Your team isn't slow because they're bad. They're slow because they've been rewarded for it.
I help companies cut through developer dysfunction and make AI adoption actually work. With a method I've tested by shipping, not theorizing.
What's Actually Breaking Your Engineering
You've probably noticed the symptoms:
Over-engineered architecture designed to handle millions of users when you have five thousand. Months spent on abstractions nobody asked for. Technical decisions made to impress other developers, not to serve the business.
Knowledge hoarding disguised as "expertise." Complexity that only they can navigate, not because the problem requires it, but because it makes them indispensable. Teams where information flows through bottlenecks, and those bottlenecks have names.
Top-down mandates that the team resists. Half-hearted adoption. Developers grumpy about losing their status as "knowledge keepers," too proud to admit they're watching their value get dislocated in real time.
Business hypotheses stuck in planning purgatory. Features that could ship in a sprint taking quarters. The constant sense that you're paying for motion, not progress.
The cost isn't just money. It's time. It's market position. It's watching smaller, hungrier teams outrun you with a fraction of the headcount.
A small, focused team today (one senior, one mid, one junior, one PO) can outrun an entire department stuck in the old patterns. The gap between high-performing and low-performing teams isn't a gap anymore. It's a chasm.
How I Work
I don't come in with a framework to install or a process to mandate. I come in with a method I've tested by shipping real products, fast, without the dysfunction.
Context over dogma. Every technical decision should serve the moment: the company's stage, the product's needs, the market's pressure, the team's capacity. Not what worked at Google. Not what's trending on Hacker News. What moves your business forward.
Quality without cathedrals. Clean code matters. Maintainability matters. But not at the cost of shipping. Build to validate, not to impress. Architecture should be as simple as the problem allows. No simpler, no more complex.
Stay close to the product. Engineers who understand the roadmap, not just the ticket. Who can talk to the Product Owner about tradeoffs, not just execute orders. Who try to understand the user, not just the requirements.
Zero tolerance for bad actors. Gatekeeping. Knowledge hoarding. Passive resistance to change. These aren't personality quirks. They're organizational toxins. Healthy teams require honest players.
AI as paradigm shift, not checkbox. This isn't about adding Copilot to your IDE and calling it transformation. It's about fundamentally rethinking how your team works, what skills matter now, and how to leverage capabilities that didn't exist two years ago.
What I Offer
Team Assessment
A clear-eyed look at what's working and what's not. Where the bottlenecks are. Who's gatekeeping. What's over-engineered. Where AI could actually help vs. where it's theater.
AI Adoption Strategy
Not another "AI initiative" that your team will quietly sabotage. A practical roadmap for building AI into workflows in ways that stick, starting with quick wins that build momentum and buy-in.
Development Process Optimization
Cutting through the ceremony to ship faster. Identifying where "process" has become cover for slow delivery. Rebuilding around speed to validate, not speed to burnout.
Team Coaching & Alignment
Working directly with developers and leads to shift mindsets. From "knowledge keeper" to "capability builder." From "architecture astronaut" to "product engineer."
Hands-On Technical Delivery
I don't just advise. I ship. If the situation calls for it, I can work embedded with your team to demonstrate the approach in practice, not just theory.
This Isn't Theory. I Shipped It.
In nine months (three of product discovery, six of development) I built a complete dating platform as the sole developer:
- Mobile apps: React Native for iOS and Android
- Backend: NestJS modular monolith
- Admin panel: Angular for content moderation
- Infrastructure: Production AWS (ECS, VPC, RDS, Redis, load balancer)
I was present from ground zero. Not handed a spec. Shaping the product idea alongside the business. Present for every decision about what to build and why.
The result: a system scalable enough to grow, simple enough to maintain. No vanity architecture. No resume-driven technology choices. Just a product that works, built fast, ready to pivot if the market says so.
That's what's possible when you stop optimizing for complexity and start optimizing for outcomes.
Ready to Cut Through the Dysfunction?
If your team is stuck (over-engineering, gatekeeping, resisting the shift), let's talk.
I work with a limited number of companies at a time. Engagements start with a conversation about where you are, where you need to be, and whether my approach is the right fit.
No pitch decks. No sales process. Just a direct conversation about what's broken and how to fix it.