Remote: Yes, US only
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: TypeScript, Next.js, React, React Native, Python, Postgres (internals and extensions), Kubernetes, PyTorch
Résumé/CV: https://alita-moore.github.io/portfolio
Email: alita.moore805@gmail.com
Looking for: one fractional retainer, ~20 hrs/week, $5-6k/month, cash only, no equity, month-to-month.
US-based, founded two companies, and I do the customer conversations and product decisions as well as the code. I'm bootstrapping my own company and want one stable engagement that covers my costs so I can do that. That's the whole reason the rate is what it is. Not looking for a career move, equity, or a path to full-time.
What you get is someone who can be your only engineer, from customer discovery through product, backend, Postgres, infra, and on-call. Some things I've built:
- ethereum/EIP-Bot, the bot that governed the Ethereum Improvement Proposals repo for a year with direct commit rights: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/3351
- deno lsp go-to-definition from 32s to 131ms, six defects found by counting directory opens instead of timing, every result with a repro script: https://github.com/alita-moore/deno-lsp-performance
- At Snackpass: led a team of six, built the React Native point-of-sale, took the Android app from 3.2 to 4.7 stars in three months, and built an inventory system in a weekend that helped land a major partner.
- Co-founded a company that trained a production OCR model on 8 GPUs; owned the model, the training pipeline, and the Kubernetes serving stack.
- 13 tested, self-contained packages rebuilding patterns from those systems (typed Next.js routes, a Postgres extension toolchain, GitOps cluster, PyTorch training harness): https://github.com/alita-moore/portfolio
Best fit: pre-seed or bootstrapped founders who need a senior engineer and can't or don't want to pay for a full-time one. Happy to start with a paid trial ticket.