Hacker News: gwn7

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)"

gwn7 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:43:07 +0000

SEEKING WORK

Location: Berlin

Remote: Possible but on-site preferred

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Go, Node, React, React Native, Electron, D3, Postgres, advanced SQL, Linux, Cloud Native, Microservices, Serverless, WebRTC, Ethereum

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2025)"

gwn7 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:41:07 +0000

SEEKING WORK

Location: Berlin

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Can visit as long as it is necessary during the work

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Go, Node, React, React Native, Electron, D3, Postgres, advanced SQL, Linux, Cloud Native, Microservices, Serverless, WebRTC, Ethereum

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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Experienced (10+ yrs) full stack product engineer. Very good at both web & mobile & desktop apps, APIs, Postgres, Linux, mentorship, and communication in general. Touch typist, VIM ninja, refactoring monster. With an academic background of philosophy.

Been developing a lot of different projects for different teams, company types (startups, scale-ups, enterprise) and industries (finance, crypto, digital marketing, automation, online education, e-commerce).

My technical specialty is building simple systems with few moving parts that contain as little accidental complexity as possible. I'm pragmatic but always chase proper implementations at the same time. I don’t easily buy the hype nor subscribe to every new shiny tool & paradigm. I focus on robust & reliable software as much as possible.

My business specialty is caring greatly about understanding your domain, business model, figuring out your product priorities and actually iterating fast. In a world where the majority of software projects fail and the majority of engineering hires disappoint, I am promising you the peace of mind of knowing that you have an actually capable engineer beside you who understands your business model, cares about your investment and is able to make good judgements.

Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)"

gwn7 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:40:39 +0000

Location: Berlin

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Go, Node, React, React Native, Electron, D3, Postgres, advanced SQL, Linux, Cloud Native, Microservices, Serverless, WebRTC, Ethereum, EVM-based chains, Ethers, Solidity

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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(Contract only)

Been developing a lot of different projects for different teams, company types (startups, scale-ups, enterprise) and industries (fintech, adtech, edtech, e-commerce, BI).

Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

gwn7 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:26:56 +0000

CryptoQuant clone with geography-specific features tailored for banking clients.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)"

gwn7 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:37:21 +0000

Location: Berlin

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Yes

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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(Contract only)

Been developing a lot of different projects for different teams, company types (startups, scale-ups, enterprise) and industries (fintech, adtech, edtech, e-commerce, BI).

Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025)"

gwn7 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:34:46 +0000

SEEKING WORK

Location: Berlin

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Can visit as long as it is necessary during the work

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Go, Node, React, React Native, Electron, D3, Postgres, advanced SQL, Linux, Cloud Native, Microservices, Serverless, WebRTC, Ethereum

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)"

gwn7 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:43:25 +0000

Location: Berlin

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Yes

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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(Contract only)

Been developing a lot of different projects for different teams, company types (startups, scale-ups, enterprise) and industries (fintech, adtech, edtech, e-commerce, BI).

Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.

New comment by gwn7 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

gwn7 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 06:12:47 +0000

Time will tell. You will see that it's not going to happen and realize how naive you were at some point. I promise you.

New comment by gwn7 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

gwn7 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:53:52 +0000

None of those are true.

Those are lies spread by the mainstream media (which is mostly controlled by leftists) and you are a victim for believing them.

I know that the HN crowd are left-leaning and I'm going to be downvoted like hell. Maybe even flagged, because apparently leftist platforms like censorship.

But I don't have to prove my point nor there is a need to argue.

My point will be proven in the coming months because as time goes by you guys will see that nothing bad will happen to democracy nor women's rights or anything else important. Economy and public health is going to improve among many other things.

You will see. Just pay attention.

Then maybe you will remember and regret downvoting me.

Oh, also: Listen to what the man is saying himself. Not what the mainstream media says he is saying. Try to see past merely Trump & his public image as well. Pay attention to what the people on his team are saying. Great people like RFK Jr, Tulsi, Vivek, and JD. Maybe you will find yourself to be enlightened.

Peace.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)"

gwn7 — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:33:45 +0000

SEEKING WORK

Location: Paris

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Go, Node, React, React Native, Electron, D3, Postgres, advanced SQL, Linux, Cloud Native, Microservices, Serverless, WebRTC, Ethereum

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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(Contract only)

Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2024)"

gwn7 — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 10:30:13 +0000

SEEKING WORK

Location: Paris

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Can visit as long as it is necessary during the work

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Go, Node, React, React Native, Electron, D3, Postgres, advanced SQL, Linux, Cloud Native, Microservices, Serverless, WebRTC, Ethereum

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)"

gwn7 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:57:46 +0000

Location: Paris

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Yes

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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(Contract only)

Been developing a lot of different projects for different teams, company types (startups, scale-ups, enterprise) and industries (fintech, adtech, edtech, e-commerce, BI).

Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)"

gwn7 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:29:01 +0000

Location: Paris Remote: Flexible Willing to relocate: Yes

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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(Contract jobs only)

Experienced (10 yrs) full stack product engineer. Very good at both web & mobile & desktop apps, APIs, Postgres, Linux, mentorship, and communication in general. Touch typist, VIM ninja, refactoring monster. With an academic background of philosophy.

Been developing a lot of different projects for different teams, company types (startups, scale-ups, enterprise) and industries (finance, digital marketing, automation, online education, e-commerce).

Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2024)"

gwn7 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:27:19 +0000

SEEKING WORK

Location: Paris Remote: Flexible Willing to relocate: Can visit as long as it is necessary during the work

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Go, Node, React, React Native, Electron, D3, Postgres, advanced SQL, Linux, Cloud Native, Microservices, Serverless, WebRTC, Ethereum

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ship faster by building design systems slower (2023)"

gwn7 — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 23:06:46 +0000

I agree with the sentiment, but don't appreciate the way you put it (lacks nuance). I think it is obvious that developing custom design systems can sometimes give companies a competitive advantage, hence there might be a non-zero value here. Heavily depends on the product and the target audience.

In any case, the market has your answers. So many people are doing their own design systems. Can all this effort be caused by merely arrogance? There ought to be something else reinforcing this behavior.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)"

gwn7 — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 18:42:35 +0000

Location: Paris

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Not "relocate" since I'm only open to contract jobs, but willing to visit as much & as long as necessary. US & Canada are ok as well.

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Go, Node, React, React Native, Electron, D3, Postgres, advanced SQL, Linux, Cloud Native, Microservices, Serverless, WebRTC, Ethereum

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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(Contract jobs only)

Been developing a lot of different projects for different teams, company types (startups, scale-ups, enterprise) and industries (finance, digital marketing, automation, online education, e-commerce).

Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.

New comment by gwn7 in "Rules of schema growth (2017)"

gwn7 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:25:52 +0000

> I think having a central database that directly interfaces with multiple applications is an enormous source of technical debt and other risks, and unnecessary for most organizations.

I think that the operative word here is "over time". So what is meant is not necessarily supporting many applications at the same time, but rather serially.

So the message is supposed to be: Apps come and go as they can be rewritten for so many reasons, but there will be a lot less reasons to redesign / replace a "valuable" database.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)"

gwn7 — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 14:11:23 +0000

Thank you for the feedback, but all I meant was that "I'm happy to travel to anywhere in the world". I'm only looking for contract jobs (as communicated near the end of my post) and that's why I mentioned visits. I've revised the language of the "willing to relocate" item of my post to make my situation clearer.

New comment by gwn7 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)"

gwn7 — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 13:20:16 +0000

Location: Paris

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not really, but open to visit as much & as long as necessary, regardless of the location

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Go, Node, React, React Native, Electron, D3, Postgres, advanced SQL, Linux, Cloud Native, Microservices, Serverless, WebRTC, Ethereum

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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Experienced (15 yrs) full stack product engineer. Very good at both web & mobile & desktop apps, APIs, Postgres, Linux, mentorship, and communication in general. Touch typist, VIM ninja, refactoring monster. With an academic background of philosophy.

Been developing a lot of different projects for different teams, company types (startups, scale-ups, entreprise) and industries (finance, digital marketing, automation, online education, e-commerce).

Late focus is finance technologies. Been building exchanges, trading bots, payment gateways, banking APIs, financial monitoring & reporting tools, as well as crypto. Open to all kinds of projects though.

Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Only open to contract work & consultancy. I run a small guild and have very talented people around me with whom I've been working with for a while. We usually give support together which works best. You can contract one or two or more of us depending on your situation to receive whatever support you might need for as long as you need.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.

See website at https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html for more information or reach me at hire@gwn.wtf

New comment by gwn7 in "Show HN: SQL Dry Runs with SQL Simulator"

gwn7 — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 07:07:40 +0000

I'm sure it can't match the flexibility & features your program offers, but a hacker's way would be providing that functionality via a one liner targeting their database. Assuming that dbs.txt contains a list of connection strings and migration.sql contains a set of SQL commands, an example for Postgres would be:

  cat dbs.txt | xargs -I% sh -c 'cat migration.sql | sed "1ibegin;" | sed "\$arollback;" | psql %'

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to shit on your product; just wanted to share the way I accomplish basically the same goal. Congrats on your release and hope it gets the attention it deserves.