Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (May 2019)
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Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (May 2019)
#2Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (May 2019)
#3Portfolio: https://www.seanw.org/
Email: sw@seanw.org
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Summary: I'm a software consultant with 10+ years of experience who can take your web or mobile project from concept to delivery. I've assisted well known global companies like Just Eat and Triumph Motorcycles, created my own commercially successful apps and have a PhD from Edinburgh University so you can rely on me to deliver high-quality solutions on schedule. I can take charge of requirements gathering, design and development of apps, web services and MVPs as well as giving recommendations on solution design, software architecture and team workflow improvements.
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Previous work experience: 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 system for subscription based payments and authoring a modern web best practices guide (https://www.checkbot.io/guide/). Technologies: TypeScript, Vue, Node, Express, Firebase, Netlify, Paddle.
[ Rated 4.9/5, 20K+ active users, 100s of paying subscribers ]
- Fresco for Android (see https://www.seanw.org), a digital painting app which was one of the first on the platform to support layers. Features customisable brushes, image filters and robust undo/redo/autosave while being highly optimised for devices with low resources. Technologies: Java, C, JNI.
[ Rated 4/5, 500K+ free downloads, 10K+ copies sold ]
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See https://www.seanw.org for my 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.
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (May 2019)
#4DevOps / Python consultant with over ten years 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, training, security audits - you name it I've done it.
Recent projects include:
+ Migrating a sizeable websockets application based on django-channels to AWS Fargate. This took numerous modifications to a venerable codebase and shifting the 300+GB Postgres DB was far from trivial. The resulting setup has halved the stack's operating cost and greatly improved its uptime.
+ 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. Prometheus & Grafana for monitoring. 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. The 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.
+ Large multithreaded Python 3 application for automated crypto trading. Didn't get rich, still posting on the HN freelancing thread.
hn-2019-05@mbird.biz / https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/alex-hewson/b6/50a/8b4
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (May 2019)
#5Do you feel like you should be growing faster?
Are you mostly winging it when it comes to marketing your product?
Lack focus for your marketing initiatives?
I can help your B2B SaaS business sell your product to more software engineering teams. I'm uniquely able to help you because I'm both a software engineer and marketer. That allows me to understand your product, speak your language, and write code to scale your marketing.
I'm available part-time for one project immediately and more in the coming months.
If any of this sounds interesting to you, I can be reached via the email in my profile.
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (May 2019)
#6I'm a full stack developer and designer.
I'll build you a minimal lovable product for a fixed $9K and in 4 weeks.
For iOS apps, I use Swift. For web apps, I use Ruby/Rails, JavaScript.
To see some of my recent work:
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (May 2019)
#7Technical Writer && Content Editor
Do you need engaging, original content for your blog or publication? Documentation for your favorite new internal API? A serious revision of your website's copy?
I am a programmer and writer looking for projects writing and editing technical and business content. I also do audio and video.
Most recent work: https://mkdev.me/en/posts/how-to-create-an-api-with-django
Contact: philip@kiely.xyz
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (May 2019)
#8I have over a decade of software development experience.
Some of my software is currently running on millions of consumer electronic devices.
I specialize in architecture that is simple today and flexible for the future.
Having built a team from the ground up, I know that treating people well is far more important than any software I could write.
Recent Project: https://www.kcdc.info
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (May 2019)
#9We are starting to offer iOS App development services in the Bay Area at an introductory price of $30/hour for project commitments of 1 month or more, $45/hour for 1 week commitments, and $60/hour for 1 day or less.
We have worked for well known Bay Area companies, including Apple, Google, and Amazon, and we are now launching our own venture.
What we charge includes iOS App development and design work.
We are open to meet face to face for project bootstrapping and progress updates.
Visit our preliminary website to get in touch: https://drvapps.wixsite.com/index
Re: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (May 2019)
#10My name is Emad and I'm a Full-stack web developer and designer with years of experience in the field. I've worked with businesses ranging from startups to hugely popular websites (Such as xda-developers and Harvard CNS).
Technologies: Node.JS, Express, MongoDB, Socket.io, GraphQL (Apollo), Meteor, HTML/CSS, WordPress, JavaScript/ES8, jQuery, React (Redux/MobX), React Native, ES8, TypeScript, AngularJS,
Portfolio: http://www.sx-portfolio.com
Résumé/CV: http://sx-portfolio.com/website-resources/My%20resume.pdf
Email: emads14@gmail.com
Thanks, Emad