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 code now. It can generate complete-end-to-end implementations of features, launch & monitor products, handle entire codebases; the generation was never the hard part. The hard part is what happens after. Requirements may shift. Edge cases 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, 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. This is the work: AI-assisted workflows that need stabilising. APIs & automation that need wiring together properly. Deployment that needs to stop being an event and start being a Tuesday.
Engagement options
Packages
Three tiers. The difference is how much of me you get.
All three are hands-on, outcome-driven engagements.
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
Three tiers. The difference is how much of me you get.
This is for:
- Funded startups, post-seed, technically framed
- Profitable bootstrapped companies adding the next layer
- Technical founders who want a senior partner on the hard bits
- Product companies building software
This isn't for:
- Pre-MVP, no revenue, looking for cheap dev work
- Agencies looking to white-label
- Enterprises that actually need a full-time CTO
- Anything under €50K or a three-month horizon
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 20/22, 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.
Languages I reach for: Node, Python, Swift, Ruby, Rust, Go. Data: SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, MariaDB, Firestore. Deploys: DigitalOcean with CapRover, Vercel, GCP, AWS. Editor: Neovim. Notes: 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
Discovery call. No pitch deck required.
We talk about your product, your team, the thing that's been sitting in the back of your head. No pitch decks.
Architecture & platform review: I read the code. I tell you what's solid, what's fragile, and what's going to break; honestly, with specifics. Weekly syncs. Short, warm, useful. What matters this week; what can wait.
The work: Code reviews, features, system cleanup. The things that were on the back burner because nobody had the time or context to do them right.
Production support: For deploys & monitoring. The quiet, ongoing part 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 better or worse, just different. And available.
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.
AI becomes useful when you design the system around the model, harness, and product: the data, the workflow, the permissions, the guardrails, the feedback loops, and the fallback paths. They all need to be there, working together, for the AI to actually help you.
Are we a good fit?
Are you in need of a technical parter that you can trust with important decisions? or a startup shipping features, and maintaining a product in production, while delivering to real customers? or a small product team needing a senior engineer without adding noise? If so, then we are probably a good fit.
Are you pre-MVP, or with no revenue, or looking for cheap dev work? Are you an agency looking to white-label? An enterprise that actually needs a full-time CTO? or looking for something less than a three-month horizon? If so, then we are not a good fit.
How do you work?
By creating architectures that fit the product stage, team shape, and delivery pressure.
By being hands-on with implementations across AI features, APIs, product surfaces, and production systems - ensuring everything works seamlessly, with or without chats or agents.
By bringing in senior judgment on what to ship now, what to simplify, and what can wait.
What exactly do you do?
My work sits between architecture, engineering, and product judgment. I help shape the system, write the code, unblock hard decisions, and keep execution tied to outcomes that matter.
That can include AI integrations, agentic workflows, product workflows, SaaS platforms, mobile and web surfaces, APIs, automation, and the operational glue that makes software feel reliable.
How should we work together?
Bring your roadmap, your blockers, and the thing that must ship next. Then let's talk. We can scope the right engagement and start with the execution.
you get what you want
What you're actually buying
a technical partnership, with someone who cares & delivers
Someone in your corner who cares whether the thing you're building is still standing three years from now. Someone who tells you the truth about what's breaking, early enough that you can do something about it. Because the product matters, and the people building 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.