LabFlow
A multi-tenant laboratory information system across three production surfaces.
First commit.
Latest commit I checked, still in work.
Building it in-house, or hiring me
Your own team knows your business and stays. If the software is the business, that is where it belongs in the end. The question is what happens before that team exists.
What you get
Your own employee or team: someone who knows the business, sits in your meetings and still remembers why a decision was made three years later.
It is usually the slowest route to start, because you have to find them, hire them and keep them busy once the first release is out.
Where this route is right
If the software is the business and it will need someone every day for years, build the team. No outside developer should be the long-term answer for your core product.
In-house is also right when the knowledge cannot leave the building, or when you already have engineers and a settled roadmap.
Where I am different
I fit the stretch before that: the first release, the codebase that needs rescuing, the product your team has no time to start. Taking over someone else's code usually begins with an audit and a prioritised roadmap.
You get a product without a hiring round, and the handover assumes I am not available. You are not buying a codebase only I can read. If the project only runs while I am on it, I have not finished.
And if the right answer turns out to be hiring a senior who works this way, I am open to remote roles too.
What you can check
My side of this rests on the products below. Each one opens, and each date comes from its commit history or my own project records.
Ahsan Mahmood Portfolio
This site, rebuilt from nothing.
Planning and the first design pages.
First commit of the new app. Its message records five defects the automated checks had passed.
The data platform, 38 tables, and three more defects no automated check had seen.
The rebuild took over this address.
Moved to a new host.
Tell me what you are building
The first call is free and lasts thirty minutes. If this route suits your job better than I do, that is what you will hear from me.