Founding Engineer

I'm usually the first (and sometimes only) engineer on the team — before there's a system, a stack, or a codebase to inherit.

WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE

Architecture from scratch

Choosing a stack and structure that fits the team, not a resume.

Ship the first customer

Ruthless scoping to get something real in front of users fast.

Hiring runway

Setting up conventions and docs so the next hires ramp quickly.

Own the tradeoffs

Speed vs. correctness calls made deliberately, not by accident.

STACK FIT

React

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Supabase

Vite

OUTCOME

A v1 that ships fast and doesn't need a rewrite eighteen months in.