I help companies ship software that works

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Acting CTO and VP Engineering at BlockDaemon. Took it from zero to unicorn - scaled the team from 10 to 187 engineers, built infrastructure handling billions in transactions. Know what breaks at 2am because I built the systems getting paged.

Build the Thing

Your team is underwater. Every sprint pulls in three directions. Nothing's getting done. I jump in, figure out what actually matters, and ship it. No six-month roadmaps. No "let me align with stakeholders." Just code that works.

Recent work: Rebuilt a payment flow saving $500K/year. Project cost $40K, paid for itself in week one. Client got their November revenue back that was stuck in Stripe purgatory.

Migrated 2M records off a dying Heroku instance. Alternative was a $250K re-platforming project. This took 3 weeks and cost $35K.

Built admin tools so support could stop filing engineering tickets. Saved 40 hours/week of dev time. Team could finally ship features again.

Typical project: $30-75K, 4-8 weeks

Fix What's Broken

Something's wrong but nobody knows what. Page loads take 8 seconds. Database is pegged at 100%. Every deploy is a dice roll. I've debugged this exact problem at three other companies. Let me look at it for a week and tell you what's actually broken.

What this looks like: One week: I dig through your codebase, logs, and metrics. End of week: You get a doc with the real problems and what to do about them. No consultant-speak. Just "here's the query killing your DB" and "here's the fix."

Recent example: Client's AWS bill was $80K/month and climbing. Found 7 things they were paying for but not using, plus three database queries running 50M times/day. Cut bill to $12K/month. Engagement cost $15K.

Typical engagement: $15-25K, 1-2 weeks

The Weird Stuff

The project that doesn't fit a sprint. The integration nobody wants to touch. The migration that's been "next quarter" for two years. I'll take it. Give me the gnarly one-off that's blocking everything else.

How it works: You tell me what's stuck. I tell you what it'll cost and when it'll be done. I build it, write docs your team can understand, and hand it off. No ongoing retainer. No scope creep. Just done.

Starts at: $20K

What Clients Say

"Saved us $500K and shipped in 3 weeks. Worth every penny."

— CTO, Series B SaaS

"Finally, someone who just does the work."

— VP Engineering, 50-person startup

"Came in for one project, stayed for three. That says it all."

— Founder, YC W23

Why Not Just...

...Hire Someone?

Takes 6 months. Costs $200K/year plus equity. Might not work out. You need this shipped next month, not next quarter.

...Use an Agency?

You'll pay $200/hr for their junior devs to learn your codebase. I've already seen your exact problem three times.

...Try Upwork?

You want someone who's architected systems at scale, not learned React last year. This is a business problem, not a coding problem.

Why Me?

Senior execution without the senior hiring process. I can start Monday. Fixed scope, clear deliverables. You pay for outcomes, not hours in meetings.