Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2019)

I'm a full-stack software engineer with over 7 years of experience. I've spent most of my time building software with either Ruby on Rails or JavaScript/React and its related tools, but I also have some experience up and down the stack from container orchestration to CSS/SASS/JS-in-CSS, etc. I used Java professionally several years ago and can ramp up quickly on most technologies.

I'd love to find an arrangement where there is ongoing product development / maintenance work that I can contribute to 10-15 hours per week on a consistent basis, but am open to short-term engagements as well.

Links are in my profile

Location: Monroe, MI

Technologies: Linux, AWS, Ansible, Python, Golang

Email: nick at mnxsolutions com

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - I manage a team of US based SRE's. We are experienced, and available for hire as a dedicated member of your team. We perform 24x7 monitoring, and ongoing server management while helping you architect for availability.

Some details at https://www.mnxsolutions.com/services/linux-server-managemen...

iOS/Android/Mobile development

Portfolio & Information: http://quarkworks.co

Contact: contact@quarkworks.co

Are you the owner of a software system that has a single developer working on it? Are you worried about what would happen if they left?

With a single developer on your team, your Bus Factor is one - one person has all of the knowledge about your project in their head.

Finding, vetting, hiring, and onboarding a new developer is time consuming, and if your developer is suddenly unavailable and there's a bug on prod, you are dead in the water.

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Hi I'm David Colgan. I offer bus factor increase as a service. I'll increase your team's size from one to two without the burden of a second full time developer.

For $1000 a month, I'll provide on-call emergency support if your lone developer leaves.

I'll sit in on any communication between yourself and your developer and look over all code committed to your Git repository to stay up to date on the project, and over time build up externally hosted documentation of how your system works and maintain that documentation.

In the event that your developer suddenly leaves and there is a bug on prod, I'll be on-call to fix it. I'll also help you find, vet, hire, and using the documentation I've built up onboard a new developer. I'm in a number of freelancer communities and have a growing mailing list targeting freelance developers I'll share your opening with.

If interested, email me at david@lessboring.com. To see more of my stuff, www.lessboring.com. Cheers!

Location: Germany

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: FullStack (From Web/Cloud stuff, all the way down to Embedded), but personal preference for Software Architecture and C++/C#/Rust in Linux Environments

Résumé/CV: ask me directly

Email: stefan.schick@stecug.de