Hi /r/forhire,

My name's Dave. I recently graduated college with a couple degrees (one in History and one in Philosophy). I'm looking to build my portfolio of work in Ruby on Rails, as that's how I made a living in college and I find it to be pretty fun and challenging. Unfortunately, the majority of the projects I've worked on thus far have been developed under NDA, so I can't really show them off to employers. Also, my frontend skills are lacking from never actually having to do much frontend work (I've generally coded business/data analytics apps in the past), which is something I should probably rectify.

My proposal: You give me a coding task that you'd LIKE done, but don't NEED done RIGHT NOW. Be it to design your personal website or create a crazy industry-specific gem for something that's never been done before. I will hit the ground running on it and learn any associated technologies needed in the process. It might take a little while, but I'll be there to work with you every step of the way. In return, once the project is complete, you pay me whatever you think is fair for the end result I produce and allow me to use it in my portfolio.

Technologies I'm familiar with right out of the gate:

Ruby/Rails (3.2.13 & 4)

Python

Linux/UNIX systems

MySQL/MSSQL

Database design

API consumption

XML parsing

Data scraping

AWS

Asynchronous processing/threading (Redis/Resque)

Reporting

Gmail automation

Video transcoding

QR generation

Inventory management

Things I would like to learn:

*.JS frameworks

Docker

Responsive UI tricks

How to build gems

Testing frameworks

The latest and greatest buzzword-worthy tech

If I sound like someone you'd like to work with, please shoot me a PM and we can start a dialogue.

Yours,

/u/Daveaham_Lincoln