SEEKING WORK, based in Estonia (GMT + 3) half the year and the rest in London, Remote Projects Only.
I contracted for Google for six months in 2014. I wrote the backend and the data tools for Google's <a href="http://consumerbarometer.com/en/" >
I'm a full stack developer with 12+ years of professional experience.
I write a tech blog which sees a few thousand readers a day: <a href="http://tech.marksblogg.com/" >
I've done both back- and frontend work for BAA (projects for Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick Airports), Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Blackberry, Bloomberg, British Telecom, Danone, Financial Times, Ford, Google, ITV, Krispy Kreme, Nectar, News International (now News UK), PricewaterhouseCoopers, Pizza Hut, Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal Mail, T-Mobile, UKTV, Vertu (Nokia subsidiary at the time), Williams Formula 1 Team and Xerox.
I specialise in Python, Django, Go, Postgres, Hadoop, Spark, Elasticsearch, Solr, Celery, RabbitMQ, ffmpeg, Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine, Amazon EC2, Cloudfront, S3, Linode, Digital Ocean, Capistrano, Rubber, Fabric, Jenkins, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Yeoman, Grunt, Bower, HTML5, AngularJS, backbone.js, D3, RESTful API design. I'm a big believer in test-driven development.
My email address is at the top of my CV: <a href="http://www.marksblogg.com/cv" >
LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marklitwintschik" >
I hold both a Canadian and a British passport.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2015)