Hire me
Six things I can be engaged to do, each one backed by work on this site rather than by a claim. Available for a paid trial task, contract work, part-time hours or a full-time remote role.
Ways to work together
Start here
The lowest-risk way to find out whether I am any good: a small, scoped, paid piece of real work. Rate a set of outputs, review a document, test a feature, write up a process. You see the actual quality instead of reading about it, and you are out very little if the answer is no.
Best if you are unsure, or if my lack of formal employment history is the hesitation.
A defined piece of work with an agreed scope and deliverable — an evaluation set built and scored, a workflow automated, a body of content reviewed.
Best for a specific problem with a clear finish line.
A fixed number of hours a week on continuing work: rating queues, QA passes, support cover, documentation upkeep.
Best for work that recurs rather than ends.
What I am primarily looking for. South Africa, UTC+2, which overlaps the full European working day and the first half of US Eastern.
Best if the work above would be continuous anyway.
Services
Each lists what you actually receive, and links to the work that shows I have done it before. Nothing is offered here that I cannot point at prior evidence for.
Rating model outputs against your guidelines: accuracy, helpfulness, safety, tone, instruction-following. Written rationales for each judgement, not just scores, so your team can see the reasoning and disagree with it.
What you get
Checking written or generated material for accuracy — and for the harder failure, material that is accurate and still leaves the reader with the wrong conclusion. Every figure traced back to its source.
What you get
Evidence
Caught a chart in my own material that was accurate and taught the opposite of its lesson
Building the thing that decides whether your output is good enough to ship: a rubric, a held-out set, an automated gate in your pipeline that fails the build rather than warning about it.
What you get
Evidence
A twenty-three-rule gate, including accessibility, that blocks this site from publishing if anything is broken
Taking a repetitive process and making it run unattended, with a check at the end that can refuse to deliver. Generation, verification, assembly and publication.
What you get
Writing the documentation that gets read: architecture notes, deployment runbooks, honest limitation statements, onboarding material. Written for the person who has forgotten, which is usually the author.
What you get
First-line and second-line support, systematic fault diagnosis, and the operational work around running systems that have to keep working. Backed by a formal qualification rather than enthusiasm.
What you get
Evidence
Higher Certificate in IT Support Services, and a GPU workstation kept running under sustained load
Terms
Rates depend on the work, so I would rather quote against a real scope than publish a number that is wrong for both of us. Tell me what you need and I will give you a figure and an estimate.
Three things worth saying before you ask
Including when the answer is no. If a paid trial task is the easiest way to find out, propose one — that is what it is there for.