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I take on a small number of freelance engagements alongside my day job: building products end to end, and giving teams the senior engineering judgement they do not yet have in-house.
Taking a product from nothing to shipped - the web app, the API behind it, the database under that, and the deploy pipeline that puts it in front of people. I work end to end rather than handing off between specialists, which is usually what a small team actually needs.
Suits a founder with a clear idea and no engineering team yet, or a team that needs a second pair of hands on a discrete piece of product.
Part-time engineering leadership: reviewing an architecture before it becomes expensive, sitting in on hiring, setting up the practices that keep a team shipping, and mentoring engineers who are growing into more senior work. This is the day job, sold by the day.
Suits a company with engineers but no senior engineering leader, or a founder who needs a technical judgement they can trust before committing to a direction.
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Half an hour on what you are trying to build and what is in the way. No charge, and no obligation on either side at the end of it.
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If it looks like a fit, I write down what I think the work is, what it excludes, and roughly how long it runs. You get that before any money is discussed.
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Then either a fixed-scope project with a defined end, or a retained arrangement for a set number of days a month. I do not take open-ended hourly work - it is bad for both of us.
Rates depend on the shape of the work, so they are a conversation rather than a price list. You will have a number in writing before you commit to anything.
I have written software for about a decade, most of it in financial services - retail and internet banking products, and before that a performance reporting platform I designed and built inside a tier-1 Nigerian bank. More recently I spent two years on a US healthcare SaaS platform used by more than 8,000 care organisations across all fifty states.
I now manage a team of engineers at a financial institution. That is the experience the advisory work sells: I have had to make the calls about sequencing, hiring and technical debt with real money and real deadlines attached, not in the abstract.
Outside employment I build my own products through Softhrone - Efficlick is the current one - so the freelance work is not a side of my craft I keep in a cupboard. The full timeline is on the about page.
I keep one or two engagements running at a time, so availability moves. Tell me what you are building and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.