Production down
It keeps breaking
Outages, cascading failures, the same incident on a loop. The team is firefighting instead of shipping, and every week it costs more than the last.
Fix
On fire right now?
Let's put it out.
Production is down, incidents keep recurring, or there's a deadline you will not hit on your own and a board meeting looming. I drop in on short notice, stop the bleeding, and get it over the line. No retainer, no runway. Just the fix.
The problem
The thing is acute, and it's now.
This is not the slow-burn version where you need a roadmap. Something is actively breaking, or about to. The system keeps falling over, an incident has dragged on for days across teams with no clear owner, or a date you committed to is slipping and there's no one left to throw at it. You don't need a strategy. You need someone who has done this before to step in and make it stop.
Stuck incident
Nobody owns it
A multi-day incident spanning teams, vendors, and a customer or two, with no one holding the thread. It needs a single operator to drive it to a real answer.
Deadline at risk
You won't make it
A launch, a stage gate, a board commitment. The date is real and the gap is real, and you need hands that close it, not a plan that explains it.
How it works
Drop in, stabilise, hand back.
Short notice
I start fast
Days, not weeks. I get oriented, find the actual fault line, and start changing the trajectory in the first session. No onboarding ritual, no discovery phase you pay for while the building burns.
In the work
Hands on, not advisory
I'm in the codebase, in the incident channel, on the call with the vendor or the customer. I take the thing nobody owns and own it until it's stable.
Context-level
The pattern, not one ticket
For a single one-off, you don't need me. Where incidents are frequent, I work at the level of the recurring pattern: stabilise the system, fix the cause, and leave the team able to hold the line.
Clean handback
No dependency
Proof
Fires I've put out, for real.
Retail · E-commerce
profishop.de
A B2B e-commerce platform buckling under its own traffic. I led the performance and stability work across the stack and turned a system that kept falling over into one the team could run.
Deadline rescue
Got it over the line
A team facing a fixed date they were not going to hit. I dropped in, cut the work to what actually had to ship, and got it over the line in time.
What it costs
Bounded work, priced to the fire.
Drop-in
Interim day rate
€2,500-3,000/day
Short-notice hands when you need someone in the work now and billed only for the days it takes. The fastest way to start.
Bounded
Sprint
€18,000-28,000
When the fire has a clear shape, a Sprint puts one objective on the table with one deliverable: stabilise the system or hit the date, two to three weeks.
If it needs a read
Diagnostic
from €6,000
When it isn't yet clear why things keep breaking, a short read finds the cause first.
All figures net of VAT, scoped per engagement. Full engagement model →
Something on fire right now?
Tell me what's breaking and when it has to stop. If I'm the right person to step in, I'll move fast. If I'm not, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.