Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2017)

I have 25 years of hands on technical computing experience, 20 in pc and web software development.

Co started 3 startups as technical (co)founder, 1 ecommerce SAAS, in 2000, coding complex javascript/css/mvc/socket development in OO C++. 1 was around consulting – pulled the pin when a very lucrative position was offered instead. 1 was multi company, starting with brand design SAAS Focussed on large complex software domains in my career, yet worked in development for so long I’ve also done smaller work, for variety and as circumstances arose Consulted or architected systems for big names like McDonalds, Yum Brands, Virgin, Hutchisons, Bell Canada, Telecom, Sony, Warner, Bmg, Towers Watson Lead teams of dozens of engineers Developed hundreds of applications, across dozens of languages and frameworks Built deep familiarity with hundreds of applications and software domains Been directly responsible for outstanding business success facilitating the successful sale of many of my employing companies, helping my bosses ‘exit’ with big smiles on their face Been ahead of the technology curve for 15 years, at the forefront of Agile, DevOps, Internet, Mobile and Software Engineering. For example I was talking with Martin Fowler in 2002 about Agile tooling (and the internet recorded it for posterity). I love keyboard shortcuts, sci-fi and efficiency, but I don’t forget that people are more important.

Most recent freelancing work was complete development, devops and support of a e-training SAAS that was sold after 5 years. Effectively a one man technical team/cofounder on a freelancer basis. The first version of that was delivered from scratch to customers in 4 weeks after the client's previous developers had oversold and not delivered..

I'm quite open to a variety of work styles, remote or on-site is possible, as are full or part time, and short or long term, either as code monkey (for complex systems) or a broadly skilled consultant to help with communication, software engineering, product development, devops, business process architecture, and development processes.

(Yes that's a wide skillset, yet genuine as previous employment psychometric evaluations have confirmed my mind is unusually flexible, and I've a lot of experience and no kids!)

Please call and leave a message on +612 80057900 with your contact details (email/skype/phone), and I will get back to you quickly.

Your most productive developers are leaving suddenly and without telling you anything about their reasons? Churn eats away any team productivity?

A developer needs about 6-12 months after they are hired to be at their best efficiency. That means that even when a developer leaves and you immediately rehire, you do get at least a 50% productivity loss for more than 6 months — while paying them the same wage.

It doesn't have to be this way. Keeping your developers happy and reducing churn in your team makes you more revenue, increases the quality of your product's code, and improves your product's user experience. But it needs more than free food and pingpong tables.

I'm here to assist you. With 10 years of experience working as a senior developer, team lead, and product lead, I know what makes a developer happy and what doesn't.

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Christoph Hochstrasser E: christoph@hochstrasser.io T: +436649228651

Recent graduate of Information Engineering, ex 'Industrial Informatics' (Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology in Greece).

Latest Project Keywords: Golang, PHP, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, XenForo, Discourse.

My github: https://github.com/datio Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9x0GwTL9P0bREFPN0dGeUZ6RUk...

I've got plenty of experience (5+ years) in forum software and blog migrations. I'm also currently learning Rust.

Will be conscripted in May for 8-month military service and I'm pretty much open for relocating afterwards (in December). My rate is 11-15 Euros/hour and I can work full time until May.

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Remote: Yes

C++ programmer focused audio and music applications (JUCE), but also knowledgeable in other areas, like p2p networking or blockchain tech.

Last 4 years my work has revolved around Mac or iOS apps, so good knowledge of Objective-C, Objective-C++ and Swift including C++/Swift interop.

Email: delegate78@gmx.com

Location: Boulder, CO (Remote Preferred)

I'm a software engineer and primarily work with the web. I'm also a student, so I price myself quite a bit less than the average freelancer with my experience (~4 years). I prefer to do projects on a flat per-project cost as opposed to an hourly, but I'm flexible.

I typically provide end-to-end products for my clients (everything from product spec => design => implementation => deployment/dev-ops), but have worked in hyper-specific contexts such as on typography or just design or implementation.

My strength lies in JavaScript, my tooling of choice is generally React + Redux (or vanilla JS) on the front-end (have worked w/ Angular, D3, and Leaflet in the past) and Express + Mongo or PostgreSQL on the backend w/Node; I'm mostly flexible though, and have also worked with Python-based frameworks/libraries. I also take pride in my design/product sensibilities and consider myself strong with user interface design and development.

My latest projects: http://write.surge.sh, http://git.io/text-congress, http://slice.capital

- Email: krishna.dholakiya@colorado.edu

- Website/Portfolio: http://itskrish.co

- Resume: http://itskrish.co/r.pdf

- LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/krishdholakiya

- GitHub: http://git.io/krish