Belgium · Independent
I work shoulder-to-shoulder with founders and product people: AI where it helps, custom code where off-the-shelf won’t cut it, web apps when the interface is the product. You get straight answers, short feedback loops, and no mystery team behind the curtain.
Rarely “not enough developers.” More often: fuzzy scope, integrations that break under load, or software that doesn’t match how people really work.
I sketch flows, constraints, and risks before touching production code. Stops us from coding the wrong thing really efficiently.
No account manager in between. Quick decisions, fewer meetings, and you always know who’s on the hook.
Structure and tests where they earn their keep, so when traffic, data, or compliance pressure shows up, the system doesn’t fall apart.
Numbers from real-style projects (illustrative; your mileage varies). The point is milestones, ownership, and something you can measure.
Intake and validation pipeline for a logistics operator: less copy-paste, fewer errors.
Modular web app with CI, basic observability, and rollouts you can actually control.
Structured data plus LLM workflows for a B2B services company: not magic, just less digging.
Three buckets. Same deal each time: ship something useful, write down the important calls, leave code someone else could pick up.
Automation, search over your own data, evaluation, guardrails, wired into how you already work.
Internal tools, APIs, integrations, domain modeling when spreadsheets and SaaS templates stop scaling.
Interfaces people actually use: performance, auth, and edge cases handled, not just the happy path.
Agree what “good” looks like, map constraints, pick the smallest architecture that could work.
Slices you can see and test: demos, tests where they matter, notes so your team isn’t left guessing.
Hardening, logging, iteration when real usage shows you what hurts.
You always know who’s building. I’m not juggling five accounts or handing you off to a junior with my name on the proposal. Trade-offs and bad news come from me directly. If you later need a bigger team, I’ll help you hire or onboard without trapping you in my stack forever.
A few sentences is enough. I’ll tell you honestly if I can help, or point you somewhere else.
If it helps, yes. I’ll join standups or planning sessions when that speeds things up. I still own delivery on agreed milestones.
Often chunks of four to eight weeks, sometimes longer programs. I price and plan around outcomes, not an open-ended hourly tap.
That’s normal work. APIs, databases, SSO, weird legacy exports. I assume your stack exists and plan around it.