SEEKING WORK
Remote: yes
Location: anywhere (US). I am currently just outside of Sacramento, but for a modest cost-of-living adjustment I will move on-site for the duration.
For $5000/mo., up to 3 months, I can give your project or business a shot in the arm. I have 20 years of professional experience in multiple aspects of IT, including software development, systems administration, and lots of troubleshooting. I have been programming for almost 30 years now, in everything from COBOL on mainframes to 68k assembly to web development on the LAMP stack. I am currently strongest on PHP/Javascript/MySQL for software development, but I wouldn't mind switching gears for a while and it won't take me long to get up to speed on whatever your technology stack is.
I'm no good at mobile development, but I can do anything else. (Linux systems administration, bug closing or refactoring on big complicated software projects, reverse-engineering opaque database formats, building a windowed UI in Javascript from scratch ... I've done all that.)
I'm at my best when gluing together uncooperative systems or getting software to do things it wasn't intended to do. I've spent most of my years working in the back corners of places that were struggling with serious software issues, so I don't have an amazing portfolio or github profile (<a href="). Bad news for me, good news for you: you can get a senior-level developer for cheap.
Contact me at REDACTED_EMAIL for more information. I'm pretty forthright about what I can and can't do, so tell me what's got your business or project stuck and I'll tell you if I can un-stuck it.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2015)