Backend Foundation
Whether you’re building a simple app or a complex platform, managing users and other critical assets requires a solid backend system. The architecture you choose at the outset can make or break your project’s scalability and budget, potentially impacting costs and developer hours 100-fold.
I specialize in creating systems that empower developers to iterate rapidly, deliver changes with confidence, and keep the AWS bill minimal. These are principles that I applied when advising over a dozen teams at Twitch & Amazon as well as in my own entrepreneurial endeavors.
Custom Backend API
I'll work with you to model your customer data, understand your access patterns, and provide a RESTful CRUD API and DynamoDB Infrastructure to support Users and other data models tailored to your business.
Authentication
Authentication should be secure, and it should be easy – but it's hard to be both. Unless you're in FinTech, OpenID Connect (Login with Google, Login with Apple) is the perfect balance of "secure" and "ease."
I'll integrate your applications with Google & Apple and build a customizable Authentication Token System for your own application.
Providers like Supabase will lock you into their systems and charge $25 a month for 100k users, but once you leave that tier, you're paying $2-3k a month. Owning your own authentication not only gives you flexibility and you pay closer to $5 a month instead of $2-3k.
CI/CD
Global products are "always up." Zero down-time deploys are table stakes.
However, many teams overburden their project with long release processes to protect against this downtime. It's critical to balance the speed of release with the confidence in knowing the changes won't break anything.
I'll build you a free CI/CD pipeline equivalent to Amazon & Twitch enterprise-level infrastructure, but at a fraction of the speed. Within 5 minutes, code changes will go through unit testing, deploy to your +Beta environment, run a suite of E2E tests, and the finally roll out to your Production environment if the changes are good!
Read more about the CI/CD Pipeline here
Infrastructure
To minimize costs, reduce development time, and scale to millions of users – all of our infrastructure is serverless and orchestrated by AWS SAM. This includes Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, SQS, S3, CloudFront, and SNS.
By managing all infrastructure through AWS SAM and CloudFormation, our IaC (Infrastructure as Code) allows us to spin up equivalent environments for dev, beta, and prod – all for essentially free.
These environments ensure that infrastructure changes are always backwards compatible and these infrastructure changes roll through our CI/CD pipeline just like code changes.
Check out some example infrastructure here.
AI Package
All of the above included + AI Assistant development + AI Guard Rails.
AI Assistant API
The world is changing with ChatGPT and Claude. I'll help you design an AI Assistant to hook into your API and use RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to enhance the reliability of responses from your assistant.
AI Guard Rails
AI can be expensive! Putting your assistant on the internet will open it up for attackers to abuse and use for their own purposes, all billed to your account.
By introducing "Guard Rails" and proper rate limiting, you can protect your AI Assistant from abuse.
Read more about GuardRails here
Full Package
For full application development, I can lead the design, development, and release of your mobile application using React Native Expo.