For Germany specific Blue Card, company doesn't really need to support the candidate, its fairly straight forward and easy to obtain if the candidate has the salary & degree for BC, they just need a job contract.
Its amazing so far! I'm unemployable, I don't like commiting to a company, working in the same project for longer than 6 months, maximum is like 12 months if its a good one. I like working and collaborating with people but I hate all the corporate BS, team buildings, scrum meetings, meetings to set other meetings. And I hate working for 40 hours.
I started my career as a freelancer, then had to take a fulltime job to move countries and get permanent residency, switched back to freelancing 2 years ago. Now I'm working around 20-30 hours per week and make 2x than my first full-time job.
My fulltime jobs were "very flexible" and fully remote after the covid but I always had to be online at specific times or had to pretend that I'm online. Now I'm super flexible, I can work 4 hours in the morning and enjoy rest of the day off, or work 3 days and take rest of the days off and I don't have to report to anyone about these.
I'm fine even if I don't have a job for 6 months or so, I travel a lot with a campervan. I don't have any debt or kids. I've been always lucky with getting clients somehow. So I guess thats a luxury.
TLDR; I love it but finding a stable stream of clients might be stressful.
> The project is conducted in partnership with the Strengthening Social Cohesion and Peace in Sri Lanka (SCOPE) programme, co-funded by the European Union and German Federal Foreign Office. SCOPE is implemented by GIZ in partnership with the Ministry of Justice, Prisons Affairs and Constitutional Reforms.
Is this specific project really funded by tax-payers money?
> Curated thousands of 3D assets to replace default buildings
How does this help to achieve any of these below ?
> Potential applications include:
> Simulating changes in roads, transport routes
> Exploring effects of changes in private transport
policies
> Visualizing impact of new infrastructure like monorails or wider pavements
> Assessing effects of introducing more green spaces or parking areas
SEEKING WORK | Germany | Remote, can overlap with US timezones
OFFERING: Product engineer with 15+ years of hands on experience. Most productive with the Ruby on Rails stack.
RECENT PROJECTS:
* Was part of a small team and shipped features from MVP to launch for an AI startup.(US)
* Was part of a team of engineers for a warehouse management system of a industry leading e-commerce company.(US)
* Led the small development and product team for a food delivery app from zero to production. Was responsible for basically everything such as technical architecture and roadmap, setting up and maintaining the production environment, hands on coding for the backend and the mobile app.(SEA)
Please contact me for the references.
PAST EXPERIENCE: Yelp, Xing, Codementor, several small startups.
I hate that developers are inventing their own "patterns" to look cool, they keep overengineering even the product doesn't have the PMF yet and you can't say that is stupid because you have to be professional.
SEEKING WORK | Germany | Remote, can overlap with US timezones
OFFERING: Product-minded engineer with 15+ years of hands on experience. Most productive with the Rails stack.
Can help with:
* Building your MVP in short time
* Building new cool features and fixing bugs on your project
* Building your SAAS
* Building your mobile app's MVP in 4 weeks.
* Refactoring your legacy app into a readable and maintainable codebase
or any other web&mobile development work.
I'm open to flat rate pricing for well scoped projects.
RECENT PROJECTS:
* Led the small development and product team for a food delivery app from zero to production. Was responsible for basically everything such as technical architecture and roadmap, setting up and maintaining the production environment, hands on coding for the backend and the mobile app.
PAST EXPERIENCE: Yelp, Xing, Codementor, several small startups.
SEEKING WORK | Germany | Remote, can overlap with US timezones
OFFERING: Product-minded engineer with 15+ years of hands on experience. Most productive with the Rails stack.
Can help with:
* Building your MVP in short time
* Building new cool features and fixing bugs on your project
* Building your SAAS
* Building your mobile app's MVP in 4 weeks.
* Refactoring your legacy app into a readable and maintainable codebase
or any other web&mobile development work.
RECENT PROJECTS:
* Led the small development and product team for a food delivery app from zero to production. Was responsible for basically everything such as technical architecture and roadmap, setting up and maintaining the production environment, hands on coding for the backend and the mobile app.
PAST EXPERIENCE: Yelp, Xing, Codementor, several small startups.
SEEKING WORK | Germany | Remote, can overlap with US timezones
OFFERING: Product-minded engineer with 15+ years of hands on experience. Most productive with the Rails stack.
Can help with:
* Building your MVP in short time
* Building new cool features and fixing bugs on your project
* Building your SAAS
* Building your mobile app's MVP in 4 weeks.
* Refactoring your legacy app into a readable and maintainable codebase
or any other web&mobile development work.
RECENT PROJECTS:
* Led the small development and product team for a food delivery app from zero to production. Was responsible for basically everything such as technical architecture and roadmap, setting up and maintaining the production environment, hands on coding for the backend and the mobile app.
PAST EXPERIENCE: Yelp, Xing, Codementor, several small startups.
Another sad thing is, you can easily get buried in the costs of Legal/Tax advisor costs even for some simple stuff.
That is why sometimes its better not to 'entreprendre' anything while living in Germany. The system is setup in a way to make you work full-time for corps.