Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2014)

Canopy is looking for a UX consultant to optimize our iOS, Android, and Windows Phone apps. We help 30 million people in the US who do not speak English to gain access to better healthcare, and are winners of awards from the National Institutes of Health and the City of New York to tackle this problem.

If you're interested, please email brian@canopyapps.com.

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/eric-marcos/17/5bb/b10

email: ericmarcos.p@gmail.com

phone: +34 620135269

I've been a full-stack Web developer since 1993, when I set up one of the first 100 Web sites in the world. I've been working as a consultant since 1995. I have extensive experience with Ruby (and Rails), Python, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, and many other technologies. I have a PhD in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University; I researched the intersection between online communities, collaboration, social networks, and agent-based models.

My real value isn't my extensive technological know-how. Rather, it's my ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical people, and to turn that communication into business value.

I know how to take business needs and turn them into software, by myself and with others. I also know how to describe technical issues in terms that business people can understand, that allow us to make informed decisions. Many of my clients have used me as a remote, part-time CTO or lead developer.

I also help developers and teams improve their coding and management practices. I frequently teach in-person courses in Python, Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, and Git to such companies as Apple, Cisco, Freescale, HP, SANDisk, and VMWare. I also offer online coaching/pairing services to individuals and teams. I can be your "personal coding trainer," setting goals and meeting several times each week to ensure that your code and coding improve.

I also write: My first ebook, "Practice Makes Python" (http://lerner.co.il/practice-makes-python), is now available for purchase.

My aim: Long-term, interesting projects with nice people. (Short-term relationships can also be fine, depending on the work and myschedule.) Bottom line, I like to speak with and help nice people, and feel privileged that my work lets me do so. If I can incorporate elements of what I learned doing my PhD -- an online collaborative platform and social network for agent-based modelers (http://modelingcommons.org/) -- then that would delight me even more.

If I can be of help to you or your company, contact me at reuven@lerner.co.il, or on Skype as "reuvenlerner". You can also read more about me at http://lerner.co.il/ , and on my blog at http://blog.lerner.co.il/ .

Industry Dive, a mobile-focused digital B2B publisher, seeks freelance writers to provide articles for our rapidly growing suite of products. We regularly seek subject matter experts in a variety of business fields, including utilities, health care, education and retail. Pay varies according to assignment -- we need help with everything from daily briefs to long feature takeouts. This is not a job for beginners or generalists -- we need you to know your business field. If interested, send resume, links and writing samples to jobs@industrydive.com.

Hi folks! I'm a US-based developer looking to fill up my schedule for December and January, currently specializing in Ruby web apps with extensive experience with Perl and Python as well. I've done everything from building REST APIs in Python to putting together a Docker-based non-internet-connected deployment system for a Rails app to building massive systems in C++ and Perl to process trillions of transactions a day to writing a book and an open source package on payment processing with Rails[1][2].

I blog at https://www.petekeen.net. Email: hi@petekeen.net

[1]: https://www.masteringmodernpayments.com

[2]: https://www.payola.io