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SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with 16 years of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companie

SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with 16 years of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. If you have web projects, then there's a good chance I've worked on something similar before and will be able to hit the ground running. If you need more general programming, I can do it. If you're doing something a bit esoteric, that would definitely suit me – I've done FPGAs, network protocols, speech recognition, more ETL than you can shake a stick at, and devising novel algorithms. I haven't yet found a programming language that I'm not productive in. In the last 5 years I've written (at least) C#, Java, Python, Javascript (browser and Node.js), and Ruby professionally. Earlier this year, I quickly picked up Typescript, and soon helped the rest of the team understand it better. I'm friendly and easy-going, enjoy mentoring and working with other developers. I recently developed an important new feature for a client within an existing codebase with tests within their ten day budget. I'm happiest on fixed-term projects that I can complete on a schedule that suits both of us, and my clients have been very happy with this process too. My consulting website is https://www.lambdacambridge.com https://www.lambdacambridge.com Email: robin [at] the website above

dmak 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what are the rates like in London for a technical consultant like yourself?
- Robin_Message 7y ago
  Hmmmm. It's a reasonable question but I'm not sure if I'm comfortable putting it here. Drop me an e-mail and I can give some numbers though. (Because my rate varies based on a number of factors and this is effectively an advert, I don't want to anchor any buyers incorrectly in either direction. Too expensive: I don't want to say 2X and have companies with a budget of X and an interesting job rule me out, as I might do X for the right job. Too cheap: I don't want to say Y and have companies with a 2Y budget either get me for cheap or reject me because they infer I'm not good enough. And if you're looking for someone to hire, look, I can do commercial thinking as well as programming and I've given away that I'll give you a discount for an interesting project. Drop me an e-mail with what you need and I'll give you a price.)
  - _-___________-_ 7y ago
    That opening paren had me feeling nervous all the way to the end of your comment. I was really relieved to see the last character.

dmak 7y ago

Out of curiosity, what are the rates like in London for a technical consultant like yourself?

Robin_Message 7y ago
Hmmmm. It's a reasonable question but I'm not sure if I'm comfortable putting it here. Drop me an e-mail and I can give some numbers though. (Because my rate varies based on a number of factors and this is effectively an advert, I don't want to anchor any buyers incorrectly in either direction. Too expensive: I don't want to say 2X and have companies with a budget of X and an interesting job rule me out, as I might do X for the right job. Too cheap: I don't want to say Y and have companies with a 2Y budget either get me for cheap or reject me because they infer I'm not good enough. And if you're looking for someone to hire, look, I can do commercial thinking as well as programming and I've given away that I'll give you a discount for an interesting project. Drop me an e-mail with what you need and I'll give you a price.)
- _-___________-_ 7y ago
  That opening paren had me feeling nervous all the way to the end of your comment. I was really relieved to see the last character.