Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2026)
I'm posting the monthly Ask HN thread for freelancers and those seeking freelancers. Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility. Only post if you are looking to hire a freelancer or work as one; small agencies are fine, but recruiters and job boards are off topic.
SEEKING WORK | Zürich, Switzerland | Remote. I run a one-man technology studio. I build digital tools with zero frills. I do both design and engineering. Design is grounded in technology, and technology serves the design. I don't rely on heavy frameworks, endless third-party dependencies, or LLM-generated code. I believe having a landfill of features destroys a product. I want my software lightweight, fast, and built to last.
SEEKING WORK: EU, Remote Worldwide. I'm a Senior DevOps engineer, Cloud Architect and Infrastructure Engineer. I provide contract or ad-hoc services and support to startups, growth companies and enterprises. I'm often called to set up greenfield DevOps installations, architect and build cloud infrastructures, design platform architectures, build cloud-based, SaaS and mobile products and assist with emergency or short-staffed situations.
SEEKING WORK | Oslo, Norway (CET) | Remote (EU/US time zones). ML/LLM and systems engineer working in Python/PyTorch and Rust. 8+ years of professional experience with Python and machine learning; 5 years of production Rust. PhD in math, MSc financial economics, MSc neuroscience. Available for freelance work on: performance: profiling Python services, identifying bottlenecks and moving performance-critical code into Rust w/ PyO3; LLM systems: agentic workflows with tools, planning and evaluation; inference serving w/ vLLM and TensorRT; edge inference; Backend and data systems/data engineering: async Rust services, databases and high-throughput data pipelines; Quant and finance: backtesting engines, financial risk and fraud modeling; Image and audio: applied ML, including generative models.
SEEKING WORK: Remote from EU. I'm a senior technical specialist for startups. I offer assessment, planning, strategy, architecture, design, build, deploy and management services. I have 25+ years of hands-on experience across all IT roles. I tune my deliverables to exactly what the client needs. I don't do one-size-fits-all solutions. I know how to use AI intelligently, when it works and when it doesn't. I don't do vibe coding.
SEEKING WORK — Senior Software Engineer — Remote from Valencia, Spain. Senior software engineer and independent consultant (15+ yrs), currently based in Valencia, Spain (CET). I do primarily backend work in Python (Django/FastAPI/Flask) and PHP (Laravel/Drupal), API development and consumption, data pipeline work, and AI integration features (RAG, LangChain/LangGraph, vector DBs). Strong infra/ops chops (Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Linux), comfortable owning projects end-to-end and mentoring. Remote-first, with a reliable 4-hour daily overlap with US business hours. Work authorization in US and EU.
SEEKING WORK - Contract, Remote, USA, backend engineer. I am a backend expert, having built and maintained mission critical, low latency and highly available systems for many companies over the last 10 years, in addition to over 20 total years of software development experience. I learn new things extremely quickly. AWS preferred but not required (I hold a variety of certs). Concrete examples: built the primary streaming data architecture for realtime game player tracking information (all games, 50ms SLA) and game stats for one of the top 3 US sports leagues using Redpanda/Kafka on Azure+Terraform, and implemented its developer portal using Gravitee to provide first class streaming API support and monetization.