Everything you need from a senior engineer.
Six ways I help businesses move faster, from a two-week AI prototype to a multi-year platform. Pick one, or combine them. Either way, you work with the person doing the work.
AI Integration & Agents
Production-grade AI features that use your data, act through your systems and can be measured, governed and afforded.
Knowledge assistants (RAG)
Ask questions of policies, manuals, contracts and tickets, with answers that cite their sources.
Agents & automation
Agents that read emails and documents, call your APIs and hand off to humans when confidence is low.
MCP & tool integration
Expose your systems to AI safely through Model Context Protocol servers and well-scoped tools.
Evals, guardrails & cost
Golden datasets, automated scoring, PII redaction and token budgets, so quality is proven and costs are predictable.
Your data
SharePoint, SQL Server, PDFs, email, ERP
Retrieval & context
Chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, re-ranking
Model + tools
LLM reasoning that calls your APIs safely
Guardrails & evals
Redaction, policy checks, scoring, human-in-the-loop
Your systems
Web apps, Teams, WhatsApp, back-office workflows
.NET & Blazor Development
Modern web applications, APIs and internal tools built on .NET, with clean architecture your team can own.
Web apps & portals
Customer portals, admin systems and dashboards in Blazor, fast to build and pleasant to use.
APIs & integrations
Secure, versioned REST and gRPC APIs, webhooks and event-driven integrations.
Data & reporting
SQL Server and PostgreSQL design, performance tuning and reporting pipelines.
Quality built in
Automated tests, code review, CI and security best practice as standard.
Legacy Modernisation
Move critical systems off ageing technology incrementally, safely and without a big-bang rewrite.
Assessment & roadmap
A candid audit of your codebase, risks and the cheapest safe path forward.
Incremental migration
Strangler-fig patterns that modernise piece by piece while the business keeps running.
Re-platforming
Containerise and move to Azure, or modernise on-prem where that makes more sense.
Knowledge capture
Document the tribal knowledge locked in old systems before it walks out the door.
Retail & POS Systems
Deep retail domain knowledge applied to the systems that keep stores trading, from till to head office.
POS integrations
Connect tills, payment providers and head-office systems reliably, even when connectivity isn't.
Stock & pricing engines
Promotions, price files, replenishment and stock accuracy across many stores.
Loyalty & customer data
Customer, loyalty and omnichannel experiences that respect POPIA.
Retail AI
Demand forecasting, product content generation and store-ops assistants.
- Sale captured, offline-first 4 ms
- Loyalty points updated 38 ms
- Stock decremented, ERP synced 112 ms
- Head-office dashboard updated 0.4 s
Illustrative example: the café is fictional and the timings are examples.
Cloud & DevOps
Reliable, observable and cost-efficient infrastructure, mostly on Azure and always defined as code.
CI/CD pipelines
Automated build, test and deploy pipelines that make releasing a non-event.
Infrastructure as code
Repeatable environments with Bicep or Terraform; no more snowflake servers.
Observability
Logging, tracing and alerting so problems are found before customers find them.
Cost optimisation
Right-sizing and architecture tweaks that often pay for the engagement.
- Builddotnet publish
- Test412 passed
- Scan0 critical
- Deployblue / green
- Verifysmoke + SLOs
Technical Advisory
Senior technical judgement on demand, for leaders who need clarity before they commit budget.
AI strategy & roadmap
Identify where AI creates real value in your business, and where it doesn't.
Architecture reviews
An independent review of a system, proposal or vendor before you sign.
Fractional tech lead
Part-time technical leadership: hiring, standards, mentoring and delivery oversight.
Vendor & build-vs-buy
Straight answers on platforms, licences and whether to build at all.
Flexible models, honest pricing.
Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute call. All quotes are in Rand.
Fixed scope
A clearly defined deliverable at an agreed price. Ideal for prototypes, migrations and well-understood builds.
- Agreed scope, price and timeline
- Milestone-based payments
- Best for: AI prototypes, migrations
Monthly retainer
A reserved block of senior time each month for building, support and continuous improvement.
- Priority response & guaranteed capacity
- Roll new ideas in without re-quoting
- Best for: ongoing products & AI ops
Time & materials
Pay for the hours used, with transparent weekly time reports. Ideal when scope is still evolving.
- Maximum flexibility
- Weekly reports & demos
- Best for: advisory, team augmentation
Not sure which service fits? Let's talk it through.
Tell me what you're trying to achieve. Within one business day you'll get an honest view of whether, and how, I can help.
No sales team, no hand-offs. You'll speak directly to the engineer who builds it.
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