Thin senior bench
You can hire juniors. Finding a senior engineer, accessibility specialist, or technical search person on the Island is another story.
Agencies & development teams
Clear the backlog without another full-time hire.
Charlottetown shops, Halifax agencies, and in-house product teams across Atlantic Canada are shipping with a thin senior bench. I drop into your tools, write code your team can maintain, and stay off the client relationship.
How I partner
- You keep the client and the process
- I work in your repo, board, and timezone
- Handoff with notes your team can actually use
Agency Reality
The work is there. The senior people are not.
Members of the PEI Information Technology Alliance and small shops from Summerside to Halifax know this already: the talent pool is thin, the pipeline is not, and a messy freelancer can cost you the client.
Wave work, not a year-round seat
Tourism launches, grant deadlines, and government projects arrive in bunches. A full-time senior hire sits idle between them.
Freelancer roulette
One person, no cover, and they go quiet mid-sprint. Your project manager is left explaining the gap to the client.
Client risk
One sloppy white-label handoff can damage a relationship you spent years building. You need someone who stays in the background.
Standards debt
Accessibility and technical search get deferred until a government, arts, or municipal client asks — and then the sprint blows up.
Timezone lag
Overnight offshore handoffs miss Atlantic Time standups, Canadian privacy requirements, and the context of Island clients.
What I do
Capacity that slots into your sprint
Hands-on development
Front-end and back-end overflow in React, Next.js, WordPress, Ghost, and the rest of the stack your clients already run.
White-label delivery
Staging-ready builds under your brand. You own the relationship. I stay off the call unless you want me on it.
Accessibility remediation
Fixes against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines without a redesign, so government and community clients can actually launch.
Technical search audits
A clear punch list for ranking, performance, and crawl issues — then the pull requests to close them.
Architecture & second opinions
Stack decisions, migration risk, and rescue work before a bad call costs you a quarter.
Quality assurance & handoff
I test, document, and leave notes your developers can maintain. No mystery code, no hostage retainers.
Toolkit
Technologies I work with
WordPress
React / Next.js
Cloudflare
GoDaddy
Shopify
GitLab
Webflow
Google Analytics 4
Looker Studio
Ghost CMS
BigQuery
Supabase
Need another pair of hands on a live project?
Bring me into the sprint as overflow capacity. I work in your repo and your tools, then hand the work back to your team.
Work
Selected collaborations with teams
Projects where I worked inside someone else's process and left the code in good shape.
Case Study
PCP Economic Dashboard
Designing a clear, investor-facing economic snapshot for the Pictou County Partnership
Process
I work in your tools, not around them
Non-disclosure first. Then GitLab, GitHub, Jira, or whatever you already run. No parallel process for your project manager to babysit.
Align
We start with the ticket, the decisions already made, and who talks to the client — usually not me.
Own
I take a clear workstream: a defined build, embedded sprint capacity, an audit, or a rescue.
Deliver
Pull requests, risk notes, and standup updates in Atlantic Time. You see the work as it lands.
Hand off
Documentation, access, and next steps your team can run. Nothing hidden, nothing hostage.
Resources
Useful reading for technical teams
Practical guides and checklists you can use in the next sprint.
Explainer
Building a Website That Explains Its Own Language
A glossary is an excellent way to write technical work for a mixed audience without assuming everyone speaks the same language I do.
Field note
Stop Tweaking, Start Publishing: How to Know Your Website Is Ready to Launch
A website is ready to publish when users can understand what you offer, take the essential next steps, and receive what the site promises—and you have a grounded, realistic plan for handling what remains.
Playbook
What to Send Before Booking a Discovery Call
Ten minutes of honest notes are enough for a useful first conversation.