I’ve been working in software development and management for about 10 years, but I’m currently on a break while I unwind a little and try some directions out before immersing myself in full time work again. I’m open to people using my technical skills:
either as a paid contractor or volunteering, depending on how much I like you / the work
over relatively short time commitments, e.g.:
we talk for 1-4 hours about something you’re working on and I give you my thoughts or advice,
you have some open-source (or open-to-me at least) project that you’d be interested in me looking at, or some problem with it you’re stuck on and you’d appreciate another pair of eyes on (either pair programming or I investigate by myself),
you have some longer (say 2-4 week) project that you think someone could hammer out that would subsequently require little to no maintenance / could be set up to be maintained by someone else non- / semi-technical.
My expertise is pretty broad, and I think it’s fair to guess I can pick up anything reasonably quickly. I’ve covered the broad domains of frontend / backend / Linux command-line / sysadmin / infrastructure-as-code—if you want more details, just ask, or look at LinkedIn or GitHub.
I’m also interested in talking to people who have done contracting work:
of this kind, to talk about what your technical experience was like,
or, in the UK, in any field, to talk to me about the administrative stuff / invoicing / tax treatment / etc.
In all cases, feel free to DM me to talk about it, or tell me who I should talk to.
Also, if you have some thing where you think “this doesn’t sound like it meets the above criteria, but I bet Ben could help me with it anyway”, I’m happy to hear your pitch :)
I’ve been working in software development and management for about 10 years, but I’m currently on a break while I unwind a little and try some directions out before immersing myself in full time work again. I’m open to people using my technical skills:
either as a paid contractor or volunteering, depending on how much I like you / the work
over relatively short time commitments, e.g.:
we talk for 1-4 hours about something you’re working on and I give you my thoughts or advice,
you have some open-source (or open-to-me at least) project that you’d be interested in me looking at, or some problem with it you’re stuck on and you’d appreciate another pair of eyes on (either pair programming or I investigate by myself),
you have some longer (say 2-4 week) project that you think someone could hammer out that would subsequently require little to no maintenance / could be set up to be maintained by someone else non- / semi-technical.
My expertise is pretty broad, and I think it’s fair to guess I can pick up anything reasonably quickly. I’ve covered the broad domains of frontend / backend / Linux command-line / sysadmin / infrastructure-as-code—if you want more details, just ask, or look at LinkedIn or GitHub.
I’m also interested in talking to people who have done contracting work:
of this kind, to talk about what your technical experience was like,
or, in the UK, in any field, to talk to me about the administrative stuff / invoicing / tax treatment / etc.
In all cases, feel free to DM me to talk about it, or tell me who I should talk to.
Also, if you have some thing where you think “this doesn’t sound like it meets the above criteria, but I bet Ben could help me with it anyway”, I’m happy to hear your pitch :)