Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)

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Post by vram22 » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 10:18 PM UTC

SEEKING WORK - remote - India.

Creator of xtopdf, a PDF creation toolkit for Python (used by Packt Publishing, the Software Freedom Law Center, ESRI.nl and others.) xtopdf can create both business reports and ebooks, and currently has support for the following input formats (more are always in the pipeline): text, DBF, CSV, TSV/TDV, XLS, XML, ODBC, SQLAlchemy, MongoDB, XML.

xtopdf links:

http://slid.es/vasudevram/xtopdf

https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf

http://www.packtpub.com/article/Using_xtopdf

http://google.com/search?q=xtopdf

Independent developer for the last several years, with many years of experience in many tech areas. Contracted/consulted to multiple startups based in USA, Europe and India. Earlier worked for large well-known US software product and Indian software services companies.

Elected as a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) in 2010.

Skills: Good - Python, C, Linux, UNIX, many open source technologies, many popular/mainstream databases, XML-RPC, PDF programming, file and data format conversion, data munging, command-line utility development. Fair: Flask, MongoDB, Bottle, various others.

Have worked some on Ruby, Rails and Java earlier. Server lead / senior engineer for two commercial Rails-based dot-com products earlier, by US companies. One of them was TaskBin - http://taskbin.com - for the first version.

Worked on a best-selling retail banking product (in C with proprietary DB and UI libs). Team leader for a database middleware product (in C) widely used in client projects by a top software services company.

Databases worked on: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, SQLite. Used relational databases in the majority of projects I've worked on.

Did a lot of UNIX support and successful troubleshooting for years (some years earlier), still have some of those skills, which are useful in development too. Had many times recovered clients' data from corrupted file systems or crashed machines (with no backups :), using various tricks of the trade learnt on the job, and solved various other software problems, often involving various interacting software components (from OS level through language compilers to application programs and databases). Wrote lots of utilities in C and UNIX shell tools (sed, awk, grep and friends) to automate various tasks (for both users and developers), convert data between various formats from one platform to another, etc.

Relevant links:

Biz site: http://www.dancingbison.com (see Home, Products, Services, About pages there)

Posts about Python: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/python

Posts about xtopdf: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/xtopdf

Blog: http://jugad2.blogspot.com

LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vasudevram

Article by me about "Developing a Linux command-line utility" (in C) was published on IBM developerWorks and translated by IBM into Chinese and Japanese for those versions of their site. Some organizations have developed production command line tools using that article as a guide.

Contact info: http://dancingbison.com/contact.html (email, Skype). Twitter: @vasudevram

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)

#112

Post by rprospero » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 10:21 PM UTC

SEEKING WORK:

I'm a recent graduate with a PhD in Physics. If you're building a neutron beamline, then I'm the guy you're looking to hire. Of course, if you're building a neutron beamline, we've probably already talked, so let's discuss what else I can offer.

I've spent the past eight years working as the jack of all trades on our project. I've written byte level servers, hardware interfaces, GUI control systems, API's, and data analysis code. Lots of data analysis code. While I might not necessarily be familiar with your technology stack, I'm used to that. I've had days where I've needed to work with Eight different langauges, from Labview to IDL to Haskell to Scheme to SPEC.

If you have a problem, I'd love to take a crack at it.

e-mail: adam.l.washington@gmail.com github: https://github.com/rprospero

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)

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Post by ig0r0 » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 10:26 PM UTC

SEEKING WORK - remote - on site Prague, Czech Republic

Specializing in .NET technologies (C#, F#), currently building Windows Phone apps and APIs in NancfyFX / ASP.NET Web API.

Experience with functional languages (Haskell, ML, Scala), learning Node.js for fun.

Web: http://blog.kulman.sk Github: http://github.com/igorkulman LinkedIn: http://cz.linkedin.com/in/igorkulman Contact: igor@kulman.sk, @igorkulman

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)

#114

Post by cookiecaper » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 10:43 PM UTC

SEEKING WORK - Utah, Florida, or remote.

Relocating from SLC to Orlando in February 2014. Would love some Florida-local clients, but open to anyone willing to allow remote work. Some travel is negotiable.

Brief overview:

* Several years of experience as a professional freelancer and consultant, and several years of experience as a full-time employee developer before that.

* Have led company IT units in the past, as well as my own band of contractors. A good lead contractor.

* Regularly architect whole systems. Well-versed in SOA.

* A technical polyglot, going in and out of stacks and languages all the day long, using the right tool for the job, based on economic as well as technical considerations. I think this makes me a well-rounded developer that can make less skewed decisions.

* Well-experienced with Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, and others.

For more detail, check out http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeff-cook/4/270/210 , http://github.com/sjuxax , and http://github.com/deseret-tech.

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)

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Post by ciclista » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 10:57 PM UTC

SEEKING WORK - Remote

Located in Albuquerque, seeking a remote position with flexible-ish hours for 20 to 25 hours a week.

- +5 years professional web dev experience (PHP, Python, Javascript). I excel at large sized backend projects, but happy to take care of the frontend as well. Past experience includes anything from Magento, Wordpress, Zend, Kohana, Silex to Flask, PyQT, etc. etc. to large custom “from scratch” applications, intranet apps, etc. Personal pride and interest in best practices security wise.

- +8 years running Linux exclusively. Very comfortable around a command line. Happy to set up, secure, troubleshoot and maintain any server.

- Fluent in English, Dutch and Spanish (euro expat with permanent residency in the US).

- Well read, well traveled, enjoy a multi-disciplinary approach to life. Former yoga and meditation instructor. Good sense for aesthetics (although not a designer, a good natural talent to help with developer to designer communications and UX/UI input). Currently I'm enrolled in a welding program full time (not a lot of theory outside of lab/practice/fabrication sessions).

Looking preferably for a small team or a single position, as well as something long term or at least 3-4 months, not the job hopper type.

Happy to chat over Skype, provide code samples and/or do a test run together.

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)

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Post by ridicter » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 11:00 PM UTC

SEEKING WORK - Portland, Oregon or remote

Front end developer and designer looking to work with Angular.js and d3.js--but really, any decent paying 20-40 hour gig will do!

LINK TO RESUME WITH PORTFOLIO SCREENSHOTS: http://econexus.co/finalresume_12-15_portfolio.pdf

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I would describe myself as an intermediate front end developer with a high aptitude and high drive. I started my forays into web development purely on the design end but I have since bloomed into a well rounded designer-developer. Over my trajectory, I graduated with a degree in the liberal arts from Washington University in St. Louis, designed websites for fun and environmental causes, worked on documentaries, and studied computer science at the University of Texas.

I have worked with a variety of platforms and libraries, including Drupal, Wordpress, Titanium, and Android. I have worked at all levels (full stack)—design, front end, and backend—though my natural talents are most suited to the front end. My most extensive experience is with Drupal: I have built modules, designed and developed responsive themes, used drush extensively, built a Drupal commerce site, and built a Drupal-backed Android app, etc. My Drupal-backed Android app communicated via JSON-based web services (i.e., REST). I have been working in a professional software development environment for a little over a year.

As far as design, I would consider myself intermediate or advanced at Photoshop and Illustrator.

I’m passionate about designing and developing fluid, responsive interfaces, the real time web, and data visualizations, which means a lot of javascript. I use JS extensively in Titanium, which is the cross platform mobile development framework, and I have also used it for JQuery. I’m currently learning Angular.js and loving it, and I’m working on a D3.js data visualization blog on alternative energy with a friend of mine. The blog is a great side project to further my design and development skills.

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)

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Post by nolite » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 11:08 PM UTC

SEEKING FREELANCER: (remote)

Tech: C/C++, Nodejs

I'm looking for someone to integrate libFlac into node.js so that I can encode a streaming audio source in real time to Flac, and stream it to a destination server via chunked HTTP.

I haven't found anything online that helps for this, so this could make a good "bounty" project useful for many people, where you open source the result and keep the IP and credit, if we could agree on the right rates for that.

Full spec is here: http://goo.gl/pQX51c

Email contact@rogervoice.com with price estimation and questions

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)

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Post by 12bit » Wed, Jan 01, 2014, 11:36 PM UTC

SEEKING WORK: San Francisco Bay Area or Remote

I have a research background in robotics as well as professional experience writing firmware in C. In the past I've helped consumer electronics startups develop prototypes and bring concepts to production: hardware/electronics design and manufacture, firmware development etc. I have all necessary professional tools including a license for Cadence Allegro, oscilloscope etc.

I've been doing web dev work for the past three years. I spent the past year working on a (yet-to-be-launched) startup. Some of the technologies I have used professionally are Meteor, Rails, Clojure (also ClojureScript, Pedestal) MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Datomic and D3.js.

Recently Clojure has been my go-to language for everything from robotics, to data visualization as well as in web dev, but I'm fluent in C, Ruby, Python, JavaScript and CoffeeScript. I'm interested in both part-time and full-time positions. My email is in my profile.

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)

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Post by SingAlong » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 12:08 AM UTC

bound008 wrote: post #47

Sorry to just copy/paste this from the who's hiring post but it may make more sense here anyways. ============================================= Seeking Freelancer (remote is ok) Hey, HN. One of you is perfect for this idea. I am a serial entrepreneur who is currently trapped in the body of a freelance contractor. I have a relatively stable 40 hour a week project, and incoming projects as well that I generally can't t…

Sent you an email. (posting here just incase boun.cr filters it)

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)

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Post by vonseel » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 12:10 AM UTC

SEEKING WORK

REMOTE or LOCAL (Austin, Texas).

Full-stack web development:

- Python (Django)

- JavaScript (AngularJS, Backbone.JS, Marionette)

- HTML5, CSS

Experience with Google API integration (Drive & Calendar), Intuit QuickBase API, as well as product and new API development.

Have been building my startup's product (Medicinbox) for the past few months, and am available for immediate hire. Contact information is available in profile.