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

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Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.

Please only post if you are personally looking to hire a freelancer or work as one. Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here.

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

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SEEKING WORK | Remote

Full-stack software engineer with machine learning skills. I have a decade of experience building successful products for early stage startups and larger organisations.

Most of my experience has been developing new greenfield projects in contexts with significant uncertainty. I navigate this through careful consideration of stakeholder needs, business requirements, and an iterative approach. Beyond new projects, I have also worked extensively with a wide range of existing front-end and back-end systems. I get up to speed and can be effective quickly.

I am familiar with cross-functional teams of 5-10 people in design, product, and engineering roles. Alongside this, I have experience working with smaller select teams tasked with building the technical foundation of a startup.

I consider myself a “product engineer” in the sense that I focus on the product as a solution to end users’ problems, not a technical challenge. Over the years I have worked with many designers, user researchers, and user experience professionals who have shaped my attitude towards software. User experience is paramount to me and I can create effective user interfaces without aid of an existing design. My overall outlook is entrepreneurial and product-focused.

I have a GitHub with open source projects that have thousands of active users, and the bulk of an MSc in artificial intelligence.

Available for remote opportunities. I can accommodate flexible working patterns to suit different needs. I am also open to project-based work at a fixed price dependant on scope and complexity.

What I do:

- Lead greenfield projects, navigate ambiguity, and translate non-technical ideas into a technical product

- Innovate solutions to hard problems with high complexity that touch on areas such as algorithms or system design

- Design robust front-end and back-end systems, such as web apps with complex interfaces, or Serverless architectures

- Implement supervised, unsupervised, or semi-supervised machine learning techniques. Including use of LLMs and associated tooling

- Debug and fix bugs in existing software, including both front-end and back-end systems

- Collaborate and work with teams on existing projects

GitHub:

https://github.com/andrewwalsh

Portfolio, projects, and contact details:

https://www.awalsh.io/projects

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

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SEEKING WORK | Mumbai | Remote OK for India/Some of EU timezones

  Location: Mumbai, India
  Remote: OK
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies:
  - Python/Pandas
  - Java/Spring Boot
  - Data Engineering (ETL/ELT, data pipelines)
  - AI/LLM based development (agents, MCP, etc)
  - Product Development
  - Other (SQL, Redis, Docker, AWS, Azure, DBT)
  Résumé/CV: https://dvalia.in/blob/Darshan_Valia_Resume_Technical.pdf
  Email: On Resume
  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dvalia/
Data/Backend engineer for the past ten years (Java, Python, SQL). Experience building ELT pipelines and data platforms (from scratch!) for financial data, but happy to work at any level for any problem that needs solving. Would love to work on product management, solutions architecture, or customer engineering. Currently working on an agentic AI project. Remote is preferred for time zones spanning Europe to India; onsite/hybrid in Mumbai is also great.

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

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post #2

SEEKING WORK | Remote Full-stack software engineer with machine learning skills. I have a decade of experience building successful products for early stage startups and larger organisations. Most of my experience has been developing new greenfield projects in contexts with significant uncertainty. I navigate this through careful consideration of stakeholder needs, business requirements, and an iterative approach. Bey…

Example tech: TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, React.js, Node, Django, pandas, numpy, shell scripting and CLI use, Docker, HTML/CSS, front-end state libraries (e.g. Zustand, some flavour of Redux, Context API, etc), Next.js, Vue.js, REST APIs, GraphQL, Jest, Vite, Cypress, SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB), Tailwind, Go, Electron/Tauri/Wails

Example project tooling: Scrum and Kanban, typically using Jira

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

#5
SEEKING WORK - Senior Technologist, CTO | Onsite EU / UK | REMOTE WORLDWIDE

Fractional CTO for Startups – MVP to Maturity

I help early-stage teams avoid costly tech mistakes and scale confidently. I provide a range of services for teams at different growth stages.

  * CTO LaunchPad: Build MVPs that don’t collapse later
    - MVP planning and build oversight
    - Hiring your first devs (not too early, not too late)
    - Tech due diligence for early investors
    - Set up strong but lightweight processes

  * CTO ScaleUp: Grow your team and architecture without chaos
    - Re-architect before it's too late
    - Hire and structure your engineering org
    - Scale delivery and CI/CD
    - Build a product / tech culture that lasts

  * CTO Stabilize: Tech debt, infra, and compliance before Series B panic
    - Clean up tech debt and prepare for audits
    - Level up infra and observability
    - Guide the engineering org through rapid change
    - Align tech with exec goals (finance, ops, product)
I have 35 years of deep technical experience:

  * 25 years management experience, from team leader to CTO/CIO to CEO/MD
  * 15+ years AWS and Azure cloud experience - architecture, development, delivery, operations
  * 35 years systems engineering and DevOps experience, from bare-metal to Kubernetes, from IaaS to PaaS
  * 23+ years Java enterprise development and architecture experience; 20+ years Python development; 10 years C/C+
  * 25 years experience in numerous data technologies, from RDBMes to data warehouses to NoSQL databases
For more information please contact me directly via https://www.theconsultantcto.com/?sid=hnf2507 or on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lajosm/.

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

#7
SEEKING WORK

Location: Portugal

Remote: Yes, remote only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, RxJS, Angular, Ionic, Cordova, Capacitor

Résumé/CV: https://nunoarruda.com/resume.pdf

Email: nuno@nunoarruda.com

Frontend Angular Developer and Ionic Developer Expert

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

#8
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE ~~

20+ yoe as dev/IC. 10+ yoe in managerial and executive roles. Multiple great exits and acquisitions. I have recently built a software NGO with over half a million supporters and over a thousand active volunteers and major political and media networking. I have built tech for Tezos, Oracle, Shell, Digitas, Saatchi & Saatchi, Time Warner, Sparkasse, Bank of America.

If there's a problem related to tech, I can solve it, and build a team or company around it. Available for work as dev/IC, EM, Director, or CTO, with experience in each. Full-solution MVP development from scratch. Performance optimization and modernization of older systems. DSL and programming language design, compilers. Let me know if you're looking for experience that isn't below! HN posts are short. CV upon request.

If you think I might be able to help you, shoot me an email: damian.jobsites+hn@gmail.com

~~

Example engagement types:

- Long term dev / IC or managerial roles

- Security audits for cryptography and secure code

- Review your code and dev processes, 10-page report

- Short-term dev and research work

- One-shot meetings

(see reply for skill list)

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

#9

SEEKING WORK | REMOTE ~~ 20+ yoe as dev/IC. 10+ yoe in managerial and executive roles. Multiple great exits and acquisitions. I have recently built a software NGO with over half a million supporters and over a thousand active volunteers and major political and media networking. I have built tech for Tezos, Oracle, Shell, Digitas, Saatchi & Saatchi, Time Warner, Sparkasse, Bank of America. If there's a problem related…

Main tech skills:

- Backend Programming: Zig, Rust, Haskell, Python, JS, TypeScript, Node, Vue, React, Elm, Scala, C, C++, SQL, Perl, PHP, Clojure, OCaml, Erlang, Elixir, Theorem provers (TLA+, Isabelle HOL, Agda), ...

- Devops & co: NixOS, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Ansible, Linux admin, Distributed Systems, ... Quote from code review: "This is the most beautiful Bash code I've ever seen written"

- Fintech: Dev experience with banks and financial institutions. Launched Tezos and other major blockchains. Dozens of smart contract audits.

- Bizdev: Gamification, consumer modelling, data-driven retention and engagement

- AI: LLMs, predictive text, machine vision (trajectory tracking), DSP, Big Data, ...

- Infosec: Cryptography, Red team testing, RE, audits, threat modeling, ...

- Other tech: Godot game engine, audio engineering (mastering), Verilog, VHDL

Management and business: Minor in Psychology, led and managed teams between 2 and 30 people, product design and gamification, hiring, executive and political outreach, media appearances, and a lot of other experience that won't fit in this post.

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

#10
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Principal Engineer | React / Next.js Specialist

Location: Seattle, WA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Email: josh@standardlabs.dev

Website: https://standardlabs.dev

Resume: https://standardlabs.dev/resume

I’m a U.S.-based principal engineer with 10+ years of experience, specializing in JavaScript, React, and Next.js. I help product teams ship fast, modernize legacy frontends, and solve tough architectural problems without adding tech debt. I’m a strong written communicator — ideal for async, remote-first teams.

Highlights

- Refactored complex React apps for performance and maintainability

- Migrated production apps to Next.js for improved SSR and data handling

- Boosted Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores

I’m currently available for remote, part-time or short-term contract work. If your team could use a senior partner to move faster and cleaner, let’s talk.

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