Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (March 2019)

SEEKING WORK | Edinburgh, UK or remote | Full stack web & mobile software engineer

Portfolio: https://www.seanw.org/

Email: sw@seanw.org

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Summary: I'm a software engineer with 10+ years of experience who can take your web or mobile project from concept to completion. I can work with you to achieve your business goals by creating minimal viable products, extending existing apps, giving software architecture recommendations and by reducing defects in your team workflows.

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Experience: I've delivered solutions for well known names like Just Eat and Triumph Motorcycles, created my own successful paid apps, managed teams as lead developer and earned a PhD from Edinburgh University. My past professional work has involved expertise in full stack development (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, PHP, Java, OCaml), modern web frameworks (Express, Vue, React, WordPress, Django), mobile app development (Android, iOS, PhoneGap/Cordova), cloud hosting (AWS, Google, Heroku, Firebase) and website optimisation (performance, security & SEO).

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Portfolio: I've independently created two commercially successful apps where I was responsible for the concept, design, development, graphic design, UX and marketing.

- Checkbot for Chrome (https://www.checkbot.io/), a website auditor browser extension that checks 100s of pages at time against 50+ SEO, speed and security web best practices. This included developing a custom subscription based payment system as well as researching and authoring a guide on modern web best practices (https://www.checkbot.io/guide/). Implemented with TypeScript, Vue, Node, Express, Firebase, Netlify, Paddle.

[ Rated 4.9/5, 20K+ active users, 100s of paying subscribers ]

- Fresco for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.seanw.fres...), a digital painting app which was one of the first on the platform to support layers. It features customisable brushes, image filters and robust undo/redo/autosave while being highly optimised for devices with low resources. Implemented with Java, C, JNI.

[ Rated 4/5, 500K+ free downloads, 10K+ copies sold ]

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See https://www.seanw.org for my project portfolio, client endorsements and more on my background.

Email sw@seanw.org with details about your project so we can arrange a call and work towards a quote. I'll get back to you within one working day.

SEEKING FREELANCERS - remote - ongoing or one-off

  * ClojureScript frontend developer
  * UI/UX designer  
  * Quill.js expert

arcstudiopro.com is a collaborative screenwriting app written in ClojureScript (runs in the browser and Electron). There are lots of interesting problems to work on, from designing or building no-frills but user-friendly signup forms, to experimental onboarding UIs, or writing generative tests for our operational transforms offline support. The backend is written in Clojure, too.

Please also get in touch if you're familiar with quill.js internals.

work -at- arcstudiopro.com

SEEKING WORK - San Francisco / New York City / Remote

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hello@bitmatica.com

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Hi! I'm the co-founder of Bitmatica. We build cutting-edge web and mobile products for enterprise and fast-growing startups.

Need an award-winning app built but can't because of resources, expertise, politics, etc? We're like a secret management consultancy hidden inside a dev shop.

We help you decide what to build, remove all obstacles out of the way, and then get it done faster and more effectively than you ever thought possible.

Bitmatica doesn't just build products, we build entirely new businesses. Don't believe me? Talk to me about a complimentary design & discovery engagement.

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Our clients:

- Maersk, Capital One, Stanford, AVG, BART, and many more I can mention privately

Our skills:

- Product, UI / UX Design, Full-stack Engineering

- React, Redux / MobX, Node.js, Rails, Scala, TypeScript, iOS (Swift / Obj-C), Android (Kotlin / Java)

Our prices:

That's right, we put them right here.

- Design and Discovery: Turn concepts into a fully-executable roadmap and rollout strategy, managing risk and exceeding expectations. Starting at $23,000

- Prototyping: Fully-functioning versions of new concepts within weeks to demonstrate value, validate with customers, and gather stakeholder support. Staring at $138,000

- Engineering and Launch: Production-ready, user-validated, scalable product. Starting at $184,000

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hello@bitmatica.com

SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote within US (NOT negotiable)

* C# .NET full stack developers

* AWS devops generalists

Ongoing staff-augmentation placement, usually with larger companies.

For details on currently available opportunities and questions, please email me@jeremyphelps.com and include resume, LinkedIn, etc.

SEEKING WORK - London, UK - Remote preferred, happy to visit you anywhere in the UK.

DevOps / Python consultant with a decade's experience building, hosting and fixing applications.

I work with engineering teams to make their products as scalable and robust as possible. AWS, Kubernetes, load testing, lambdas, CI, deploy systems, monitoring, config management, security audits, dev projects of my own - you name it I've done it.

Recent projects include:

+ Re-hosting a large microservice node.js + RethinkDB web application on Google Cloud. The resulting stack (serving a busy news site) is deployed to GKE with a set of Helm charts and a minimal amount of custom tooling for CDN & image serving. GKE has turned out to be low-maintenance and rock solid; I'll be glad to work with it again.

+ Rewriting a Python big data stack for a bioscience client. Result was a robust, scalable system deployed with Terraform/Docker to spot instances managed by AWS Batch. Benefits included better resilience, higher resource utilisation and vastly reduced cost/processing time.

+ AWS/Kubernetes/Docker deployment to support a large distributed (15 microservices + persistence layer) application. Updated a sprawling Django/Postgres app to fit modern containerised hosting, resulting in a stack that makes great use of k8s' scaling & resiliency features. Templating via Helm for multiple, namespaced stack instances & continuous integration.

+ Another AWS/k8s/Docker stack, this time with a persistence layer comprising Cassandra & Kafka with service discovery through Zookeeper. Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring.

+ Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated crypto trading. Didn't get rich, still posting on here.

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