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

SEEKING WORK | Remote | WORLDWIDE

Freelance Web Developer. Full-stack. With a decade of experience as SDE.

Location: Costa Rica (LATAM).

Remote: Yes, any timezone (I reside in CT/UTC-6, EST/CST timezones).

Languages: Spanish, English.

Programming: TypeScript, Rust, Elixir, Clojure, NixOS, AWS, Docker, NodeJS, Deno, ReactJS. SolidJS & SolidStart to a high degree.

Portfolio: https://www.josecodea.com

Email: Refer to the bottom of my portfolio.

Proof of work with Elixir:

- My portfolio includes Open Source contributions.

Proof of work with Rust, NixOS and Docker:

- My portfolio includes two blog posts, each include a small Rust app that I made to turn on/off an EC2 server with a Discord bot.

SEEKING WORK | North America Time zones - Remote | PHP/JS Full Stack Dev Part-Time: ~20 Hours per week Location: Southern California

Technologies: PHP (12 yrs), Laravel (6+ yrs, subject matter expert), MySQL, JavaScript, Vue, Tailwind, Bootstrap, REST APIs, Inertia.js

Email: mmillis@pm.me

I'm a full stack developer with 12 years of experience in PHP and 6+ years of specializing in Laravel. I've built and maintained large web applications, internal tools, and SaaS platforms for startups and large companies. I enjoy working on clean, readable codebases and simplifying dev workflows. I'm searching for contract or part-time remote work with a small to medium-sized team that values craftsmanship and clarity. I'm eager to jump into established codebases or help architect new ones.

SEEKING WORK | Location: San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles (Santa Monica, Pasadena, or DTLA), California or Denver, Colorado or Remote | Relocation: Yes, to some cities | Fractional Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Technical Product Manager, or AI Consultant. Active Security Clearance (details available for serious inquiries). Bio [1], LinkedIn [2], Email [3]. Timezone: flexible - all North America or within 2 hours of GMT.

About Me: Polymath who has built products for scale ($1B+, 100M+ users), former software engineer and architect with experience at AWS, HashiCorp, PayPal, eBay, VMware, NGINX, Oracle Cloud, and SaaS startups. Founder of AI startups in 2018 and 2023. Significant enterprise experience, experience partnering with GTM teams to grow business to $1B+ outcomes, experience leading mixed teams of up to 60 (product, engineering, PMO, security & compliance) people and engineering teams of up to 75, including up to the director level. Experience with 0 to 1 startups / products, including regulated environments. Familiar with highly regulated and high security environments, including air gapped networks supporting government customers. Previously helped private equity firms with M&A analysis in the enterprise space and pharmaceutical/biotech spaces. Patent [4]. Adjunct professor at the University of Colorado (past), University of California (past), California State University (past), and University of Maryland (past)

Commercial Products that I've worked on: HashiCorp's stack (HCP, Terraform, Vault, Boundary, Nomad, Consul, Packer, Vagrant), Amazon Dedicated Cloud (all AWS products), VMware (Tanzu, CloudHealth, vRealize), NGINX, Oracle Fusion Cloud, Active.com's ActiveWorks.

Technologies: Polymath who picks up new tech quickly, but these are things that I've recently worked with: LM Studio, LocalAI, ollama, docker, terraform, vault, huggingface API, anthropic API, local LLMs (Mistral, Devstral, Qwen3 coder, Llama 3.3, hermes, gpt-oss, magistral), ToolHive, MCP, RAG pipelines (industries: Law, Outdoor Activities, Manufacturing), AWS Bedrock, GCP, AWS, R, Python, JavaScript, Go.

Recent Side Projects: Currently working on a product that supports due diligence use cases for M&A type activities using Local LLMs, RAG pipelines, and tools like LangChain, LangGraph, and a vector DB (prototype building using Qdrant). Built a prototype for an outdoor activities assistant that is being shopped to a few companies in that industry. Built a self-service analytics tool enabling non-technical users to develop complex R reports through a simple interface. Built a hybrid R and AWS Bedrock analytics tool for sifting through millions of records. Built a patent specification generator in collaboration with patent attorneys. Built a family law self-help assistant in collaboration with family law attorneys.

[1] https://tbu.bio [2] https://linkedin.com/in/tunderhill [3] t at perpetualaugmentation dot com [4] https://patents.google.com/patent/US11823501B2/

SEEKING WORK | Edinburgh, UK | Remote or on-site | Web, UI/UX & Print Designer

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

· 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!

SEEKING WORK | Palo Alto, CA | Remote or on-site | Product Management

About Me: Ex-Uber, Afterpay, and Block PM with experience in marketplaces, fintech, B2B and B2B2C, risk, machine learning, and personalization.

Open to product roles full-time or part-time (fractional).

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattyao/