Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2022)

I design & build anti-fragile, reliable application platforms.

I typically work in short-term (1-4 weeks), high-end cloud-based infrastructure & DevOps consulting engagements focused on solving specific problems in urgent or critical situations.

My expertise is based on 30 years of hands-on technical experience in all areas of IT, but particularly in architecting, building and managing data-driven enterprise platforms.

Examples of work I've done for recent clients:

  - Deploying a global, multi-cloud, Kubernetes-based PaaS (AWS and Azure)
  - Implementing multi-level Azure cloud redundancy for data-driven applications
  - Productionalising Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch and Solr-based applications
  - Tracking down performance bottlenecks in Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, Storm and Spark
  - Stabilisation of complex Java-based containerised applications
  - Validation of greenfield project design
  - Single-pane-of-glass dashboard design in Datadog, Splunk and Azure
  - Azure cloud architecture for HA production workloads
  - Data architecture design for Solr, Mongo and Elasticsearch
  - DevOps implementations & best practices for Azure & AWS

You can find out more or get in touch here: https://www.nonstopops.io/?sid=hnf2206

Freelance UX/UI & Product Designer for hire, remotely!

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• Portfolio: https://brendanho.com

• Location: Canada, but open to remote work anywhere in the world!

Hey, I'm Brendan - a product & UX designer working remotely.

Graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Interaction Design. Over 7+ years of experience designing and developing sites and UI/UX for startups and entrepreneurs.

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I'm available for:

• Startup Idea to Startup Design - I can help turn that idea in your head into a fully-designed (MVP) product using my blazing fast design process.

• UX/UI Redesign & Modern Refresh - Your current UX design (or UI design) is poor and needs a complete or partial revamp. I can pinpoint issues and give it a modern design facelift.

• Unlimited UX & UI Designer Requests - I can provide ongoing and weekly design support, paid on a fixed monthly basis. Need user flows or journeys conceptualized? Personas made? Pitch deck slides? Wireframes and interactive, clickable prototypes? I can handle all that and more. You'll receive high-fidelity design deliverables and mockups based on the requests you submit. All based on growth and conversion-based design principles for startups.

Email: hi@brendanho.com

If there are any technical PMs and general data experts looking for consulting gigs in the ML/AI space, take a look at tribe.ai/join (takes ~5 mins to apply). I've been in the community for more than a year; it's a great experience with interesting projects, internal events (fully remote but they do have a space in NYC you can hang out at). I know there's a huge need for product oriented folks right now.

We're a team of (currently five) backend engineers having built and maintained highly available systems for several companies over the last five years, in addition to over 70 combined years of software development experience. Further scale is easily obtainable if your project is larger.

From infrastructure-as-code to site reliability to greenfield to renovation, we span the entire space of backend problem solving. We will take on your difficult, grungy problem and crush it. Your goals are our priorities.

Concrete examples:

* Realtime stats processing in a redpanda+golang stream architecture for one of the top 3 major US sports leagues - raw data through ML models to the screen!

* AWS Lambda architecture replatforming core portfolio management for a startup (>$1BN AUM) hedge fund

* Realtime stream processing of crypto exchange trade data through Kafka/data lake for an analytics platform. Met 5000ms SLA, blue/green deployment, arbitrarily many symbols/exchanges. Proof of SLA in extensive Cloudwatch metrics.

* built a framework to collapse dozens of singleton ETL programs into one config-driven, simple C# application performing the same functionality at ~80% reduction in maintenance cost year over year.

* built and managed a team of 8 engineers operating against multiple streams of work to meet business needs, with ~12 active projects at a time.

Contact: jon.north@adiuvat-consulting.com More: www.adiuvat-consulting.com

Keywords: Python, C++, SQL, NoSQL, Go, Golang, Docker, Git, SVN, Subversion, Linux, Bash, Windows, Kafka, Redpanda, Terraform, AWS, Azure, Redis, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, LDAP, Active Directory, OAuth2