Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2026)

CV: Full CV and details on request

Email: hackernews (at) eugengeist.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugen-geist/

Technologies & Skills: Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Data Modelling & Pipeline Design, Python, Golang, SQL, AWS, Azure, Kafka, DuckDB, Postgres, Airflow, Databricks, PySpark, Clickhouse, API design (full list on request) Experienced Engineer looking for Software / Data Engineering contracts.

I support you through all phases of the software development lifecycle - from planning and requirements engineering through development and testing until go live and maintenance.

8+ years experience in different industries (HFT, automotive, logistics, internet telecommunication technology, energy) helping customers to solve their problems.

As a seasoned software and data engineering expert, my extensive experience lies in developing and connecting software to various trading exchanges worldwide in different domains (inter alia XETRA, LSE, TSX, ASX, Binance, EPEX, Reuters,..).

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person.

Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust.

We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance.

We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find.

We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour.

Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care.

Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours.

Realistically, you can think of him as a fractional CTO. He has survived, thrived, and delivered in profoundly dysfunctional environments.