Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2024)
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[ 0.15 ms ] story [ 191 ms ] threadI am a software engineer specializing in Python backends, but have demonstrated ability using whatever technology necessary to best solve the problem at hand. I have experience working with large multinationals, and startups, both in person and on a remote-only basis. My current role is fully remote, and involves software architecture/design decisions, PoC prototyping, DevOps, improving developer tooling, and general purpose programming.
The best place to see my professional experience is on LinkedIn, but feel free to reach out to me by any means you prefer so we can discuss opportunities.
Technologies: Python (+ Frameworks), AWS, Docker, Linux, ...
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conorjflynn/
Résumé: https://blog.randombits.host/resume/ (PDF Preview)
Github: https://github.com/conor-f
Blog: https://blog.randombits.host
Email: hn@randombits.host
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
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
Portfolio: https://www.seanw.org/
Live example projects: https://www.checkbot.io/ https://www.inclusivecolors.com/
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, copywriting, and I can assist with frontend development where needed. My background of launching my own products and being a full stack developer helps me create practical designs that balance usability, aesthetics, development effort, and performance. I work to fixed price quotes for self-contained projects.
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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/security 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), marketing, website copy, and website articles on web best practices.
[ Rated 4.9/5, 80K+ 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 25 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, Django, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OCaml, Java, Python, C, analytics, WCAG accessibility, website SEO/speed optimisation.
Note: For large projects, my partner usually assists me in the background (I’m working on 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!
Portfolio: https://angeliqueboudeau.org/#portfolio
Contact: hi@angeliqueboudeau.org
I’m a web & print designer who helps organisations involved in social and environmental causes. I’ve helped clients in the past with projects focused on thermal solar energy, household waste reduction, plant-based food advocacy and data science for social/environmental issues. My design process aims to understand your needs and challenges and create designs aligned with your goals and values.
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Design services:
· Web design: responsive mobile/desktop designs that are lightweight and fast, where I can also arrange web development
· UI design: wireframes, mockups, clickable prototypes
· Print design: posters, flyers and business cards, with prints optimised for reduced ink and material usage
· Branding: logo design, style guides, posters, booklets, slideshows and social media banners
· Included in all services: advice on sustainability, accessibility (WCAG), content/copy, and SEO
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Skills: Figma, FigJam, Canva, Inkscape, GIMP, Scribus. Basics of Git, HTML, CSS, Linux, Visual Studio Code, Hugo, static websites. Fluent in French and English.
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Contact me via https://angeliqueboudeau.org or hi@angeliqueboudeau.org with a short description of your project, and how you think I can help, then we can arrange a call to discuss next steps!
Remote: Yes
Location: UK (Flexible on your timezone)
Relocation: No
Languages\Tech:
* PHP + Laravel + PHPUnit/Pest
* Javascript
* Typescript
* Python
Backend: Laravel, Node
Frontend: React , Vue , Livewire
Email: PTGPSoftware@outlook.com
Very competitive pricing available for fast turnaround PHP / JS or Node projects. If you are looking to develop a new project, clean up/refactor an existing one or something else/different then please get in touch. Just as happy to work on legacy/vanilla PHP applications as Laravel apps, or to port from one to the other (or give opinions on feasibility of that for your project).
I like to work in a methodical way, typically writing simple tests for new functionality as I go, and also isolating any bugs/likely bug surface area. At the same time I also get satisfaction from "shipping". So it's important to me to achieve a harmonious balance between these, so expect this to be an area of focus in terms of communication. My technical interests are anything from simple CRUD/REST APIs through to integration of more advanced features, which could be real time application (Pusher/Websocket, possibly Reverb when this is released) or integration with ML models and pipelines.
iOS developer with over 14 years of experience building, releasing and maintaining high quality mobile apps and games (e.g. https://apps.apple.com/app/id1215380527, https://itunes.apple.com/app/id572537866). I can handle a project through its entire lifecycle, keep great communication and make sure we are solving the right problems.
I'm open to flat-race pricing for well-scoped projects.
Tech stack: Expert in iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Objective-C, CI/CD pipelines, Bitrise, Git, GitHub, etc. Proficient with API design, backend, analytics, Crashlytics, JIRA, graphics programming, UX.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertodn/
Email: albertodenia [at] gmail.com
My last projects were all in Go and deployed to Kubernetes on AWS and Google Cloud. So that's top-of-mind atm.
Since last year I've been working on my website willem.dev, where I regularly post educational content related to Go and web development.
For bigger projects you can contact me at w@willem.dev, or schedule a meeting directly via my website.
I'm currently available for up to 16h per week.
Looking forward to having a chat :)
It's been years since I had any availability and posted here. I have 10 years of experience in Fin-Tech and over 14 years combined in Journalism, TV and Media, Health, Science, and more. I've worked for clients like JPMorgan Chase, Santander Bank, Rob Walling, Trello, Peter Diamandis, Syncthing, SimplyCredit and others. I'm experienced in Vue.js, Django, Phoenix framework, Quasar to name a few. Pick up new tech easily and like working on complex products. Old case studies are on my website: https://gilli.is. However, most work from recent years has been buried behind NDAs.
I can provide the following for you:
- Design — Whether you need a design from scratch, a redesign, or you're having issues with a small part of your product, I can design it.
- Front-end Development — I can build the design into a pixel perfect product. This is rare among us designers and has proven to be extremely powerful for the result since there is less wasted effort.
- Analysis — Your users, know everything that's wrong with your product but have difficulty communicating it. Often it comes out in anger and frustration. That's where my usability analysis comes in. I'll review your app from an outsider and expert point of view, and give you actionable feedback.
- Free 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 for free.
I take my work very seriously and put a lot of work into excellent communication, proper planning, and, last but not least, properly understanding your product so that we can produce great results.
Portfolio at: https://gilli.is
Contact me at gilli@hn.gilli.is
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
While we mostly look for people in-house, I'm also looking for a freelance QA/Test automation engineer that can join us in the short term, and hit the ground running with testing, both manual and automated (Typescript). We build heatpumps to help fight climate change, our product is live with thousands of installs, and we have ambitious goals but do need to test our software :)
Apply via the career page: https://www.quatt.io/working-at-quatt or email me directly ( my-hacker-news-username@quatt.io ) for questions.
I am a backend expert, having built and maintained highly available systems for several companies over the last 9 years, in addition to over 20 total years of software development experience. I learn new things extremely quickly.
You will like working with me because I:
Concrete examples:* built the streaming data architecture for realtime game player tracking information (all games, 50ms SLA) and game stats for one of the top 3 US sports leagues (can’t name drop!) using Redpanda/Kafka on Azure+Terraform, and implemented its developer portal using Gravitee to provide first class streaming API support and monetization. Also built, deployed and maintained their ask-a-question-get-a-true-answer AI bot to expose 20+ years of stats to natural language fan questions!
* Implemented a vector DB for one of the leading AI image hallucination platforms (millions of users) to provide an image similarity service.
* replatformed dozens of jobs to AWS Lambda for a startup hedge fund, vastly improving QoS and maintenance cost. Line 1 to platform-in-prod time 3 months.
* built a ~50 node, AWS, 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.
Contact: jon.north@adiuvat-consulting.com More: www.adiuvat.io
Keywords: Python, C++, R, SQL, NoSQL, Go, Golang, AWS, Azure, Lambda, Cloudwatch, Docker, Git, SVN, Subversion, Linux, Windows, Bash, Kafka, Terraform, Redis, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, LDAP, Active Directory, OAuth2
I was the founding engineer for Ruckit. I grew the engineering team from just me, to a team of 10+ people, and was able to deliver a product that was responsible for the successful exit of the company. https://www.thomabravo.com/press-releases/command-alkon-acqu...
I've been doing the same thing for PreFix Inc. Growing the team and developing the product. https://www.prefixinc.com/our-team?
I've also been a Python instructor for General Assembly https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/juan-carlos-ferrer/1148...
And a long time ago I was doing a lot more hardware hacking https://www.theverge.com/2014/3/8/5483774/the-cupid-drone-st...
I'm looking for a new challenge. See my email in the about section, and let's chat.
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Howdy, I'm Summer! I've been slinging code for over 15 years.
I'm currently focusing on mobile with React Native - I can build your app AND lead and mentor your team, too! If you need just plain React, I can do that, too!
What separates me from the competition is I bring a warm, friendly, and holistic approach to enterprise software design. I'm incredibly easy to talk to and gentle in whatever I do.
My job is to make your problems go away - let's chat! =D
=========================================================Location: Ontario, Canada
Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel
Technologies:
- Full stack web development (Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go)
- Machine learning (including LLMs, retrieval augmented generation, agents etc.)
- Mobile app dev for iOS and Android (Flutter, React Native)
- Payments, financial systems and quantitative trading platforms
- Oil and gas/sustainability
Email: tale_me@outlook.com
Experienced generalist product engineer and former founder specializing in applied machine learning and fintech. Familiar with financial services, sustainability, and various other B2C/B2B SaaS verticals. Reach out if you need to bring a greenfield product to market or integrate AI into your services.
Industries/opportunities that I am particularly interested in:
- Machine learning (or "AI")
- Logistics
- Climate/sustainability
- Fintech
- Consulting
- Weather derivatives and similar products
- Applied machine learning solutions for B2B in general
I'm a seasoned Principal Ruby on Rails architect with extensive backend experience, currently available for consulting opportunities. My expertise spans:
Ruby on Rails architecture and development
Setting up Rails in diverse environments, including Red Hat systems
Strong product sense and UX advisory capabilities
Infrastructure consultation and migration (e.g., Heroku to bare metal or vice versa)
Database upgrades and optimization
Key Skills:
Ruby on Rails (expert level)
Backend architecture
Infrastructure planning and migration
Database management and optimization
Product development and UX consulting
What I Offer:
Architectural guidance for complex Rails applications Performance optimization and scalability solutions Infrastructure assessment and migration strategies Code reviews and best practices implementation Team mentoring and technical leadership
If you're looking for a Rails expert who can navigate both technical challenges and product considerations, let's connect. I'm available for short-term projects, long-term engagements, or advisory roles.
Pref:
I prefer to work in person because I personally have better experience with in person communication, but remote is fine too.
Contact: ken at utilitarianinfrastructure.com
Remote: Yes
Relocation: flexible
Freelance/Contract/Fulltime: flexible
Technologies: N/A
Resume: email me
email: shabhad@gmail.com
Hi, I'm Shoana, a project manager who is interested in project management, people management, product management, supply chain, or customer relations type of work. I recently received a MS in Organizational Psychology from Harvard and a Certificate in Climate/Sustainability at Terra.do. I'm excited to join and help manage or grow innovative teams and make an impact!
I'm also technically savvy (but just not with programming) with stuff like automation!
Skills:
– visionOS, iOS, and macOS Swift/SwiftUI Development
– Augmented Reality & Spatial Computing Development (ARKit, RealityKit, Reality Composer Pro, Shader Graph, SceneKit, Object Capture, object tracking, Metal, Vision, RealityKit Postprocessing, LiDAR scene reconstruction, hand and finger-recognition AR controls, world tracking, hand tracking, body tracking, face tracking, image saliency analysis, room tracking, semantic segmentation, depth estimation, Speech, Natural Language, shaders, custom CoreML models, Create ML)
I specialize in developing augmented reality & spatial computing iOS/visionOS apps. Several of my apps were handpicked and featured worldwide by Apple. I won first place in the Vision Hack hackathon (XR Demoparty category). I worked with Walmart on an internal computer vision product. I developed an iOS open-source WebXR browser with Mozilla. An AR startup I developed for had their app demoed by Tim Cook on HBO's Axios show. I've built augmented reality, photogrammetry, music, travel, ecommerce, social, gaming, SDK, messaging, computer vision, interior design, developer, lending, consumer, enterprise video conferencing, construction/architecture, workout, and location-based products.
Experience with: Swift, Vision Pro, ARKit, SwiftUI, RealityKit, SwiftData, RoomPlan, Reality Composer Pro, SceneKit, Object Capture, Photogrammetry, CoreML, Create ML, Spline, OpenAI API, Metal, Combine, iMessage extensions, Firebase, Firestore, Vision, Speech, Natural Language, WorkoutKit, Stripe, Sketch, Wireframing, UX, and SQL
Website: https://1984.dev
Email: tony@1984.dev
visionOS Blog: https://vision.engineer
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atmorales0/
GitHub: https://github.com/robomex
Clients: Walmart, Carnegie Mellon University, Madespace, Hyper, Makeshift Studios, Remotion, Supermedium, Mozilla, Hopper, Mask Market, Tempus Ex, Virtruvia, iScape, NudgeTV, Hillside Software
Some of my clients' investors: Y Combinator, DARPA, A16Z, Greylock, First Round
Some of my clients went on to get acquired by: OpenAI, Shopify
I'm booked through mid-November, but if you have any questions or you want to get a conversation started: Shoot me a message & let's talk!
I am a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Google Style, with experience at both large and small organizations. I can help you build a Platform Engineering practice from the very beginning. I'm looking to help small dev teams increase their velocity by implementing best-practices of Devops: CI/CD, Kubernetes Deployments, and effective Monitoring frameworks.
Check out my recent talk at SRECon: https://youtu.be/dswPHnfGwlY
My resume: https://resume.gauntletwizard.net/ThomasHahnResume.pdf
My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-hahn-3344ba3/
My Github: https://github.com/GauntletWizard
I'm building an app to help get people off their phones. It's a huge space and very fun to explore. A great designer is essential to build a brand with personality. Think of Duolingo. Illustration skills would be important.
It's early in the project, so I'd actually need the services in December or January. But I'm also open to cofounding it together if that sounds interesting. So I figured I'd post it now and have some chats.
I'm living in Munich, Germany. I imagine face-to-face is hard to find here, but at least a similar time zone would make things easier.
Schedule a chat here: https://calendar.app.google/L45TFdjwgqJZemxo7
I'm looking for freelance software development and data engineering work. I can make web applications, interactive maps, data pipelines, or interactive data visualizations. Give me some messy data, and I’ll put it into a database and on a website for you. Available to start ASAP.
Django expert and DevOps with 13 years of experience looking for a full time / part time work.
Tech:
Email: michal@michallech.infoPing me with what you need help with and let's chat!