Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)

Thanks for the kind words.

Posterous went down and now I just have to transition to Octopress successfully!

Seeking freelance work (Full Stack Dev / DevOps). Remote Based in Europe, I speak English fluently and French natively

Fully designed http://jib.li from backend to frontend, managing a team of developers as CTO and still working on it.

Most used stack: Python/Django/Flask Frontend: ngularJS/Ember - HTML5 - Coffeescript.

I am however always open to learn new stacks and technologies.

DevOps: EC2 deployment,uWSGI, git, fabric, 10 years linux experience.

I am a true believer in the Information Graphic Design theory by Bret Victor and always try to apply it to my work.

contact: http://sp4ke.com/#/contact github: http://github.com/sp4ke

Interested in opportunities and connections. Currently employed by a structural engineering firm as a Revit modeler/drafter, Revit parametric programmer, pseudo-project-manager, Windows Server administrator, network administrator, and backup administrator. In my spare time I have been working through a couple of personal Django projects, which were designed using Inkscape and are being implemented on Debian/Xfce, using Geany, and VirtualEnv, Pip, git, etc. for development. I previously worked for a local web development shop as a designer/developer/pseudo-web-service-provider-admin using PHP, MySQL, Adobe Creative Suite, and such to design sites on top of Drupal for localish small to medium sized businesses. Quit because Drupal & sales guy making promises without consulting programmers.

Current job has no prospect for advancement. There is, ironically, no structure. Pay is not adequate for responsibilities and contributions. I work there because I like the people I work with, I learn a lot from my boss, and I enjoy a good amount of the work. I want to work somewhere else because a lack of freedom drives my motivation to live into the dirt, and sitting for 8-12 hours out of the day without windows is crushing my soul and sapping what's left of this short life.

I would likely have to work remotely, but I'm dedicated and loyal and have a conscience. The guy I work for now has admitted that he takes advantage of my desire to work well.

So, if anybody is interested in talking about prospects for a guy with the sort of experience I've indicated, feel free to contact me. The last (strictly design) job I did for University of Oklahoma was based on the premise that I would provide a design without any expectation for compensation unless they used the design. I was compensated, and the entire process was enjoyable and rewarding.

SEEKING WORK:

I've got past full-stack experience in Django. My most recent experience was being cofounder in a bootstrapped startup where I put together the entire platform (including frontend, consumable API backend, and browser extension) from scratch. I'm strongest doing backend work in Python (especially for Django) -- anything from message passing middleware to RESTful API services to test suites to data modeling to data ingestion and sanitization. However, I can handle frontend if needed as well, and can design a page that looks pretty (though I would not consider myself a full designer or information architect).

SKILLS:

Backend: Python, Django, South, PostgreSQL, Couchbase, Celery, TastyPie, django-unittest

Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript/CoffeeScript using jQuery, bootstrap, underscore.js

Deployment: Fabric, Boto, nginx, AWS, EC2, ELB, EBS

Design: Illustrator, Bootstrap, CSS, HTML

Email: statokinetics at gmail dot com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rabialam

Update: Portfolio here http://chrisloftus.dunked.com