Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (March 2019)

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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 | Edinburgh, UK or remote | Full stack web & mobile software engineer

Portfolio: https://www.seanw.org/

Email: sw@seanw.org

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Summary: I'm a software engineer with 10+ years of experience who can take your web or mobile project from concept to completion. I can work with you to achieve your business goals by creating minimal viable products, extending existing apps, giving software architecture recommendations and by reducing defects in your team workflows.

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Experience: I've delivered solutions for well known names like Just Eat and Triumph Motorcycles, created my own successful paid apps, managed teams as lead developer and earned a PhD from Edinburgh University. My past professional work has involved expertise in full stack development (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Java, OCaml), modern web frameworks (Express, Vue, React, WordPress, Django), mobile app development (Android, iOS, PhoneGap/Cordova), cloud hosting (AWS, Google, Heroku, Firebase) and website optimisation (performance, security & SEO).

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Portfolio: I've independently created two commercially successful apps where I was responsible for the concept, design, development, graphic design, UX and marketing.

- Checkbot for Chrome (https://www.checkbot.io/), a website auditor browser extension that checks 100s of pages at time against 50+ SEO, speed and security web best practices. This included developing a custom subscription based payment system as well as researching and authoring a guide on modern web best practices (https://www.checkbot.io/guide/). Implemented with TypeScript, Vue, Node, Express, Firebase, Netlify, Paddle.

[ Rated 4.9/5, 20K+ active users, 100s of paying subscribers ]

- Fresco for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.seanw.fres...), a digital painting app which was one of the first on the platform to support layers. It features customisable brushes, image filters and robust undo/redo/autosave while being highly optimised for devices with low resources. Implemented with Java, C, JNI.

[ Rated 4/5, 500K+ free downloads, 10K+ copies sold ]

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See https://www.seanw.org for my project portfolio, client endorsements and more on my background.

Email sw@seanw.org with details about your project so we can arrange a call and work towards a quote. I'll get back to you within one working day.

SEEKING WORK - Remote

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Website: https://sebastiangraef.com/

Email: sebastian@segr.de

Languages: German, English

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Hey HN,

I'll be available for React work soon.

Over 3 years of React experience and a strong online marketing background.

What I'm working with currently: React, GraphQL with Apollo, styled-components, Gatsby, Serverless with Lambda. Learning TypeScript at the moment.

More on my website: https://sebastiangraef.com/

- Sebastian

SEEKING FREELANCERS - remote - ongoing or one-off

  * ClojureScript frontend developer
  * UI/UX designer  
  * Quill.js expert
arcstudiopro.com is a collaborative screenwriting app written in ClojureScript (runs in the browser and Electron). There are lots of interesting problems to work on, from designing or building no-frills but user-friendly signup forms, to experimental onboarding UIs, or writing generative tests for our operational transforms offline support. The backend is written in Clojure, too.

Please also get in touch if you're familiar with quill.js internals.

work -at- arcstudiopro.com

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SEEKING WORK - REMOTE - Site Reliability Engineer, Linux Consulting

Location: Monroe, MI

Email: nick at mnxsolutions com

I manage a team of US based SRE's. We are experienced, and available for hire as a dedicated member of your team. We perform 24x7 monitoring, and ongoing server management while helping you architect for availability.

Some details at https://www.mnxsolutions.com/services/linux-server-managemen...

SEEKING WORK - San Francisco / New York City / Remote

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hello@bitmatica.com

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Hi! I'm the co-founder of Bitmatica. We build cutting-edge web and mobile products for enterprise and fast-growing startups.

Need an award-winning app built but can't because of resources, expertise, politics, etc? We're like a secret management consultancy hidden inside a dev shop.

We help you decide what to build, remove all obstacles out of the way, and then get it done faster and more effectively than you ever thought possible.

Bitmatica doesn't just build products, we build entirely new businesses. Don't believe me? Talk to me about a complimentary design & discovery engagement.

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Our clients:

- Maersk, Capital One, Stanford, AVG, BART, and many more I can mention privately

Our skills:

- Product, UI / UX Design, Full-stack Engineering

- React, Redux / MobX, Node.js, Rails, Scala, TypeScript, iOS (Swift / Obj-C), Android (Kotlin / Java)

Our prices:

That's right, we put them right here.

- Design and Discovery: Turn concepts into a fully-executable roadmap and rollout strategy, managing risk and exceeding expectations. Starting at $23,000

- Prototyping: Fully-functioning versions of new concepts within weeks to demonstrate value, validate with customers, and gather stakeholder support. Staring at $138,000

- Engineering and Launch: Production-ready, user-validated, scalable product. Starting at $184,000

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hello@bitmatica.com

SEEKING WORK | Remote, US-based (Mountain time zone/UTC-7)

Location: Denver, CO, USA

Travel: Negotiable availability for occasional onsites

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

GitHub (though my history is mostly owned by other companies): https://github.com/arubis

Tech:

- Languages: Ruby/Rails, Elixir/OTP, HTML/Haml, CSS/Sass, SQL, HCL, bash, zsh, Powershell

- Systems and Services: GNU/Linux (many distros) and virtualization thereof, Apache, nginx, MySQL, PostgreSQL, CNS, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, vulnerability mitigation

- Cloud services and infrastructure/deployment management (DevOps): AWS (EC2, R53, VPC, S3/Glacier, CloudFront, IAM), GCP (GKE, IAM), SaltStack, Terraform, Docker, Packer, Vagrant, Capistrano, some Kubernetes

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Hi there! I'm Dylan. I'm excited to help you and your team to grow and to ship. I genuinely enjoy listening to, and deepening my understanding of, your needs; working with you to design and develop appropriate solutions; and putting them out into the world. In a pinch, I'm happy to help your growing company migrate from Heroku onto AWS.

Technically, my specialization has been around developing and deploying Ruby on Rails applications and the infrastructure underpinning them. My deep experience with DevOps predates the term "DevOps".

Let's have a conversation to see if we can find ways to help each other get better. I look forward to hearing from you.

dylan+hn -at- arborealstudios com

SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote within US (NOT negotiable)

* C# .NET full stack developers

* AWS devops generalists

Ongoing staff-augmentation placement, usually with larger companies.

For details on currently available opportunities and questions, please email me@jeremyphelps.com and include resume, LinkedIn, etc.

SEEKING WORK - Remote - Edinburgh, UK

Website: https://rsmith.io

I'm a full-stack web developer with over 7 years' experience, specialising in ReactJS, Python-based backends such as Flask and Pyramid, and SQL relational databases.

I have worked at every level of modern web application stacks: frontend, backend, database, server, deployment. I can quickly get up to speed on new stacks and codebases.

I take care over what I do whilst working pragmatically. I write well-designed code backed up with automated tests, and documentation where relevant. I'm an excellent communicator, easy to work with and maintain a regular blog at: https://rsmith.io/blog.

CV: https://rsmith.io/cv

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

DevOps / Python consultant with a decade's experience building, hosting and fixing applications.

I work with engineering teams to make their products as scalable and robust as possible. AWS, Kubernetes, load testing, lambdas, 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-2019-03@mbird.biz / https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alex-hewson/b6/50a/8b4

SEEKING FREELANCER - Tanooki Labs | Remote (North America) | New York, NY

https://www.tanookilabs.com/jobs

We are looking for experienced full-stack Ruby on Rails and React developers for full time and contract work.

We are a flexible, primarily remote, family friendly, low-stress, and fun web and mobile consulting company working on great products. We work sane hours and reject the idea that development has to be a grind.

If you apply, please note where you found our listing!

I sent an email to your email dedicated to applicants, but my email was rejected because I did not include a CV. I do not maintain a CV and keep track of my job history using linked in. Is there any alternate email I should try?
SEEKING WORK - Kansas City - Remote

I can do the full stack with most of my recent projects using React, C#, and SQL Server.

Website: https://smithgeek.com

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

Email: brent@smithgeek.com

I've spent the last decade developing custom software solutions to solve business problems. I've worked for billion dollar enterprises delivering software for consumer electronics. I've led a team of developers to modernize a companies systems to make them more maintainable and quicker to iterate. I've introduced best practices such as source control, continuous integration, code reviews, and testing to improve workflow and reliability.

I can help your company develop custom software specifically designed for your needs. I also provide services to smaller business that can't justify a full time architect where I will come in as needed and help architect a system or diagnose the reliability of existing systems while providing suggestions on how to improve.

SEEKING WORK - REMOTE

Highly experienced VP of Engineering & Blockchain consultant.

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

Strong data engineer who is passionate about large-scale distributed systems and streaming pipelines.

Core Skills:

● Stream Processing At Scale: Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming

● 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: Avro, Airflow, Docker, Jenkins, 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: $135/hour.

E-mail address in the profile.

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Manchester, UK based)

I'm a freelance Laravel developer. I can handle all aspects of web development; from building the front-end, writing the back-end logic and taking care of the web hosting.

My chosen stack/technologies:

● Laravel, PHP, MySQL, Nginx, Ubuntu (w/ Ansible)

● JavaScript, jQuery, Vue.js

● HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Bootstrap

My portfolio can be found here - https://chrisloftus.co

My GitHub has a small React Native (iOS) quiz app and a task management app that I'm building with Vue.js and Vuex. https://github.com/chrisloftus

Blog: https://medium.com/@chrisloftus

I'm looking for new projects or I may be able to take on an existing project (after an in-depth review).

Email me: chris at blackflare.co to talk about your project.

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Nomad, US-Eastern time)

I'm a freelance React, Node, & Python full stack web developer with strong product sense. Experience with health tech startups and real estate technology startups.

Stack preferences:

  - Postgres

  - Node

  - React

  - Sass
Additional Skills:

  - Python

  - Sqlite

  - Less

  - Nginx

  - Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, DO, etc)
Check out my portfolio/blog: https://castrio.me

On large projects I work with a team: https://formico.io

Email anthony [at] formico.io

SEEKING WORK - Remote/SF/Missouri

iOS/Android/Mobile development

Portfolio & Information: http://quarkworks.co

Contact: contact@quarkworks.co

SEEKING WORK - Remote/Los Angeles

I'm a full stack engineer with a lot of experience creating products (from idea to execution). I'm really comfortable with:

● Postgres

● Node

● React/Webpack

● Linux (Desktop and server for 15 years)

● AWS

● Heroku

● Redis

● REST

Feel free to email me: emilsedgh@kde.org

SEEKING WORK

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: yes/world-wide

We make sure your site doesn't go down on Black Friday.

Hi, I’m Lee Whalen, Principal of Fuzzy Logic, a Seattle-Based DevOps consultancy with deep experience in providing business results through technical solutions.

We help SaaS companies save money through extensive automation - infrastructure deployment, code-checking/deploy, CI/CD - and good-practices for on-premise or public cloud management.

Business results we’ve obtained for our Clients include:

+ Savings in excess of $1.4M/yr by environment-wide migrations from Rackspace fully managed hardware to a privately hosted Openstack environment

+ A 33% savings from previous OpEx through optimizing public-cloud spend, replacing expensive SaaS products with internal services, etc

+ Cut DevOps engineer 'time to first commit' from two weeks to two days with documentation and optimized onboarding processes

+ Developed a custom API-driven provisioning tool that allowed VMs to deploy independent of the cloud provider backend

Let's have a conversation about where your business is going and what we can do to get you there. Contact Fuzzy Logic or its principal Lee Whalen:

Resume/CV: https://www.fuzzy-logic.org/

Email: hnhireme (at) fuzzy-logic.org

SEEKING WORK - Remote, Wien, Bratislava (CET)

I am a fullstack software engineer with preference for frontend

My portfolio/CV: https://olso.space

My Medium: https://medium.com/@martinolsansky

My email: olsansky.martin@gmail.com

Technologies: 5+ years worth; Typescript, Javascript, Golang, React, React Native, WebAssembly, Vue.js, Flow, Backbone.js, WebRTC, Apollo, Relay, Web Extensions, Node.js, Express.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, Redis, Human Code Reviews, Docker, Git, Travis, Jenkins, Web3, Ethereum, Cryptocurrencies, P2P, Dapp, Dat, ssb, IPFS, DCore

  SEEKING WORK  
  Location: Alberta, Canda  
  Remote: Yes, world-wide  
  Resume/CV: https://www.pliosoft.com/docs/ChristopherCLord.pdf  
  Email: christopher@pliosoft.com  
  Technologies: C++, Haskell, JS, React, GraphQL, Ruby, Qt
Hello, I'm Christopher Lord, cofounder of Pliosoft. I am available for freelance work. I am an expert in several technologies, including C++ and JS, and quickly coming to a similar level in Haskell. I have an eye for design and user experience. I run my own company building a SasS app and have deployed a web-based point of sale system for on-premises installations, both using React frontends and Haskell for the backend. I've done a fair bit of work on embedded and user applications. Interested in open source work. In the past I worked for 8 years as a compiler engineer at IBM. I'd prefer something in the 30-40 hours/week range but let me know if you want something else, anything is possible. Rates negotiable.
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SEEKING WORK - Remote

Product designer and developer from Iceland.

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What I can do for you:

* Design *

Whether you need a design from scratch, a redesign, or you're having issues with a small part of you product, I can design it.

* Development *

My design chops are only a part of my skillset. I actually prefer to both design and build the design since I believe some things can't be communicated with design tools. Knowing how they will function and then implementing it yourself removes a lot of wasted time that would otherwise be spent on trying to communicate exactly how that design will function.

* Analysis *

When you are deeply involved in your own product it can be hard to see things from an outsiders prospective. Your users know everything that's wrong with your product but have a difficult time getting their words around the subject and it often comes out in anger, if they reach out at all. That's where my usability and experience analysis comes in. I'll review your app from an outside and expert point which will give you actionable feedback. More here: https://gilli.is/analysis

* Free advice *

Reach out if you need any advice. You might not be sure if I am the right fit and I very well might not be. I can help you figure out the best direction to go in. There might be a better solution out there for you.

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I have years of experience in Fintech, Journalism, TV and media, health/science, and more. And always interested in exploring new fields.

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Contact me at gilli@hn.gilli.is

Links:

* Portfolio: https://gilli.is

* Dribbble: http://dribbble.com/gilli

* Twitter: http://twitter.com/gillisig

* Github: http://github.com/gillisig

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SEEKING WORK - Embedded, system and low level

Location: based in Israel but working globally.

Expertise: anything embedded, low level, hardware and software, system design. From solving a singular crash to implementing a complete product, hardware included. If you ask, I’ll even manufacture it for you.

Background: I’ve been doing this for over 15 years (had a break of 3 years to lead one of the engineering teams in Magic Leap).

Recent projects over the last 6 months: * design and implementation of a multi-spectral camera (NIR + Thermal) * iMX6 Linux BSP and Docker environment * Bluetooth stack modification for Snapdragon 820 running on Android * RTOS BSP for STM32H7

Fluent in C, C#, Java, Python, various assemblers, toolchains, Linux kernel. Done most of the things you can imagine with embedded systems for more than 40 different companies over this time. Strong system design skills.

Contact: roee at rtcec .com

SEEKING FREELANCER - BIZLock |Identity Fraud, Inc. | Remote | Walnut Creek, CA

Part to full-time contractor (20-30 hours week) with the option to become a full-time employee for successful freelancers. Profitable, 20 year old company that runs several online platforms in the insurance and cyber risk space. Looking to consolidate and upgrade.

Desired Experience:

• Front End / UX

• Automated testing

• Interest in accessibility testing

• PHP – Knowledge of Symfony, Laravel or related frameworks

• MySQL

• Must be available at least 50% during a typical work day 9 – 5 (PST) 3 days per week.

We use Ansible to manage our server configuration and Vagrant for consistent development and testing environments. Work to be reviewed, coordinated and managed by and alongside Senior Developer. Contact: hr at identityfraud.com

SEEKING WORK

Location: Boulder/Denver, Colorado (CO), USA and San Francisco Bay Area, California (CA)

Remote: yes

Technologies: JavaScript (React, Native, Vue, NodeJS), GraphQL, python (Django, Flask, AppEngine)

Résumé/CV: https://www.uplift.agency

Email: hn@uplift.agency

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We are product-minded engineers. Build full-stack sites or native-mobile apps and take them to market.

Marius & Paul are engineers turned freelancers who started Uplift to build amazing software and solve complex problems.

As experienced consultants and former founders, we understand tech companies. Running a business is hard. You have to wear many hats. Let us wear the ones we're great at!

We specialize in React, React Native, GraphQL and Django/python.

We’ve worked with companies like Credit Karma, ClearCare, NerdWallet, MIT, Humble Bundle (W11), FlightCar (W13), Mozilla and more.

For more details, previous work, testimonials, please visit: https://www.uplift.agency

SEEKING WORK

Location: Tunisia

Remote: Yes, worldwide

I have worked on several projects since June 2014 as a self-employed full stack engineer.

I am the author of an image editor called Lollipop that has reached almost 200 sales on CodeCanyon as a 5-star product [https://codecanyon.net/item/lollipop-image-editor/12957420], and also many open source projects on Github.

Envato Market (+200 sales): https://codecanyon.net/user/specialapp

Github (+10 original projects): https://github.com/sayfessyd

Resume (Online): http://sayfessyd.com/

Resume (PDF): https://bit.ly/2NAOtpg

Email: mail.sayf@yahoo.com

SKILLS:

PHP7 & Laravel 5.x

Java 8 & Spring Boot 2.x & Hibernate & JSF & Struts

ES6 & Vue.js 2.x

ES5 & jQuery & AngularJS

Typescript & Angular 6

Bootstrap & Foundation & PrimeFaces & Bulma & TailwindCSS

HTML5 & CSS3 & PostCSS

Pug & Stylus & Sass & Less

Yarn & Gulp & Webpack & Parcel

BigchainDB & MongoDB

Node.js & Express.js & Socket.io

Android Studio & Apache Cordova & OnsenUI

Prestashop & WooCommerce

ASP.NET MVC & Web API & Web Forms

Adobe Photoshop & After Effects

Ableton Live & Kontakt