As a freelancer, occasionally I am hired specifically to solve an interesting or novel technical problem a particular organization is not staffed for. For "nor

As a freelancer, occasionally I am hired specifically to solve an interesting or novel technical problem a particular organization is not staffed for. For "normal" contracts, I'm usually leveraging open sourced libraries when possible, and implementing things in the most uncontroversial way possible. My main goal is to leave the customer with a product which does the job, performs well, and can be easily understood by the next developer to pick it up. In these type of projects, my main outlet for creativity is in custom tooling and workflow automation, not anything user-facing. Other than that, I solve lots of interesting technical problems in my free time.