Hire an AI product engineer who ships.

Before you get in touch

The questions that usually arrive first.

Answered here so the call can start further along. If the question behind them is what a build will cost, I have written that out in full.

What do you actually mean by AI work?

Shipping AI features inside products people use, not model research. In practice that is: LLM integration against OpenAI or Gemini, support automation, speech and document capture, on-device inference where a round trip is too slow or too private to make, and the plumbing around all of it — streaming responses, failure states, cost per call, and what the feature does when the model is wrong or unavailable. Four of the five apps I released in 2026 are AI products, and browser-execution-runtime, which I maintain, is agent tooling. I do not train models. I make them work in something that ships.

Everyone says they do AI now. Why you?

Because the hard part is not the API call, and the market prices it as though it were. Anyone can get a model responding in a prototype. What decides whether the feature survives is the part underneath: what the assistant refuses, how a user escalates without repeating themselves, what happens on a bad connection, what it costs per thousand users, and whether App Review accepts it — AI features are rejected for reasons most teams only discover on submission. I have shipped that whole path four times this year alone, and separately fixed the apps that had an AI feature bolted onto an unstable codebase. If you want a demo, many people can build one. If you want it in the store and still working in six months, that is a different skill and it is the one I sell.

Are you available for contract work right now?

Yes — full-time contract work, remote. I am also open to senior mobile engineering roles. The fastest way to find out whether a project fits is to send the problem rather than the job spec.

What are your hours, and can you overlap with US or European teams?

My timezone is PKT (UTC+5). That gives a full working overlap with Europe and a partial one with US East Coast mornings. I work asynchronously by default and keep decisions written down, so overlap matters less than it would with a purely synchronous team. If your team needs someone on-site, I am not the right hire.

How do you charge?

My rate depends on project duration and scope, so it is quoted per engagement rather than published as a single hourly figure. I do not compete on the lowest hourly rate — I compete on delivering production code that works on schedule, without the rework that cheap bids tend to cost later.

Can you take over an existing Flutter codebase?

That is one of the three kinds of work I do most. Inheriting a live app with memory leaks, unmanaged state, excessive API calls, navigation problems and performance bottlenecks, and making it reliable. On one such engagement that meant refactoring to Clean Architecture with BLoC rather than patching symptoms: unnecessary API calls fell by about 40% in four weeks, state moved out of the widget tree entirely, and the app stopped degrading over the course of a session.

Can you build an app from scratch and get it released?

Yes, including the release itself — cross-platform iOS and Android from requirements through to App Store and Google Play, App Review included. App Review is a particular interest of mine, specifically the reasons apps actually get rejected, which is usually cheaper to know before submission than after.

Do you do real-time or AI features?

Both, in apps that already have users rather than as greenfield demos. Real-time means WebSockets, chat and presence in shipped apps. AI means support automation with OpenAI and Gemini integrations — on one engagement, support response time went from 10 minutes to 30 seconds with 70% of queries handled without a human.

Can you lead a team, or do you only write code?

Both. I have worked as a Flutter team lead, leading four engineers and setting the delivery and code standards they worked to. I am comfortable as a senior individual contributor or as the person responsible for how a mobile team ships.

What is your stack?

Flutter and Dart primarily, with Kotlin, and Clean Architecture with BLoC for state. Five years building production mobile applications. Outside client work I maintain browser-execution-runtime, an MIT-licensed TypeScript project, which is public if you would rather read code than a CV.

Can I see something you have actually shipped?

Yes — five iOS applications released in 2026, all live on the App Store now, each one built and taken through App Review by me as the only engineer: a receipt scanner and expense tracker, a voice-driven calorie counter, an AI text humaniser, a shared household task app and a voice journal. The proof page links every listing, along with the public repositories behind the real-time and agent-tooling work. Four client apps are public too — Factor Wallet, CrowdGen AI, Encounter Walking and Infinity Club — though those are published by the clients, so they show the product rather than who wrote it. Start with the things you can open yourself.

How does hiring one engineer pay off against an agency?

The saving is not the rate, it is the rework. Most of what I get called in for is an app that was built cheaply, shipped, and then cost more to stabilise than it did to write — memory leaks, unmanaged state, an API called four times where once would do. One engineer who owns the architecture and the release does not hand you that bill later. It is also faster in practice, because there is no layer between the person deciding and the person typing. Where an agency genuinely wins is scale: several engineers, a project manager, a design team. If that is the shape of the work, hire the agency.

Is your recent work current, or is this a CV of old projects?

Current. The five App Store releases are from 2026, and browser-execution-runtime — an MIT-licensed TypeScript runtime for driving browsers from AI agents — is something I am maintaining now, not a finished portfolio piece. Mobile work has changed considerably in the last two years, particularly around on-device inference, streaming APIs and what App Review will accept from an AI feature. I would rather be judged on that than on a five-year total.

When are you not the right hire?

If you need someone on-site, if you are optimising for the lowest possible hourly rate, or if you need agency scale — several engineers, a project manager, a design team. I work as a senior individual contributor or a tech lead, and I do not run an agency. Saying so early saves us both a call.