Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2016)

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

SEEKING WORK - REMOTE ONLY

Keywords: Spark Streaming, Cassandra data modeling.

Well-versed in digging through data to find key insights and curating a compelling story from complex analyses, passionate about delving into data from different systems, at different timescales, and in complex formats to uncover hidden relationships.

Machine Learning with Spark: Linear / Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, NaiveBayes, Alternating Least Squares (Recommender Systems), TF-IDF, Frequent Pattern Mining

Professional Background (formerly): ETL Developer / Traditional DWHs / Kimball's Methodology

Computer Science Skills / Core: Data Structures, Algorithms, Functional Programming Paradigm, Relational Databases

Big Data Framework / Core: Spark

Big Data / Other: Apache Kafka => Spark Streaming from Kafka topics

Big Data / Other: Apache Cassandra => Data Modeling

Source Control: GitHub

Source Control / Other: BitBucket

DevOps / Other: Docker / DockerHub

Programming Languages / Core: Scala, Python

Programming Language / Other: Haskell

Keen interest in experimenting with open-source Big Data technologies.

E-mail address in the profile.

SEEKING FREELANCER: Austin, Texas or remote (US based)

Looking for a freelancer for occasional load leveling of development resources (short term too many deadlines not enough developers types of situations). We are willing to work around your availability, but if you commit we expect follow through.

.NET (C# and/or VB.NET), Javascript, MS SQL Server, git, ORMs (EF and OrmLite), both WebForms and MVC preferable

Please mail: jmaddox at intesolv dot com, share the rate you are seeking if you are willing

No third parties

SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK. London, UK. Remote.

Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London). I am flexible, resourceful and reliable and I can help you turn your ideas into reality.

I work a lot with Python and Javascript to build rich client browser based and mobile apps. I also do hardware based projects, I have experience with coding in Assembly and C on various micro controllers and Arduino development.

I build interactive web-based data visualisations (usually with D3.JS), there are some examples at tomparslow.co.uk and I can supply a few more by email on request. I have also been working React Native quite a lot since its release last year and have an email client app built with it in the App Store.

Please get in touch!

Portfolio Website: http://tomparslow.co.uk

Geeky and More Technical Website: http://almostobsolete.net

Github: https://github.com/almost

Email: tom@tomparslow.co.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 7951261227

SEEKING WORK - Washington, DC + Remote - Full-stack distributed team

Vitamin Software is the vitamin shot for your startup. We accelerate your iterations in the right direction and help your team gain focus.

We're a team of 6 full-time consultants, including 2 previous CTOs, 2 PhDs, a team leader and an art director.

Relevant experience:

* web development (Javascript, Python, Ruby, Java). Latest sample in React.js + Redux + Node.js: http://www.directimo.ro

* design/UI/UX: check http://www.directimo.ro

* databases (MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Oracle DB)

* distributed systems (worked on fleets of 150+ servers, glued together with RabbitMQ, Kestrel and REST APIs)

* backend (latest sample of work: custom HTTP proxy in C++/boost supporting 1500 transactions per second, with persistent connections)

* provisioning (we like AWS, but we can easily adapt to anything - experience with Ansible and Puppet)

Oh, and we have plenty of startup experience:

* one of the partners has been an Engineering Manager at uberVU (acquired by Hootsuite), leading big enterprise releases

* we have clients from YCombinator and TechStars

e-mail: hello@vitaminsoftware.com

website: http://www.vitaminsoftware.com

Thank you!