Hire me as a CTO or Product Engineer

I help startups and businesses build new products and overhaul existing ones. I’m a software engineer based in the EU, and I work with clients worldwide.

In the past 10 years I was a founding engineer at a YCombinator startup and built products at an agency for VC and privately funded startups, established businesses, and large corporations.

To discuss your project, email me at workwith@brachkow.com.

What I can do for you

CTO or founding engineer I have overseen launches of many products, and I know the caveats outside of code, like marketing
Product engineering I build your product and work with you and your customers directly, day to day
Frontend and design engineering This has been my main focus for most of my career

Products I shipped recently

Things To Have, my own wishlist app for you and your friends

Runs completely on the Cloudflare Workers ecosystem
Custom-built full-stack SSR solution that allows writing frontend like MVC
Marketing: public launches, ads with 20% conversion
Live at thingstohave.app

A telemedicine service with encrypted chats, scheduling, and video calls

Full-featured telemedicine platform
Video calls and payments
Scheduling with calendar blocking and notifications
Encrypted messaging for sending medical data

A scalable geospatial API with metered billing

Scalable API on Cloudflare Workers and Analytics Engine
Metered billing with Stripe
Built a client dashboard in a day with
The product was built in less than a month (this was pre-AI!)

A catering service for children with a game-like UI

Hand-drawn UI with Lottie animations adapted to every screen
Complex DnD interface with drag animations, aim assist, etc.
GDPR-friendly analytics and ads setup
Worked on optimizing conversion funnels

A complex financial CRM with a lot of printing

Hybrid invoice generator that has both a traditional UI and freeform PDF editing
Researched user habits to build vast keyboard navigation and shortcut systems
Moved the whole business from email and paper to a web app

How I work

For my whole career I have worked directly with business owners and their customers.

I have always worked remotely and asynchronously. I’m good at working autonomously and proactively.

I’m a good fit for tight teams and startups that need a Swiss-knife engineer.

Technologies

My favorites are Vue, Inertia, Hono, and Cloudflare Workers
I have production experience with Vue, React, and Svelte
I have done a lot of backend work on Node.js and Cloudflare Workers
I can work with any set of technologies

If you have a product to build or fix, email me at workwith@brachkow.com.