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

I am a full-stack Python and Java developer with expertise in statistical natural language processing and augmented reality.

http://gavinmh.github.io/HelloTablet/ is an example of a project I designed and built from end-to-end.

You can find some of my other projects at gavinmh.github.io

Technical Skills ● Languages, Expert: Java, Python. Prior Experience: C++, JavaScript, Prolog ● Markup languages: HTML, CSS, XML, JSON ● Databases: MySQL, MongoDB. Web technologies and frameworks: Django, Tornado, Flask, Node.js ● Operating systems: Linux (preferred), Windows XP/7 ● Machine learning and NLP libraries: Scikit Learn, NLTK, OpenNLP, Lucene, CoreNLP

Contact me at gavinhackeling at Google's popular email service dot com.

LxiDD is a network of curated quality Indie Professionals (designers and developers) - a platform where you can get managed freelancers and consultants at a price way economical than a dev-shop.

We're currently accepting limited clients and projects at http://lxidd.com/

I am running a two man web, print and iOS agency (me coding, my partner moving pixels). We are located in Heidelberg and Leipzig / Germany.

I have been a freelancer for 10 years. I prefer Django and Python but I also have shipped projects with Ruby (Sinatra, RoR), C++ and PHP (Wordpress). Server administration was and still is part of my daily life as writing solid, test covered code and doing the usual frontend work.

My partner studies printing technologies and joined me after finishing her apprenticeship as digital media designer, as one of the three best graduates in her year. Her daily work includes designing logos and brands (business cards, catalogs,...) and making the things I build pretty.

We typically work with freelancers and small businesses but also realized big projects for international clients.

If you are interested in working with us - or one of us - you can send us an email info@blazeit.de

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript

1. Illustrator does this weird thing with curved paths where the the auto-artboard-shrinker thing crops the curves at the borders, so the curved letters in your logotype are getting cut off. You have to go in and manually resize the crop area to account for that.

2. Your actual work is fantastic, but your presentation is really, really bad. I'm not sure if it's a default PowerPoint template, but it sure looks like one. Make every part of your portfolio speak to your strengths!

3. Using Scribd to serve your portfolio isn't a good idea. It pixellates your presentation and frames it in its awful UI. You're a UX director, remember? Take me on a guided tour of your previous work and make me believe that you're really able to add some magic to my crappy UX. Alternatively, just use large static images that are nicely arranged so that I can easily see what I need to see to make an assessment of your work.

When I'm hiring and I see sites like yours (where the work is fantastic but the site is mediocre) I start to ask questions. Were you really the one leading the UX vision, or were your underlings just able to fill in the gaps? If you were working as a group, were you actually contributing that much?

Just some food for thought.