Get changes to customers with checks before release and a way back if something fails.
A finished feature only helps once customers can use it. I set up repeatable releases, checks, and recovery steps so your team can ship small changes without depending on one person who knows the deployment ritual.
What is getting in the way
Deploys are events
Releases happen on Thursdays because Friday is too risky. The batch grows, and each release gets more dangerous, which makes them rarer still.
It works locally
Environments differ in ways nobody has written down, so bugs appear only in production and cannot be reproduced.
No way back
When something breaks, the only path is forward through a hotfix, under pressure, by whoever is awake.
What you gain
Catch problems before merge
Type checks, lint, tests, and a build run on every pull request before the change can reach production.
Check changes before customers do
Consistent preview and staging environments let your team try a release before making it live.
Recover from a bad release
Restore a previous release in one action, without waiting for a rebuild.
See what went wrong
Searchable errors, logs, and traces give your team the evidence they need to investigate a failure.
Operate without depending on me
Runbooks document the release and recovery steps for whoever is on call next.
Typical stack
Hosting
- Vercel
- AWS
- Fly.io
- Docker
CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Preview deploys
- Migration gates
Observability
- Sentry
- Structured logging
- Uptime checks
Data
- Automated backups
- Restore drills
- Zero-downtime migrations
From first call to a working result
Know what needs to change
We spend thirty minutes on the result you need and what is blocking it. You leave knowing whether I can help and what the next step is.
Agree on success and cost
Before work starts, you get the outcome, the approach, the price, and the limits in writing. You know what you are paying for and how we will judge the result.
See progress as it happens
Try the work in demos, read the code, and follow a written update every day. You can check that we are solving the right problem while there is still time to adjust.
Keep moving after handover
Your team gets the code, documentation, tests, and a walkthrough so they can run and extend the product themselves.
Questions
Let’s work out your next step.
Bring the problem and the result you need. In thirty minutes, we’ll discuss what is blocking progress and whether this work is the right way forward.
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