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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)

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Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)

#91
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | Dublin, Ireland, EU

Hi, I’m Rodhán. An experienced CTO and mobile app developer, ready to help you solve your business, product or engineering problems!

Services: Fractional CTO, Startup CTO Coaching, Mobile Software Development

Technologies: Swift, iOS, SwiftUI, Objective-C, Kotlin, Firebase, Node.js, Vue.js.

Website: https://swiftcto.com LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rodhan Email: rodhan [at] swiftcto.com

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)

#92
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | Ruby on Rails Specialist

Location: Southern California, USA LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jcraigk GitHub: https://github.com/jcraigk Email: jcraigk at gmail

Senior software engineer with 20+ years of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails and full-stack development. I’ve designed scalable backend services, built REST APIs, optimized databases, and delivered clean frontends. Experienced leader in mentoring teams and driving complex projects to completion.

As the sole developer of https://phish.in (https://github.com/phishin), I designed, built, and maintain an open source project that has grown over 12 years to serve more than 120,000 monthly active users with 99.99% uptime.

Expertise: Ruby on Rails, PHP, JavaScript, React, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS, CI/CD.

Previously at Weedmaps (7 years), where I designed and maintained backend services, led cross-functional teams, and mentored engineers. Other experience includes Red 5 Studios (AAA gaming company where I built backend microservices, payment integrations, and in-game UX) and Dawnbreaker (US federal contractor where I built web apps for state and federal agencies).

Looking for remote-only Ruby on Rails work. Open to full-time, contract, or consulting roles.

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)

#93
SEEKING WORK | Remote; able to travel as required

I am an independent consultant specializing in computer security, compliance and governance with senior leadership experience. I have a background in standardization (ISO & W3C) as well as extensive expertise in free and open source software. My technical competencies range from embedded and systems engineering to high-level software architecture and data management.

If you have a project that could benefit from that expertise, I'm available for both fixed-rate and rolling contracts. Feel free to email me at: consulting@seabass.systems

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)

#94
SEEKING WORK | Canada | Remote | Applied Research Scientist

I have a PhD in computer engineering, specializing in operations research, optimization, constraint programming, and integer programming. As an applied research scientist, I implement custom, production-ready solutions for a variety of optimization problems (scheduling, routing, rostering, etc). Recent work includes a sophisticated optimization model for the selection of indexes in Postgres, and a scheduling tool for workshops, used in hundreds of locations.

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/PhilippeOlivier/curriculum-vitae/blob/mai...

Website: https://www.pedtsr.ca

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)

#96

  SEEKING WORK | Montreal, Canada | Remote/Freelance
  Technologies: iOS/macOS, UIKit/AppKit, Objective-C/Swift
  Web: http://chriscomeau.com
  Resume/CV: http://chriscomeau.com/resume
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiancomeau
  GitHub: https://github.com/chriscomeau
  Email: chris.comeau@skyriser.com

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)

#97
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | WORLDWIDE

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Security, Reverse Engineering & High-Traffic Systems

I'm Peter - an offensive security specialist and backend engineer with 8+ years experience building critical systems for Fortune 100 companies and defense sector.

Currently accepting:

• Security Audits & Penetration Testing - Deep expertise in Android internals and system exploitation

• High-Performance Backend Systems - Scaled services to 110k+ concurrent users (solo)

• Data Processing Pipelines - Built ETL systems for fintech giants using Python/Go

• ML Infrastructure - Experience with large-scale data processing for ML/AI applications

Tech Stack:

• Languages: Go, Python, C, Java/Kotlin, x86 assembly

• Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka

• Security: Android RE, kernel exploitation, malware analysis

• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, GraphDBs

Recent Projects:

• Scaled video streaming platform to 110k concurrent users (DailyWire)

• Improved customer service response time by 70% through micro-services (ASAPP)

• Built large-scale social media scraping system processing millions of videos (Virality)

Website: https://pocok.dev

Location: Budapest, Hungary (GMT+1)

Contact: info@pocok.dev

Background checks welcome. Previous work includes defence sector and Fortune 100 clients. Bonus: Fluent in English, Hungarian, Spanish. Trail ultra0runner & skydiver when not hacking.

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)

#98
SEEKING WORK: Poland (US timezones OK) | Remote | Senior Full Stack Engineer:

  Remote: Yes, ok with in-office meetings

  Willing to relocate: Yes for epic offers

  Technologies: 
   * Python, Django, FastAPI
   * React, React Native
   * Kubernetes, AWS, GC, Azure, Terraform, CephFS, GlusterFS, Proxmox, esxi
   * PyTorch, Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Kafka

  Résumé/CV: https://michallech.info/static/Michal-Lech-Resume.pdf

  Email: michal@michallech.info
Well rounded Full Stack Engineer (and a former CEO) with 15 years of experience - who thrives in high pressure startup environments, mentor, geek and a budding ML/LLM researcher.

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)

#99
SEEKING WORK || SEEKING FREELANCER | Relocating to EU preferred

Platform Engineer (SDE 2) with a knack of low level optimisations and Systems Engineering. I am an avid self-hoster as well. Some of my recent work include implementing a K8S cluster bootstrapper and a Karpenter provider for an new cloud provider.

OSS: flowdrive.ai, Google Summer of Code 2020 Scholar at Gentoo Foundation and more at {github,gitlab}.com/wantguns

  Location: Bengaluru, India
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes, relocation to EU strongly preferred
  Technologies: Linux Kernel, Containers, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, Kubespray), IaC, GitOps, AWS, GCP
  Languages: Rust, Go, Bash, Python, C, C++
  Résumé/CV: https://bin.wantguns.dev/cv
  Email: mail+jobs [at] wantguns [dot] dev
  Debugging Blogs: wantguns.dev/blog

Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2025)

#100
SEEKING WORK | Maine | Remote

Software Engineer, Product Designer & Analyst able to help clients complete stalled projects, design & deliver user-friendly applications, and work through tough problems.

Looking for short term engagements

Résumé/CV: https://delonnewman.name/resume.pdf

Email: contact@delonnewman.name

Portfolio: https://delonnewman.name

Github: https://github.com/delonnewman

Highlights:

- Over 23 years of experience

- Over 9 years of experience in Healthcare

- Able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical personnel

- Experienced tech lead, mentor & teacher

- Polyglot developer, specializing in Ruby & JavaScript

- Enjoy working with arcane data formats (e.g. EDI)

- System integration & automation

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