Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2019)

62 points by whoishiring ↗ HN
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.

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SEEKING WORK:

I'm a Brazilian developer for some years already. I'm looking for projects to collab (new projects or not), but also up for positions to work with JavaScript and/or Elixir.

  Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Remote: Only
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: JavaScript, React, Linux, building new products, UX/UI
  Résumé/CV: ask me directly
  Email: jeanlucaslima@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, maintainable, robust Scala / Spark code.

Core Skills:

● Kafka, Spark Streaming, Avro

● Cassandra (Data Modeling, Troubleshooting Performance And Operational Issues)

● Distributed Systems Coordination (Zookeeper)

● Feature Engineering for Machine Learning

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

Other Skills: Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes/GKE, JVM tuning for big data.

Educational Background: Computer Science.

Solid experience working remotely.

All of my recent work history (8 years) is exclusively with startups. I have recently architected and engineered the platform and big data pieces of an end-to-end, turnkey ML platform. References upon request.

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

Rate: $125/hour.

E-mail address in the profile.

SEEKING WORK | Full stack developer

Location: Edinburgh, UK or remote

Résumé/CV: https://www.seanw.org

Email: sw@seanw.org

Full stack software developer with 15+ years experience including a PhD in software verification offering:

- Web app development: JavaScript (Node, Express, TypeScript, AngularJS, Vue, jQuery), Python (Flask, Django), Java, PHP (WordPress).

- Mobile app development: Android, iOS, PhoneGap/Cordova.

- Cloud hosting: Creating scalable apps that run on Heroku, AWS and Firebase.

- SEO: On-page audits and optimisations including page speed improvements and HTTPS migrations.

- Code quality: Reducing defects in existing projects by introducing test suites, staging + development environments, Continuous Integration, planning boards and code reviews.

Successful examples projects entirely developed and sold by myself:

- Checkbot for Chrome (https://www.checkbot.io/), tests if your website follows 50+ SEO, speed and security web best practices. Rated 4.9/5 with 15K+ active users along with paying customers. The frontend and backend work uses TypeScript, Vue, Firebase, Docker, Node, Webpack, Netlify and Paddle. I'm also responsible for the website, UI design and comprehensive best practices guide that goes with the Chrome extension (https://www.checkbot.io/guide/).

- Fresco for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.seanw.fres...), easy to use yet feature packed digital painting app for phones and tablets. The app features layers, customisable brushes, image filters and more. Rated 4/5, over 500K free downloads, over 10K copies sold. Implemented with Java and C.

See https://www.seanw.org for previous projects, client endorsements and more details.

SEEKING WORK - London, UK - Remote preferred, happy to visit clients anywhere in the UK.

DevOps / Python guy with a decade's experience building, hosting and tuning applications.

I work with engineering teams to make their products as scalable and robust as possible. AWS, Kubernetes, load testing, CI, deploy systems, monitoring, config management, security audits, dev projects of my own - you name it I've done it.

Recent projects include:

+ Re-hosting a large microservice node.js + RethinkDB web application on Google Cloud. The resulting stack (serving a busy news site) is deployed to GKE with a set of Helm charts and a minimal amount of custom tooling for CDN & image serving. GKE has turned out to be low-maintenance and rock solid; I'll be glad to work with it again.

+ Rewriting a Python big data stack for a bioscience client. Result was a robust, scalable system deployed with Terraform/Docker to spot instances managed by AWS Batch. Benefits included better resilience, higher resource utilisation and vastly reduced cost/processing time.

+ AWS/Kubernetes/Docker deployment to support a large distributed (15 microservices + persistence layer) application. Updated a sprawling Django/Postgres app to fit modern containerised hosting, resulting in a stack that makes great use of k8s' scaling & resiliency features. Templating via Helm for multiple, namespaced stack instances & continuous integration.

+ Another AWS/k8s/Docker stack, this time with a persistence layer comprising Cassandra & Kafka with service discovery through Zookeeper. Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring.

+ Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated crypto trading. Didn't get rich, still posting on here.

hn-2019-01@mbird.biz / https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alex-hewson/b6/50a/8b4

SEEKING WORK - USA, REMOTE ONLY

iOS development :::::::::::::::::::::::::::

* 4+ years experience with Swift

* Adept with advanced libraries such as Core ML, CoreMotion, PDFKit, Face ID LocalAuthentication, etc.

Python development ::::::::::::::::::::::::

* 6+ years experience with Python

* Django/Flask and various data science libraries.

Rate: 95/hr (Discount available on retainer)

Email: ranked at gmail dot com

SEEKING WORK, UI Engineer, Seattle WA

I'm a design-focused front-end developer with additional back-end experience. I'm looking for projects working with designers, or which need some design love.

I worked on this project over the past couple weeks — it's a badge creator using React, Redux, and SVG:

http://www.zjm.me/badgemaker/

z@zjm.me

SEEKING WORK | New York, New York

Senior SRE and DevOps

I have 15+ years of financial, ad-tech, and startup experience in large and small companies.

Open to both short and long-term projects involving:

- Extremely strong Linux infrastructure engineering experience

- AWS or on-prem

- Puppet/Ansible/other configuration Management

- Python, Perl and other automation tools

- Monitoring

- Security

- Experience in fintech, ad-tech / large corps and small startups. Strong leadership and communication skills.

matt @ endurian.org

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

Location: Boston, MA

7+ years experience.

Remote / On-site

Specializing in:

- Machine Learning / AI / NLP

- Search / Graph Databases

- BI / Data Analytics

- SFDC, Quickbase, additional "low code" platforms.

- Web app development (frontend / backend)

- Python dev

chowes2168 [at] gmail [dot] com

SEEKING FREELANCERS in SouthEastAsia(RemoteWelcome)

<still-unnamed startup in stealth mode> | REMOTE | 20-40h per week freelancers

Sorry for the vague description but I can tell you more about the product we're building when you apply. Hopefully I can attract you in a sufficient way with our tech stack (see below) and some keywords (blockchain, DLT, bitcoin, ethereum, mimblewimble/grin, smart contracts, DAI, atomic swaps, etc).

Job positions:

- Build engineer: you are a Linux-er who has some past experience building deb or rpm packages, are excited about reproducible builds, and are willing to learn (if you don't already know) new things such as snap or flatpak. gitlabCI and/or AzureDevOps is a plus. (Might do some DevOps work after we come out of stealth mode as well.)

- Xamarin developer: C# experience as a minimum, F# desirable (we can also mentor you on the transition from C# to F#), interested/knowledgeable in Rust is another plus.

- Rust/blockchain developer: experience in Rust, or smart contracts (especially EVM or Ivy) is a must. Desirable to have experience writing bindings or zkSNARKs.

Important perk for all positions: all the code you'll write will be opensource, at least for the first 6months.

Write me at andrew.forsure@gmail.com

PS: Abstain from applying if you have/expect a managerial/lead role. We need manpower, not decision makers. (That doesn't mean you won't make decisions, just that we won't pay you to solely make decisions.)
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

SEEKING WORK

Location: USA,

Remote Work preferred.

I'm an empathetic front-end designer and developer. I believe the user is the most important part of any system. I have experience working on large-scale web-applications based on a java stack

I have 6 years of experience with:

* HTML

* CSS

* Javascript

* WordPress

Currently learning React and Redux.

Contact me at: seandyoko@gmail.com

Seeking work Location: San Francisco I've got 10 years iOS experience (Swift/Objc) Focused on BLE/IoT products On site in SF or remote www.13bit.io
SEEKING WORK - Remote, short to long term projects - josh@joshmanders.com

I do Node.js, Express, React, React-Native and GraphQL work.

Example of my work is a project I built of my own, https://appmetrics.co this is a completely server rendered react app using graphql.

Github: https://github.com/joshmanders

Hey Josh - We’re a VC-funded startup making a small business messaging app. Currently in stealth with hundreds of active businesses and thousands of users. Ultimately, we are driven by our mission to reduce the failure rate of those people that make our communities unique!

We’re hiring a backend developer with Node.js experience to contract with us. The project involves working on improving our back-end chat architecture, working on things like syncing messages with devices that were offline, managing notifications, and improving stability.

Start date is ASAP, though we will consider anybody who can start in the next 2 weeks with full-time availability. The contract will be for about one month, but we are open to extensions or conversion to full-time afterward. Remote ok, but we’re in SF if you happen to be there.

We’re full-stack Javascript across web, Android, iOS, and backend. We use React, React Native, and GraphQL.

An ideal developer has: Experience comparable to a senior software engineer Deep knowledge of Node.js Worked on messaging, e.g. chat, pub/sub, push notifications GraphQL knowledge

If you are interested, send an email to rohit@coastapp.com, please let us know: What your availability is Why you’re a good fit for this project What experience you have with chat/pubsub/messaging

SEEKING WORK, Web Developer, Remote, based in the U.S.

I'm a software developer with an eye for good system design. Two of my passions are expressing powerful solutions in simple ways, and working with modern technologies that facilitate clean approaches to software development.

I focus on web development, though I have experience in various technologies.

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- Full-stack MERN developer with years of software development experience, who is newish to freelancing.

- Significant experience also in Python, Java, C, and relational databases.

- Good at building new products and maintaining existing ones.

- Available to work in teams or individually.

- Competitive rates.

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For my email address and LinkedIn, please see my profile.

SEEKING WORK - Remote, medium to long term projects

Location: Romania

Technologies: React.js, Vue.js, JavaScript, Electron, TypeScript, React Native, WebAssembly, PWAs, Node.js, C / C++ - Node.js bindings: NAN, N-API

https://danibiro.com/

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SEEKING WORK - remote short to medium projects - Canada & US - christopher@pliosoft.com

Experienced freelancer (4 years) seeking a contract. Before freelancing I worked with IBM on their compilers (C++ and fortran) for 8 years. More recently I've been working on QT and C++ projects, react native apps, a point of sale system for ski-hills with haskell core, and an in-progress react webapp for organizing classes. Rate is negotiable.

https://pliosoft.com

https://github.com/pliosoft

christopher@pliosoft.com

SEEKING WORK | Full Stack/Mobile | Los Angeles/Remote

Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote / On-site in LA

I've got experience with: - React Native - React - iOS/Android native development - NodeJS - Python - Django - OpenStack, AWS, Ansible, DevOps

I'm a full stack and mobile developer. I spent a few years at Rackspace building cloud infrastructure. Then, I worked at a startup, Triggr Health, building apps to help people in addiction recovery and help with mental health issues. I'm just finishing up a contract with the University of Maryland migrating some Flash apps to React.

I'm quick and efficient at implementing solutions and I communicate well. My experience at startups has taught me how to pick the right features to build and validate quickly, which saves you money and time. I learn quickly and love new challenges.

Rate: $125/hr. Website: www.nang.io LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshgachnang/ Email: josh [at] nang.io

SEEKING WORK - Remote Kubernetes/Google Cloud Platform/Amazon Web Services consulting. Focused on implementation and training--I help teams integrate new technologies into their existing stacks.

US-based, flexibles hours and scheduling. Long term or short term projects.

https://www.inputespresso.com sales@inputespresso.com

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SEEKING FREELANCER

Location: Amsterdam area, NL

Remote: no (1 day/week is fine, but mainly at location)

Tech: primarily Java using different AWS components

Email: martijn@ff00ff.nl

SEEKING FREELANCER - ONSITE/REMOTE https://emailoctopus.com | LONDON UK / MANCHESTER UK / VANCOUVER CA

EmailOctopus was created in 2014 by two brothers. Today, we’re a small but mighty team on a mission to make email marketing easier and more affordable.

We're looking for talented people who can do any of the following:

- PHP and Symfony/Laravel

- Elasticsearch

- AWS

- Google BigQuery

Email jonathan [@companyname] .com