Staff Augmentation / Freelancer

When your teams need additional technical expertise, I provide a flexible and cost-effective solution. Whether you need an experienced architect to guide your systems, a tech lead to drive execution and engineering practices, or a skilled .NET developer to build out new capabilities, I integrate directly into your teams to accelerate delivery and reduce bottlenecks.

This service is ideal when you need specialized knowledge but aren't ready to hire full-time. I'll work alongside your internal team to deliver results fast, while providing leadership and guidance where needed.

Over the course of our engagement, I will:

  • Embed into your teams — Take on an active role, whether that's as a technical architect, lead developer, or contributing developer.
  • Bring expert-level guidance — Provide senior-level insights, design expertise, and best practices to ensure your technical vision aligns with business goals.
  • Accelerate delivery — Drive progress on key milestones, unblock teams, and ensure the smooth flow of work across the development lifecycle.
  • Transfer knowledge — Help level up your teams with knowledge sharing and mentoring, ensuring that they are better equipped for future projects.

Architect

An architect can help you out when

  • lead time frequently suffers because teams wait for other teams to complete their work
  • deploying new code and releasing features require substantial coordination between teams
  • teams are forced to release new code because of changes to other services
Working with you as an architect, I'll help you
  • assess your service boundaries and team responsibilities and assist you in ensuring proper alignment with business value streams enabling teams to execute on changes end-to-end with minimal blocking. If you've read Team Topologies, you have an idea of what I'm looking for.
  • assess integration patterns and methodologies and assist your teams in reducing coordination needs associated with changes spanning multiple teams. Here I'll look at versioning strategies and transports for temporal and physical coupling.
  • create a target service landscape using Domain-Driven Design heuristics that balances coupling and cohesion

Tech lead

A tech lead is of great value when

  • deploying new code is a rare and risky endeavor
  • teams are working more like many teams-of-one than a single unified team
Working with you as a tech lead, I'll help you
  • instill a product mindset around the teams area of responsibility and establish a culture of excellence and continuous improvement
  • assess your deployment pipelines and release methodology and assist your teams in reducing the risk of deploying and releasing changes. Here I'll look for the application of feature flags, blue/green or canary deployments, schema migration strategies, tooling support for roll-backs, etc.
  • promote a team-first thinking and way of working. In particular, I'll establish trunk-based development, pair or mob programming, and test-driven development as ways of ensuring quality and reducing context switching.

.NET developer

When the direction is charted, clear and comitted, when the architecture is robust and flexible, when the team runs smoothly and the technical foundations for agility are in place, sometimes all you need is more skilled hands to execute and enable your more junior team members to perform their best and keep growing.

As a .NET-developer, I will accelerate development by solving business problems using code of the highest quality. I will ensure teamwork is efficient and juniors grow profesionally.

If your team works with

  • .NET/C#
  • Event-driven applications using NServiceBus/RabbitMQ/AMQP/Azure ServiceBus
  • API's: versioned, secured with OIDC/OAuth2.0 and RBAC or ABAC, definitions exposed via OpenAPI/Swagger
  • Event-sourcing and CQRS for optionality and performance
  • Observability through OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Kibana, Sentry, Serilog and the like
  • Containerization like Docker and Kubernetes and all the challenges that flow from horizontal scaling
  • DevOps automation using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar
  • Performance-critical services using highly concurrent code and complex caching
  • and much much more
I can help your team achieve it's goals.

Who It's For

This engagement is perfect for organizations that:

  • Have gaps in technical leadership or specialized expertise.
  • Need an experienced developer or architect to accelerate delivery on a specific initiative.
  • Want flexibility in resourcing without long-term commitments or hiring risks.

Outcome

Whether it's building a new product feature or supporting a complex project, you'll get high-impact, expert support for as long as you need it.