Pleased to meet you.

Why Stanquette

I do not hand over a deck of recommendations and leave — I architect the solution and build it, with your team. Mentorship is built into the work: the team ends stronger than I found it.

House rules

Less tech is better. Rails is a prime engine for having less technology over more. Do you really need three data stores and twenty services — and how many people do you have to maintain them?

Merging services back together is fine. Microservices are great when investor money is ample. When the market tightens, rebundling into a monolith is just as valid as the original extraction.

I do not need to redo a system to fix it. Coming from a long career in film, I know that deadlines and budget constraints got you where you are. Your app did its job — it deserves respect, not scolding.

Rails is great for LLMs. Terse code means less to ingest. I structure libraries and documentation so a model is productive from the very first prompt.

Recent work

• WeTransfer

  Built high-throughput storage services and managed the team responsible, cutting cloud infrastructure costs by a significant margin.

• Cheddar

  Shipped key features and managed the web/backend team of four — 1:1s, mentorship, performance. Deploys went from nearly an hour to single-digit minutes.

• Cora Optimized fleet utilization by a factor of two and implemented robust, atomic processing workflows. Case study →

• Healthcare scaleup

  Helping the team navigate AI-assisted development, plus long-needed maintenance and simplification.

A good fit if…

• You are open to having decision-makers work directly with me
• You want everything out of the Ruby/Rails stack you already run on
• …or you are starting a new initiative with a lean Ruby-based setup
• You are open to forms of collaboration other than full-time employment

Technical expertise