Two kinds of problems keep landing on my desk. Alongside them one specialist area where I go deep, without it being a third of the business. All of it running in production today, not just on slides.
Where I come in
Most problems that land on my desk are not code problems. They are decisions that were right years ago and now cost money, speed or nerves: an AWS bill nobody can explain any more, a workflow that eats days every month, a system nobody wants to touch.
That is exactly where I work. Always with the same pattern: first understand how the system really behaves, then decide what has to be built, then deliver, in steps that each carry value and can each be turned back.
Services
Stabilize & scale systems
Modernizing business-critical backends, clearing technical debt and migrating platforms to AWS, without putting live operations at risk.
Backends for SaaS and platforms that hold under real load: Go and PHP 8, event-driven, with tenant isolation and recovery designed in.
Common cases:Building SaaS platformsBuilding online shopsIntroducing observabilityBuilding deployment pipelinesGo services alongside PHP
Learn moreEntry offer: Free Legacy Risk Score
Modernizing grown systems step by step: strangler fig instead of a rewrite, operations untouched, every step reversible.
Common cases:PHP project handoverPHP upgrade & migrationZend Framework and LaminasSymfony upgradeLaravel upgradeShopware 5 to 6
Learn moreFrom your own data centre or another cloud onto AWS, with a cost model before the move and a rollback path for every step.
Common cases:Building an AWS landing zoneIntroducing Terraform
Learn moreOptimize your AWS architecture
Three symptoms of the same cause: the bill climbs, a single fault takes the whole application down, and nobody dares to change anything. I work at the places where that gets decided, and I deliver Terraform and code rather than an assessment.
Entry offer: AWS cost analysis, 2,400 €
I find where your AWS budget leaks away, and cut it measurably without giving up performance or availability.
Learn moreEntry offer: Outage rehearsed, 3,900 €
So that a single fault does not take the whole application with it: dependencies and single points of failure identified, recovery rehearsed rather than documented, changes delivered as Terraform.
Learn moreFurther specialist areas
A competence and a way of working rather than a third pillar: I build AI and automation in where they genuinely carry a process, with identity, cost, quality and a fallback path settled. It can also be commissioned on its own.
Entry offer: AI production review, from 2,400 €
The infrastructure behind AI systems that actually ship: MCP servers, controlled tool access, LLM integration with real permissions and cost control.
Common cases:AI phone assistantIntroducing Claude CodeMCP server developmentReducing LLM costs
Learn moreReplacing manual workflows with real systems: wired into the software you already run, with permissions and an audit log instead of a chain of tools.
Common cases:Automating invoice processing
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How it runs
The same approach across every area. No waterfall, no months without a result. You decide after each phase whether it continues.
You describe the system and the goal. I tell you honestly whether I am the right person. No pitch, no slides.
I read the code, the infrastructure and the incident history. What comes out is a ranked list, not an impression.
Work ships in increments that can go to production individually and be rolled back individually. At a fixed price or by time spent, to suit the project and the model you prefer.
Pairing, runbooks and documented decisions. The goal is your team, not an extension of my contract.
Common questions
It starts with a 30-minute call where we work out what you need and whether I am the right person for it. Then comes a short analysis phase with a concrete deliverable, a risk list, a target architecture or a plan of action, and only then implementation. You decide after each phase whether and how it continues.
Remote from Germany is the default, and has been since 2003. Workshops, kick-offs or architecture sessions on site are possible by arrangement where they make a real difference. Day-to-day work runs asynchronously with fixed times for alignment.
Yes. Clearly bounded entry packages show their scope and price on the page, including the AI production review from 2,400 euros, the AWS cost analysis at 2,400 euros and the AI phone assistant at 3,900 euros. Not every problem needs a large project.
Both, and the larger part is implementation. I write code, build infrastructure and pipelines, and work alongside your team while doing it. In my experience, advice without implementation produces documents nobody reads.
To suit the project and the model you prefer: a fixed price or billing by time spent. Clearly bounded work can be scoped in full beforehand, and that gets a fixed price. For longer or more open-ended work, where the order of tasks shifts along the way, billing by time spent is usually the more honest model. Which one it is we decide together after the analysis. The entry packages carry fixed prices: the AI production review from 2,400 euros, the AWS cost analysis at 2,400 euros, the AI phone assistant at 3,900 euros.
German and English. Several of the projects behind the case studies ran entirely in English, with distributed teams across Europe and the US. Documentation, code and reviews in either language, whichever fits your team.