SEEKING WORK - Remote; Denver, CO [Mountain time zone/UTC-7] | Fullstack development; technical advice; infrastructure/DevOps architecture and implementation | Availability starting November.
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Do you have an external API you'd love to pull into your product, but not the bandwidth or background to get it done? Do you lose sleep over your deployment process? Would you benefit from an extra set of hands _right now_?
I'm Dylan Fitzgerald, a senior fullstack development &amp; DevOps consultant. I'm widely experienced across the stack, with especially deep exposure in the Rails ecosystem, service API integrations, and infrastructure as code. My experience working remotely goes back nearly a decade full-time, and part-time since the dialup days. In addition to client projects, I've provided ad-hoc code review services on Rails and infrastructure code to hundreds of developers with experience ranging from junior to CTO level. I'd love to work with you to find new ways to push your organization forward.
Great fits include:
    - helping move you from Heroku to AWS,
    - adding API integration(s) to your backend,
    - identifying and implementing opportunities to make your stack more cost-efficient and/or scalable,
    - reviewing your existing codebase to identify major logic, security, or tech debt issues,
    - automating your deployment process, or
    - straightforward staff augmentation to Build New Stuff.

What would you like to accomplish?
You can reach me on dylan+hn -at- arborealstudios.com. I'm looking forward to working with you!
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LinkedIn: <a href=" (currently has a Salesforce focus by client request)
GitHub (though my history is mostly owned by other companies): <a href="
Tech:
- Languages: Ruby/Rails, JavaScript (vanilla, LWC, some React), Elixir/OTP (Phoenix, LiveView), HTML/Haml, CSS/Sass, SQL, HCL, bash, zsh, Powershell
- Systems and Services: GNU/Linux (many distros) and virtualization thereof, Apache, nginx, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, CDNs, OpenSSH, OpenSSL and certificate management, vulnerability mitigation. Can work with Windows as needed, but prefer not to have this be my primary work relationship with you.
- Cloud services and infrastructure/deployment management (DevOps): AWS (EC2, R53, VPC, S3/Glacier, CloudFront, IAM), GCP (GKE, IAM), Heroku, Ansible, SaltStack, Terraform, Docker, Packer, Vagrant, Capistrano, CI/CD (Gitlab, CircleCI, Jenkins), Salesforce (Apex, Visualforce, LWC, sfdx; active certs for Platform Developer I and vlocity Platform Developer I), some Kubernetes.
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2020)