SEEKING WORK | SF Bay Area | Remote OK
I'm good at working with solo founders and early stage teams. I'm "reliable and easy to work with" according to my manager at the (manual labor) temp agency I work with presently. I learn new workplaces very quickly and that applies backwards in time to when I was a professional software developer. I love development and got my piece of paper, proving I can also do stuff I don't want to and stick with it for years--B.S. Comp Sci from a Midwestern state school. I know the 'passion' angle is overplayed, but growing up on IRC and hacking for fun with my buddies never left me. 'The Way Things Work' was my favorite book, same thought process as I explore tech. The web of knowledge is dense, so it's easy to grok new stuff.
I'm looking for basically any opportunity with good people, I don't have a big ego about the kinds of work I'm capable of or how much money I used to make. Today I make $15-20/hr doing labor depending on the job, just need to match that and it'd be a good deal. I understand the risks of taking someone in who's not worked in the industry in awhile, maybe you need someone to figuratively start off as a dish washer. But I can show my own infra and relevant past work (links in bio). I'm good at automating manual tasks, documenting, training team members with little/no experience.
Why am I off the market and looking for work inside? I went from web agency to university to startups to big corporate and never really found my tribe and my network eroded after a couple relocations. Went into temp labor gigs and I really like the model of showing up when I want to work and taking as much time off as I need to recover, working on my own projects between; but I'd be happy to add a 15-30 hour/wk gig to my plate doing some kind of tech work and make a big impact for a team that might otherwise have a hard time getting high value talent. I can also do a few weeks of 40-60+ hour weeks, I'm no stranger to sprints of grueling work either. Time to market is king, I understand. It could be a quarter or a few that we work together. I'm not super enthusiastic about any kind of 'X-to-hire' but I do want to apply my skills and leave a good mark on whatever companies I work with.
Some tech I am good with: Python, Clojure, Docker, NodeJS, Nginx, BASH, PostgreSQL, SQLite3, Java, XMPP. I'm bullish on self-hosting things and have stood up and maintained so many systems, my experience and knowledge is pretty vast.
Thanks for reading. viahn@harlanji.com or Calendly link in bio to get in touch.