Seeking Work: Mostly Remote  (based in the US, will travel to project kickoff / milestone meetings if preferred)
Ruby on Rails Engineer, using Ruby since 2002 and Rails since 2005.  
Expert in SQL (primarily PostgreSQL and MySQL/RDS.)
Strong NoSQL: mostly Cassandra (wrote the cassandra-cql driver), some Mongo and Riak.
Strong "HTML5" expertise having made extensive use HTML5 &#38; XHTML, jQuery, WebSocket, and pure JS.
Expert Unix operational skills using Linux, OpenBSD and FreeBSD on real and virtualized platforms.  Can use nginx or apache as easily as I can use heroku.
Github: <a href="https://github.com/kreynolds" >https://github.com/kreynolds</a>
Blog: <a href="http://rubyscale.com/blog/tech_notes/" >http://rubyscale.com/blog/tech_notes/</a>
Experienced working with existing teams.  Can offer strategic and tactical guidance, and can also do head-down coding.  Comfortable executing large, complex tasks.
One recent client coined the term "man-people" to describe his opinion that despite being one person, I was doing the work of five men.
Prefer fixed-price/fixed-scope contract work, but daily rates are available.
contact: REDACTED_EMAIL
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2011)