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

I am a full-stack web developer and have been freelancing for a couple years now -- previously I was the CTO/cofounder of an acquired startup, and I have more than a decade of professional development experience under my belt.

I am looking for contract/freelance work and currently have ~20 hours per week of availability. I frequently work with US and other international companies (with site visits if necessary). My preferred weapon of choice is Ruby on Rails and its associated stack -- I've been working with Rails for 8 years, so I know the entire stack and ecosystem backwards and forwards.

Other alphabet soup: Coffeescript, jQuery, Heroku, AWS, Ubuntu, Vagrant, Bootstrap, etc.

Contact: fredngo at gmail dot com

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/fredngo

LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/zamkhan

Recent client: "As an academic entrepreneur, I have engaged in a number of out-sourcing processes and truth be told, _kohanz_ was one of the few that I would still continue working with. He is skillful, honest and up front, knows what he is doing and does his job very quickly and within the time frame promised at the beginning."

Experienced (10+ years) developer of software for medical devices and scientific applications, many with an imaging component. Have architected and led teams to deliver on software for systems in both diagnostic and interventional contexts. Comfortable working in an FDA-regulated & ISO 13485 compliant quality system.

I excel at iterating research or early-stage prototypes (e.g. MATLAB developed by researchers) into commercial-grade software ready to impress the right audience (clinicians, investors, etc.). Developing scientific applications involves a high degree of uncertainty and requires an engineer that actively participates in all phases of the SDLC (e.g. requirements gathering, risk analysis, etc.). My ability to communicate has always led to my role as the technical point of contact for researchers, clinicians (surgeons, radiologists, etc.), and senior executives.

One of my current freelance projects is creating a software application to drive the receive/transmit of a novel ultrasound transducer and then scan-convert the signal into an image in real-time. Outside of the medical domain, my development projects have included an automated stock-trading engine (including backtesting suite) and various sports analytics software solutions.

Technical keywords: C++, C#, Java, Matlab, VTK, ITK, OpenCV, GPGPU, Rails, R, Python, and more.

Languages: Ruby, Elixir/Erlang, JavaScript, CoffeeScript

Frameworks/Libraries: Rails, Sinatra, Node.js, Backbone.js, React.js

Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Redis

I can help in all parts of the stack on any Web project and any back-end development for mobile applications. My specialties are scaling, performance and writing maintainable code. In the past I've taught teams object-oriented design and Test-driven Development.

I live in Canada but I am a US Citizen, in case that matters to you.

Email is: richard@.com

I'm an experienced Designer having done several Brand Identities all over the world for the past 7 years. If you need an identity for your new app, website or business, shoot me an email (in profile) and I'll set you up with a brand new logo, business card, letterhead, envelope, brochure and website. I have an established creative process that will provide you with original artwork embedded with my personal brand of aesthetics. See the results in my portfolio: http://www.dffrnt.com

I'm also a MEAN stack Developer (Mongo, Node.js, Angular) and front-end Designer so if you need your ideas brought to life as a well-designed, responsive web app that works across desktops, tablets and mobiles, please get in touch.

I'm a front-leaning, full-stack developer that is living in Berlin. I am American, and know just a bit of German (but am learning).

I have experience with every aspect of creating an application, from mockups and UX design, to graphic design, to the full-stack implementation, to deployment.

I've successfully built and sold a past start-up of mine, and have a great deal of insight with product development. Because of this, I'm probably of most value the earlier a project is in its life cycle.

Backend stack: Ruby on Rails, with DBs/data stores such as MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, Redis, Elastic Search.

Frontend stack: my preference is Angular or React.js, though I've done a ton of work with Meteor (and some Backbone). I am well-versed in current best practices, can build responsive mobile-friendly websites, and code pixel perfect CSS and HTML5. I have a great deal of graphic design experience and can help there as well.

Portfolio: http://eatingthe.com

Github: https://github.com/superplussed

Email: jeremy@superplussed.com