Technical & Business Consulting for the Rest of Us
A former FAANG Staff Engineer combining practical founder experience with Silicon Valley strategy expertise for scaling startups. I’m passionate about bridging the gap between business, community-building, and engineering—helping teams grow sustainable products by balancing their business and technical goals with those of their users.
Currently available at a target rate of $350/hr.
Outside your budget? Let’s barter negotiate!
I believe in win-win solutions! If your budget can’t quite reach my rate, I’m open to finding alternative arrangements and solutions that work for both! Contact me and we’ll discuss.
Where I Can Help
Having been on both sides of the table, I understand the challenges of finding reliable technical partners who can independently own and drive projects forward. Whether as an individual contributor or as a team lead, I can help you:
- Make confident technical and business decisions
- Bring new products and features to market
- Grow a more sustainable organization
End-to-End Technical Leadership
- Independent project ownership and execution
- Clear, actionable deliverables
- Strategic decision-making
- Regular, meaningful updates
Technical Strategy & Architecture
- API design validation
- Stack selection advice
- Scaling strategy review
- Make-vs-buy decisions
- Technical debt assessment
MVP Development Strategy
- Feature prioritization
- Risk assessment
- Resource Allocation
- Launch planning
Organizational Culture & Practices
- Code review processes
- Documentation systems
- Technical evaluation and hiring
- Mentoring programs
Experience That Matters
I’ve worn many different hats throughout my career. Here is a selection of relevant work that shows my breadth of skills and experience.
Founder Perspective
I spent my last 4 years building FujoCoded, an independent small-tech company bridging technology, education and fandom. As part of this I:
- Built and launched multiple real-world project from concept to production, both independently and with a team
- Managed distributed, contractors and volunteers teams across multiple time zones and expertise levels
- Successfully raised $27k across two crowdfunding campaigns targeting niche markets
- Balanced technical decisions with business constraint with uncommon technical and business requirements
- Developed expertise across key business functions including technical leadership, strategic planning, team development, and stakeholder communications
Big Tech Experience
I spent 10+ years working in FAANG, developing and scaling cross-organizational systems for products used by millions. As part of this I:
- Made high-scale system architecture decisions producing and reviewing highly technical design documents
- Developed internal and external infrastructure balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders across multiple functions
- Created maintainable, well-documented code spanning frontend, backend, and infrastructure development, including large-scale Machine Learning systems
- …and more!
Technical, Business and Community Leadership
I’ve worked with and mentored a wide variety of people from many backgrounds, and led communities of all types. As part of this I:
- Built and mentored remote teams, with an emphasis on growing junior and hobbyists developers, guiding them past time and skills constraints
- Developed and implemented multiple roadmaps for ambitious projects successfully delivered within a limited timescale and limited resources
- Founded and managed multiple small communities, including a 300-people technical community covering hobbyists, student, junior and senior developers
- Currently scaling multiple organizations I founded which include both a technology-focusedy business and a technology-related non-profit initiative
- Wrote an accessible guide to Git, GitHub and general Version Control for a non-traditional non-technical public
Technologies I Know
I’m extremely knowledgeable about the TypeScript ecosystem, and I’ve been leading projects using React, NextJS, React Query, Storybook, and Astro for the past 5 years. I love building plugins, and I’ve done so for Storybook, Vite, MDX (UnifiedJS), Astro, Jest, Express, Zod and more. I also love integrating software together, and I’ve done work with PayPal, Stripe, Discord, social sites including Twitter and Tumblr, GitHub (including Actions) and others.
I have experience across the full webdev stack, including both backend (Express, PostreSQL, SQLite, Redis, Drizzle, and others), frontend (including mastery of CSS), and NPM libraries (both utilities and design systems). I love building libraries on NPM and REST APIs.
I have some experience with system administration, including NixOS and NGINX.
I love trying new technologies and working across their boundaries to make them work together. Even if I’m not familiar with what you use, I can catch up to speed quickly.
In my professional career, I’ve also worked with Python, Java, and C++.
Want to work together?
No time for chatting? Email me at essential.randomn3ss@gmail.com!