Work with me
Consulting, and a few projects a year chosen for the problem.
Most of my week belongs to Pigment Dev. What is left goes to two things: technical consulting, and a small number of projects a year that I take on because the problem is interesting.
I am not trying to fill a calendar. If what follows fits what you need, the conversation is worth having. If it does not, I would rather say so early.
// services
What I take on
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// short engagements
Technical consulting
A few days of investigation, a written report you can act on without me, and a walkthrough. For teams with developers but nobody owning the technical picture.
Report and call -
// projects
WordPress and WooCommerce development
Custom plugins from specification to a release that survives updates. Invoicing, receipts, payments, order flows and profiles, published to WordPress.org when it makes sense.
Spec to release -
// rescue and care
Performance and infrastructure
When a site is slow, expensive or unstable: traced across code, database, cache, PHP and server. Migrations without downtime, and monitoring that reaches a person.
100/100 to 15/100 CPU -
// projects
Integrations and automation
Payment gateways, SMS and OTP providers, marketplace APIs, Telegram bots, spreadsheet-driven catalogues and Cloudflare Workers. Systems that were never meant to talk.
APIs and bots -
// projects
Applications
Web applications and PWAs in React and Node, native macOS utilities in Swift, browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Safari, and Telegram Mini Apps.
Web, macOS, extensions -
// projects
Design to working WordPress
A finished design, drawn or generated, rebuilt as a real Elementor site from native widgets, global styles and templates, through a pipeline we built for it.
Native widgets only
// whether-this-is-a-fit
What I am not
A designer, a theme customiser, or an agency. For design and full-service work, Pigment Agency is where I would send you, and I would probably end up doing the development anyway.
A good fit when
- The problem is technical and the scope can be written down.
- You want the person who builds it to still be reachable in a year.
- You are an agency that needs white-label development. Pigment is an agency, so I know that arrangement from both sides.
Not a fit when
- You need it next week.
- The budget assumes a template.
- The work is design or theme customisation.
// how-it-goes
How it goes
The same five steps for a two-week plugin and a six-month build. Nothing lands on production without your sign-off.
A short call
Thirty minutes. You describe the problem, I tell you honestly whether I am the right person.
A written scope
Before any code, a document that says what will be built, what will not, how long, and what it costs. You approve it or we adjust it.
Milestones on a staging site
You see progress as it happens. Nothing lands on production without your sign-off.
Handover
Documentation, a recorded walkthrough, and everything in your repository, not mine.
Maintenance, if you want it
Monthly or on demand. Optional, and separate.
// rates
Rates
Fixed price for scoped work, a daily rate for open-ended work, and a separate rate for consulting. I quote after the first call, once I know what the work actually is. I do not quote from a form.
// faq
Questions people ask first
Do you work white-label for agencies?
Yes, and often. Pigment is an agency, so I know how that arrangement works from both sides.
What time zone are you in?
UTC+3:30. That is a full working overlap with Europe and the Gulf, and it covers the first half of the North American day. I work asynchronously and write things down, so you should not need to be online at the same time as me.
Do you sign NDAs?
Yes. Some of my past work is under one and does not appear on this site.
Can you take over a plugin someone else wrote?
Usually yes. Send me the repository and I will tell you what shape it is in before you commit to anything.
Will you publish it on WordPress.org?
If that is what you want, yes, including the review process, the readme, the assets and the release workflow. I have done it repeatedly.
How does payment work internationally?
We agree that during scoping. It depends on where you are, and I would rather solve it before the work starts than after.
How fast do you reply?
Two business days, usually faster.
// working-together
Tell me what you are trying to fix.
What you are trying to build or fix, what already exists, and what a good outcome looks like. That is usually enough for me to say something useful in the first reply.