Blaine A.
MVP-to-Production Engineer | Ex-Meta & T-Mobile
I build production-grade mobile and backend products in a fraction of the time they usually take. Not by cutting corners, but the opposite: I've built this exact kind of system enough times that I already know where the load-bearing decisions are, and I use agentic tooling to move through the rest fast. The result is a multi-tenant SaaS with real data isolation, Stripe billing wired end to end, MFA, and a clean mobile client, shipped in weeks rather than the quarter it usually eats. That compression is the whole point. It's the difference between an idea that reaches real users while it still matters and one that's still in development when the moment passes. The agentic part isn't a buzzword I picked up last month. I'm a Claude Certified Developer (Anthropic's proctored exam, scored 896 out of 1000 against a 720 pass mark), and I've built the tooling I work with: multi-agent code review, automated audits against OWASP and architecture checklists that run on every change. That's what makes the speed above compression rather than corner-cutting. The review layer gets stricter as the build gets faster, not looser. I'm a senior engineer from Meta and T-Mobile, and what I actually sell is judgment. On any build there are a handful of decisions that are cheap to get right up front and brutally expensive to undo later: how tenants are isolated, how auth is structured, how Stripe handles the refund and the failed webhook nobody tested. I find those first, get them right, and build outward from there. Most of the job is knowing which decisions those are, and I've made them enough times to see them coming. Because I read architecture quickly, I'm also good at walking into a stalled build. If you've already paid a cheap team once and it demos fine but falls apart the moment real users or real money show up, I can audit what's there, tell you plainly what's salvageable and what isn't, and get it to production. Cheap work is cheap because the hard calls got skipped, and those are exactly the calls I'm fast at spotting. I'll be straight with you about whether you're looking at a save or a rebuild. Core stack: Flutter, Next.js, Supabase (Postgres, RLS, PostGIS), Stripe (Connect, checkout, portal, webhooks), plus the surrounding cloud and API work. On the AI side: Claude API integration, MCP server development, and agent orchestration for teams that want this capability inside their own product rather than just in their development process. I'd rather go deep on a deliberate set of tools than claim to do a little of everything. How I work You get senior judgment on your specific problem, not a feature factory. I find the highest-stakes decision in your architecture, get that one right, and build outward. I communicate clearly, deliver when I say I will, and document as I go, so nothing important ever lives only in my head. Education Master's Degree, Computer Science Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science If you're building something new, or trying to rescue something that isn't holding together, tell me what you're building and the part of it that's giving you the most trouble.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $18k
Billed in all: $28,205$28k
$1.8k in the last 6 months
Across 11 contracts
Across 18 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
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