The work I'm proudest of is work I can't show you.
I lead engineering across five disciplines and advise Gulf founders on the architecture behind platforms that carry hundreds of thousands of users — on a small monthly retainer.
- Personal reply in 24h
- Written scope in 48h
- No obligation
Not another senior engineer.
The one senior engineers escalate to.
- Engineering lead across 5 disciplines — QA, AI, software, UI/UX, security
- 10+ years of systems in production, not prototypes
- Platforms carrying hundreds of thousands of users
- Author of the SRS, PRD, architecture and delivery plan the team ships against
Here's one, with the name taken out.
- The call
A founder called about a platform that had to carry serious load from day one.
- The problem
His team had a diagram. Nobody who had actually run that scale had ever read it.
- That week
He had an architecture in writing — the trade-offs named, the failure modes listed, and the decisions that couldn't be undone later flagged.
- Launch
They shipped. It held.
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I can't tell you his name. That's usually why founders call me.
You're not buying hours. You're buying the decision.
Most of it fits in a document and a call. The value is that the call happens before the mistake, not after it.
Architecture reviews
Of the system diagram, before it costs to fix in production.
Product & PRD counsel
From an idea to the document the team ships against.
Senior hiring calls
Interviews, rubrics, offers — on your side of the table.
On-call second opinion
For the decisions that don't fit a Slack thread.
Two more I can't show you.
Most of what I've shipped now belongs to the companies that paid for it. I show it privately, on the call — discretion is part of what you're paying for.
- ERP system
- AI agent
- 01Discovery call30 minutes. The scope, the situation, the fit.
- 02Written scopeMonthly hours (5–15) and a fixed number within 48h.
- 03Async deliveryOne weekly sync · evenings and weekends.
What are you shipping?
I take a small number of advisory retainers at a time. The discovery call tells us both whether this is one of them.