Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2017)

Location: Currently in California (UTC-8), but location can vary.

Senior Designer (UI, UX, Front-End Development) and Team Lead with over a decades experience.

I’ve designed and developed for the web, mobile web, responsive web, native mobile apps, native desktop apps, games and more recently VR & AR. View my portfolio at: https://nad.is/building

I build value through design. I don’t just advocate the user, but also the team that has to build, support and scale the product. Learn more about my ethos & values at: https://nad.is/about

Outside of product design, I also do branding, creative direction and marketing.

Have an interesting mobile, web or Unity project? Let's talk.

Web: https://nad.is

Email: hello [at] nad.is

Strong software engineer who is passionate about large-scale distributed systems and cares about producing clean, elegant, maintainable, robust, well-tested Scala code.

Big Data / Core Skill: Apache Cassandra (DevOps, Data Modeling)

(I have deep knowledge of Cassandra's internals and how to use it effectively. Using the experience I have gained over several years of working with large Cassandra clusters, I can handle emergency situations and restabilize clusters that have become unresponsive. I can assist you with Cassandra cluster health reviews as well as data model reviews and performance-by-design guidance)

Big Data / Secondary Skill: Apache Flink, Spark Streaming

Big Data / Secondary Skill: Graph Modeling / Algorithms / Queries (with Spark GraphFrames and Neo4J)

Big Data / Other: Apache Kafka (incl. KafkaConnect / KafkaStreams / SchemaRegistry)

Programming Languages: Scala (highly proficient), Python (proficient)

Other Secondary Skills: Akka, Git, Docker, Apache Ignite, Scalding, Avro, Parquet, Zookeeper, HDFS, ElasticSearch, AWS (EC2/S3/RedShift).

Other Secondary Skills: Machine Learning with Spark (Linear / Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Naive Bayes, Alternating Least Squares / Recommender Systems, K-Means Clustering, Anomaly Detection, Frequent Pattern Mining / Topic Modeling).

Professional Background (formerly): ETL Developer / Traditional DWHs / Kimball's and Data Vault Methodologies

Solid experience working remotely.

All of my recent work history (8 years) is exclusively with startups.

E-mail address in the profile.

I do custom electronics, robotics, and embedded software development - I specialize in quickly turning ideas into prototypes. I've built custom automation equipment for chemistry labs, sensors that are in use in household/utility applications, control circuitry for construction equipment, 3d printing electronics, data acquisition equipment. No project too small. Few projects too large. Deep discounts for open source hardware work.

I would also be happy to come over (anywhere in Europe) and teach any of the above skills to a small group of interested people. I've taught courses in electronic assembly (SMD), 3d printing (building/using printers, iterative 3d model design using programming) and robot design and construction. I've taught courses at several universities, hackspaces, and conferences.

Contact me on Freenode IRC (nick Kliment) or by email at kliment@0xfb.com

We are a 3-person full stack team. Our portfolio: https://stratosphere.digital. Some recent projects we've launched: https://divvydose.com, http://www.fitnessration.com.sg, http://shoptwigs.com.

Some of the technologies we're most familiar with: Web and mobile design, UI, UX, iconography, illustration, design prototyping, PHP, Node.js, Meteor, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Sass, LESS, Stylus, CoffeeScript, WebSockets, AJAX, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, Cordova, PhoneGap, React Native, iOS, Android, Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Safari), AWS, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, C, C++, C#, Java, Objective-C, Swift, QS/1, HL7, HIPAA.

We generally prefer to do fixed bid projects based on scope, but we also offer hourly rates and monthly retainer options. Contact: via our website or you can contact me directly at eliyah@stratosphere.digital.