Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2013)

Looking for some part time help building out CameraLends, a peer-to-peer camera gear lending site that I launched on Hacker News three months ago. Stack is Rails 3.2, Bootstrap, HAML, SCSS, query running on Heroku. Ideal fit would be comfortable quickly turning design mocks into responsive HAML/SCSS and building out basic RESTful features. Rate/amount of work is negotiable, potential for regular work. Email adam@cameralends.com with a link to your Github profile and your favorite photograph if interested!

I'm an experienced visual designer working with startups for the last few years. I've just finished my 3rd Startup as a co-founder and now looking for some freelance or interesting opportunities.

Here is my dribbble account http://dribbble.com/nephronim If you have any questions email paul(at)nephronim.com

Big Data/Distributed Systems Software Engineer

AppMonsta collects massive amounts of data about mobile apps and turns it into actionable metrics for a wide variety of business customers ranging from investors to health care companies to startups. We really love data, building distributed systems, and helping people understand complicated market dynamics through our data.

We're looking for a distributed systems/big data software engineers to join our distributed team. You'll take ownership of our crawl & data pipeline, keeping them running with high uptime, scaling them up to handle load, and adding new data sources and new features to help our customers make even better decisions. Experience with distributed systems and/or big data is a huge bonus - we're looking for people that have a good intuition about what good architecture looks like, and who can grow into leadership roles.

Our current tech stack is mostly python, linux, aws (ec2, s3, & emr mostly), mongodb, and redis. If you haven't worked with individual pieces of this before it's fine - we like working with smart people that are comfortable working in a distributed systems/big data/cloud environment. We're happy to help you get up to speed with anything you haven't seen before. We practice peer code review and continuous deployment on all our code and systems.

Our entire team works remotely. We're very flexible about where and when you work, as long as you ship code, keep systems online, and are reachable by other team members for part of the day. We stay in touch via a team chatroom and weekly team video chats, with impromptu 1-on-1 video chats whenever there's a detailed issue to discuss. To make this work, you'll need to be in a compatible timezone (between PDT(UTC-08) and CET(UTC+1)), and be very fluent writing and speaking english. Like getting out of the house to work? Ask about our mobile internet subsidy:)

This is a full time, longterm opportunity. If this sounds exciting, please send us your resume and a couple hundred lines of some code you've written (preferably python), so we can get a sense for your coding style.

Contact: luka [at] appmonsta.com

Experienced infrastructure / devops consultant. Based in London UK, available for local or remote work. 10+ years building Linux Web platforms and the teams to operate them. Battle scars include AWS, Ubuntu, Nginx, Puppet, Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, Zabbix, Django & more for some very high traffic clients. Programming skills in Python (incl. some sizable projects) and PHP.

alex@mbird.biz

Following is my experience and list of projects with links. (The same is on my gist https://gist.github.com/sravfeyn/13534c67812183235a2c )

Some of projects are on [my github](http://github.com/sravfeyn)

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I shipped products outside of College/Work

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* I hacked around [our campus shared-ssh spaces](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3554318) to [automate file-sharing via peer-server-peer](https://github.com/sravfeyn/SparkDC), when the campus LAN was blocked.

* I created an [instant-search for movies](http://instamovi.com), when I realized more movie buffs like myself want quick ratings, trailers for movies as they type in names.

* I fixed [event-publishing in our campus](http://www.iitdevents.appspot.com/SetupCalenders), with an automated event update system, that scans for events on FB pages, Google Calenders of our campus boards.

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I have worked in a high-tech start-up

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I worked in a [high-tech Valley based start-up](https://angel.co/hachi) as a tech intern and then as tech consultant when I figured out start-ups are where my solutions can address a million-people's problems.

I pushed code in first week, solved problem of finding network reach (# of people you can connect to using your FB, LI, TW friends) until four degrees. Latter, I PoC-ed a new Architecture for improving search speed (based on six fields in a combined graph of FB, LI, TW. It's an awesome product for networking, you should [check-out](http://gohachi.com)). We brainstormed and after great set of changes from team, started implementing it.

This speed can only be possible at start-up

I loved it and I decided to work for a start-up where the most awesome people solve hardest problems making life simpler and a little magical.

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Let's talk

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If you are building an awesome product with smart people where none cares about titles but everyone has a part of product-ownership, talk to me. I would love to talk you about an opportunity at your start-up. Ping me on gmail sravfeyn@gmail.com or [twitter](http://twitter.com/sravfeyn) or a leave comment below and I will get back to you