SEEKING FREELANCER - currently Seattle but likely moving to Portland in the future, and remote work is definitely possible.
I'm currently working on the side on a project, but planning to go full time on it within 6 months or so. My partner and I are working on a fairly ambitious MVP, some of which involves native front end development in which I'm inexperienced. I can do the work, but my iteration time is pretty suboptimal. Since we've got a few soft-committed potential customers, we're looking to outsource some of the front end work to speed it all up.
I'm looking for someone with substantial experience with the Xamarin platform AND/OR (preferably AND) Windows Universal development. I value people who know how to keep a code base small and share as much as possible across platforms. If you happen to know F# very well, then that is a huge plus, although not required (I would much rather work with F# than C#, but I realize the infrastructure is pretty immature to rely on).
Known knowns about our architecture: Postgres database and Play Framework in Scala for a service backend (including both REST and web sockets) hosted on AWS.
Pretty sure about our architecture, and what we need help with: a fairly complex Windows Universal pure touch app with some limited (likely USB-based) hardware interaction, communicating with the web service. Smaller and much simpler Xamarin mobile apps (iOS and Android definitely, WinPhone too but a lower priority) also communicating with the web service.
About me: I come from a very non-traditional development background...educated in Supply Chain Management and learning code to be able to do my very analytics-oriented job better. I started with R (and still use it extensively), have worked with Ruby, Python, and Clojure, but have slowly adapted to and now overwhelmingly prefer strongly typed ML-descendent languages such as Scala, F#, Rust, and OCaml. I'm a huge proponent of making invalid states unrepresentable through the type system. The majority of my experience is in more data oriented systems with lots of pipeline-type architectures, including lots of simulations. I have lots of experience with tasks that you would expect from someone that has Operations Research or Data Scientist in their titles. I don't have much experience with REST-based systems, but I have found it pretty damn easy to learn over the last year in my free time. I don't have much experience with front end design, but haven't had much trouble picking up React.js. I have, however, been slow to pick up native front end design.
I'm open to cofounder proposals, but realize that if that happens it will likely be after some amount of freelance work, both for your sake and ours.
My email address is in my profile, but will likely remove it within a week or two for spam reasons (I really wish HN would let us delete old posts!).
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