Currently available· Remote · GMT−6
I design and build web products end to end — Next.js and React in front, Python or TypeScript behind, AWS and Terraform underneath. I work from Costa Rica on United States hours, as one accountable person rather than an account manager and a rotating bench.
From an empty repository to something your customers use. I take the whole path — interface, API, database, authentication, and the pipeline that deploys it — so there is no seam where the work stops being someone's responsibility.
The part most freelancers hand back as a console screenshot. I define infrastructure in Terraform, across multi-account environments, with the observability and alarms that tell you something broke before a customer does.
Services nobody wants to touch, a test suite that fails at random, a migration that stalled halfway. This is most of what I have done professionally, and it is the work I find genuinely interesting.
A marketing site is an acquisition channel or it is a brochure. I build them in Next.js with search as a design constraint from the first commit — structure, metadata, performance, and content that answers what people actually type.
Defined scope, fixed price, a date. Best when you know what you want built.
I join your team for a set number of days a week and work like any other engineer in it.
Ongoing maintenance, infrastructure, and a standing block of hours for whatever comes up.
Need more than one engineer? That is a team, not a contract — see how hiring in Costa Rica works.
Thirty minutes to hear the problem and tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it. If I am not, I will say so — and where I can, point you somewhere better.
Scope, price, timeline, and what is explicitly out of scope, in writing before anyone signs anything. No hourly surprises.
Work lands in your repository from day one. You get a client portal to raise issues and follow progress, and a demo at the end of every week — not a reveal at the end of the project.
Infrastructure as code, a runbook, and documentation written for whoever inherits it. If a system needs me specifically in order to keep running, I built it wrong.
Projects start at $5,000 USD and are priced by scope rather than by hour. Embedded work — where I join your team for a set number of days a week — runs $5,500–$7,500 per month. Every engagement gets a written proposal with a fixed number in it before anything starts.
I am in Costa Rica, which sits at UTC−6 and does not change clocks for daylight saving. In practice that means the same working day as Chicago, an hour or two behind New York, and an hour or two ahead of California — close enough that standups, pairing, and an incident call all happen in normal hours for both sides.
You do. Work goes into your repositories and your cloud accounts as it is written, not at the end. There is no proprietary framework you have to keep paying me to maintain.
Yes — English and Spanish, both professionally. Every team I have worked with for the last several years has been English-speaking and mostly US-based.
Then the answer is a team rather than a contractor, and that is a different conversation — one I am also set up to have. I am building an engineering team in Costa Rica and can staff a pod or hire one for you.
Tell me what you are building and what is in the way. If I am not the right person for it, I will say so.