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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 218 ms ] threadInstantly hire a world-class infrastructure engineer for $7,500 a month:
Are you a small team that doesn't have enough DevOps resources? I will augment your team, dive in, and start delivering fast. I'm well-versed in AWS, terraform, kubernetes, docker, etc. I can help you build repeatable pipelines, documentation and provide a smooth hand-off to your team.
Rules:
- 1 active request at a time
- No recurring meetings
- Cancel any time
Money-back guarantee: If you're unsatisfied within the first three weeks, just let me know, and I'll refund you.
In the past, I've:
- Saved a company $500k a year in CI infrastructure costs.
- Worked with several hundred engineer organizations to migrate from Jenkins to GitHub Actions.
- Introduced configuration as code and GitOps best practices to teams.
- Built dynamic review environments triggered on a pull request.
Contact me at hn [at} builds.dev for more details.
Helping companies with counseling, development and auditing of software. Specializing in software with specific security requirements and/or technical/scientific challenges.
Available part-time or for shorter assignments. Either on an hourly basis or for a fixed price for well defined assignments.
Reach out to me via hi@kryptogram.se
Software engineer with 12 years experience. PSF Fellow and Ex-Googler.
Anything Python-related. Bonus points if I get to work with JAX.
CV: https://r.rachum.com/cv
I’m a product designer with a passion for crafting user experiences that are not just visually appealing but also intuitive and enjoyable to use. Whether it’s a simple app or a complex business solution, I specialize in designing data-heavy interfaces that turn intricate information into clean, user-friendly designs.
I’m dedicated to seeing projects through from the first brainstorming session to the final launch. I love taking on complex challenges and transforming them into elegant, easy-to-use solutions. My approach is hands-on and detail-oriented: I dive deep into planning, create detailed prototypes, and ensure every pixel is in the right place before a product goes out the door. I believe in the power of data-driven design, but I also never forget the importance of making products that users will love.
For over two decades, I've designed, built, and led product teams, creating impactful projects across a wide range of industries. Whether it's advertising, startups, browser-based games, or complex analytics solutions—whatever you need help with, I've got you covered.
Portfolio: https://monkin.co
E-Mail: p@monkin.co
I am a backend expert, having built and maintained highly available systems for several companies over the last 5 years, in addition to over 20 total years of software development experience.
The ideal engagement at this point would be with a firm that expects to need team-level help and wants to try me out as the lead for that on a smaller initial project. You will like working with me because I:
* hold your goals as my priorities
* communicate verbosely yet synthesize well
* my rates are reasonable in exchange for the value I deliver
* I guarantee I will get the job done
Concrete examples:
* built realtime stats and the enterprise-wide developer portal for one of the top 3 major US sports leagues (golang/pyspark/docker/azure)
* portfolio management process replatforming for a midsize hedge fund (bespoke->dockerized python aws lambda architecture)
* built a ~50 node, Dockerized, Terraform-deployed distributed system to provide realtime, transformed trade data from crypto exchanges to a Kafka pipeline and data lake (fodder for an analytics platform). Met 5000msec SLA across arbitrarily many exchanges and ticker symbols. Blue-green deployment for complete CICD safety. Cloudwatch metrics proved SLA was met and provided general system oversight.
* built a framework to collapse dozens of singleton ETL programs into one config-driven, simple C# application performing the same functionality at ~80% reduction in maintenance cost year over year.
* built and managed a team of 8 engineers operating against multiple streams of work to meet business needs, with ~12 active projects at a time.
Contact: jon.north@adiuvat-consulting.com More:
www.adiuvat.io
Keywords: Python, C++, SQL, NoSQL, Go, Golang, Git, SVN, Subversion, Linux, Bash, Windows, Kafka, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Redis, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, LDAP, Active Directory, OAuth2
I am a Senior QA Automation Engineer with 12+ years of experience in Software Testing in an Agile environment. I have hands-on experience in all software testing life cycle stages, including both Manual and Automation testing.
I am seeking part-time or full-time contract work as a QA Automation Engineer. I prefer long-term commitments, but I am also available for smaller projects.
Résumé/CV: https://douglasfugazi.co
Email: itmteleco [at] gmail.com
Location: Medellin, Colombia (GMT-5)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Not yet
Technologies for Testing: Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, Rest-Assured, DevTools, Docker, JIRA, Confluence, Git, Jenkins, API, Adobe Analytics, AWS, Azure DevOps.
Rate: Flexible to suit the specific requirements of your project.
I am looking forward to hearing from you. https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasfugazi
Website: https://douglasfugazi.co
Would you like to see more of my technical skills as a QA Engineer?
Review my Github profile: https://github.com/fugazi
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20+ yoe as dev/IC. 10+ yoe in managerial and executive roles. Multiple great exits and acquisitions. Built tech for Tezos, Oracle, Shell, Digitas, Saatchi & Saatchi, Time Warner, Sparkasse, Bank of America.
If there's a problem related to tech, I can solve it - and make it sustainable. Available for work as dev/IC, EM, Director, or CTO, with experience in each. Full-solution MVP development from scratch. Performance optimization and modernization of older systems. DSL and programming language design, compilers. Let me know if you're looking for experience that isn't below! HN posts are short. CV upon request.
If you think I might be able to help you, shoot me an email: damian.jobsites+hn@gmail.com
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Example work types:
- Long term dev / IC or managerial roles
- Security audits for cryptography and secure code
- Review your code and dev processes, 10-page report
- Short-term dev and research work
- One-shot meetings
(see reply for skill list)
- Backend Programming: Zig, Rust, Haskell, Python, JS, TypeScript, Node, Vue, React, Elm, Scala, C, C++, SQL, Perl, PHP, Clojure, OCaml, Erlang, Elixir, Theorem provers (TLA+, Isabelle HOL, Agda, ...
- Fintech: Dev experience with banks and financial institutions. Launched Tezos and other major blockchains. Dozens of smart contract audits.
- Bizdev: Gamification, consumer modelling, data-driven retention and engagement
- Devops & co: Distributed Systems, Ansible, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Linux admin, ...
- AI: LLMs, predictive text, machine vision (trajectory tracking), DSP, Big Data, ...
- Infosec: Cryptography, Red team testing, RE, audits, threat modeling, ...
- Other tech: Godot game engine, audio engineering (mastering), Verilog, VHDL
Management and business: Minor in Psychology, led and managed teams between 2 and 30 people, product design and gamification, hiring, and a lot of other experience that won't fit in this post.
Application Developer with over a decade of experience.
* Native application development for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows
* Backend services in Go
* Creating and/or integrating APIs/SDKs
* TV/Video applications on all platforms (Apple, Android, Amazon, Roku)
Extensive experience building products and platforms from the ground up.
Email: info at squirrelpointstudios dot com
I am a Cloud Software Engineer with multiple years of experience in Software Egineering. I work with Go, Kubernetes, and cloud native tools.
I am seeking part-time or full-time contract work as a Software Engineer. I prefer long-term commitments, but I am also available for smaller projects.
Email: adonismurati [at] gmail.com
Location: Pristina, Kosovo (GMT+2)
Remote: Yes
Technologies: Kubernetes, Go (Golang), Cilium, Prometheus, Grafana, Terraform, eBPF, ArgoCD, Flux, Git, Linux, Docker.
Rate: Flexible to suit the specific requirements of your project.
Review my github profile too for open source work: https://github.com/adoi
I'm a full snack product engineer with over 25 years experience building apps on the web. I primarily use PHP/Laravel/Livewire, have a love hate relationship with React/Next.js/Remix.js and absolutely adore Vue. htmx CEO btw.
I am currently building a suite of tools for bootstrappers and solopreneurs on my community of ~10,000 indie hackers at https://getmakerlog.com
Email: josh@joshmanders.com
Remote: Yes Focus Areas:
FinTech:- Financial Services Product Development, Payment SDKs, B2B SaaS (USA, Europe, India)
AI & ML:- LLM, OpenAI, GPT4 All (Working with 4 clients in LLM based Agents)
SportsTech:- Sports Product Development (USA, Australia)
LegalTech:- Document Assembling, DocumentAI (Blockchain)
Real-time Engagement with Audio and video, Streaming
Technologies: NextJS, NestJS, NodeJs, Angular 14, TypeScript, Redux, NoSQL, ReactJS, Tailwind CSS, Shopify, AWS, Serverless, Kubernetes, iOS, Java, React Native, Flutter, Full-stack
Availability: We are a product consulting & development studio. Due to budget cuts, 2 of our large customers have paused their engagements. We do have more bandwidth in the coming months. We also provide fractional engineers for services.
In the last engagement, we managed the front end (Storybook + React) & back end (Serverless). We follow a ticket-based branch strategy & have written unit test cases (TDD) as well.
Schedule a Chat: https://calendly.com/mobilefirst-intro
Email: rupal(.)mobilefirst at gmail(.)com
With 7 years of experience in small startups to large companies I've worked across the stack doing front-end, backend and infra / dev tooling.
I'm interested in setting up early stage products with a deep integration to the business side, or do well scoped feature development or maintenance work on mature projects to bring them to the next level.
Let's chat!
Email: nfabredev[at]gmail.com
Technologies: Ruby, Rails, React, Node.js, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure, AWS, CI/CD (Gitlab and Github), observability (Datadog, Sentry, Honeycomb, Grafana / Prometheus..)…
Frontend Angular Developer and Ionic Developer Expert
Location: Europe
Remote: Yes, remote only
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, RxJS, Angular, Ionic, Cordova, Capacitor
Résumé/CV: https://nunoarruda.com/resume.pdf
Email: nuno@nunoarruda.com
I'm a full-stack developer and contractor proficient in Go, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, with over a decade of expertise. Specializing in React, TypeScript, Go and associated technologies for more than six years.
Location: UK
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: React, etc. (8+ years), TypeScript/JavaScript (8+ years), Go/Golang (10+ years)
Résumé/CV: https://1li.dev/resume
Email: hn@1li.dev
Github: https://github.com/amitybell
Location: UK
Remote: Yes
I'm a programmer with more than 10 years experience, primarily working remotely on a freelance or contract basis. My recent work has fallen into two main areas:
Scientific / numeric computing: e.g. I've contributed to research projects on quantum error correction and probabilistic programming languages. Tech: Python, NumPy, JAX, PyTorch, Matplotlib, JavaScript.
Backend web dev: e.g. I worked at a tiny start-up where I built a web app for automatic meeting scheduling. Tech: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Celery, OAuth, Google Calendar APIs, AWS.
Please feel free to get in touch if you have a project (of any kind!) you think I might be able to help with, I'd be happy to chat.
More info and contact details on my website: https://paulhorsfall.co.uk/bio.html
Portfolio: https://www.seanw.org/
Live example project: https://www.checkbot.io/
Location: Edinburgh, UK and remote (I’m used to time zone differences and async work)
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I help startups with the UX/UI and web design of their products. This includes web apps, websites, landing pages, screenshots and copywriting, and I can assist with frontend development where needed. My background as a tech startup founder and full stack developer helps me create practical design solutions that balance usability, aesthetics, development effort and performance. I work to fixed price quotes when projects are self-contained.
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The best live example of my work is Checkbot (https://www.checkbot.io/), a browser extension that tests websites for SEO, speed and performance problems. The entire project is my own work including coding the extension itself, UX/UI design, website design (the homepage is optimised to load in 0.7 seconds, 0.3MB data transferred), website copy, and website articles on web best practices.
[ Rated 4.9/5, 50K+ active users, 100s of paying subscribers ]
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I have 10+ years of experience, including a PhD in software verification and 5+ years working for myself helping over 20 companies including Just Eat, Triumph Motorcycles and Fogbender (YC W22). See my website for testimonials, portfolio and more:
https://www.seanw.org
Skills: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OCaml, Java, Python, C, analytics, website SEO/speed optimisation.
Note: For larger projects, I usually have my partner assist alongside me in the background (I’m working towards starting a design studio with her in the future).
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Email sw@seanw.org with a short description of 1) your project 2) how you think I can help 3) the business outcome you’re looking for and 4) any deadlines. I can get back to you in one working day to arrange a call to discuss a quote and how we can work together.
I'm proficient in and have written production code that services millions of users in NodeJS, React/NextJS, Go, MySql, PostgreSQL, AWS. Strong preference for Typescript over Javascript. I used to write a lot of Python and Ruby as well. I've also architected and managed infrastructure using Terraform & k8s.
Available up to 3 full days per week and could go to 5 days a week for the right project.
I'm looking for individual contributor work that I can enjoy and open to very competitive rates for non soul crushing projects.
Reach out if you are looking for someone senior who can step anywhere into the stack and make a quick impact.
Current project (in the AI space): https://www.mailmentor.io
Website: https://www.jsfour.com
Reach out: jimi @ hostname above
- Technologies: Currently my focus is: General Linux troubleshooting, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, Git/Github/Gitlab and their pipellines, Grafana, AWS, Python, Bash, documentation, Kubernetes and Openshift.
- Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eitch/
- Email: eitch at naovouler.com.br
I have 25+ years of experience using Linux and working as all these titles that are kind the same: BOFH, Support Engineer, Sysadmin, DevOps, Infrastructure specialist, SRE, Platform Engineer, etc. My main focus is configuration management and creating self-services for the company, along the default CI/CD workflows and monitoring of everyday. Check this page to see what I'm providing/working nowadays: https://www.eitch-consulting.com/services/
Also, If you want more information, you could schedule a meeting with me and I'll be glad to help you and show what I'm capable of. Satisfaction guaranteeed! :D
Technologies:
- NLP development, including local LLMs, GPT, BERT, Pinecone, Langchain, LSTM, vector databases, sentence transformers and summarizers.
- C# and .NET development, including SQL Server, Entity Framework, ASP.NET Core, and NUnit.
- Java development, including the Spring Framework, Hibernate, Maven and JUnit.
- HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript, including React, Vue.js, Node.js and Angular.
- Python, including Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Pytorch, and TensorFlow.
- Scala development, including Akka, Play Framework, and ScalaTest.
- C++ and Rust development, including the Standard Template Library (STL), Boost C++ Libraries, Qt and native Win32.
- Backend and infrastructure work in Golang with Kubernetes and Terraform providers.
- GPU computing, including Vulkan, OpenCL, OpenGL, WebGL and WebGPU.
Email: dev@quantensystems.com
Open source work: https://github.com/nauful
I have deep experience with frontend, backend, ML, traditional enterprise development, scientific software, low level systems, have architected enterprise software and led a small startup team from inception to acquisition. My most widely used project serves 12+ million monthly active users (big tech) while another project serves 1k+ simultaneous clients per node 1M+ scattered writes/sec. Open to full time or part time contracts.
Location: West coast, remote only.
I'm a data scientist who has worked with the likes of Porsche and Mulesoft, I'm looking for the next thing.
An ideal fit would be a small/medium company with hair on fire green or brownfield problems that need solving. I'm currently quite interested in AI, and routing/optimization problems.
Technologies/techniques: Machine learning/AI, LLM's/RAG, Transformers, GenAI, MCMC, MCTS, Bayesnets, Neural architecture search, Python, Pytorch/Tensorflow/Keras, All the tools surrounding ML and AI, A whole host of others.
Some past work:
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