I’m James Porter, and you can hire me to build, operate, debug, and optimize software for you on a contract basis. I’m currently looking for one more client to work with part-time, ideally around 10-20 hours a week. I’m a clear and proactive communicator, a highly effective programmer, and I’m great at keeping sight of bigger picture organizational goals and finding the simplest technical solution to meet them.

I’ve been programming professionally for ten years, mostly focusing on web applications, infrastructure, and data pipelines. I have the most experience with Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and Postgres, but I’ve used everything from C to Haskell to Neo4j over the years. I’m very good at learning new technology as needed; choice of languages and tools will not be an obstacle to our work together. I can debug complex systems and am equally comfortable on greenfield projects or a gnarly legacy codebase. My past work has also involved community management, coaching, hiring, business strategy, etc. in addition to programming, and as a result I’m very adaptable and can see and manage the human factors that play into a project’s success. More details on my resume.

I charge $175 an hour. If that sounds too expensive to you, please get in touch anyway. I’m interested in working with academics and nonprofits, who I know can’t always pay as much as as corporate clients, and I’m happy to negotiate a lower rate if your project is exciting to me.

If you’re interested in working with me, send an email to hire@jamesporter.me with a short description of your organization and the work. From there we’ll set up a time to chat and decide if it’s a good fit. Looking forward to hearing from you!