Software engineer and consultant · Central Valley and remote
Your business runs on spreadsheets and duct tape. I can fix that.
I've spent 20+ years replacing paper job tickets, rescuing legacy platforms, and keeping production servers alive. You get one senior engineer who designs it, builds it, and still picks up the phone when something goes sideways.
- $200M+
- a year in pharma distribution runs on a system I built
- 125
- sites audited, servers hardened
- 9 → 1
- storefronts consolidating into one platform
- 20+
- years shipping production software
Services
Automation sprint
$3,500–$5,000
The one process that eats the most hours, automated in 2–3 weeks for a price fixed before work starts.
See the sprint →AI-built app review
$1,500
What's risky in an app someone built with AI, in a written report within 3 weeks.
See the review →Care plan
$300–$600 a month
Monitoring, backups, updates and a same-business-day reply for what you already run.
See the care plan →Free talk
Free
A 30–45 minute talk for your chamber, SBDC or business group.
Ask about a date →Print shops
Scoped to your shop
The production portal that runs a print shop's every job, from quote to QuickBooks.
See the print-shop page →
Build it.
Custom software that replaces the paper, the spreadsheets, and the six disconnected tools. Quotes, job tracking, inventory, production queues, invoicing, integrations with QuickBooks and whatever else you already pay for.
See the automation sprint →Rescue it.
You inherited a system and the person who built it is long gone. Maybe it's a legacy app, a pile of WordPress sites, or an automation that worked great until it didn't. Or someone on your team built it with AI, it's running the business now, and nobody knows what's risky in it. I figure out what it actually does, tell you plainly what it'll take, and fix it.
Get an AI-built app reviewed →Keep it running.
Servers, security, updates, backups, and a same-business-day reply when something breaks. Ongoing support on a monthly plan, so you have an engineer before you need one.
See the care plan →Selected work
Systems businesses run on
Client names stay private; the problems and the work are real.
Why me
The person who designs your system is the person who gets the call when it breaks.
On a lot of software projects, the people who design the system never see what happens after launch. I've spent years on both sides of that handoff, running infrastructure for a fleet of production sites while still writing the code. So I build things the way someone who'll be paged at 2am builds them: boring where it should be, documented, and easy for the next engineer to read.
How it works
A 20-minute call.
You tell me what's broken or what you need. I tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit.
A fixed scope and price.
One process to automate gets a one-page scope for an automation sprint. An app someone built with AI gets a fixed-fee review. Larger work starts with a paid discovery: I map what exists, find the real problems, and give you a written plan with estimates. You own the written result either way.
Build, hand off, look after.
The work ships, you get a handoff you can follow, and the care plan keeps it running if you want it.
Start with a $3,500–$5,000 automation sprint or a $1,500 AI-built app review. Larger builds start at $10,000. Keep it running for $300–$600 a month.
Got a system nobody wants to touch?
A legacy platform held together with tape, a business still running on spreadsheets, or infrastructure everyone's afraid to restart. I've been handed all three. Tell me what you're dealing with.