Slow development cycles
Two-week features turn into two-month sagas. Releases slip, feedback loops stall, and momentum quietly disappears.
Available for new projects — Q3 2026
From Prototype to Production — Fast, Scalable, Reliable
I help startups and founders turn ideas into production-ready applications using modern tech.
- 8 yrs
- Building products
- 24
- Shipped apps
- 6 wks
- Average MVP
- 99.9%
- Uptime maintained
The problem
Most products don't fail at the idea. They fail at the build.
After eight years of rescuing and rebuilding codebases, the same three problems show up again and again.
Poor scalability
The build works fine for 200 users and falls apart at 20,000. Queries time out, costs climb, patches pile up.
Unstructured backend systems
Business logic scattered across controllers, no clear boundaries, no tests. Every change risks breaking something else.
The approach
Built to ship this quarter and survive the next three.
No rewrites baked into the roadmap. Every decision is made against a simple test: will this still hold at 10x the load and 3x the team?
Clean architecture
Domain logic separated from frameworks. Clear module boundaries so a new developer ships in week one, not month three.
- Typed contracts end to end
- Tested business rules
- Readable, boring code
Scalable backend
Node.js and NestJS services designed for real traffic — queued jobs, cached reads, and predictable database access.
- Redis caching & queues
- Indexed data models
- Observable by default
High-performance frontend
React interfaces built around real user flows: fast first paint, honest loading states, accessible components.
- Sub-second interactions
- Design-system driven
- Responsive to the pixel
The process
Four steps, no surprises.
Fixed scope per phase, weekly written updates, and a demo you can click every Friday.
- 01
Idea → Planning
Week 1A week of scoping: user flows, data model, and a written build plan with dates. You approve it before a line of code exists.
- 02
MVP Development
Weeks 2–6Weekly demo builds on a staging URL. Core flows first, polish second, so you can put it in front of users early.
- 03
Scaling & Optimization
Weeks 7–10Load testing, query tuning, caching, and cost review — driven by what real usage actually shows, not guesses.
- 04
Deployment & Support
OngoingCI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and handover docs. Optional retainer for ongoing features and on-call coverage.
The stack
A deliberately small toolset.
Six technologies I know deeply, chosen because they're stable, hireable for, and cheap to run.
- Node.jsRuntime
- NestJSAPI layer
- ReactFrontend
- MongoDBPrimary DB
- RedisCache & queues
- AWSInfrastructure
Selected work
Three builds, and what changed.
Freightline
Logistics SaaS- Problem
- Dispatch dashboard took 9 seconds to load and locked up during peak hours; drivers were calling in for updates.
- Solution
- Rebuilt the API in NestJS with Redis-backed read models, moved route calculation to a worker queue, and paginated the React grid.
9s → 0.7s
Dashboard load
−41%
AWS spend
Ledgerpad
Fintech- Problem
- Founders had a Figma prototype and a six-week window to demo a working product to their seed investors.
- Solution
- Shipped an MVP with bank sync, double-entry ledger, and role-based access. Weekly staging demos throughout.
5 weeks
To first demo
$1.2M
Seed raised
Studioseat
Marketplace- Problem
- Booking logic lived in one 4,000-line file. Every new city launch introduced double-booking bugs.
- Solution
- Extracted a domain layer with test coverage on availability rules, added MongoDB transactions and idempotent booking.
0
Double bookings since
3 days
New city launch
Clients
What founders say afterwards.
“He pushed back on half my feature list in the first call, which annoyed me and then saved us about a month. The MVP was live before our investor meeting.”
“Our dashboard was the number one complaint in support tickets. Two sprints later it wasn't in the top ten. He explained every change in plain English.”
“The handover docs were better than the ones our previous agency wrote over two years. Our in-house team picked it up without a call.”
Let's build your next product
A 30-minute call, a written scope within two days, and a start date you can plan around. No decks, no discovery invoices.
Currently booking two projects for Q3 2026.