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Hugh G.

Vetted Startups developer in the United States (UTC-5)

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)

Hunter H.

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

Full-stack web application generalist with a focus on frontend rendering optimization. I also have experience making data-driven decisions as a product owner. Some career highlights from 10+ years in the software development industry: * Helped Amazon Music roll out a new subscription service globally (Amazon Music Unlimited) that positioned Amazon as a viable competitor to Spotify in the music streaming business. * Helped launch the new Reddit website that positioned Reddit to appeal to a broader audience. * Taught full stack web development at a coding bootcamp * Operated a 3-person development agency for building startup MVPs * Launched a venture-backed talent marketplace for software engineers. My development philosophy: * After a microservices and client-side JS fever dream in the 2010's, the web dev industry is rediscovering stateful server-side rendering. Evidence of this trend can be seen in the launch of server-components in NextJS 13 in October of 2022 and the launch of LiveView streams in Phoenix 1.7 in February of 2023. After years of working with Agile methodologies, I have come to realize that high-performing teams don't need a heavy process to manage their work. Clear requirements, designs, and task prioritization are often all that is needed. Kanban boards are an effective means of aligning around these goals.

Richard M.

Vetted Startups developer in the United Kingdom

I have designed and built complex software platforms and applications, from mobile to blockchain to enterprise systems spanning the globe. For example: 2022-23 I'm the interim CTO of a social media startup with 10m MAU (monthly active users) and I was hired to lay the foundation to scale the architecture, the team and the processes to grow 10x. 2019 The family that owns BMW hired me to design, build and hire a team to implement a private wealth management platform. I rescued Chase Bank's Y2K project from failure across 40 countries in Asia. A project I spear-headed saved UBS Inv. Bank several hundred million GBP in bad bonus payouts the year it went live...and continued to save money every year after, as it became a core bank system. A mobile app for early years eduction that I built won national press recognition and research awards from Oxford University. I am an internationally experienced Architect, Leader and Full Stack Software Engineer. [http://www.richardmcsharry.com](http://www.richardmcsharry.com/)

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.**

Milan N.

Vetted Startups developer in Bulgaria (UTC+3)

I have 15 years of experience building teams and software. I help businesses build the right software the right way. Sharing my knowledge and expertise on nankov.com

Andrei S.

Vetted Startups developer in Romania (UTC+2)

Andrei is a senior software developer and ex-Microsoft engineer with 10+ years of experience developing web, desktop, mobile, and blockchain apps using Ruby, C#, and Javascript. His products brought $100M+ in total revenue and are used by dozens of millions of users to this day. Being a startup founder himself, Andrei knows exactly what brands need to succeed and how to bridge the gap between business and technology. He is here to help companies grow using the right software and tools.

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.

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.

Marcos L.

Vetted Startups developer in Brazil (UTC-3)

My name is Marcos, I am a senior Elixir developer and love program using Elixir, in the past few years I worked in several companies, developing solutions in areas of financial, exchanges, blockchain/nft/games, and real state. I love to learn and any kind of innovation, recently I would like to continue to work and learn more about blockchain, and languages such as solidity and rust but my expertise is Elixir lang which I am passionate and consider myself as a senior/expert The last companies that I worked in recent jobs are from Australia, Canada and USA working together with remote people from around the world, such as the USA and South America. My preference right now is to work for a company full time and for a long period.

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).