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Hugh G.

Vetted Startups developer in the United States (UTC-4)

Hi, my name’s Hugh Guiney (🗣 GUY-knee). I’m a UX Developer, which means I design and code thoughtful digital products. I’ve worked with organizations of all sizes, from startups to SMBs to household names. In my spare time I build open-source software, play fighting games, and perform improv comedy. ## Companies I’ve worked with 🏃‍♂️ Runkeeper 💚 Oxfam 🦁 Publicis Sapient 🏦 Citizens Bank 🎮 WB Games 👟 Reebok 📰 The Boston Globe 🏙 The City of Boston ## Services ### Development - HTML5, CSS3, & JavaScript (ES6+) - React— incl. Redux, Context, & Hooks - Node.js - Gatsby - WordPress - Shopify - SEO¹ & Performance ### Design - UI/UX (Look & Feel) - Information Architecture - Components & Design Systems - Usability/Accessibility - Copyediting - Logos & Brand Identity - Responsive Design ## The hughx Advantage: ### 🐖 Economical. With traditional app development, there are two main phases: design and development. First, the designer creates mockups—a series of pictures of what the app will look like. Then the developer translates those pictures into actual code. This duplicates the work of the designer, costing you time and money. Often the designer lacks technical knowledge. At best, this makes the developer’s job harder. At worst this means design revisions. Either way it means more time and more money. There’s a better way. As a hybrid designer–developer, I don’t do mockups—only functional prototypes. That way you can feel what the product will be like, rather than just imagine it. And with fewer cooks in the kitchen, you get to launch and iterate faster. ### ♿️ Empathetic. 50% of the world’s population isn’t online yet¹, but they soon will be. As this happens, they will largely arrive by way of mobile, not desktop. And not on the iPhone 11, either—more like the iPhone from 2011. This means sites and apps designed for Westerners with the latest tech will break for the rest of the world. I believe the Internet should be for everyone. I keep accessibility, performance, and user friendliness top-of-mind at every stage of development. This helps your product reach the broadest possible audience. It’s not just good karma, it’s good business. ### 🏛 Engineered. Just because you’re moving fast doesn’t mean you need to sacrifice quality. Today’s MVP is tomorrow’s legacy codebase. Left unpaid, technical debt manifests as bottlenecks. New features start to break old ones. The app slows to a crawl, increasing bounce rate and costing you sales. Current employees get pulled away from product work to help onboard new employees. Contracting with hughx is an insurance policy against code rot. Modular functions, unit tests, and detailed documentation all come standard. If your customers don’t thank you, your dev team will. ¹ Best practices only. I do not guarantee search engine ranking. ² Source: [Statistics on ITU](https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx)

Jeann C.

Vetted Startups developer in Brazil (UTC-3)

Hello there, I'm a Software Engineer since 2008. For the past seven years, I have specialized in mobile app development. I had the chance to work with both Android and iOS native platforms but nowadays my focus is on iOS using Swift, UIKit, and also SwifUI. I was able to contribute to leading market companies such as Shell Gas Stations and Renner Stores that had millions of users daily and also startups in the first steps of life, such as Able and YouAgro. Also, I was exposed to several different markets, such as e-commerce, finance, pharmaceutical, agribusiness, and a few other consumer apps. As an excellent communicator, I have the flexibility to work well as an independent developer as well as a part of a development team.

Dave R.

Vetted Startups developer (UTC-7)

As an experienced, freelance, mobile and web developer, I make apps for mobile platforms and the web. I have a strong passion for helping businesses of all sizes with big ideas, improve the world we live in through technology. I turn your idea into something real. I have a decade of experience developing apps, JSON API's, services, and scripts. I've used quite a few tools and add new ones often, though I've used, and prefer, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, React.js, React Native, and Node.js the most. I'm a full stack web developer in the truest sense as I'm proficient in everything from CSS3/HTML5 to web development frameworks, to also having extensive DevOps experience with Puppet, Chef, Amazon's AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, among others. I have even architected and implemented full networks built with AWS. I've mentored junior developers quite a bit, and conducted a large amount of interviewing and assisted in hiring other developers. I'm very strong in team building and management skills. In the distant past, I've also served as a security professional, specializing in Malware analysis, Operating System level security and Intrusion Detection analysis. I also have extensive leadership training and experience as a former Naval Officer (Nuclear).

Dimitrios V.

Vetted Startups developer in Greece (UTC+2)

I’m passionate about computer architecture design, distributed computing, HPC and anything related to low-level engineering or requiring to achieve low latency performance. For programming languages I’m using C, C++-17/20 and Python3 on a daily basis. From time to time I also implement CUDA kernels. My preferred compiler is clang along with its tools (clang-tidy and so on) and for build systems I prefer to use Makefiles/CMAKE or Meson+Ninja. I'm comfortable writing assembly in any architecture and I’m familiar with Vector extensions for various architectures(x86/64, Risc5, ARM). In general I have a solid understanding of the underlying hardware components and how to utilize them for performance gains. This also includes concurrency, synchronization primitives and crafting bare metal kernels. In the past I also had to implement compiler infrastructures (including JIT using LLVM-C++-API) for various architectures and emulators. **Finally, one of my #1 skills is that I have many years of different startup environment experience. I believe startups are the best way to progress fast in your career as long as you are able to absorb and process the massive amount of information broadcasted. In the end a startup is no different than a big corporation without the available resources.**

Tomas A.

Vetted Startups developer in Costa Rica (UTC-6)

I am a passionate Senior Software Developer from Sweden who have been working with the .NET stack for 15 years and programming for 25 years, specializing in .NET technologies (C#), AWS, Java, Scala, and C/C++. I am fluent in English and Swedish and speak basic Spanish. I am looking for a freelance contract work that I can do remotely (don't mind changing time-zones as long as I can keep the latitude similar).

Pavel K.

Vetted Startups developer (UTC+2)

Hi. In my 20 years in webdev, I was lucky enough to work with some wonder people. These folks can start using any new programming language and platform in one day and master it to the expert level in two months. Being one of them I'm always curios why can't everyone progress in the same pace? I found out there the limiting beliefs that prevent people from being better engineers, so I'd be glad if I can help someone notice and overcome this kind of limitations. In other words, if you need to fix your website - we can fix your website. But more important, I could guide you with a friendly coaching questions to a better approach to any engineering problems. Want to improve the very foundations of your work skills? Drop me a line.

Jayen A.

Vetted Startups developer (UTC+10)

"I consider myself a problem solver, but I am mainly focused on problems that technology can solve. As a tech enthusiast and serial entrepreneur, I enjoy working with startups looking for breakthroughs in their fields. From idea generation to planning to launch and growth, I enjoy collaborating with clients and addressing their concerns. Let's connect and discuss your learning/project requirements. My past ICT roles: systems analyst, analyst programmer, computer network and systems engineer, developer programmer, systems administrator, software engineer, database administrator, network administrator, support engineer, web programmer My computer science specialties: algorithms and data structures, robotics, machine learning, networking, information visualization, Linux, distributed computing, graph theory, operating systems, and computer architecture. Some non-computing specialties: GSD, teaching [people], data science & analytics. "

Gaston S.

Vetted Startups developer in Argentina (UTC-3)

Passionate Android Developer with 7+ years on hand with the Android Framework, Google Developer Expert @ Android & Firebase, Google Associate Android Developer Certification, have made several apps and created delivery app Uh-lala! My mission is to **help you understand the ins and outs of android development** and let you progress in your Android development career. I have been in multiple startups and worked with different apps (fintech, delivery apps, uber apps, and social media apps) which brought to me a broad range of knowledge on these different areas. Currently I'm working as a **Senior Android Engineer** for a big eCommerce app located in LA called ThriveMarket I'm also focused on **backend development** with Firebase which will let you scale your application for large apps and Architecture with MVVM. I have a strong love for **Clean Architecture** and best practices while coding, love to read, and learn every day.

Anup ☁.

Vetted Startups developer in India (UTC-8)

Anup is a Salesforce Certified System and Application Architect with a successful 9-year track record of working hands-on in all aspects of Salesforce implementations (architecture, development, and enhancements). He is a Lightning developer who is also experienced in creating solution designs and building advanced features using integrations, Apex triggers/classes, Visualforce, and so on. His primary industry domain is technology media telecommunication, real estate, and US government projects.

Gokul C.

Vetted Startups developer in India (UTC+6)

● Seasoned hands-on Software and Data Science Professional with a proven track record of working in several startups and research labs. 14+ years in the industry with 9 years of remote work; Also a researcher with 14 publications in top-tier conferences/journals in areas allied to Machine Learning and Computer Science. ● Hands-on experience in Python, JS, (and to a lesser extent several other programming languages), data science, ML/AI, and scientific research, with a knack for strategic engineering and data science roadmap creation. ● Contributed to over 15 startups as a consultant, founder, or employee across diverse business verticals. I’ve successfully done code-rewrites/refactorings; written platforms ground up; managed devops, hired and managed software/data science teams, and in general, everything needed to keep startups afloat!