I design it, build it and take it live: a web app, an internal system, the first version of your product.
You need a web app, an internal system or a first version (an MVP), and someone who sees everything from the plan to production? I've been building systems for 25 years. I work to a fixed price with the scope written down up front, and you get a working version every week.
You get results, not a tech stack. You tell me what the product needs, I design it, build it and take it live.
I’ve been building systems for 25 years: websites, web apps, internal systems, and platforms that a lot of people use at the same time. In that time I have run into most things a project can throw at you.
I’ve worked as a software architect on international projects, led development teams, and for the past several years I worked on the backend of a well-known online game, in an outsourced team that grew from three people to ten.
So I know from experience, not from theory, how much of a plan actually ships, and how much of it runs out along the way.
Today I build for companies and product teams: I join remote teams as an embedded engineer, build first versions, and step in where a build has stalled. I work in writing first, async, with CET overlap. If a part isn’t worth building, I’ll tell you before you spend money on it.
That’s what the name is about, too: Rudi Stop Red, so your project doesn’t run into the red.
My own products and client work. Where I can, you can try them yourself.
A digital game table: the TV is the shared table, and every phone is a player's own hand. Real-time play across devices, cookie-free analytics, and game authors put their games together in their own design tools. The Display app also runs on Android TV and Samsung Tizen TVs, in its own package.
A band website in two languages, its content edited from an admin panel.
A dental clinic's website, where the clinic edits its own prices, news and pages.
A food ordering web app that I moved from Firestore onto its own backend.
Keeps a folder in sync between two browsers, and the server sees nothing of the files.
The admin and data layer I build my client sites on.
How I work with AI: a multi-role workflow where every piece of work goes through review.
The backend of a well-known online game, in an outsourced team, for six years.
Real recommendations from clients and colleagues, from the 25 years I've spent building systems.
I can only recommend Rudi: alongside his huge, almost limitless knowledge he is creative and understanding, he gets straight away what it is about, and he can actually build it too. And he works with the most modern tools and mindset.
He can create a custom, complex management system to run an entire company, yet make it easy enough that anyone can use it with ease. Hands down the best programmer I have ever worked with.
He is proficient how to train, lead and point the team to the right direction based on his long experience in the IT industry. As a real team player, he always welcomes and listens to other suggestions and solutions when moments of need.
Rudi not only met deadlines but also explains his programs in a way that non-experts can easily understand. His quick thinking and cautious personality has helped the company avoid some costly and embarrassing mistakes.
Zsolt's recommendation was written in Hungarian; this is a translation.
In small steps and in writing, async-first with CET overlap, so you always see where the work stands and where your money goes.
We write down the scope, the estimate and the risks. If it turns out an existing tool covers the job, I'll say so, and the plan was still money well spent.
I work to a fixed price or an agreed day rate and monthly frame. If the requirements change along the way, we agree the cost first, and only then do I build it.
You don't see it for the first time at the end. Every week you get a version you can try, and something concrete already in the first week.
From day one it lives on your hosting and in your repository, and the handover is documented. If you carry on with someone else later, everything is in your hands.
I work fast: 25 years of building most kinds of systems, and today's AI tools in daily use. Net prices in euros, invoiced as EU B2B by Reindeer Entertainment OÜ (Estonia), reverse charge. The review and the product build are fixed price with the scope written down; embedded work runs on a day rate.
A no-strings conversation about your product, your team and where you need a hand.
Backend, service design and modernisation, working in your team's repository.
Three days on your system, ending in a written plan of what to fix first.
A first version of your product with a fixed scope, delivered milestone by milestone.
Write on any channel. Get in touch even if all you have so far is an idea.
Pick a free slot from my calendar. Free, no strings. By the end you'll know whether it's worth going further.
