As thrilled as I am about the significant progress I’m making with Siren, it’s hardly in a place to replace my income, and the simple reality is that building a business like this is a long, slow grind that I’m happy to do, but takes time.
In the meantime, I need to have a source of income, and considering I decided to take a plunge back into freelancing, that means my availability for for contract work just opened up!
My ideal clients are usually teams that are managing one, or more complex WordPress implementations, who need someone to help them with the technical aspects of their site.
I am particularly interested in taking clients to hire me to help them develop their products, and either get them launched, or help them develop a path to overcome technical debt so they can better-implement future features. I already have a client who I’m doing this for, and it’s been very rewarding, and I’ve gotten really good at it. Unfortunately, I can’t give more details on that specific project due to confidentiality 😔, but a lot of the process looks like what I did when I developed, and launched Siren.
Some other things I’ve done in recent history that could be a good fit:
An agency who recently inherited a new website, and needs a site audit to help understand how the site works.
A custom integration with an external service, usually using a REST API. I’ve done several of these over the years.
- Case Study – RESTful Events Integration
- Case Study – Oracle NetSuite Integration for WooCommerce
- Case Study – Indexing Platform for News Aggregation API
WordPress Plugin Feature Implementations
- My resume shows a storied history in working for plugin companies, where I played integral parts in feature implementations.
Here’s a few nice things people have said about me in the past:
Alex and I have a long history of working together on different projects, and once I ran into a wall working with the third-party API mentioned in this post, I knew it was time to call in the big guns. These kinds of integrations aren’t my core strength as a developer, but I knew it’d be a good ‘snack’ for Alex.
In my career, I’ve found that it sometimes isn’t what you know, but how fast you can find the answer. In this case, the answer happened to be Alex’s expertise. It’s also important to be humble and admit when another developer’s expertise in a specific area trumps yours.
Mike D’Agruma
[Alex] was definitely opinionated about the architecture. We brought him a problem that definitely had some constraints on it and we didn’t have to go back and forth with him a lot about how the thing should be built. He understood the problem and suggested a solution. From there we were able to discuss some specifics and make some minor adjustments but overall, that initial architecture is what we ended up shipping and that saved us a lot of time.
Keanan Koppenhaver, Alpha Particle
Woof woof, WOOF WOOF WOOF! BARK BARK BARK!
My Dog. Trust me, it’s all good things. (Just please don’t talk to my cat.)
Contact Me
If you have a project need, and think that I may be a good fit, I invite you to reach out. Feel free to use the comment form below with details (it will not be published publicly), or alternatively simply email me directly at alex@standiford.us.
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