Dropped by Stripe, PayPal, or Shopify? I build and run your own store and payment stack, including automated crypto and stablecoin checkout, so you keep selling. Built by a principal engineer at a stablecoin bank.
One line is enough. Scope, solution design and a priced proposal come back in the chat — then we start.
Air Force Captain. Physicist. CTO. Principal eng at a stablecoin bank.
First week free: scoped and shipped to your repo. Cancel inside the trial and you are never charged. No call required, no SOW round-trip.
or take 15 minutes with me first →Before a line of code is written we lock these — in the chat, or on a 15-min call if you’d rather.
For legal ecommerce that needs a self-hosted store and payment stack — including automated crypto and stablecoin checkout when off-the-shelf processors won’t. Card on file, $0 charged today. First 7 days free — cancel from your billing dashboard inside the trial and you are never charged. After that, the monthly rate renews until you cancel.
One bottleneck, then a day a month to keep it moving.
A day a week. You have a roadmap, not a ticket.
Your whole tech team — store, ops, and payment rails.
Two days a week. Senior engineering ownership.
Four real examples. Clients under NDA — references available on request.
You read 200 emails a week. Most are noise — vendor pings, the same five customer questions, status updates. Five days in you’ve got an agent that drafts replies to the routine 90% and only surfaces the ones that need you. Conservative: six hours a week, back.
That tool you renew every January that does one thing your team actually uses? Five days in, that one thing lives in your stack. You stop paying. The data stays yours. The renewal email never lands.
Your sales platform doesn’t talk to your fulfillment system, so someone copies between them three times a day. Five days in they sync — automatically, with audit logs. That someone gets their Tuesday back.
The five questions your support team answers 80% of the time? An agent handles them in your voice, escalates the weird ones to you, and learns from your corrections. Customers get answers in 30 seconds instead of 30 hours.
No logo wall — most engagements are under NDA. Below: a few I can name.
You’ve got working code and you want me to keep going → do nothing. The retainer just continues.
You’ve got working code but want to take it from here → cancel inside the 7 days. Never billed. Keep the code.
I didn’t ship what we agreed on → cancel, keep the code, and I cover one referral call to a peer who fits better.
Heads you win, tails you also win.
No. Fractional CTOs advise and never open PRs. I write the code, review yours, and ship in your repo in week one. The senior-architect framing only works if the senior architect is the one writing the code.
Yes. Scope and solution design happen in the chat, the proposal comes out the other end with a fixed rate, and the moment a card goes on file the work is live. No SOW round-trip, no kickoff meeting, no procurement theater. Most people go from “first message” to “work started” inside an afternoon.
Because the deliverable is locked before I write a line, nothing is charged during the 7 days, and you keep the code regardless. Cancel on day six and I worked a week for free. The trial filters for clients I want to work with. If I’m wrong about the fit, I eat the cost, you keep the code, and I refer you to a peer.
Then the chat finds it for you. It asks what’s slow, expensive, or manual, and turns the answer into a scope and a proposal in front of you. If nothing obvious surfaces, that’s a signal we shouldn’t start yet — and 15 minutes with me is still free.
It’s me. If a project needs a team, I tell you on the call and I will enlist trusted peers to assist.
Python, TypeScript, Postgres, AWS/GCP. Comfortable in Go and Rust where the problem rewards it. AI: Claude, OpenAI, vector DBs, tool-use frameworks. Crypto: EVM, USDC rails, custody patterns.
$200K + benefits + 90-day search + ramp. If you can justify that, you should hire. If you can’t, retainer is the only way to get senior thinking on the cap table without owning it — and this one starts this afternoon instead of next quarter.
An agency sells you a project manager and three juniors. I sell you me, writing in your repo, today. No PM layer. No status meetings. No SOW negotiation.
Because when mainstream processors and storefronts drop you, you need someone who can own a self-hosted store and payment stack — including automated crypto and stablecoin (USDC) checkout, confirmations, reconciliation, and payouts. Twenty-plus years shipping: USAF captain, physicist, founded and sold the dev agency Fueled On Bacon, CTO at PAR1, principal engineer at a stablecoin bank (Telcoin). Same-day start, free 7-day trial, fixed monthly price.
Legal businesses only. Merchants that Stripe, PayPal, or Shopify find inconvenient are welcome. I don’t work with anything illegal.
Happy to sign one if you need it.
No. Equity dilutes the senior-architect framing into co-founder territory and changes the conversation. Cash retainers only.
Cancel any time from your billing dashboard (or client portal). Inside the 7-day free trial you are never charged. After that the subscription renews monthly until you cancel — no notice period, no cancellation fee. You keep the code either way. No long contracts; the retainer holds because the work’s good.