Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2026)
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
Please only post if you are looking to hire a freelancer or work as one. Small (2-5 person) agencies are fine, but recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here. SEEKING WORK | Colombia (US Timezones) | Remote or Hybrid in Colombia (can fly to the US or elsewhere for offsites) Email: estebanvargas94@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tebanvargas/ Technologies & Skills: Software Engineering, React, Node, TypeScript, AI Engineering, System Design, AWS, Leadership. I'm looking for a full-stack engineering role. I can be either be a pure IC or a tech lead. The main thing that I'm optimizing for is for solving the problems that I want to solve. 9+ years of experience in the industry, the past 4 in tech lead roles. I have mostly worked for US SaaS companies, and have also been a founder in the past (backed by Techstars). CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d0-tqGvQdwnN0sXtFfUW6qdE3l9... SEEKING WORK | Germany | Remote or Hybrid (Germany for onsites) CV: Full CV and details on request Email: hackernews (at) eugengeist.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugen-geist/ Technologies & Skills: Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Data Modelling & Pipeline Design, Python, Golang, SQL, AWS, Azure, Kafka, DuckDB, Postgres, Airflow, Databricks, PySpark, Clickhouse, API design (full list on request) Experienced Engineer looking for Software / Data Engineering contracts. I support you through all phases of the software development lifecycle - from planning and requirements engineering through development and testing until go live and maintenance. 8+ years experience in different industries (HFT, automotive, logistics, internet telecommunication technology, energy) helping customers to solve their problems. As a seasoned software and data engineering expert, my extensive experience lies in developing and connecting software to various trading exchanges worldwide in different domains (inter alia XETRA, LSE, TSX, ASX, Binance, EPEX, Reuters,..). Location: U.S.A. Remote: Yes. Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we'll meet in person. Technologies: React/Vue, WordPress, Django (incl. Python for data science generally), Rust. We offer top-rate web application development and medium-term maintenance. We also offer some of the best long-term maintenance of legacy web systems, especially WordPress ecom storefronts, that you're ever likely to find. We won't split hairs with you: our pricing is by the month, not by the hour. Most importantly, our secret sauce is that we genuinely care. Drop us a line at https://constellationtrust.org. You're guaranteed to get a reply from our principal—me—within a few hours. Realistically, you can think of him as a fractional CTO. He has survived, thrived, and delivered in profoundly dysfunctional environments. SEEKING WORK | REMOTE or London 1 day/week | UK or EST time zone (UTC -5) Developer with decades of experience.
In my last contract I helped a UK startup to pivot to a new market. Tech : - Typescript / React / React native / Node.js ... (all the bloody javascript ecosystem!) - Python (Django) - hands on the AWS console (ECS / lambda) / GCP console - and more (databases / CI / CD / devops / authentication) CV : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/k3roulas/two-group-theory/... SEEKING WORK | Germany | Remote Location: Germany (Dusseldorf) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Mantine UI, Tailwind CSS, shadcn, Material UI, Bootstrap, Node.js, Express, NestJS, PostgreSQL, various auth solutions (Supabase Auth, Auth0, Firebase Auth etc.), Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, Swift, Unity, various analytics and monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, Pendo etc.), OpenAI API, AI agents. Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UVHNlrDhIZwHV2N0XmGhOluLguZ... Email: opudrovs@gmail.com Available for remote work worldwide, very flexible across time zones. Looking for permanent or contract positions. Hi! I’m Olga, an experienced software engineer looking for frontend or fullstack projects. I have experience building greenfield projects and complex features that “just work,” as well as diving into complex legacy codebases, fixing “unfixable” bugs, and performing major refactoring. In addition to React/Next.js and Node/Express.js development, I also have experience with cloud-native workflows (Golang + Kubernetes), OpenAI API integration and agentic workflows, native iOS development, and game development. Thanks to my multi-platform experience, I can help you port large products across different platforms. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-pudrovska/ My contributions to Weave GitOps (React/Golang Kubernetes dashboard project): https://github.com/weaveworks/weave-gitops/commits?author=op... https://github.com/weaveworks/weave-gitops-enterprise/commit... My latest fullstack code samples: https://github.com/opudrovs/react-api-data-sample/ https://github.com/opudrovs/nestjs-demo/ SEEKING WORK | Fullstack / Frontend | Remote | Worldwide Fullstack dev with 9+ years of experience, frontend-specialized. For the past 3 years I've been exclusively working with Svelte/SvelteKit, it's my primary stack now and I know it well. I'm also interested in AI projects. My most recent work was building an AI-powered assistant app for D&D GMs content generation, AI chat assistants, campaign management, session recording, using LangChain, FastAPI, OpenAI, and Mastra.ai on top of a SvelteKit + PostgreSQL. Technologies: TypeScript, SvelteKit, React, Node.js, Python, FastAPI, LangChain, OpenAI, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Docker CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hQpshK15tYcHSwRa92h60E6o... SEEKING WORK | Germany | Remote Technologies: Anything. Very strong with TypeScript, frontend (React, Svelte, Vue, etc.) and backend. I love Bun. Very strong with Rust. Have used many languages. I've built getinvoke.com - an app that lets you add custom, context-aware shortcuts to any mac app. Currently focused on music producers, mixers, and anyone else who spends their day doing audio work. Very comfortable with Audio related work. Have good experience with music production and mixing, and mentored indie artists. Got good grips on how React, Svelte, Vue, Solid work, both internally, and in practical terms. Led the transition for a 20K DAU website from a jQuery mess to a rewrite in Vue. I've built Ethereum/Web3 payment systems before. Worked with realtime online gaming and implemented cryptographically provably-fair algorithms. Came up with & implemented a pluggable AI workflow system (think n8n) in the GPT-3.5 days. Absolutely love design and UX. Kinda obsessed to be honest Email: merlin@merlin.audio or merlindruzinec@gmail.com (personal) SEEKING WORK: US Technologies: Ruby/Rails, JS/React/Redux/Node/TS/Angular, Elixir/Phoenix, Tailwind, MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, GCP, PHP, etc Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhunterharris/ https://huntersoftwareconsulting.com/ Email: hunter[at]huntersoftwareconsulting.com Hi, I'm Hunter, and I have 2 decades years of experience leading product technology organizations. I've worked with teams from 1 person to 400+ and successfully exited 4 times. I excel at de-risking large initiatives (shipping year-long projects in months), AI enablement, as well as aligning and integrating Product + Engineering with other departments. Let me know if you want to get more revenue out of your product technology org - I especially love speaking with customer-obsessed founders and leaders. SEEKING WORK | Atlanta, GA | Remote Hi, I'm Joseph. I have a special love for the cloud and infrastructure as code. I have 20 years experience doing development, systems engineering, DevOps, and data engineering. I've worked with companies to greatly improve uptime and profits and get their processes under control. I've worked in heavily regulated environments and helped companies prepare for major audits and become certified in frameworks like HITRUST and FedRamp. My tech stack is largely Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Rust, Zig, any CI/CD system. AWS and GCP. Website: https://cloudboss.co GitHub: https://github.com/rjosephwright SEEKING WORK | iOS/macOS developer | Worldwide | Remote Location: Montreal, Canada | EST timezone | Remote, no relocate • Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, AppKit, UIKit, SwiftUI, CoreData, REST, Stock/Forex/Crypto • Tools: Xcode, Github, Figma, Jira/Linear/Trello, Cursor/ChatGPT/Claude • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiancomeau • Resume/CV: http://chriscomeau.com/resume • Email: chris.comeau@skyriser.com SEEKING WORK | Remote or Los Angeles Metro I have production experience building and operating LLM-based products (RAG pipelines, Agentic systems, etc.), primarily in the legal tech space. I am currently a senior software engineer at a fintech where I do a mix of AI and full-stack engineering. Looking for clients who need help figuring out how to build with LLMs, generally want an MVP, or who otherwise think my skills could be valuable for them. CV: https://github.com/ss108/cv/blob/main/CV-May-2026.pdf Email: hire-ss@proton.me SEEKING WORK | Remote | USA I'm primarily a back end developer with experience in writing REST API's in Go(Golang), recently been doing a lot of Dart/Flutter. Not interested in AI/Crypto. Work, contact info, etc: https://mongoose-studios.com SEEKING WORK I fluctuate between: - Deep learning / Neural networks - from architecture to inference. You might have used my ♥ Lovely Tensors library if you work with PyTorch (or JAX). Some CUDA, pytorch profiler, etc. https://github.com/xl0/lovely-tensors https://github.com/xl0/lovely-jax https://github.com/xl0/lovely-numpy https://github.com/xl0/tidygrad https://github.com/xl0/latent-tools https://github.com/xl0/nvml-tool - Full-stack AI-adjacent applications - the usual LLM API tool-calling "agentinc" AI + full-stack web, ideally with SvelteKit (typescript, tailwind, shadcn, drizzle, etc). https://pelican.alexey.work/gallery In my past lives: Linux kernel development, Molecular Biology Masters degree, Electronics engineering in Shenzhen: https://alexey.work/cv?ref=47976154&view=full SEEKING WORK | 100% REMOTE Specialized in NextJS, React Native, and Ruby on Rails. Prefer to work on projects close to business outcomes. Tech Stack: AWS, Bedrock, Amplify, AppSync, ReactJS, NextJS, Langchain, Langgraph. - Email: osledybazo@gmail.com - Web: https://osledybazo.com SEEKING WORK - Contract, Remote, USA, backend engineer I am a backend expert, having built and maintained mission critical, low latency and highly available systems for many companies over the last 10 years, in addition to over 20 total years of software development experience. I learn new things extremely quickly. AWS preferred but not required (I hold a variety of certs, available here: https://www.credly.com/users/jon-north.ad78f0c8) You will like working with me because I: * built the primary streaming data architecture for realtime game player tracking information (all games, 50ms SLA) and game stats for one of the top 3 US sports leagues (can’t name drop!) using Redpanda/Kafka on Azure+Terraform, and implemented its developer portal using Gravitee to provide first class streaming API support and monetization. Also built, deployed and maintained their ask-a-question-get-a-true-answer AI bot to expose 20+ years of stats to natural language fan questions! (this was the third of currently four times I’ve built similar architectures for different companies) * Implemented a vector DB for one of the leading AI image hallucination platforms (millions of users) to provide an image similarity service. * replatformed dozens of complex quant jobs to AWS Lambda for a startup hedge fund (~$1B AUM), vastly improving QoS and maintenance cost. Line 1 to platform-in-prod time 3 months, including refactoring for fit. This was mission critical cannot-fail stuff and required extensive proof of correctness. * built a framework to collapse dozens of singleton ETL programs into one config-driven, simple C# application performing the same functionality at ~80% reduction in maintenance cost year over year. Contact: jon.north@adiuvat-consulting.com
More: www.adiuvat-consulting.com Technologies: Python, C/C#/C++, SQL, NoSQL, Go, Golang, Docker, Git, Linux/Windows, Bash, Kafka, Redpanda, PySpark, Spark, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Redis, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, SAP HANA, LDAP, Active Directory, OAuth2 SEEKING WORK Angular & Ionic Developer Location: Portugal Remote: Yes, remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, RxJS, Angular, Ionic, Cordova, Capacitor Résumé/CV: https://nunoarruda.com/resume.pdf Email: nuno@nunoarruda.com SEEKING WORK 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 30 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: + Architected and executed a comprehensive overhaul of a core legacy system, migrating it to a robust microservices architecture. By strategically applying Domain-Driven Design, CQRS, and Event Sourcing, we enabled a prominent African FinTech company to seamlessly scale from 1 million to 10 million active users while achieving a remarkable 30%+ reduction in cloud expenses. + Successfully delivered 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 their entire software estate including training and mentoring staff on event-driven architecture and distributed system design. + Designed & delivered a 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. + Spearheaded the creation of a groundbreaking anti-motor fraud solution for a prominent UK law firm. This industry-leading platform combined a user-friendly web application, powerful API, and sophisticated data systems, including Europe's largest anti-fraud database, giving the firm an edge in fraud detection.
Open to both short/long-term contract or a full-time position if the chemistry is there. Technologies: PyTorch, Deep Learning, LLM, Diffusion models, NumPy, JAX (a bit), CUDA C/C++ | SvelteKit, TypeScript, tailwind, drizzle | Linux (25 years), AWS, Docker, yada, yada, common sense
CV: https://alexey.work/cv?ref=47976154
Email: alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com
Concrete examples: * hold your goals as my priorities
* communicate verbosely yet synthesize well
* my rates are reasonable in exchange for the value I deliver
* I guarantee I will get the job done