Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 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.

5 points | by jon_north 1 day ago

16 comments

ezulabs 2 hours ago
SEEKING WORK: EU, Remote Worldwide
Technologies: AI, CC, MLX, RL, llama.cpp, Android, Kotlin, NextJS, Embedded
Résumé/CV: www.ezulabs.com https://github.com/ezulabs, available upon request
Email: contact@ezulabs.com
sasa_buklijas 9 hours ago
SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote
Technologies: Python related (Async, Django, FastAPI)
Résumé/CV: https://buklijas.info/cv/Sasa_Buklijas_ENG_CV.pdf
Email: buklijas _.dot._ sasa _.@._ gmail.com
My timezone: Europe (CET)
20 years of technology experience. Worked as software engineer, development, design, architecture, administrator, QA, recruiting, management.
```
  Web: HTML, CSS(Bluma, BootStrap), JavaScript(HTMX, DataStar)
  DevOps: GitHub Actions, Ansible, Grafana, exporters(node, redis), Prometheus, Grafana Alloy, Linux, Docker
  Data Analasys: Pandas, Notebooks, Visualizations (MatplotLib, Plotly)
  QA Automation: Pytest, TestContainers, Selenium
  Security: VPN, configuration
```
Can be part time or Project-based.
sinisamikulic 8 hours ago
SEEKING WORK | Croatia (Europe) | Remote
Senior Frontend Engineer - 14 years building web products from scratch, often with small teams and directly with founders.
Remote-first (previously onsite in SF & Berlin). I focus on UX, delivery, and working independently. Open to full-time or part-time engagement.
Happy to jump on a call and discuss your project.
---
Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, TailwindCSS, GraphQL/REST API, Turbopack/Vite, Ruby on Rails, Docker, AWS, web3
Website: https://smikulic.com
Email: sinisa@codewell.studio
xl0 13 hours ago
SEEKING WORK (EST)
```
  Location: Colombia at the moment
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Maybe
  Technologies: PyTorch, Deep Learning, LLM,  Diffusion models, NumPy, JAX (a bit), CUDA | SvelteKit, TypeScript, tailwind, drizzle | Linux (25 years), AWS, Docker, yada, yada, common sense
  CV: https://alexey.work/cv?ref=47602028
  Email: alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com
```
Open to both short/long-term contract or a full-time position if the chemistry is there.
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.
- Full-stack AI-adjacent applications - the usual LLM API tool-calling "agentinc" AI + full-stack web, ideally with SvelteKit (typescript, tailwind, shadcn, drizzle, etc).
In my past lives: Linux kernel development, Molecular Biology Masters degree, Electronics engineering in Shenzhen.
https://alexey.work/cv?ref=47602028
Some cool stuff:
https://github.com/xl0/lovely-tensors https://github.com/xl0/lovely-jax https://github.com/xl0/lovely-numpy
https://chat.congusto.ai/chat
https://lovely-docs.github.io
https://pelican.alexey.work/gallery
pigsinzen 1 day ago
SEEKING WORK: USA
Location: Maine (USA)
Remote: Only. Occasionally willing to take the train down to Boston.
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Postgres, Flask, Containers, k8s, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Linux, various clouds. Currently learning Rust.
Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtismullins or https://www.kurtismullins.com (WIP)
Email: hire@kurtismullins.com
~18 YoE across backend development, DevOps/SRE/platform engineering, and many other hats. Name drops include Red Hat (quay.io), Rackspace (internal tooling), and Equinix Metal/Packet (platform engineering). Also went through NSF's I-Corps startup program in the early 2010s, so I'm relatively business-aware.
I left my last full-time role in November to go all-in on freelance work and solo projects (homesteading, indie game dev). Now taking on project-based or fractional engagements. No staff augmentation or pager duty.
I bounce between architecture/systems design and hands-on implementation. Looking to build long-term relationships.
Side note: I've used Go professionally and am currently enjoying Rust, but compared to my depth with Python, I won't pretend to be a specialist in either. I'd love projects that push me toward more low-level systems programming or are tangent to my homestead (future sensors/IoT) and Game Dev interests.
Thanks!
DevOpsMaster 1 day ago
SEEKING WORK: EU, Remote Worldwide
I'm a Senior DevOps engineer, Cloud Architect and Infrastructure Engineer.
I provide contract or ad-hoc services and support to startups, growth companies and enterprises. I'm often called to set up greenfield DevOps installations, architect and build cloud infrastructures, design platform architectures, build cloud-based, SaaS and mobile products and assist with emergency or short-staffed situations.
What makes me unique is that my services are tuned precisely to each of my clients: their products and customers, and the way their teams work. I only provide solutions that fit.
Here are some examples of some of my fixed-price services with are often ideal for startups:
```
  * Azure / AWS Cloud Platform cluster build-out: $950
  * Azure DevOps setup for a small org < 5 repos: $850
  * Cloud platform security review: starting at $750
  * DevOps Practice Checkup: starting at $600
  * Alerting and monitoring solutions: starting at $870
  * Scale-up infrastructure assessment: $1,500
```
I also provide emergency services, support, workshops and training.
BOOK YOUR FREE CONSULTATION HERE: https://ondemanddevops.com/?sid=hn2604F
rhunterharris 1 day ago
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.
LANcaster 1 day ago
Working with Linux for more than 20 years | SysOps DevOps & Observability Expert | Secure and Versatile Infrastructure Design
Extensive experience designing, operating, and scaling reliable environments. Heavy focus on automation, observability, and high-availability. Experienced in diagnosing and resolving complex issues.
Founder of an IT services company recognized by Clutch as one of the top cybersecurity and managed IT services providers in Poland.
Continuously developing expertise and tracking emerging technologies.
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Remote: Yes, I work remotely since 2005
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Linux - Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, SuSE, HPC, slurm, OpenMPI
Observability & Telemetry - Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Pyroscope, Tempo, Faro, Alloy, Zabbix, OpenTelemetry, Logstash, Kibana
Databases & Data Platforms - MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Redis, MongoDB IaaC & Automation - Terraform, Ansible, Shell Scripting, Github Actions, Jenkins, Red Hat Sattelite
Containers & Orchestration - Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift Cloud & Virtualization - Microsoft Azure, AWS, Proxmox, VMware, OLVM
Storage & Backups - Fibre Channel, iSCSI, GlusterFS, ZFS, Ceph, Lustre, Veeam, Bacula & Bareos, Proxmox Backup Server, XtraBackup
And much, much more
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krzysztofkotkowicz/
Resume/CV: https://flowcv.com/resume/m9fiqwe7t9w5
Email: krzysztof@kotkowicz.pl
Disclaimer: Contact details are only provided for job inquiries. You really don't want to send information about your vibecoded service there.
jon_north 22 hours ago
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:
```
  * 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
```
Concrete examples:
* 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
nunoarruda 1 day ago
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
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