§ 01Snapshot
- LevelCTO and co-founder twice; about ten years in engineering, from backend engineer to team lead, product owner and CTO. Still hands-on: today most of their code is written by coding agents under their direction, and they review what comes back.
- Roles heldCTO and co-founder of an AI SaaS with paying subscribers · CTO and co-founder of a B2B startup taken to six-figure annual revenue · several years of backend and product-owner roles in fintech (payments, finance operations, lending) · earlier team lead
- Scaleled cross-functional teams of about ten; hired, managed and let go developers and a designer; owned startup engineering budgets
- Industriesfintech (payments, finance operations, lending) · B2B field-operations software · e-commerce AI tools
- Company typestwo-founder SaaS · seed-stage B2B startup · large financial companies
- Specialtiesrunning production software built mostly by coding agents · payments and money-movement correctness · 0→1 B2B products · offline-capable mobile for field teams · "what to build, what to buy and what it really costs"
- Best forsolo and non-technical founders who need a technical counterpart · seed startups building on AI agents · fintech and B2B SaaS teams before they take real money · companies with a side project that won't fit their roadmap
- Core stackJava, Kotlin, Spring, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, React, S3, AWS; AI model APIs from several providers; coding agents (Claude Code, Codex); error tracking and BI dashboards
§ 02Services
| ✓ | PR/MR code review | especially agent-written code |
| ✓ | Architecture review | |
| ✓ | Architecture design | |
| — | Audit / due diligence | Not offered by this expert |
| ✓ | Vibe-code rescue | |
| ✓ | Team mentoring |
§ 03Track record
A paid SaaS run by two founders and coding agents
The product started as manual workflows and scripts. One of our experts turned it into a self-service platform with paying subscribers, without hiring engineers. Coding agents write most of the code under their direction; they cut the work into agent-sized pieces, review every change and own the production result.
Several AI model providers behind one product
The product's core output depends on image and text models from several AI providers. One of our experts built the workflow orchestration and integrations so the product chooses which provider does which job, and the founders aren't locked into one vendor's prices or outages.
A non-technical co-founder who ships changes safely
The co-founder kept needing the CTO to release every new content workflow. One of our experts built the platform so the co-founder can create, test and release workflows on their own, while the core system stays protected.
Seeing errors and business numbers in a two-person company
With no support or data team, problems had to surface on their own. One of our experts set up error tracking for incident investigation and a BI dashboard for business numbers, so the two founders see failures and revenue in the same place every day.
A B2B platform from zero to six-figure revenue
Field-heavy businesses ran approvals and progress on paper, email and spreadsheets. One of our experts co-founded the company as CTO, worked with the customers' field teams to turn their problems into requirements, and chose a modular monolith over microservices. The platform reached paying enterprise customers and six-figure annual revenue.
A mobile app for places with no signal
Field teams worked where the connection drops for hours. One of our experts designed an offline-capable mobile product next to the office web app: crews record work offline, and it syncs when they're back online.
Business payments with approvals and permissions
Business customers needed bulk, scheduled and recurring payments, with approval steps and per-person permissions. One of our experts designed and built these, plus the public API for them, from requirements through customer rollout, and handled production incidents as part of the on-call rotation.
Finance numbers you can trace back to the money
Daily reporting on customer money relied on manual work where mistakes were hard to see. One of our experts rebuilt the workflows with daily reports and calculations you can trace step by step, so errors became visible and were caught earlier.
Hours of manual money-movement work turned into reviewed transfers
Moving money between the company's own accounts took hours of manual work every day. One of our experts built tooling that prepares the transfers and has an operator review them before they go. This removed about four to six hours of manual work a day while a human still approves the money.
One definition of "revenue" for every team
Different teams calculated the same financial figures their own way, so reports disagreed. One of our experts led a cross-team effort to agree on shared financial data definitions used for reporting and other calculations.
Credit-bureau integrations for a lending product
A lending product needed customer credit profiles built from credit-bureau data. One of our experts developed the bureau integrations and the credit profiles and reviewed code as a senior individual contributor.
Building and running a first product team
The startup needed a team, a budget and a way of working. One of our experts hired and managed developers and a designer, owned performance reviews and dismissals, managed the engineering budget, set up delivery and stayed involved in onboarding and support.
§ 04What you can book
What to build, what to buy, and what it really costs
A founder has the idea and the money but no technical counterpart. The expert scopes the first version with them, marks what to buy off the shelf and what to build, picks a setup (a small team, coding agents, or both) and gives a realistic cost before they commit.
A short scope, a build/buy list and a cost range.
Reviewing an agent-built SaaS before it takes subscription money
A founder built their product with coding agents and is about to switch on paid plans. The expert reviews the payment and subscription paths first: who can access what after a failed or cancelled payment, retries, and whether revenue numbers match the payment provider.
A ranked list of fixes, money issues first.
An outside team for the project your roadmap can't fit
A company has a project that won't fit its engineering roadmap. The expert takes it from scope to production as an independent CTO, with a small team they assemble or with coding agents, and hands it over with documentation.
Scope, architecture, delivery plan, then a running system.