mamarjan

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SEEKING WORK | Serbia, Europe (CET) | REMOTE ONLY

Working as a remote full-stack freelancer and consultant since 2012 on Ruby and Rails based systems, mostly for US based companies, in all US time zones except Hawaii. BSc and MSc degrees in CS, 4 years of enterprise experience (power and transmission systems) before freelancing, and around 7 more years tinkering with computers and software before that.

With Rails I've worked successfully on greenfield projects and legacy-like projects, with no users and millions of users, alone and in teams of Rails developers or teams with mixed background and responsibilities, as a team member or team lead defining development processes (for remote work). Can plan infrastructure requirements and scale, monitor and optimize systems. Can adopt existing rules in a team or build something from scratch.

Available full-time, part-time or any other level of commitment for new projects or existing projects needing new features or just some love. You can reach me at [email protected] or through UpWork https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/~0121c4ff90f7a4e359/

Limited travel is fine once we're allowed to travel again.

Recent tech stack experience: VPS servers or dedicated, Ruby on Rails (and the usual gems), Sinatra, RSpec, Cucumber, PostgreSQL, Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, API integration (Stripe, Twilio, Sendgrid, Google Calendar and Office365 calendar, ...), Elasticsearch, nginx, Passenger, Unicorn, JavaScript, reactive HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, git, Redis, SQL, microservices, jQuery, barcode (as in those black and white stripes), a little React, AWS and Docker experience...

SEEKING WORK | Serbia, Europe (CET) | REMOTE ONLY

Working as a remote full-stack freelancer and consultant since 2012 on Ruby and Rails based systems, mostly for US based companies, in all US time zones except Hawaii. BSc and MSc degrees in CS, 4 years of enterprise experience (power and transmission systems) before freelancing, and around 7 more years tinkering with computers and software before that.

With Rails I've worked successfully on greenfield projects and legacy-like projects, with no users and millions of users, alone and in teams of Rails developers or teams with mixed background and responsibilities, as a team member or team lead defining development processes (for remote work). Can plan infrastructure requirements and scale, monitor and optimize systems. Can adopt existing rules in a team or build something from scratch.

Available full-time, part-time or any other level of commitment for new projects or existing projects needing new features or just some love. You can reach me at [email protected] or through UpWork https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/~0121c4ff90f7a4e359/

Limited travel is fine once we're allowed to travel again.

Recent tech stack experience: VPS servers or dedicated, Ruby on Rails (and the usual gems), Sinatra, RSpec, Cucumber, PostgreSQL, Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, API integration (Stripe, Twilio, Sendgrid, Google Calendar and Office365 calendar, ...), Elasticsearch, nginx, Passenger, Unicorn, JavaScript, reactive HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, git, Redis, SQL, microservices, jQuery, barcode (as in those black and white stripes), a little React, AWS and Docker experience...

Every additional microservice adds complexity to the system, due to having to factor in many failure situations not present if everything is instead in one process.

There are other options in your case, like isolating any dependencies in a module with a well defined API instead of having it all in a separate (micro-)service.

Kids do stupid things. But the "solution" presented, in form of increasing security measures, does not sound like a solution to me.

Maybe the schools need to change, and kids need to be integrated into the real world, instead of being retained in relatively pretty prisons with bad food until they're adults.

Holy shit! This is me. Now everything makes sense.

Anybody knows how/where to find clients from Europe? As a software developer?

Well, it's probable that no new houses are being built in the place where you were looking for a home. The local community is probably strong too, so not many people are moving away.

I can tell about Novi Sad (250k people, nice university, nice city center etc.), you can indeed get a livable flat for one or two people without kids for anywhere between 20k-35k euro. Though there are still some downsides to living in Serbia.

However, I was born and I still do live here as a freelance software developer (maybe at 30 hours/week, including time for learning new stuff), mostly Rails, nothing fancy, and I can tell that with a family of 4 I'm still saving 75% of my after tax income. Without trying hard to save money. That's what's keeping me from moving westward.

Sounds a bit complicated, but it's true. It's all about negotiation.

I negotiated lower hours a month ago. After almost 3 years on a project, asked to go down to 20hrs/week. As I see it, I have proved I'm trustworthy and that I can contribute significant value to the project even with lower hours.

In addition, my position of power was that I had some cash and other options, in case the other party refuses.

This is actually something that keeps happening to me. I show my value and that I'm trustworthy, and get anything I want, be it working from home, lower hours, or both.