Independent engineer · Tbilisi, Georgia
I build custom applications for businesses that do not fit the software on the market. You describe how you work, I build the tool that matches. Hosted on my server, maintained, and it belongs to you. I also look after the servers a business runs on.
Custom applications
The situation is almost always the same: a spreadsheet that grew until nobody can manage it, or generic software where you use ten percent of the features and pay per user every month. I build the tool that matches what you actually do, nothing more.
Case or job tracking, client portal, team scheduling, dashboard, internal catalogue, automation of a process still done by hand. A web application your team reaches from a browser, on any device.
You describe the need, I propose the shape
Fixed price quoted in writing once I understand the need, with the scope spelled out. Two to three weeks for a tool of ordinary size. Half on start, half on delivery.
No hourly meter running
The tool runs on my server in Germany, encrypted and isolated from other clients. Daily backups, security updates, defect fixes. One hour of support included each month; beyond that my hourly rate applies.
New features and training billed separately
Everything built for your project transfers to you on final payment: code, database, documentation. If you ever want to move it elsewhere, all of it goes with you. I keep only my pre-existing generic components, the ones I reuse from one project to the next.
Nothing locks you in
Your data stays separate. Each client has their own database and their own access. The server is hardened: key-only access, firewall closed by default, backups encrypted before they leave the machine. If you prefer the tool to run on your own server, that works too.
By trade
The principle is the same everywhere, but the vocabulary and habits change. Here is what the tool becomes depending on the trade.
Hours per job, materials tied to the job, real profit before the job ends.
Boards, track and compound tracked per job, crew hours, budget spent live.
Shop and site on the same tracking, hardware assigned, margin visible per job.
Hours per job, cable and fittings tied in, real cost before invoicing.
Call-outs and jobs on the same tracking, parts assigned, margin per job.
Crews, materials and hours tracked per job, overrun visible halfway through.
Projects and maintenance contracts tracked together, supplies assigned, real profit.
Wood, tile and resin tracked per job, materials assigned, real margin.
Workshop and site tracked together, slabs and consumables assigned per job.
Construction and service contracts tracked together, materials assigned, real margin.
Call-outs, parts and maintenance contracts tracked in one place.
Your trade not on the list? The principle applies to any business tracking jobs, hours and materials. Tell me about your situation.
Services
These are the jobs that come up most often. The underlying work is always the same: understand the system, build or fix the part that is missing, leave it documented well enough that someone else could take over. If what you need is not on this list, describe it anyway. I will tell you straight whether it is something I should be doing.
From a bare VPS to your site or application running on your own domain over HTTPS, with certificates that renew themselves. Several projects on one machine without them interfering. Migrations from one host to another, with the downtime planned rather than discovered.
Ubuntu · Debian · Nginx · Let's Encrypt
A machine already in production, brought up to standard. SSH on keys only, root login disabled, firewall closed by default, Fail2ban, and backups you have actually restored once instead of assumed. Audit first, then only the changes you approve.
Written report before anything changes
WireGuard and OpenVPN configured so traffic cannot leak around the tunnel. DNS handled correctly, a kill switch that fails closed, and a verification report showing the setup holds under test.
Remote access · Site to site · Road warrior
The script that replaces three hours of manual work every week. A language model wired into your workflow so incoming mail, documents or records get sorted, summarised and routed before anyone reads them. The internal tool that does not exist as a product because your situation is specific.
Python · Bash · LLM APIs
Maintenance
Most of what takes a server down is not an attack. It is an expired certificate, a full disk, a backup nobody ever restored. Monthly maintenance is there so that does not happen.
Your data stays with you. That is the difference with a cloud service. The server is yours, in your name, at the host you chose. I do not put your business on a shared platform and I hold no copy of your data. Backups are encrypted before they leave the machine and you hold the key. If you stop working with me, nothing has to be moved and nothing has to be recovered from anyone.
A full review of the machine: security posture, missing patches, backup state, architecture, load. Written report with the fixes ranked by priority. Deducted in full from your first invoice if you sign a maintenance contract.
Written report · No changes without your approval
Continuous automated monitoring: uptime, load, disk. Security patches for the OS and critical packages. Encrypted daily backups to remote storage. Human response 07:00 to 19:00 CET, seven days a week. Two full restores per year included.
Standby server with failover: 105 USD/month plus the instance. During an outage your site runs temporarily on my machine, encrypted, and is wiped once you are back.
95 USD per hour for clients under contract. Development, new software, migrations, anything beyond maintenance. Additional restores beyond the two included are billed at the same rate.
Quoted before the work starts
Multi-server infrastructure from 400 USD per month, quoted. High availability, clusters and negotiated response times, quoted after the audit.
Agencies and studios: white label by default, I stay behind your name. Multiple servers quoted together.
Your hosting account stays yours and in your name. Liability is limited to the fees paid over the last twelve months.
How I work
Proof of work
A desktop security auditor for Windows and Linux. It checks a machine for the threats that steal cryptocurrency: clipboard hijackers that swap a pasted address, hidden stealers, fraudulent browser extensions, DNS leaks, and the state of the VPN and firewall. Everything runs locally. Nothing leaves the machine.
The SHA-256 of the download is published so a buyer can verify the file before running it. That is how I think about software, and it is the fastest way to judge my work before hiring me.
Delivered systems
Contact
Describe the situation in a few lines. If it is not something I should be doing, I will say so and point you somewhere better.
+995 558 65 36 75
Fastest. I answer the same day.
Registered business
Eric Lemieux, Individual Entrepreneur, Georgia · Tax ID 155785842