Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2024)

Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel

Technologies: Javascript/Typescript, Rust, Go, Node.js, React/Redux, Vue, PostgreSQL, SQLite, GPT APIs (OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock), etc

Résumé/CV: https://dwayne.xyz/resume

Email: contact@dwayne.xyz

I’m a web and app developer with over 15 years of professional experience. I’ve worked at startups, mid-sized companies, and large corporations including Apple, eBay, and the Comcast Silicon Valley Innovation Center. Since starting my freelance business in 2020, I’ve done a lot of work with Rust, Stripe payment APIs, and multiple GPT/LLM APIs. I specialize in full-stack web development, but I’m also experienced in iOS development, server administration, database design, API integrations and more. I'm happy with both short-term jobs (alone or on a team) or medium-term contracts in an agile environment.

Fractional CTO & Staff Level Engineer for Rapid Product Delivery. Ex-Zapier

I'm a deeply technical, hands-on engineer who has founded small companies and led multiple teams. My particular expertise is working with the business to identify high-ROI opportunities and bringing focus to engineering teams to accelerate product delivery. Specialties include:

- Rapid Prototyping: I can quickly prototype ideas leveraging LLMs, DevOps infrastructure, and other cutting-edge technologies. - Fractional CTO: If you need a technical approach or hands-on help for your team, I can do both. I have been a CTO and Director of Engineering previously and have moved to an IC role as a Staff Developer currently. - Accelerating Product Development: I take chaotic engineering teams and bring much-needed alignment and focus, ensuring they're working towards a unified goal and delivering products efficiently.

Some of my recent achievements include: - Took charge of an unfocused team of 13 engineers and data scientists to launch the world’s first free machine learning-based dermatologist app in four weeks. Over 500k uses in 6 months. - Built a document generation prototype using LLMs in two weeks, leading for it become a major development initiative across multiple teams. - Lead product management and business development for an AI product I co-founded: aerial.ai. I led and landed deals with Amazon, Samsung, Panasonic, iRobot and others. - Unlocking mid-market sales for a legal SaaS company by leading performance improvements that delivered 5-10x faster load times Implementing an observability platform using OpenTelemetry to give insights on how our desktop app is performing.

I'm available for part-time engagements, either as a fractional CTO or as a hands-on technical leader. If you need help bringing clarity, focus, and rapid execution to your engineering efforts, let's connect.

Email: jevin@quickjack.ca Personal site: https://www.jevy.org Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, Kafka, 20 years with Linux LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jevinmaltais/

I am a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Google Style, with experience at both large and small organizations. I can help you build a Platform Engineering practice from the very beginning. I'm looking to help small dev teams increase their velocity by implementing best-practices of Devops: CI/CD, Kubernetes Deployments, and effective Monitoring frameworks.

Check out my recent talk at SRECon: https://youtu.be/dswPHnfGwlY

My resume: https://resume.gauntletwizard.net/ThomasHahnResume.pdf

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-hahn-3344ba3/

My Github: https://github.com/GauntletWizard