Hire me for consulting, training and mentoring in Rust, web, performance and more.

If you’re interested in hiring me for anything, short or long, email me. I’ll normally respond within 12 hours.

My expertise

I am an expert generalist software developer. My particular favourite topics are Rust, the web in general, performance, usability and accessibility.

I’ve been using Rust since 2013 and am expert in it. I was a very early mover in applying Rust to the web space, pioneering a number of novel approaches to handling the web that played to Rust’s strengths, though I’m not much involved in web framework/library implementation at this time. More recently I’ve been using Rust in various web and non‐web things.

Services offered

• Focusing on the Rust programming language:

  • Training and guidance at all levels, whether you’re a total beginner to programming or an expert in many other languages.

  • Troubleshooting to help you figure problems out when something’s not working, and explain it in detail.

  • Code review, especially if you’re new to Rust and would like to make sure you’re doing things the right way. (I reckon that getting a Rust pro to review your code is extremely valuable, even if you’re expert in other languages—​Rust is different in a few crucial ways from does things differently often enough for it to matter. Time and again I’ve worked with individuals and clients where I’m confident that an hour or two now has made their project much more successful and saved them a huge amount of trouble later on.)

  • Advice on whether Rust is a good idea for your project—​sometimes it is, often it’s not the pragmatic solution.

  • Contract programming of most kinds, if you just want someone else to get you results.

• Focusing on the web:

  • Web performance testing and analysis, with detailed recommendations on how to make things better (not just following some checklist, but examining things and suggeting concrete implementation plans and things to think about).

  • Web accessibility training, a fairly low‐key thing mostly focusing on awareness, knowing what’s possible, where to look for more information, and principles to keep in mind for making your web system accessible.

  • Web accessibility testing and analysis, with detailed recommendations. (But bear in mind at the same time that I’m not impaired in any way—​I recommend finding a blind person to start with and just getting them to use your system; it can be painfully enlightening.)

  • Web implementation, including writing HTML, CSS and JavaScript, if you want a great website or web app but don’t want to implement it yourself.

  • Svelte training at all levels, whether web rookie, jQuery devotee or React expert.

Where

I offer my services world‐wide remotely over the internet, and in person for Australia and New Zealand.

For on‐site visits, I’m currently willing to travel to Melbourne [I live in a tiny country town in western Victoria called Navarre.] for a minimum of a day’s work (eight hours), or to just about anywhere in Australia or New Zealand for at least a week’s worth of work (forty hours). I’m open to negotiating on‐site visits in other countries too, but it’ll be at much higher rates. And the internet’s pretty good these days.

How much

My standard rate is AUD 100 per hour for Australia [GST not applicable, I am not currently registered for GST.] and New Zealand, and USD 100 per hour for the rest of the world. I mostly round to the nearest half hour.

These rates are purely indicative; I reserve the right to vary my rates by client.

I normally bill in arrears, and can accept payment by credit card (via Stripe) or by bank transfer in most countries (via Wise).

Testimonials

Here are some reviews I’ve received, some from 1:1 mentoring on the Codementor platform (which I used to use), and some from direct sources like training.

Interested? Email me and let’s talk.

If you’re interested in hiring me for anything, drop me a line and we can talk. If you’d like a voice or video call, I default to using Jitsi Meet (free and open source, and nothing extra to install), but I’m also readily available on Skype and Discord, and can also use any other platform that you provide if it works in a browser; mention a preference and your contact details for that platform if applicable and we can connect that way too.

I don’t currently use a formal bookings system, but I do have general guidance on my typical calendar availability.