[canterburry]

First time I made 230K+ was as a contractor at $120/hour. For several years my fees ranged $105-120/hour. My niche were rule engines (Drools, JRules, FICO Blaze) but I came out of the plain vanilla backend Java world and fortune 500s. In fact, that's where I discovered this need. These days I have moved into management and lead 3 dev teams in the Big Data space.

[jtfairbank]

I'm looking for a contractor who knows rules based linear integer programming systems like Gurobi or CPLEX (or open source variants). Can you shoot me an email with recommendations? It's in my profile.

[canterburry]

Sorry to say the only constraints based programmers I know are all PhDs in Operations Research and they run Target's logistics.

[jtfairbank]

We're working with the head of the University of Illinois operations research lab. Would they be interested in the contracting with academic research in mind?