HUNT ALONGSIDE, NOT INSTEAD OF WE EMBED WITH YOUR TEAM. AND LEAVE THEM STRONGER.
Your team is talented but stretched thin. The backlog grows faster than you can ship. Critical knowledge lives in one person's head. You've tried hiring, but the market is brutal and onboarding takes months.
You need someone who joins the pack, not replaces it, tracks the problem, fixes it, and teaches your team to hunt on their own.
Team Signals That Something Needs to Change
I've seen these patterns in teams of 5 and teams of 50. If more than two sound familiar, your team needs a hunting partner, not more headcount.
Knowledge Silos
Half your system architecture lives in one person's head. When they're on vacation, critical decisions wait. When they leave, institutional knowledge walks out the door with them.
Bus Factor of One
There's one engineer who understands the payment service. One who knows the deployment pipeline. One who can debug the legacy integration. Your entire operation depends on nobody getting sick at the same time.
Drowning in Maintenance
Your team spends 80% of their time keeping systems alive and 20% building new features. They signed up to build products, not babysit infrastructure. You can see the frustration in every standup.
Can't Ship New Features
The product roadmap is ambitious but the engineering team is stuck in reactive mode. Every sprint starts with good intentions and ends with 'we'll start the new feature next sprint.' Again.
The Chase + The Unleashing
We assess. We chase it down alongside your team. We unleash them. Here's how Phases 2 and 3 work.
Phase 2: The Chase
Five drives of embedded engineering
Join the Pack
Embed in standups, Slack, code reviews. Learn rhythms and real blockers.
Clear the Trail
Tackle highest-priority architectural and tech debt from the Assessment.
Lay the Track
Build production-grade systems: TDD, CI/CD, infrastructure as code.
Run It Down
Sprint execution on the hardest problems. Pair programming, architecture decisions.
Mark the Territory
Document decisions, set up monitoring, establish operational runbooks.
Phase 3: The Unleashing
Four gates to proven independence
Pair to Solo
Transition from pair programming to independent ownership.
The Handoff Hunt
Team runs a real problem end-to-end without consultant involvement.
Sharpen the Nose
Workshops, ADRs, documentation. Transfer judgment, not just knowledge.
Off the Leash
Team operates independently. 30-day check-in confirms.
Embed, Track, Fix, Transfer
We Join Your Pack
I don't parachute in with a pre-built solution. I join your standups, your Slack channels, your code reviews. I learn how your team works, where the friction is, and what's actually blocking progress, not what the project tracker says.
For 6-12 months, I work alongside your engineers, pair programming on hard problems, writing production code, building the practices that let your team move faster. TDD, CI/CD, architecture patterns. Learned by doing, not by reading a wiki.
When I leave, your team is stronger. They don't inherit a dependency — they inherit confidence.
- Embedded Engineering: Same standups, same Slack, same on-call. I'm part of the team, not an outside observer.
- Knowledge Transfer: Pair programming, architecture workshops, documentation. Your team learns by building with me
- Practice Building: TDD, CI/CD, code review culture, incident response. Habits that outlast the engagement
- Capacity & Velocity: Immediate impact on delivery while building long-term team capability
Picture This
Your team ships features weekly, not monthly. Knowledge is documented and shared. No single point of failure. The engineer who used to be the bottleneck? They've mentored two juniors who now handle it independently.
On-call rotations are manageable. Code reviews are productive, not performative. Your engineers are building again, and they're not looking for the exit.
From First Commit to Full Impact
We don't spend months in discovery. Here's what the first 12 weeks look like.
Embed & Orient
Meet the team. Read the codebase. Join Slack, standups, and code reviews. Understand the real blockers, not the Jira ones.
First Wins
Shipping production code. Tackling quick-win tech debt. Pair programming on the hardest problems. Building trust through delivery.
Deep Impact
Leading architecture decisions. Establishing TDD and CI/CD practices. Knowledge transfer through daily pairing. Measurable velocity improvement.
Team Independence
Your engineers start leading. Pair-to-solo transition begins. Documented decisions, runbooks, and practices that outlast the engagement.
Companies That Grew Through The Breaking Point
Real companies, real pressure, real results. Here's what happened when they brought me in during their scaling challenges.
10x Scale During Hypergrowth
The company was growing fast. Too fast for their architecture. I led the redesign of core systems, migrated to managed cloud services, and introduced TDD practices. Four-year engagement that took them from scrappy startup to enterprise-grade platform.
Internal AI Assistant for 50,000+ Employees
Embedded with the bank's engineering team for two years, building enterprise AI tools from scratch. Led the team to become the highest-performing unit in the program through pair programming, TDD practices, and hands-on mentorship.
"We hired Szymon twice. The first time he modernized our codebase and introduced real engineering practices. The second time we handed him the keys to rearchitect everything. The platform he built handles 10x what the old one could, and it's the core of our business now." — CEO, Hospitality Payments Platform
Why This Works When Your Pack Needs Reinforcement
Why Not Staff Augmentation Firms?
- They send warm bodies who clock in and out. No ownership, no knowledge transfer, no investment in your team's growth. When the contract ends, you're back to square one.
- I stay until your team can hunt on their own. Knowledge transfer isn't an add-on. It's the entire point.
Why Not Outsourcing?
- You get a separate team in a separate timezone building a separate codebase. Communication overhead eats the cost savings. When they're done, nobody on your team understands what was built.
- I build with your team, in your codebase, in your timezone. Everything I build, your engineers can maintain and extend.
Let's Hunt Together
Your team is stretched thin right now, not next quarter. 30 minutes. Let's figure out where a hunting partner would make the biggest impact. If I'm not the right fit, I'll tell you.
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