Ask HN: Who Needs a Remote Worker/Freelancer?

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13 years ago

As the title says. I'm currently shifting my focus from working on my own projects to working on other people's. I don't contract that much (maybe once a year when something interesting comes along) so I don't have an active network of people I usually work for.

I'm a generalist in the sense that I'm a problem solver above all else. I'm tool/language agnostic. Having said that, I have a lot of experience with Cocoa, Python (mostly back end stuff) and more recently Node/Meteor/Mongo.

I've worked on desktop, mobile and web projects in the areas of geo, image processing, social, e-commerce, productivity, crypto and most recently Core Audio (poorly documented C api, threading, codecs, audio formats, oh my!).

I can pick up a new imperative language in a day or so. I qualify that because I have yet to go full bore into functional languages though I have played around with Haskell a bit.

My rates are competitive and I usually work within aggressive time-frames. Short projects are ok but like I said I'm interested in building on-going relationships with people who need stuff built.

My professional blog is here: http://lattejed.com and a good example of clean, well documented and tested code is here: https://github.com/lattejed/LJSelectionView/

If you're in the Bay Area and would like to work together remotely as a trial run I am considering moving (back) to SF or thereabouts. I'm not looking for someone to move me or a visa (I'm from the US), but would move back at this point for interesting work.

My email is m (or matthew) at the blog domain above. Thanks!

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