Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (January 2020)

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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

Location: Currently Toronto, moving to SF in February

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies/Skills: Certified Scrum Master, Scrum & Kanban Methodologies, Multi-team Coordination, Jira, Python, Containerization, Cloud Infrastructure, Blockchain

Résumé/CV: jonpurdy.com/resume.pdf Email: hn-202001@jonpurdy.com (will respond from my real one)

I'm primarily a Technical Project Manager looking to help teams build software more efficiently.

In previous infrastructure roles I've spearheaded numerous projects, brought service endpoint uptime from ~95% to 100%, took over and grew a team, and improved team performance by implementing Infrascrum methodology. Since 2018, I've implemented Scrum and Kanban, coached junior development teams, and successfully completed and released multiple software projects, both internal and for clients. I also acted as a product manager for many of the internal products we created, developing product mission and vision statements, roadmaps, gathered user feedback, and built user-facing documentation and product websites.

As mentioned in "Who wants to be hired", I'm available on a contract or full-time basis. I have been independent since September, but wouldn't want to turn down any interesting full-time work, hence why I'm open to both.

I’m best able to fill the following roles: scrum master, product owner, technical product manager, Agile coach, or project manager, or some sort of combination of them.

Thanks and please email me if you have any questions or just want to chat.

SEEKING WORK

  Location: Remote
  Position: Technical Content/Writing, Proofreading, Content Strategy,
            User Documentation, Scripting, Social Media marketing, Video Editing
  Availability: Short (2 weeks) to Medium (3-6 months) - US-Eastern or Western Europe or flexible
Background: I am a programmer that is comfortable experimenting with many new technologies and being able to write about such technologies.

I can deliver end-user documentation, beginner tutorials, transactional-content, social media marketing/strategy and video production/editing.

Samples available upon request.

Contact: lancer101@boun.cr

SEEKING WORK: Remote - Three person design and development team working together for over 10 years (individually with 20+ years experience)

Locations: Tampa, FL / Maine / San Francisco

Remote: Yes (or local to one of those areas)

Technologies and Skills: Design, UX, Ruby on Rails, Go, React, Javascript, MySql, Postgres, Redis, Redshift, CSS/HTML/SASS, AWS etc.

Email: hi@squaremill.com

Website: https://squaremill.com (recent projects @ https://squaremill.com/projects)

We have extensive experience in building applications from design, through implementation and ongoing management. We have incredibly happy clients over the last 10 years and happy to put you in touch with them. Because we have worked together as a team for so long we are extremely efficient - we pride ourselves on that along with being predictable and responsive. We can plug into an existing team to fill holes (design, tech) or can work as a design/developer team to get built what you need from soup to nuts. Experience in building healthcare applications, retail applications, financial apps, custom CMS, phone apps, real estate, high throughput message delivery. You name it we've probably built something like it at some point in our careers :)

SEEKING WORK | EU | Remote web development team, also hireable individually

We are a small group of experienced web consultants.

We design, build and ship modern web applications, PWAs and mobile applications. We can also prototype hardware, and develop firmware.

Website: https://emergence-engineering.com/

Recent projects: We worked remotely for clients in the US and the UK.

CVs:

Viktor - https://emergence-engineering.com/cv/viktor (fullstack js, electrical engineering)

Balázs - https://emergence-engineering.com/cv/balazs (fullstack js, microservices, go)

Availability: Both of us are immediately available for full/part time contracts.

Two juniors and a mid level guy is also available.

Contact: balazs.horvath@emergence-engineering.com

SEEKING WORK | So.Cal/Remote (USA) | Cloud Operations Engineer / DevOps / Systems Administrator

20 years professional experience - CloudOps, WebOps, DevOps, Web dev, and Jack-of-all trades.

I've mostly worked with high-traffic Web sites: PHP-based primarily - most all of it on AWS.

Extensive experience with Amazon Web Services, especially EC2 (ELB/ALB, AMI, VPC, Auto-scaling), RDS, CodeDeploy, Route53, Certificate Manager . I have plenty of exposure to most of the AWS services in some form though.

I have strong skills in:

* Linux: RedHat/CentOS/AmazonLiunx, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Alpine

* Supporting Web platforms (not necessarily developing): Apache, Nginx, PHP, Ruby-on-Rails, NodeJS

* Database: MySQL/MariaDB (stand-alone and RDS), PostgreSQL, Redis

* Infrastructure as Code: Puppet, Terraform, Packer

* Monitoring and Alerting: Zabbix, ELK stack, Grafana, Datadog.

I’m located in US Pacific Timezone and can work with anyone based in the US.

email: josh@cloudopsgroup.com

SEEKING WORK

Location: Hong Kong & London

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Rust, Python, C/C++, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Linux sysadmin & DevOps, deep networking & protocols knowledge

Email: hnunderscores@protonmail.com

Résumé: email me for a copy

15 years in tech, have recently hired & lead teams and architected solutions to complex problems. Very interested in early- or very-early-stage startups solving interesting problems. Also interested in any short-to-medium-length contracts involving the above technologies.

SEEKING WORK

Location: UK

Remote: Yes (only)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React (5+ years), TypeScript (3+ years), Go/Golang (9+ years), PHP, JavaScript (ES5, ES6+, 10+ years), HTML5, CSS3, Webpack, Node.JS, Python, Linux, Docker, Podman etc.

Résumé/CV: Available on request.

Email: hn@sonoya.uk

Website: https://sonoya.uk/

I’m an independent contractor (own ltd company), full-stack/front-end engineer, designer and open source programmer who's been coding for ~15 years.

I'm currently working on cloud proxy/website optimizer https://oya.to/ and an ideal position would be a fully-remote contract, full or part-time, but willing to negotiate.

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 | Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Central European Time) | Remote 3-person team of senior software engineers and designers here. We all have 10+ years of experience working for Fortune 500 companies and several acquired startups. Comprehensive knowledge of:

• JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Redux, React Native, CSS, Node.js

• Clojure, Elixir

• PostgreSQL, MySQL

• Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma

What we can do for you:

• Design & Build an SPA/PWA/Mobile MVP on a solid foundation so it's smooth sailing once your userbase starts to grow.

• Scale up a team that has an overflow of work or wants to add certain tech to their stack.

• Revitalize an existing app. Solve design, scalability, stability and performance issues.

• Consult on domain specific topics like banking, real-time trading, payment processing and PCI DSS.

Sectors: FinTech, MedTech, EduTech, Social

Website: https://go-stellar.com

Email: hello@go-stellar.com

SEEKING FREELANCER.

Location: USA.

Remote: ok

I need a blogger / writer, to write about all thats going on with the EV market , especially TESLA and the used Tesla market. Topics include writing about AUTOPILOT. Software updates / hardware updates etc..small start up, budget is low but we can work with you. $20-$30 a blog post. Goal is to get more traffic to our site. 1099. NOT A FULL TIME GIG. We are based in NYC. contact me: adamqureshi at gmail.com

SEEKING WORK | New York, NY nyc | Remote or onsite in NYC Software Engineer experienced building Tech companies. Proven track record as a technical contributor, agile project manager and managing outsourced teams.

Have worked at Startups and large companies. Comfortable eliciting requirements, writing specs and developing the solution on time⏱⏱⏱⏱⏱. Have worked fullstack, mobile, devops, conversion funnel optimization and machine learning. Developed software used by thousands of paying customers Javascript (React Native, Node.js) Python (Django, tensorflow, ml-engine) Ruby on Rails, Android Java, iOS apps, Go, SQL (mysql, redshift, postgres), experienced translating high level requirements into data models (information systems) OLTP and OLAP variants, have developed ETLs using aws glue and ec2 running python, have web scraped with scrapy and proxies on scrapinghub, and cloud (AWS, GCP, Heroku, Docker). Industries: Foodservice, Clover POS, Healthtech (HIPAA), Fintech ¥¥¥¥, ECommerce

morenoh149@gmail.com

https://harrymoreno.com/hire-me

SEEKING WORK | REMOTE (travel possible) | Los Angeles, CA

I'm a freelance developer with 7 years of experience. I specialize in helping early stage companies bring their ideas to life as new apps and websites. Beyond creating a beautiful app with you, I'll make sure we're measuring the right things so you can get the best outcomes. I build apps to allow quick iteration and short feedback loops. 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 can help you integrate marketing, analytics, and sales to get the most out of your creation. One of the first companies I worked with, SwoopSrch, I helped take their rough idea of what they wanted to an MVP in a weekend. Then I spent a year helping them iterate on the idea. I spent a few years at Rackspace building massively scalable cloud infrastructure and making open source contributions to OpenStack. Then, I started as the first engineer at a startup, Triggr Health, building apps to help people in addiction recovery and help with mental health issues. One of my freelance clients was the University of Maryland, who I helped migrate some Flash apps to React and handle some challenging performance issues. Another client is HealthJay, who I helped to build an app to track seniors and detect falls. I built an Apple Watch app for them, as well as a React Native app (which also detects falls), a React back office app, and a Node backend. I've got experience with:

- React Native - React

- iOS/Android native development

- NodeJS

- Javascript and Typescript

- Python

- Django

- OpenStack, AWS, Ansible, DevOps

Website: https://www.nang.io

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

Email: josh@nang.io

SEEKING WORK - US Remote - Front-End Developer

I’m a front-end developer with an eye for design. I can help create a user interface that is beautiful and performant. Though I specialize in building user interfaces, I also have experience with backend development which helps in making me adaptable to the needs of whatever team I’m on.

If you’re interested in working with me, feel free to send me an e-mail at the address listed below.

ReactJS / Redux / HTML / CSS / Ruby on Rails / PHP

Location: Orange County, CA Email: david@activatedapps.com

SEEKING WORK | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Remote Only

Native iOS developer, experienced in refactoring old code as well as writing in modern Swift. Previous experience includes senior positions at various multinational companies, all of them with apps in top 5-15 of their respective categories. Currently co-founder of a new parent-teen productivity app under development. Up to date with core Apple frameworks like SwiftUI, and very interested in building something on top of upcoming SDKs like CoreML and ARKit.

I have been remote for 5+ years, and would prefer to stay so, but if there's an amazing opportunity that requires a little bit of onsite time, I would be glad to discuss!

Flexible about availability, timeline, schedule.

Email me -- saurabh@gargs.nl

Website: https://www.gargs.nl

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.

I might have something for you. Can you share a website or contact info?
email me at my HN nickname at 0xfb.com. Sadly the SEO spammers mining HN are so evil I can't post it in plaintext
SEEKING WORK, Cassandra / Druid Cluster Engineer, Primarily Remote (based in Eindhoven, NL)

Well-rounded data engineer with deep knowledge of the internals of distributed datastores.

Core Skills:

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

● Druid (Stream Ingestion, Cluster Ops, Data Modeling, Scaling Complex Queries)

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

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

Other Skills: Zookeeper, Redshift, Kinesis, Airflow, JVM tuning for big data, AWS cost optimization for big data.

Educational Background: Computer Science.

Solid experience working remotely.

All of my recent work history (8 years) is exclusively with startups.

Rate: $145/hour.

E-mail address in the profile.

SEEKING WORK - SF Bay Area on-site (remote is fine too)

Generally available for freelance web app engineering work. I've been working with Rails and JS for ~10 years now, at all points up and down the stack. Everything from performance work on existing code to bringing up a full-fledged product from wireframes. I’ve also been doing some Swift lately.

In the past, I've worked with companies like CircleCI, Remind, Leap Motion, Anki, Rocket Fuel, and TaskRabbit. Before that, I had two startups of my own. In my spare time, I fly airplanes.

Available starting in February.

Links:

http://toddeichel.com/hire-me/

http://www.github.com/tfe

http://www.linkedin.com/in/toddeichel

http://stackoverflow.com/users/203773/tfe

Contact: todd@toddeichel.com

Seeking Work | Colorado, USA | Remote

Software engineer with leadership experience, devops using modern tools/processes, AWS infrastructure and IaaS. I enjoy helping teams make the 'developer experience' a joy, and save on wasted cycles with CI/CD, Infra automation, engineering practices, etc. I also love working on interest applications, with specific strengths in the API area. Just came off a stretch helping a startup modernized their codebase and deployment processes, and looking for the next adventure!

PHP, Java, Python, Terraform, Flux, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Travis, Circle CI, Github, etc etc etc.

contact: jc.murray@technomanci.com

Seeking Work | Southern Utah | Remote Only

Technologies:

  - DBS: Postgres, MySQL, faunadb, mongodb
  - languages (ranked by familiarity): PHP, Javascript, Ruby, Python, Elixir, Rust, Golang (Would love to work w/ go/rust more)
  - Backend Frameworks (ranked ^): Laravel, Rails, Express/Node.js
  - Frontend Frameworks (ranked ^): Vue, React, Svelte, Angular
  - CSS: Tailwind, Bootstrap, Bulma
  - Mobile: Quasar / Ionic Framework / React Native
  - API's: AWS, Rekog, Polly, Fedex, UPS, Craigslist Bulk Posting, Amazon Product API, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Clockify, etc...
  - AI/ML: Rekog, Polly, python/NLTK == created image classification to search emails by images in ads.
  - Cloud: Aws/Azure/GCP. Learning Kubernetes/terraform. 
  - Serverless: Some small projects, looking to use more in the future.
  - Business: Scrum, Agile, Kanban, Jira, Accelerator (Boom Startup)
Resume: https://patrickcurl.com/resume

email: patrickwcurl (at) gmail.com

Currently working on an open source (soon to be released) SaaS boostrapper w/ teams|plans|projects built using laravel+vue+inertiajs+tailwindcss.

Recent projects include ml/classifications of emails using text/images from the email along with polly, nltk, and rekog api's. Also worked on a reddit clone that's launching soon for a client.

I've been working in php/laravel since 2013 and have a number of published articles on laravel, linux, vue, etc... at https://medium.com/@patrickcurl

Looking for consulting and development gigs.

Rate: $90/hour | $3.4k/wk(bi-weekly) | $13k/month (bi-weekly).

SEEKING FREELANCER | flanksource | SRE | REMOTE first

flanksource is a niche consultancy focusing exclusively on Kubernetes and the Cloud Native ecosystem. We help companies navigate the CNCF landscape by evaluating and integrating technology into an infrastructure continuous delivery pipeline, tailored to each customer's particular environment and stack.

We are looking for thinkers with a bias for action, who love the Kubernetes community as much as we do.

Benefits:

- Remote first culture - work from anywhere in the world

- Flexible working hours - Choose both when and how much you work, we accommodate full-time employees/contractors, part-timers and weekend warriors

- Paid contribution to open-source projects in and around the kubernetes eco-system

- Annual development budget to spend on conferences, books, courses, etc..

Apply here: https://careers.flanksource.com/o/kubernetes-site-reliabilit... or DM moshloop on the Kubernetes Slack

Check out Digitalogy.co if you are looking for a freelancer.
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SEEKING FREELANCER - Based in France but want a remote worker, you can be anywhere

I am acting as intermediary for a local education company here, that is not in tech and mostly tech illiterate. Lots of small to medium missions. You will deal with me, but mostly looking people who are able to work from a basic set of requirements (it needs to do this, have to have this and that, cannot have this and that, respect this theme color) rather than hand holding every step.

For now I'm looking for:

- frontend developper oriented mobile and tablet: capable to take a not so pretty but decently made desktop site of 6-10 pages at the most and make it usable on mobile, mostly with alternative css and with as little html change as necessary. Need to solve: leads source moved from 90% desktop to barely above 50%, site horrible to use on mobile.

HTML / CSS / JS

- website ux designer for a single purpose web app: make the mockups, get them validated, make the final design, get them validated. Optionally make the final html, but original plan is to use a frontend dev to turn the design into code. Need to solve: quizz and exams online.

Emails me at v.thivaut@gmail.com

We have Full stack Development team from Ashburn, will like to work with your company.
SEEKING WORK - Remote/SF/Missouri

iOS - Android - Mobile - Web - Design - Machine Learning

Portfolio & Information: http://quarkworks.co

Contact: contact@quarkworks.co

SEEKING WORK | Paris, France | Remote

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Machine learning engineer, specialized in Explainable AI / ML Recent Highlights:

* Implementation in Spark/Scala of treeinterpreter, currently used in production

* Participation to the FICO-Google Explainable Machine Learning Challenge

* Intuitive, visual data/signal explorer (work in progress, partial view at http://explicable.ml (the 3D view))

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Tech: SHAP, RuleFit, Random Forest, Word2Vec, PCA, t-SNE, LSH, ROC, Scikit-Learn, Spark, Weka, Databricks, BigQuery, Hive, Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, AWS, Linux, Maven, Git, Java, Scala, Python, CAML, Elm, Javascript, Spring, Primefaces, d3.js

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benoitparis/

Github: https://github.com/benoitparis/

Email: benoit@explicable.ml

SEEKING WORK - Remote/Germany

I'm an free author (books/blog articles/ghostwriting) for mobile, web, API, and serverless technology topics.

http://kay.is