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

We're looking for a software engineer that loves big data and distributed systems - you know who you are!

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 guru 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. This shouldn't be your first time to the distributed systems/big data rodeo - we're looking for a senior engineer that likes mentoring junior engineers and is interested in growing into a tech lead role.

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, email me 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 to scotty@appmonsta.com

I am a full stack web developer and consultant based in Vancouver, B.C.

I provide web development and consulting services to software development companies, consulting firms, creative studios, and more.

I strongly believe the best interests of my clients are critical to our successful collaboration on current and future projects.

If you have a business and are looking for a website, SEO, web security consultation, or even internal web applications, I would love to speak with you.

What I can do for you:

* General technical consulting

* Web security consulting

* Frontend/backend Development (PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, etc)

* Wordpress themes and modifications

* Search Engine Optimization

* API development

* Responsive design

http://jayhuang.org

You can contact me at hnfreelance@jayhuang.org

Electronics/robotics/hardware/PCB layout

Based in Cologne, Germany, willing to travel or work remotely.

Contact at kliment[at]0xfb.com or /msg Kliment on Freenode IRC

We're a team of three highly skilled technologists specializing in solving an organization's most difficult problems. We like to work closely with companies as hands-on members of the team to design technical solutions, implement and deploy maintainable systems, and meet business needs to deliver a compelling ROI.

While we are certainly capable of implementing spec sheets, we typically are not black box coders for hire -- our value is working with you to design "what to build" as much as actually building it.

- Web app development: Python, Ruby, PHP, Java (backend) and HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, ExtJS / Sencha (frontend)

- Mobile development: iOS and Android

- Server/infrastructure: Apache / nginx, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, open source (no Microsoft)

- Well-versed in every framework under the sun: Django, Rails, Sinatra, WordPress, 3rd Party APIs, et cetera

Latest projects include writing BART's parking system [1], co-founding a mobile transaction and data security company [2], increasing revenue by re-writing the advertising platform for a privacy company [3], re-formulate the value proposition and rebuild the platform for a financial product comparison engine [4], and working on a web-based property manager [5].

We're based in San Francisco and can do on-site visits as well as remote.

Let's work together!

http://www.bitmatica.com/

http://www.bitmatica.com/BitmaticaResume.pdf

[1] www.select-a-spot.com/bart/ -- BART's online parking reservation system (we wrote it from scratch in Django)

[2] www.claveo.com -- Mobile and transaction and data security with a high-availability, scalable web service and strong cryptographic mobile clients (we were co-founders)

[3] www.getcocoon.com -- In-browser malware and anti-virus protection (we re-wrote the ad delivery platform, built part of the web interface, server back end, and front-end clients)

[4] www.knowyourbank.com -- Financial product and information comparison service (we worked with the founders to re-define the value proposition and rebuild the service so it better aligned with the needs of their customers)

[5] www.appfolio.com -- Web-based extremely intuitive property management (front-end interface, back-end, and server deployment and continuous integration management console)