Highbury
Build
Websites and applications that outlive their launch.
- Marketing sites and landing pages
- Web applications
- iOS and Android
Senior engineering, without the agency in between.
AWS architecture, AI systems and software delivery for companies in Germany. You work directly with the engineer who writes the code.
East Stand, Highbury · 1936
Certification
11 years
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate
- Docker Certified Associate
- Professional Scrum Master I
Prior consulting work across automotive, energy and telecommunications, including identity and access architecture spanning more than 3,000 AWS accounts.
Most projects fail at the handover.
You scope the work with someone senior. The build goes to whoever is free. A year later the person who understood the system has moved on, the documentation is thin, and the next change costs more than the original build did.
That gap is structural in an agency — it is how the model pays for itself. It cannot open here. The engineer who scopes your project stays on it, and is still the one answering when the change is needed.
Five lines of work.
Named rather than listed, because the range is deliberate. A project that spans two of them is still one engagement, with one person accountable for it.
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Commerce
Shops that survive their second year.
- Shop builds
- Platform migration
- ERP and payment integration
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Cloud
AWS architecture that holds under load.
- Architecture and migration
- Infrastructure as code
- Cost reduction
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AI
AI that ships, not AI that demos.
- Retrieval and RAG systems
- Agents and workflows
- LLM integration
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Automate
The manual steps between your systems, removed.
- n8n workflows
- System integration
- Reporting automation
Most projects cross two or three of these. Describe the problem and you will get an honest read on whether it is worth doing.
Built and run in-house.
Two products taken end to end and still running — the same hands you would be hiring.
Careerwerk
Founder
An AI toolkit for job applications: automated applying, a desktop client, and the pipeline behind both. Built, shipped and operated solo.
careerwerk.comNexiam
Co-founder · Tech lead
NexHub, a platform for global mobility, tax and compliance. Next.js and Payload at the front, FastAPI and a hybrid vector–graph retrieval layer behind it, all on AWS.
nexiam.netHow the work runs.
Three steps, and the same person at every one of them.
- 01
Analyse
A call, then a written scope: what gets built, what it costs, and what it explicitly does not include. Before anything starts.
- 02
Build
Work happens in your repository, with something running to look at every week. No status theatre, no demo built for the meeting.
- 03
Operate and hand over
Infrastructure as code in your own accounts, documentation written as it goes. You can take the whole thing elsewhere at any point — that is the test of a real handover.
Questions worth asking.
- A senior engineer is accountable from scope to handover — the same person you spoke to, still there a year later. Where the scope needs more hands, additional engineers work under that review. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
- Fixed price where the work can be specified properly, a day rate where it cannot. Either way the number comes before anything begins, and it does not move unless the scope does.
- Everything ships as infrastructure as code in your own AWS accounts, with documentation. No proprietary layer, no hosting you cannot leave. If you want to move the work to someone else, you can.
- Yes. Most work starts inside somebody else's codebase. An audit of what is already there comes first, so you know what you have before deciding what to change.
- A thirty-minute call. You describe the problem and get a straight answer on whether it is worth building and roughly what it would take. No pitch deck.
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes, no obligation. Bring the problem rather than a specification — working out what actually needs building is part of the job.
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