One engineer who has shipped this before.

I have spent about nine years building mobile apps — first inside product teams, then independently. In that time the pattern I kept running into was always the same: the hard part is rarely the code. It is the decisions around it. What to build first. What to leave out. When to say the deadline is wrong.

So I work differently from an agency. There is no account layer between you and the person writing the code, because they are the same person. You get a direct line, honest estimates, and a build in your hands every couple of weeks.

What I am good at

Apple platforms are where I am strongest — Swift and SwiftUI for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with enough UIKit and AppKit history to work on apps that predate them. From there I build outward: Windows desktop software, websites and web apps, and the backends all of it depends on, so the pieces actually fit together.

One deliberate exception: I do not take Android work. I would rather be genuinely excellent on the platforms I know deeply than mediocre everywhere. If you need Android, I will tell you straight away and point you somewhere better.

I also take on rescue work: projects that were inherited, half-finished, or built by someone who has since disappeared. That work is unglamorous and I enjoy it more than I probably should.

What I am building

iTrading Buddy is my own product — a trading journal for iOS. It is where I try ideas without a client's money on the line, and I write about that process on the blog.