SEEKING WORK - NYC - Remote
Data-centric developer, currently immersed in Python after a lengthy and generally happy career with OO Perl, and past lives in Java and C -- involving, among other things, a fair amount of web crawling &amp; data modeling, DML/DDL on various SQL platforms, and occasional frontend / backend web development.  Available for part-time / full-time freelance engagements until Spring of 2014, and perhaps for permanent positions thereafter.
On other fronts -- U.S. citizen; NYC resident; hard science degree.  I don't come from a formal Machine Learning background, but having done a bit of work in NLP &amp; sentiment analysis, I'd be highly motivated to take on opportunities to build out my skills in this area.  I also like being challenged to learn (interesting) languages at the drop of a hat, and would be keenly interested in diving into (for example) Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell, Go, R, or Julia.  In any case, most of my work in the past few years has involved "data husbandry" to a significant degree, and I'd very much like to keep investing in this general direction (but a lucid web development project can potentially be
 quite interesting, also).
BTW, I'll be at PyData this weekend if you'd like to meet up spontaneously &amp; chat; otherwise, just drop me a short note describing what you're working on, &amp; what you're looking for in a collaborator (beyond the usual keyword filler), &amp; we'll take it from there.
Thanks!
wst.labs at gmail dot com