Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2025)

Location: Liverpool, England

Remote: Yes (Remote only)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET, SQL Server/MySQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB/EventStoreDB/Redis, RabbitMQ/Kafka, CQRS/Event Sourcing, Azure/AWS.

Résumé/CV: https://craigtp.co.uk/cv

Email: craig [at] craigtp.co.uk

Hi. I'm Craig. I'm an experienced Senior Software Engineer, Systems Architect and Microsoft Certified Professional with a passion for software development.

I work primarily, but not exclusively, with Microsoft technologies and the .NET / .NET Core frameworks, leading complex and challenging enterprise software development projects to successfully deliver robust, secure, scalable and efficient software solutions, encompassing over 20 years of experience in the field.

I'm passionate about distributed systems design, CQRS and event sourcing and a proponent of domain-driven design to ensure that solutions are laser-focused on solving real business problems. I'm an open source enthusiast and advocate using the best and most appropriate tools available, providing for an effective and pragmatic solution that delivers genuine and quantifiable business value.

Throughout my career I've helped numerous businesses of varying sizes in varying industries get their technology investment right and I can do the same for you.

Recent projects include:

+ Successfully lead a multi-team effort to re-engineer the core domain of a legacy monolithic application to a suite of well-designed, modern microservices utilising Domain-Driven Design, CQRS & Event Sourcing where appropriate for one of Africa's leading FinTech companies allowing them to scale their transaction processing from over 1 million active customers to over 10 million whilst simultaneously reducing their cloud spend by over 30%.

+ Successfully delivered large section of an ambitious project to re-engineer a number of monolithic applications to cloud-native, event-driven distributed services for a leading hospitality software provider as part of a company-wide effort to modernise entire software estate including training and mentoring staff on event-driven architecture and distributed system design.

+ Successfully designed & delivered large, global SaaS product to manage and automate music royalty collection and payment for one of the UK's largest and most demanding independent music publishers including full cloud geo-distribution & redundancy to ensure high availability & reliability for the worldwide client base.

+ Successfully lead project to develop industry leading anti-motor fraud web application and API with advanced OLAP & OLTP system and data warehouse including one of Europe's largest anti-fraud databases for a Top 40 UK law firm.

Hi, I’m Sarfaraz Nawaz, a full-stack developer experienced in MERN, Next.js and MEAN stacks. I work comfortably across both frontend and backend technologies and have deployed projects on platforms like VM, AWS, Azure and Vercel.

My Key Skills:

Frontend: React.js, Next.js, Angular, Nuxt, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, WordPress, HTML5, CSS3. Backend: Node.js, PHP, Java, Azure Functions, Google APIs, Firebase, WebSockets, MySQL, MongoDB Deployment: VPS, AWS EC2, Azure App Services, Docker, Firebase, Render, Vercel, Heroku

Other Expertise: DevOps, LLM integration, API development & integration, large-scale data operations

I’m passionate about building secure, scalable applications and self-scaling systems. I’ve worked professionally at Loyalytics AI as well as on various freelance/ projects.

If you have a project or role that fits my skills, I’d love to connect.

Portfolio - https://pmdnawaz1.vercel.app/