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Hey, I'm Tim. Right now I'm building Hot Page at https://hot.page. My email is just my name at hot.page.
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Comment · 1 month ago
SEEKING WORK | NYC / Mexico | Remote

Hey, I'm Tim, a full stack developer with 13 years of experience building web, mobile and AI apps. I've spent the past year as founding engineer for an AI data startup, designing and building a multi-agent system. I took this project from nothing to delivering for a 7-figure enterprise contract in a matter of months, including: robust chat streaming; a custom data lake with versioned metadata; curation pipelines capable of downloading any public data on the internet; agent workflows that clean data, create metadata and document common query patterns and pitfalls; agents that write code and commit it to source control; an artifact system for on-the-fly interactive charts, maps and dashboard with live data.

As a longtime freelancer, I've taken many projects from conception to production and I can spot potential problems in UX and architecture long before they bite. I take pride in attention to detail and craft, from pleasing frontend interactions to well-organized backends that are ready to scale. I'm a former journalist and staff writer at the Washington Post, so I've got strong communication skills and can write clear documentation. Please take a look at my portfolio to have a look at what I've built: https://hotttest.hot.page

I'm originally from Connecticut and currently living between New Haven, Conn and Mexico City. I am looking for remote work right now, but happy to travel for the right gig. If you're interested in building something together, please send me a note at [email protected]

Comment · 1 month ago
Location: New Haven, Conn / Mexico City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but happy to travel Technologies: TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, LLM agents (agent architecture, tool use, streaming, generative UI), SQL, PostgreSQL, DuckDB, Qdrant, Redis, Flutter, Ruby on Rails, Google Cloud, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform/OpenTofu Résumé/CV: https://hottest.hot.page LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-farnam/ Email: [email protected]

Hey, I'm Tim, a full stack developer with 13 years of experience building web, mobile and AI apps. I've spent the past year as founding engineer for an AI data startup, designing and building a multi-agent system. I took this project from nothing to delivering for a 7-figure enterprise contract in a matter of months, including: robust chat streaming; a custom data lake with versioned metadata; curation pipelines capable of downloading any public data on the internet; agent workflows that clean data, create metadata and document common query patterns and pitfalls; agents that write code and commit it to source control; an artifact system for on-the-fly interactive charts, maps and dashboard with live data.

I've taken many projects from conception to production and I can spot potential problems in UX and architecture long before they bite. I take pride in attention to detail and craft, from pleasing frontend interactions to well-organized backends that are ready to scale. I'm a former journalist and staff writer at the Washington Post, so I've got strong communication skills and can write clear documentation.

Comment · 5 months ago
Sounds like a good use case for CRDTs, which would also enable offline editing
Comment · 8 months ago
I know a fair number of non-technical folks that hate the idea of trusting Google or Apple with their data. It's part of a generalized backlash to big tech corps that will only increase as their size and power over our lives continues to grow unchecked. Godspeed GrapheneOS
Comment · 1 year ago
SEEKING WORK | Mexico City / Remote | Senior Full-Stack Developer with excellent communication skills

Technologies: NodeJS/Express, Rails, React/Vue/Solid, Dart/Flutter, Native HTML Web Components, Terraform, Kubernetes, Serverless, Firebase, Typescript, Rich Text Editors, Stripe

Résumé/CV: https://hottest.hot.page

Email: twfarnam at gmail.com

Hey, I'm Tim, a senior fullstack developer from New York, now based in Mexico. I have more than 12 YoE on all kinds of web apps as well as mobile and server environments. I love backend and APIs, but I have a passion for pixel-perfect UIs and frontend magic. I have built many of my own projects from start to finish so I have learned a lot about good UX/UI, can choose the best technologies for the job, spot problems before they arrive and write solid tests. My prior career in journalism made me a great communicator and writer. I also enjoy devops and managing servers using Linux, Docker and Kubernetes. I have built many apps on AWS and Google Cloud, including using Terraform for infra and Github Actions for CI/CD.

Right now, I have a side hustle bootstrapping Hot Page (https://hot.page) and releasing native HTML web components as part of my open source project HotFX (https://fx.hot.page).

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
SEEKING WORK | Mexico City / Remote | Senior Full-Stack Developer with excellent communication skills

Technologies: NodeJS/Express, Rails, React/Vue/Solid, Dart/Flutter, Native HTML Web Components, Terraform, Kubernetes, Serverless, Firebase, Typescript, Rich Text Editors, Stripe

Résumé/CV: https://hottest.hot.page

Email: twfarnam at gmail.com

Hey, I'm Tim, a senior fullstack developer from New York, now based in Mexico. I have more than 12 YoE on all kinds of web apps as well as mobile and server environments. I love backend and APIs, but I have a passion for pixel-perfect UIs and frontend magic. I have built many of my own projects from start to finish so I have learned a lot about good UX/UI, can choose the best technologies for the job, spot problems before they arrive and write solid tests. My prior career in journalism made me a great communicator and writer. I also enjoy devops and managing servers using Linux, Docker and Kubernetes. I have built many apps on AWS and Google Cloud, including using Terraform for infra and Github Actions for CI/CD.

Right now, I have a side hustle bootstrapping Hot Page (https://hot.page) and releasing native HTML web components as part of my open source project HotFX (https://fx.hot.page).

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Wow, thanks! I've basically been building this in a silo so it's very nice to get such enthusiastic feedback. I am really dedicated to bootstrapping Hot Page with my own resources so that no one can pressure me to make the design more generic or somehow exploit the customers. Of course, it has not been easy doing all the programming and most of the marketing myself though. Right now we really need customers like yourself who are willing to use the beta version and provide feedback -- so thanks so much for your support!
Comment · 2 years ago
There was an issue yesterday evening that was causing 500 errors. My apologies to anyone who experienced this but it's been fixed now. Please try it again!
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for flagging!
Comment · 2 years ago
We are working on a feature to let paid users download their sites as a zip file or export them to cloud storage buckets (s3/aws, google cloud, etc). So far though it's meant to be used with our hosting. Free accounts have an advertisement for Hot Page itself but they let you connect your own domain for free.

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