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Hey, I'm Dean.

No bullsh*t product engineer. AI-Native builder: web, mobile, smart contracts.

Scaled 0-40k users as a solo dev

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What you need to know before contracting me:

I sprint. Slowing me down is billable.

What you need to give me:

A. A detailed list of every feature you want
B. Nothing
C. Something in between

Just give me whatever info or ideas you have. I'll run with it.

"Uber, but for dog walking."

One line like this is a perfectly good starting point. A brief this size is now a full product in beta.

What I actually do:

I'm a product engineer, not just a dev. Whatever tool gets the job done, I'll use it. I don't limit myself to one stack.

For one-off builds / MVPs:

Tell me the end goal. I'll ship clean, working code, fast. You don't need to manage me, check in on me, or explain the "why" three times.

For long-term / retainer contracts:

Tell me what your business looks like when it's successful. I'll make sure your product gets you there.

I fit best with teams/founders who:

  • Need an MVP to show proof of concept
  • Want expert clean up on an existing mess
  • Value speed and results over process and updates

I'm not the right fit if you:

  • Need to micromanage sprints
  • Want me to sit in every meeting that doesn't concern me
  • Often have to wait for opinions and approval from other people on your side

Skills

Full-Stack Product

Shipped and scaled products solo from 0 to 40k+ users.

TypeScriptNext.jsReactNode.jsPostgreSQLRedisPrisma / DrizzleStripeWebSocketsTailwind CSS

Mobile

iOS apps from first commit to App Store and TestFlight beta.

React NativeExpoSwiftKotlinPush NotificationsLive GeolocationApp Store / Play Store

Web3 & Smart Contracts

Wallet infra, provably fair gaming, trading systems, and ZK cryptography in production.

SolanaAnchorRustEVMSolidityWallet IntegrationZK-SNARKsMEV / Trading BotsProvably Fair Systems

Systems & Infrastructure

Led a team building a custom Android OS, kernel to launcher. Run all my own infra.

AOSPC / C++LinuxAWS / GCPDockerCI/CDMonitoring (Grafana / Sentry)

Games & Engines

Built a custom AI game engine powering 1.7M+ games played.

Custom EnginesUnityGodotC#Multiplayer NetworkingProcedural Generation

AI Engineering

AI pipelines and agents in production products, not just autocomplete.

Claude APIOpenAI APIAgent WorkflowsMCPRAGTool UseGeneration Pipelines

CURRENT FOCUS

MY PRODUCTS

CLIENT WORK

Learn with Dev10

Educational content drawn from my own products: what I built, what worked, and what didn't. Teaching junior and new devs what correct infrastructure looks like and how to implement it. Client projects stay off camera.

Projects

ACTIVE

MVP

PAST

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