Starter €2,000 / month
- 5 hrs/week 20 hrs/mo
- Code reviews
- Architecture reviews
- Async support when stuck
Services
Technical partnership for founders and product teams shipping real software & apps.
Too complex for AI. Too early for a CTO. That's where founders find me.
AI writes almost all code now. It can generate complete-end-to-end implementations of features, launch & monitor products, handle entire codebases, create entire harnesses; the generation, and first launch is and was never the hard part. The hard part is what happens after. Requirements may shift. Edge cases will definitely surface. Someone on the team needs to debug architecture that nobody fully understands. That's where most AI-assisted projects come apart. My work is making sure yours doesn't.
I sit in the middle of architecture, product, review / observability, and delivery. Founders, creators, and teams bring me in when they have a real product that needs to hold up in front of their users, live in production. The work has changed to stabilising AI-assisted workflows, understanding the generated code, reviewing PRs, and making sure production is stable for your users. Along with APIs, MCPs, & automation that need constanct observability, and wiring together properly. Deployments that need to be reliable. Features that need to ship. Fixes that need to land. Really unglamorous work, that is necessary to keep the product alive, in front of real users.
Engagement options
Packages
Three tiers differentiated by how much of me you get, hands on.
All three are hands-on. I write code in all of them.
Partner €4,000 / month
- 10 hrs/week 40 hrs/mo
- Your dedicated engineer
- Architecture delivery
- features, fixes, code reviews
FullStk €8,000 / month
- 20 hrs/week 80 hrs/mo
- Deep context
- quick turnaround
- full ownership
Who's it for?
Fit
I am up for it, if you are
This is for:
- You've raised, you're post-seed, and the team is technical
- You're bootstrapped and profitable, building the next layer
- You're technical yourself and want someone senior on the hard bits
- You're shipping to real users, and need my help
This isn't for:
- You're pre-MVP with no revenue, looking for cheap hands
- You're an agency wanting to white-label me
- You're an enterprise that genuinely needs a full-time CTO
- You need something smaller than €50K or shorter than six months
Who's am I?
The background
Twenty-five-plus years of production code
Currently a Senior Fullstack & AI Engineer at lemlist (previously ponyexpress - acquired by lemlist); four-plus years in. Shipping Taplio and TweetHunter to real users, every day. GCP Cloud Functions, Firestore, Cloud Tasks, Pub/Sub, Node, NextJS. Workflow automation, AI features, and the reliability work underneath all of it.
Outside lemlist, I am trying to reboot Appathetic Studios — a small product shop where I build things I actually want to use.
The tech stack
What I work in
A few things I work with
Current dailies: Node, Python, Swift, SwiftUI, Ruby, Rust, Go. SQLite, Mongo, Redis, MariaDB, Pocketbase, Postgres, Firestore. Deploys on DigitalOcean, OVH, Vercel, GCP, AWS. Neovim. Notes in Bear, on a Johnny Decimal system I will absolutely tell you about if you make the mistake of asking.
What's next?
How it tends to go
A quick discovery call, then we get to work
We talk about your product, your team, the thing that's been sitting in the back of your head. No presentations are needed or required. We quickly get to the point, and go.
Architecture & platform review: I read the code, and tell you what's solid, what's fragile, and what's going to break. Deliverables include honestly, with specifics in a document and a follow-up call. Weekly syncs are welcome. They are short, warm, useful, and include things like What matters this week or what can wait.
The work includes: Code reviews, features, system cleanup. The things that were on the back burner because nobody had the time or context to do them or they didn't make the top of the list.
Production support: For deploys, monitoring, and observability. To make sure everything is as it should be and where things keep running and nobody has to think about why.
have questions, will answer
FAQs
A few honest answers
How is this different from hiring a developer?It's not that different, to be honest.
A developer takes tickets, and ships them well; I take responsibility for the shape of the system they're shipping into. Different job.
With that being said, I do ship code, and lots of it. If you need a senior engineer who can also take care of the architecture and does development, that's what I do. The same three packages apply, just with more of me in the code and fewer meetings.
What if we need more than twenty hours a week?
Then we talk before anyone signs anything.
Do you work with agencies?
Direct clients only. The middle layer tends to break the thing that makes this work.
What's your approach to AI in production?AI does not become useful because you add a model, choose a harness, or pick a provider.
It becomes useful when the systems around it are built properly. What data it can see? What it is that it's allowed to do? What happens when it is both, confident and, wrong? At what point does it hands reins back to a human? Get those right, and the model choice matters far less than anyone expects.
Are we a good fit?
Probably, especially if you need a technical partner you can trust with the decisions that are hard to undo. Or you're shipping features and keeping a product alive in production for real customers. Or your team is small and you want one senior engineer rather than three more meetings.
Probably not, if you're pre-MVP with no revenue and looking for cheap hands. Same if you're an agency wanting to white-label me, or an enterprise that genuinely needs a full-time CTO. And if the horizon is shorter than six months, neither of us will get much out of it.
How do you work?
I come in and help build for the stage, at the stage you're actually at. A small team shipping weekly doesn't need what a big one needs, and pretending otherwise is how you end up maintaining something nobody asked for.
I'm in the code, at the reviews, and running deploys. AI features, APIs, the product itself, the things running in production, that are user facing; the things that your users' pay for. I work on them, and around them.
And I'll even tell you what to leave alone. Half of this job is talking people out of work they don't need to do yet.
What exactly do you do?
I shape the systems, then build them, and ship them. When a decision is stuck, I unstick it. And I usually have an opinion and, willing to defend it.
In practice I build the AI features that need to survive real users, APIs, SaaS platforms, web and mobile, the automation nobody wants to own, and the unglamorous plumbing that decides whether your product feels solid or flaky. This and a lot more is how I help you.
How should we work together?
Bring your roadmap, whatever's blocking it, and the thing that has to ship next. We'll talk it through, work out which tier fits, and get started.
you get what you want
What you're actually buying
a technical partnership, with someone who cares & delivers
Someone in your corner who cares about whether the thing we're building is still standing three years from now. Someone who tells you the truth about what's breaking, early enough that we can do something about it. Because the product matters, the people building it matter, and the people paying for it while using it matter more.
still here?
Work together
let's start and get to work
If this sounds like the right fit, there's a discovery call on the other side of this button.