Posted by whoishiring 7/1/2025
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)
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Full-stack software engineer with machine learning skills. I have a decade of experience building successful products for early stage startups and larger organisations.
Most of my experience has been developing new greenfield projects in contexts with significant uncertainty. I navigate this through careful consideration of stakeholder needs, business requirements, and an iterative approach. Beyond new projects, I have also worked extensively with a wide range of existing front-end and back-end systems. I get up to speed and can be effective quickly.
I am familiar with cross-functional teams of 5-10 people in design, product, and engineering roles. Alongside this, I have experience working with smaller select teams tasked with building the technical foundation of a startup.
I consider myself a “product engineer” in the sense that I focus on the product as a solution to end users’ problems, not a technical challenge. Over the years I have worked with many designers, user researchers, and user experience professionals who have shaped my attitude towards software. User experience is paramount to me and I can create effective user interfaces without aid of an existing design. My overall outlook is entrepreneurial and product-focused.
I have a GitHub with open source projects that have thousands of active users, and the bulk of an MSc in artificial intelligence.
Available for remote opportunities. I can accommodate flexible working patterns to suit different needs. I am also open to project-based work at a fixed price dependant on scope and complexity.
What I do:
- Lead greenfield projects, navigate ambiguity, and translate non-technical ideas into a technical product
- Innovate solutions to hard problems with high complexity that touch on areas such as algorithms or system design
- Design robust front-end and back-end systems, such as web apps with complex interfaces, or Serverless architectures
- Implement supervised, unsupervised, or semi-supervised machine learning techniques. Including use of LLMs and associated tooling
- Debug and fix bugs in existing software, including both front-end and back-end systems
- Collaborate and work with teams on existing projects
GitHub:
https://github.com/andrewwalsh
Portfolio, projects, and contact details:
Example project tooling: Scrum and Kanban, typically using Jira
Looking for contract, part-time or volunteer work, specifically in renewable energy or smart grid consulting. I can also help write/review grant applications for Canadian federal/provincial support, but outside my areas of direct work.
Preferably smart grid technology, wind energy, solar PV, energy policy. Happy to chat about the long term revenue streams on the electricity grid, especially opportunities on the distribution system.
Location: Remote, prefer opportunities in US/Canada
Experience - Fifteen years total. Wind energy design background (Netherlands), Power systems degrees, experience working with the Canadian Federal government.
Remote: Yes, please. Willing to relocate: No.
Résumé/CV: On request. See linkedin: https://www.linkedin.co/in/eldrichrebello Email: eldrich [at] eldrichrebello.ca Scientific publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=a0oog-YAAAAJ
Willing to relocate: No, but willing to travel
Technologies: Javascript/Typescript, Rust, Go, Node.js, React/Redux, Vue, PostgreSQL, SQLite, GPT APIs (OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock), etc
Résumé/CV: https://dwayne.xyz/resume
Email: contact@dwayne.xyz
I’m a web and app developer with over 15 years of professional experience. I’ve worked at startups, mid-sized companies, and large corporations including Apple, eBay, and the Comcast Silicon Valley Innovation Center. Since starting my freelance business in 2020, I’ve done a lot of work with Rust, Stripe payment APIs, and multiple GPT/LLM APIs. I specialize in full-stack web development, but I’m also experienced in iOS development, server administration, database design, API integrations and more. I'm happy with both short-term jobs (alone or on a team) or medium-term contracts in an agile environment.
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ABOUT:
Congratulations, you've turned an idea into reality, now it's time to scale. But how? You want someone who's your idea partner, a maker, a doer. But who?
I thrive in the chaotic in-between, wearing multiple hats and taking products from zero to market fit and scaling them to success. I've built and grew products at VEED.IO (Series A - Sequoia), Filmhub (Seed - a16z), Native Instruments, & many more.
If you don't waist time and you want more than the cookie-cutter slop, reach out & ship!
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LOCATION: Zurich, Switzerland / Berlin, Germany
EMAIL: richard [at] orwhat.cc
PORTFOLIO: https://orwhat.cc/
SKILLS:
• Design: UX | UI | Prototyping | User Testing
• Product: Strategy | Roadmapping | Planning | Data Analysis | OKR
• Web: React | Next.js | Node.js | TypeScript | JavaScript | Redux | Tailwind CSS | GraphQL | MongoDB | Firebase
I am a freelance full-stack engineer/fractional CTO, and helping people consider their approach to freelancers is one of my favorite engagements.
tl;dr: get a founding engineer’s tech plan for your early stage startup • takes 2 weeks • $350 • happens over email • techplanletters.com
Location: Liverpool, England
Remote: Yes (Remote only)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET, SQL Server/MySQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB/EventStoreDB/Redis, RabbitMQ/Kafka, CQRS/Event Sourcing, Azure/AWS.
Résumé/CV: https://craigtp.co.uk/cv
Email: craig [at] craigtp.co.uk
Hi. I'm Craig. I'm an experienced Senior Software Engineer, Systems Architect and Microsoft Certified Professional with a passion for software development.
I work primarily, but not exclusively, with Microsoft technologies and the .NET / .NET Core frameworks, leading complex and challenging enterprise software development projects to successfully deliver robust, secure, scalable and efficient software solutions, encompassing over 20 years of experience in the field.
I'm passionate about distributed systems design, CQRS and event sourcing and a proponent of domain-driven design to ensure that solutions are laser-focused on solving real business problems. I'm an open source enthusiast and advocate using the best and most appropriate tools available, providing for an effective and pragmatic solution that delivers genuine and quantifiable business value.
Throughout my career I've helped numerous businesses of varying sizes in varying industries get their technology investment right and I can do the same for you.
Recent projects include:
+ Successfully lead a multi-team effort to re-engineer the core domain of a legacy monolithic application to a suite of well-designed, modern microservices utilising Domain-Driven Design, CQRS & Event Sourcing where appropriate for one of Africa's leading FinTech companies allowing them to scale their transaction processing from over 1 million active customers to over 10 million whilst simultaneously reducing their cloud spend by over 30%.
+ Successfully delivered large section of an ambitious project to re-engineer a number of monolithic applications to cloud-native, event-driven distributed services for a leading hospitality software provider as part of a company-wide effort to modernise entire software estate including training and mentoring staff on event-driven architecture and distributed system design.
+ Successfully designed & delivered large, global SaaS product to manage and automate music royalty collection and payment for one of the UK's largest and most demanding independent music publishers including full cloud geo-distribution & redundancy to ensure high availability & reliability for the worldwide client base.
+ Successfully lead project to develop industry leading anti-motor fraud web application and API with advanced OLAP & OLTP system and data warehouse including one of Europe's largest anti-fraud databases for a Top 40 UK law firm.
Programming Languages: Ruby, Scala, Javascript, Python, TypeScript, Haskell, Scheme
Programming Strengths: Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Engineering, Programming Language Theory, Type Theory, No-Code, AI&Prompt Engineering, Complex & Unusual Domains (Healthcare, Fintech, Music, Arts, Sciences)
Front-End, Databases & Tools: Vue, React, Postgres, HBase, MongoDB, Kafka, Jenkins, AWS, Docker
Other Skills: Leading Teams & Managing Projects, Architecting & Implementing Greenfield Solutions, Education & Team Growth, Leading Communication and Coordination Between Stakeholders Across Teams and Organizational Silos, Productizing LLMs
CV: Available Upon Request
Email: poetic.artifice@gmail.com
I am a seasoned (>13 years experience) full-stack staff-to-principal-level software engineer/consultant specializing in the backend, systems architecture, platform engineering, internal tools, prototyping, and data engineering. In addition to strong programming and architectural skills, I'm a force multiplier for any team in either role through the three T's -- teaching, talking, and tooling.
In the past, I've taught a number of scientists and students to code in python; I've led and managed a number of high-impact engineering teams of up to 12; and pioneered a number of no- and low-code solutions for stream processing, data model and query generation, form building, workflow systems, and front-end construction for a variety of industries, including those with strong regulatory requirements and complex business rules such as healthcare and fintech. >10% of all medicare applications and millions of individuals currently flow through pioneering no-code systems I conceived and built and have ran in production for over a decade
More recently, I've built a no-code automated form-filler and a workflow engine for coordinating LLMs and other generative AI processes, and on top of this a platform for both minimizing hallucinations and working with documents that are far too large for existing context window inputs or outputs using a novel, patent-pending process; and applied these tools to various contracted projects requiring analysis and and cross-checking of information and other forms of integrity across textual and video/audio corpus data in a variety of domains (fiction and non-fiction).
I am also an improvisational pianist, published poet, and I've created novel algorithms and tools for studying and composing both music and poetry.
I have extensive experience working for and running startups, software consulting shops, with some mid-sized company engineering experience as well; these give me a unique insight into speaking with customers and internal stake-holders, translating between engineering and other departments, gathering requirements, aligning stake-holders across departments on a vision and attainable timeline, and architecting/building/taking ownership over significant internal and customer-facing areas of responsibility.
If any of the above seems like a match for you and your organization or project, don't hesitate to reach out.