Series A — 3 services, 3 weeks
Auth, billing, and a public REST API for a SaaS dashboard. Shipped behind a feature flag, hardened with Playwright tests, documented with a typed SDK.
Embedded senior engineers for technical founders.
Architecture reviews, API design, full-stack web (Next.js / Python / Go), and security/compliance readiness for SOC2 / GDPR / HIPAA. We work as your embedded senior team — not a body shop.
Rate $60 – $80 USD / hour · fixed-fee and retainer available
What you get
- Architecture reviews
- a one-week deep read of your repo, written findings, and a prioritized roadmap.
- API design
- REST, GraphQL, gRPC; we write the OpenAPI spec, the SDK, and the rate-limit policy.
- Full-stack web
- Next.js, Python (Django / FastAPI), Go. Server components, edge functions, payments, auth, dashboards.
- Mobile & offline-first
- React Native, Expo, with background sync, secure storage, and OTA updates.
- Compliance readiness
- SOC2 / GDPR / HIPAA / DPDP, audit-ready evidence collection, control mapping.
- Hiring & mentoring
- interview loops, JD rewrites, onboarding playbooks, and a fractional CTO option.
How we engage
- 01
1-week architecture review
Fixed fee, written findings, no obligation to continue.
- 02
Scoped sprints
1–2 senior engineers paired with your team, weekly demos, written retros.
- 03
Retainer (optional)
Fractional CTO or on-call senior for an agreed number of hours per month.
Stack we work in
Web
Next.js, React, Remix, Astro, SvelteKit, Vue
Backend
Python (Django, FastAPI), Go, Node, Elixir
Mobile
React Native, Expo, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose
Data
Postgres, Prisma, Drizzle, ClickHouse, BigQuery
Auth
Auth0, Clerk, WorkOS, custom OIDC
Payments
Stripe, Razorpay, Paddle, internal billing
Reference architectures
Anonymized patterns from real engagements. Client names omitted; details available under NDA.
Pre-seed — full app in 10 weeks
Next.js + Postgres + Stripe + Resend, deployed on Vercel + Neon. Two founders shipped a paying product without raising an engineering team.
Fractional CTO for a hardware startup
6-month retainer: weekly architecture office hours, hiring loops, board-deck technical narrative. Result: closed Series A, hired VP Eng.
Let’s scope it properly.
A 30-minute call. No deck, no pitch — we read your repo or your architecture diagram and tell you what’s realistic.