I work with pre-seed/seed stage startups to build, grow, and scale their products, teams, and processes.
I'm outcome focused and get deeply embedded within your team to provide hands-on engineering power and ongoing strategic support.
I'll bring over a decade of product, engineering, and leadership experience at early stage startups to your team.
I work with up to three pre-seed/seed stage startups at a time on a monthly retainer. Why only three? Because I know the demands and expectations at pre-seed and seed stage startups and I want to deeply engage with each company without tight time constraints.
Here's what you can expect:
Daily → I'll join your Slack or Discord to be regularly available for you and your engineering team to discuss technical design, product/engineering roadmap, help manage success of feature launches, and provide general day to day leadership support.
Weekly → Outside of async communication, I make myself available for up to 2 hours of weekly higher level strategy planning calls with you and your leadership team. This is a great time to discuss overall product strategy, go-to-market activities, growth and marketing, hiring, fundraising, etc.
Monthly → I provide up to 25 hours of hands-on engineering power per month to help you build new MVPs/features and scale existing ones, scale or refactor your infrastructure, hire and onboard new engineers, and generally provide my time as a resource. Our goal for this time should be to maxmize my ROI for your company.
My career has largely been defined by my ability to work independently across a vast breadth of the tech stack and business - a skillset particularly useful at pre-seed and seed stage startups where resources are limited and speed is key.
During the 2021 NFT bull-run, my co-founder and I saw an opportunity to bring a new level of analytics and insights to the NFT trading space. After going from idea to MVP is under 4 weeks, icy.tools began to gain fast traction through our product-led growth and social media marketing efforts.
Over the next 6 months, we scaled the platform to 7 figure ARR and millions of users - going through all the steps of scaling a startup in 6 compressed months. This included continued product iteration and growth, hiring to grow the team to 10+, scaling infrastructure and indexing efforts, receiving a term-sheet from fundraising, and ultimately getting acquired by QuickNode.
After acquisition, I led the development of indexing and analytics efforts at icy.tools and QuickNode. While continuing to build out full-stack features and APIs, I was actively managing and scaling reliable jobs/queues infrastructure, scaling Postgres to TBs of data and billions of rows, and deploying and managing infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes.
Tech stack: TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
In 2023, I left QuickNode to go back to being a founder. Shortly after, I acquired Pally.gg - a no-code app built on Bubble to that allows creators to split tips with their teams.
Over the first 3 months, I did a ground-up rewrite of the entire product. This included the migration from Bubble's prorietary data storage to a Postgres database, reliably migrating hundreds of thousands of dollars of payments records, writing robust infrastructure to handle traceable payouts to creators, and building out all other frontend and backend needs.
In addition to the engineering involved, I manage all operations, customer success, and growth efforts of Pally.gg.
Tech stack: TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, AWS (Serverless), SST
You are a pre-seed or seed, growth stage startup with 6+ months of runway.
You have existing engineering resources, possibly even a technical co-founder, but want more fire-power - I work best as an extension of your team, not a replacement.
Your stack has significant overlap with my expertise above - this ensures I can provide the most value to your company. But I thrive in the early stage environments where you need to be diverse.
I'm currently open for new clients.
After checking out, you will receive an email from me within 24 hours. I'll join your Slack/Discord, we'll setup our first intro calls, and I'll be fully onboarded within the first week. It's as easy as that.
If you aren't satisfied with my work after the first two weeks, I'll refund you in full.