Collaboration
I work alongside specialists who complement how I show up for clients—whether that is deep Rails upgrades, hands-on delivery, product leadership, platform strategy, or seasoned engineering leadership. Here are people and teams I am glad to recommend and often collaborate with.
Manuel Gass · Product leadership & platform strategy
Manuel brings a decade of experience building platforms that scale—from fintech to developer-first companies. He offers interim and fractional product leadership alongside platform and developer-experience strategy: API-first thinking, shared capabilities, and turning platform teams into real force multipliers when product and engineering need to align on something bigger than a single roadmap.
Rails upgrades & maintenance
They keep Ruby on Rails applications secure, modern, and fast—specialising in stabilising and upgrading legacy Rails so teams do not have to gamble on big-bang rewrites. Senior engineers focus on dependency chains, breaking changes, security hardening, and performance: the messy work that gets you to current Ruby and Rails with clarity and testing.
Ruby on Rails development & web consulting
A small, experienced team focused on Rails and modern JavaScript—building new applications, hardening existing ones, and offering practical web consulting. They cover custom Rails work, APIs, database design, upgrades and maintenance, performance tuning, and quality practices, with direct communication and flexible engagement rather than layers of account management.
Engineering leadership & management
Zef has led engineering organisations for over 15 years—from startups and scale-ups to larger multinationals—in roles from engineering manager through CTO, while staying close to the craft with decades of hands-on programming and a Ph.D. in computer science. He writes alt.management for engineering leaders and brings clarity, rigour, and honest feedback when teams need senior technical direction.