we add your brand and details to the wireframes. Everything has to be consistent with your image.

Front-end development - Implementation can be tricky. I got the skills to work with your developers, or on my own, to make your product superb.

You can checkout some of my previous work at https://gilli.is/

Let's work together! Contact me at gilli@hn.gilli.is

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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.

SEEKING WORK - Boulder, NYC, or Remote

We are a remote 3-person full-stack design and dev team. Our portfolio: https://stratosphere.digital. Some recent projects we've launched: https://divvydose.com, https://fitnessration.com.sg, http://shoptwigs.com, https://caster.io.

Some of the technologies we're most familiar with: Web and mobile design, UI, UX, iconography, illustration, design prototyping, PHP, Node.js, Meteor, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Sass, LESS, Stylus, CoffeeScript, WebSockets, AJAX, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, Cordova, PhoneGap, React Native, iOS, Android, Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Safari), AWS, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, C, C++, C#, Java, Objective-C, Swift, QS/1, HL7, HIPAA.

We offer hourly rates and discounted monthly retainer options. Contact: via our website or you can contact me directly at eliyah@stratosphere.digital.

SEEKING WORK - Portland, OR or Remote

I'm a polyglot, full-stack developer with 17 years experience. My specialties are Rails, Postgres and Chef/AWS. I've done several Postgres C extensions for performance and scalability, and recently I wrote my first for-pay Rust code: a small network service. I'm also very comfortable in Angular, Vue, Java, and Python. I am reliable, easy to work with, quick to turn things around, and a good communicator. I can work solo or on a team, either as lead or a team member. I value client satisfaction as highly as technical excellence.

You can see some of my recent work here:

https://illuminatedcomputing.com/portfolio

https://github.com/pjungwir/aggs_for_arrays

https://github.com/pjungwir/db_leftovers

If you'd like to work together, I'd be happy to discuss your project!: pj@illuminatedcomputing.com

SEEKING WORK - NYC, mostly remote preferred, but open to travel for larger projects, major meetings, etc. I'm a senior iOS developer with experience as a product manager and startup founder.

Since 2010, I've built, launched, grown, and supported many dozens of complex native iPad and iPhone apps, and worked on mobile app projects with everyone from tiny startups to design shops to Fortune 500 companies to government agencies.

I have deep experience with Objective-C and Swift, as well as backend experience with LAMP (esp Laravel, WP, and others), Firebase, and Parse.

MOST importantly, I have real-world, personal experience in making sure that money spent = business results, not just reinventing the wheel with the latest developer-hyped obsessions (I love shiny toys too, but only when they support the business goals).

I focus on two things these days:

1. Long-term maintenance and support of mobile apps, both enterprise and consumer-facing. Ensuring everything stays up-to-date with OS changes, fixing bugs, adding new features, doing redesigns, and generally making sure that your investment in an app pays off in the long run. Discounts for multiple apps, agencies (who want to resell this to their clients), and non-profits. We cover Android and hybrid apps as well.

2. Building MVP mobile apps for startups. I help startups go from a great idea to having a polished app in the hands of their users as fast as possible. So if you have a broad concept and you need someone who understands the entire product development / startup funding / business growth lifecycle and how to get things done within those constraints, I'm an excellent fit.

I'd love the opportunity to work with you if things are a good fit!

You can reach me at ryan@mobileCTO.io or text me at 650-646-3914

SEEKING WORK | New York, NY nyc | Remote or onsite NYC Full stack engineer with over 6 years experience delivering software.

Experienced working for startups and larger corporations in fast-paced environments.

Comfortable eliciting requirements from stakeholders, developing software specifications as a team lead and implementing the software specified on time.

Experienced developing full solutions: frontend, backend, mobile, devops, sql database reporting, email marketing and conversion funnel optimization.

I have developed software used by thousands of paying customers in Javascript (React, React Native, meteor, jQuery, Angular.js, Node.js), Python (Django, Flask), Ruby (Ruby on Rails), Mobile native languages (java, objective-c), Go, SQL (postgres, sqlite) and cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Firebase, Ansible, Terraform).

Worked in the restaurant, healthcare (hipaa compliance), hospitality, cosmetic and e-commerce industries.

Interested in Machine Learning, Deep Learning (Keras, Tensorflow) and Blockchain technologies. Experienced in solidity.

Email harry@harrymoreno.com

https://github.com/morenoh149

https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrymoreno/

http://harrymoreno.com/about