Product engineering
Hands-on engineering for teams that need things shipped. I work inside your team — writing TypeScript, React, Node and AWS code daily — taking features from a rough brief to production, and leaving the codebase and the team in better shape than I found them.
What's included
Senior delivery across the stack, measured in shipped work — not status updates.
I write the code, not just the tickets. TypeScript across the stack — React on the front end, Node services behind it — shipped in small, reviewable increments your team can follow and own after I leave.
React web apps with proper attention to performance and accessibility, and React Native when the product needs to live in a pocket. One codebase, honest trade-offs, no framework tourism.
AWS done pragmatically: the boring, well-understood services that fit the problem, wired up with infrastructure as code so environments are reproducible and nothing depends on one person’s laptop.
Inheriting a codebase that’s slowing the business down? I stabilise first, then replace the parts that hurt most — like the search platform I swapped out at Dunelm, saving the business £350k a year.
Who it's for
Product teams that need senior hands on the keyboard — to unblock a roadmap, ship a stalled feature, or cover a gap while hiring.
Founders and scale-ups who want an engineer who can take a vague brief to a shipped product without a layer of management in between.
Businesses sitting on ageing systems that need someone who can modernise without stopping the day job.
Recent work
AnyVan — hands-on product engineering in a busy delivery marketplace team: shipping customer-facing features, raising the day-to-day engineering bar, and making the calls that kept the codebase moving in the right direction.
Need an engineer who ships?
Tell me what your team is trying to get done and where it's stuck. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right pair of hands for it.
Start a projectOr email me directly at nickolastheodoulou@hotmail.com