Seven reasons to put your venture in my hands, each with the evidence behind it.
Plenty of people can write code. Fewer have run a large engineering team, built companies to exit, and still ship the code themselves. Here's the evidence.
Planning and architecture that became the backbone.
For four years I was an engineering manager at Datadog, leading a team of fifteen on a large-scale Rust project. I'm used to seeing big projects run from start to finish, including the planning and the architectural decisions that became the backbone of what we were building.
Business experience, carried into every feature decision.
I've had multiple personal exits and run my own SaaS companies, so I know what it takes to run a business, acquire real users and market a company. Those are the experiences I carry into development when we're deciding what to build, and what not to.
Idea to build with nothing in the way.
In an AI world my focus is delivery: waste no time, and go from idea to build as quickly as possible. That means no scheduled meetings, no corporate speak, no middle management, none of the things that get in the way of real delivery.
As capable on the front end as the back.
I'm just as capable on the front end as I am on the back end, and I know how to build robust systems that scale from your first user to your millionth without being rebuilt along the way.
Clear from the first message, on your working hours.
I'm a native English speaker, British, and based in Toronto. Eastern time overlaps the whole North American working day and the European afternoon, so founders on either side of the Atlantic get me during their day, and communication is excellent from the start.
Deep where it counts, with the years to show for it.
Every reason above rests on skills I've spent years earning: over eight years of Rust, C# for productive business systems, TypeScript and React since React's first release, PostgreSQL as the database of choice, Kubernetes and OpenTofu for deployment, and Python and Go when the job calls for them.
A fixed window that keeps everyone honest.
A fixed horizon forces the right question every week: does this get us to launch? Scope stays tied to what proves the business, you see working software as it lands, and at the end you own everything: the repo, the infrastructure, and a plan for the team that carries it forward.
Send me the idea and the budget. A few honest paragraphs is plenty.