Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2021)

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

Location: Edinburgh, UK and remote (time zone differences aren't a problem)

Email: sw@seanw.org

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I help startups with UX/UI and web design for their products, including design work for new and existing web apps, websites and landing pages. My background as a full stack developer and startup founder helps me come up with practical design solutions that balance usability, aesthetics, development effort and performance.

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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 desktop homepage is optimised to load in 0.7 seconds with only 0.3MB transferred), website copy, and posts on web best practices.

[ Rated 4.9/5, 40K+ 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 for over 20 companies including Just Eat and Triumph Motorcycles. See my website for testimonials, portfolio and more:

https://www.seanw.org

Skills: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, HTML/CSS, OCaml, Java, Python, C, website SEO and speed optimisation.

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Email sw@seanw.org with a short description of your project and how you think I can help. I can get back to you within one working day to arrange a call to discuss a quote. I generally aim for fixed price quotes when projects are self-contained.

Locations: Tampa, FL / Maine / San Francisco (or local to one of those areas)

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

Email: hi@squaremill.com

Website: https://squaremill.com and reviews available here https://clutch.co/profile/square-mill-labs

We have extensive experience in building applications from design, through implementation and ongoing management. We have very happy clients over the last 10 years and can put you in touch with them. Because we have worked together as a team for 10+ years 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, analytics pipelines, retail applications, financial apps, custom CMS, ecommerce front ends, phone apps, real estate, high throughput message delivery!

  Location: Berlin, Germany
  Remote: at least 70%
  Remote availability: Worldwide
  Current preferences:
  Kubernetes, Golang, Kubernetes Operators, Ci/CD, Containers and automating everything
  Willing to travel: yes
  Willing to relocate: no
  Languages: German (Native), English (Fluent)
  LinkedIn: www.hoelzel.it
  Validated CV: https://elite.mvpfactory.co/resume/johannes-U2opq-6U9E
  Github: https://github.com/jhoelzel
  E-Mail: hn [at] hoelzel.it

I grew up with the internet, uploaded my first websites to geocities, was tech-admin of a lot of bulletin boards and have been doing professional code since 2003. After trying to build my first start-up in 2006 I realised that they just won’t come only because I built it. Therefore, I have a bachelor economical psychology, which helps me immensely with team leadership but also allows me to view the product from multiple perspectives.

Since then I have been freelancing with the exceptions of 6 years where I have been exclusively working with one of germanies biggest conference companies to establish their internal and external tech products as well as their IT department. This was the beginning of leading and hiring diverse international teams for me, therefore kanban, scrum and design thinking are not foreign to me. Some I have even taught to clients, when I wear my consultant hat.

That hat also enables me to train others in what I have learned, makes me easygoing as a person and also not afraid of talking to other departments or clients. Overall I have 7 years of hands on (mid level) CTO experience but never really stoped coding since I was 11. I currently specialise in Golang, Kubernetes and how to best make them work together. I write minimal containers with distroless, build clusters from scratch, know my GitOps (also how to set them up) and currently like to play with the kubernetes api directly through the official go-client or the operator sdk among much more. I believe the kubernetes API is the actual key to multitenant deployments as well as more refined scaling techniques.

I started working when Servers where still mostly dedicated, have lived the revolution of virtual servers, made a short stop at serverless tech and am now invested in the kubernetes ecosystem and its containers. My preferred cloud is AWS, but I have worked on others and also like to tame bare-metal and everything in-between. I love solving difficult issues and do most of my work in development containers.

All this makes me perfect if you are looking for someone with seniority, that is flexible, plays well with others but also likes to get his hands dirty.

Technologies:

  Fullstack (Frontend, Backend, APIs, Daemons, Deployments, CLI)
  Favorites: Golang, JavaScript, PHP
  Cloud / X-Cloud : AWS, Azure, Hetzner, OVH, Bare-Metal
  Databases: MySQL , MSSQL, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB MongoDB, SQLite, Redis
  DevOps: Ansible, Puppet, Bash, Rancher, ArgoCD
  Server: Kubernetes, Docker (Swarm), Bare-Metal, Fargate, Serverless
  Windows Server, Windows Network, Active Directory
  Location networking, VPN (Wireguard, Software, MS-VPN)
  Jira / Redmine / Trello

Location: Latin America (GMT-4)

Remote: Only

Languages: Native English/Spanish, some French

Willing to relocate: Not at the moment

Technologies: Vue, React, Typescript, Express, Laravel, AWS

Rate: 30usd/Hour

I am an experienced Fullstack Dev, based in Latin America. Open to remote part time contracts, in any of the above. Please feel free to contact me. Currently I hold the title of Tech Lead at my current position, just looking to do some extra work on the side.

Email: cristian dot segovia at zohomail dot com