Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2024)

Portfolio: https://www.seanw.org/

Live example project: https://www.checkbot.io/

Location: Edinburgh, UK and remote (I’m used to time zone differences and async work)

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I help startups with the UX/UI and web design of their products. This includes web apps, websites, landing pages, screenshots and copywriting, and I can assist with frontend development where needed. My background as a tech startup founder and full stack developer helps me create practical design solutions that balance usability, aesthetics, development effort and performance. I work to fixed price quotes when projects are self-contained.

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The best live example of my work is Checkbot (https://www.checkbot.io/), a browser extension that tests websites for SEO, speed and performance problems. The entire project is my own work including coding the extension itself, UX/UI design, website design (the homepage is optimised to load in 0.7 seconds, 0.3MB data transferred), website copy, and website articles on web best practices.

[ Rated 4.9/5, 50K+ active users, 100s of paying subscribers ]

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I have 10+ years of experience, including a PhD in software verification and 5+ years working for myself helping over 20 companies including Just Eat, Triumph Motorcycles and Fogbender (YC W22). See my website for testimonials, portfolio and more:

https://www.seanw.org

Skills: Figma, Sketch, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Hugo, Jekyll, WordPress, HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Tailwind, OCaml, Java, Python, C, analytics, website SEO/speed optimisation.

Note: For larger projects, I usually have my partner assist alongside me in the background (I’m working towards starting a design studio with her in the future).

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Email sw@seanw.org with a short description of 1) your project 2) how you think I can help 3) the business outcome you’re looking for and 4) any deadlines. I can get back to you in one working day to arrange a call to discuss a quote and how we can work together.

- Technologies: Currently my focus is: General Linux troubleshooting, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, Git/Github/Gitlab and their pipellines, Grafana, AWS, Python, Bash, documentation, Kubernetes and Openshift.

- Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eitch/

- Email: eitch at naovouler.com.br

I have 25+ years of experience using Linux and working as all these titles that are kind the same: BOFH, Support Engineer, Sysadmin, DevOps, Infrastructure specialist, SRE, Platform Engineer, etc. My main focus is configuration management and creating self-services for the company, along the default CI/CD workflows and monitoring of everyday. Check this page to see what I'm providing/working nowadays: https://www.eitch-consulting.com/services/

Also, If you want more information, you could schedule a meeting with me and I'll be glad to help you and show what I'm capable of. Satisfaction guaranteeed! :D

Location: West coast, remote only.

I'm a data scientist who has worked with the likes of Porsche and Mulesoft, I'm looking for the next thing.

An ideal fit would be a small/medium company with hair on fire green or brownfield problems that need solving. I'm currently quite interested in AI, and routing/optimization problems.

Technologies/techniques: Machine learning/AI, LLM's/RAG, Transformers, GenAI, MCMC, MCTS, Bayesnets, Neural architecture search, Python, Pytorch/Tensorflow/Keras, All the tools surrounding ML and AI, A whole host of others.

Some past work:

  - In the wild part failure prediction for Porsche, saving millions.
  - Server fleet failure prediction for Mulesoft. Give a 5 minute warning to do load shedding.
  - LLM system to output human readable flight delay information for well known airline.
  - Real-time Vehicle routing, Get a couch from where you are, to where you want it to be.
  - Goal oriented voice agent in the pre-LLM era. 
  - Taxi fleet maintenance optimization and failure prediction for a latam taxi company. Saved entire cars. 
  - Automated sports highlights - Feed in video, get nicely cut highlights of diving catches, touchdowns, etc.
  - Wound identification and mangement - Identify what sort of wound, label and categorize the tissue.
  - Account grading and revenue optimization for ARM. 
  - Maritime anti-piracy - Identifying pirate skiffs, at risk vessels, and routing them aroound danger.

  - Ads or gambling. I'd rather sleep at night. Thanks.