Commissions
Hire me
Have something you need built? I take on websites, backend systems, data work and integrations, and I’m happy to talk a problem through before anything is quoted. I reply within two business days.
What I take on
Websites and web apps
Marketing sites, product pages and small web apps — fast, statically hosted and easy to keep up to date. Like this one.
Systems architecture
Distributed systems, event-driven design, multi-tenant SaaS and enterprise integration, built to stay correct under real load.
Data and integration
Change-data pipelines, zero-downtime migrations, legacy bridges and API adapter layers — shipped with runbooks.
AI systems
LLM tooling, agentic workflows and AI-assisted delivery, with clear architecture so the result stays dependable.
Reviews and guidance
Architecture reviews, decision records, team enablement and technical leadership — leaving the team stronger.
How a commission works
Tell me what you need
Send the request below. My first reply usually comes with a few questions.
Get a quote
Once the problem is clear you get a written scope and price: fixed for well-defined work, time-boxed when it isn’t.
I build it
Progress updates in writing as the work lands, and a handover with the source and documentation at the end.
Questions people ask
What time zone are you in?
Philippine Time (UTC+8). Most of the work happens in writing, so time zones rarely get in the way, and calls are booked at a time that suits both of us.
Will you sign an NDA?
Yes. Client work is only ever described on this site in general terms, the way it is below.
How is the price set?
Every commission gets its own quote once it’s scoped — a fixed price when the work is well defined, or a time-boxed estimate when it isn’t.
Who owns what gets built?
You do. Code, designs and documents are yours once the work is paid for, and they live in your own repositories and accounts.
What happens after launch?
You get the source, a short runbook and a handover call. Ongoing support can be added to the quote if you want it.
Past commissions
Client work is described in general terms. The numbers are exact. Read the MongoDB migration case study for the long version of one.
- Healthcare · 20240Seconds of downtime
Patient-care CMS through the utilization ceiling · MongoDB ReplicaSet → Atlas Sharded Cluster
Solo migration of a vendor-locked clinic CMS off a saturated single ReplicaSet onto a horizontally scalable Sharded Cluster. Profiled the live workload, picked the shard key off real query shapes, fixed a misconfigured Azure network path along the way, rehearsed the cutover twice — patient services never went offline.
- Travel · 2023<1sP99 latency
Booking path under the second barrier · sub-1s P99 across 300+ partner integrations
Profilers, execution plans, and traces on a high-traffic booking flow. Query shapes rewritten, N+1s eliminated, caches placed where the data actually allowed it — P99 brought under one second without dropping a single integration.
- My own product · 2026LIVEOn App Store
PingOps shipped to the App Store · uptime monitoring with cloud coverage
Forged in-house and shipped solo: an iOS uptime monitor with public status pages and cloud-side checks. Design, backend, client, and store release — one operator, end to end.
- Enterprise · 2021+2M+Members served
Enterprise architecture for a 2M+ member platform
Integration architecture, cloud stack selection, and an ADR library that outlived team rotations. Plus the training programme that levelled up every application engineer in the org.
- My own product · 2026LIVEIn browser
Bottleneckers live · visual bottleneck simulation for distributed systems
Drag-and-drop service topologies, client-side load simulation, utilization heatmaps, and critical-path analysis — systems intuition, playable in the browser.
- Before the studio · 2010sCPTTeam captain
Pro StarCraft player & team captain · Mineski
Map awareness, build orders, APM under pressure, and post-game analysis as a discipline. The strategic instincts behind every system Arkynate ships were forged here first.