BuilderLab
Leading engineering on a live early-stage codebase, and staying hands-on where orders, credits and access have to be right.
- Context
- Head of Software Engineering, joined on contract in Jul 2026
- My part
- Leading a team of about 10, and hands-on full-stack development, architecture, backend and deployment
- Focus
- Team leadership, delivery with the CTO, access control, race-safe order and credit workflows, document verification
- Year
- 2026–
- What it is
- An AI-powered platform for designing, sourcing and building custom hardware, with suppliers, orders and production workflows already running.
- What I did
- I lead a cross-functional team of about 10 across full-stack engineering, UI/UX and cybersecurity, from hiring and performance evaluations to KPIs and workloads, and work directly with the CTO on technical priorities, delegation and delivery. I still lead full-stack development hands-on: I hardened role-based access control on supplier workflows so authorization is checked before any sensitive operation, and made order and credit workflows race-safe, idempotent and auditable with atomic transactions and row locking. I built a Python document-verification pipeline that cross-checks extraction methods and flags mismatches for review, and a reusable coupon system first used at Xathon, a sponsored hackathon, where I also gathered user feedback.
- Result
- I also run infrastructure evaluations for the CTO, and the recommendations were adopted across the CDN, database and hosting. The codebase is private, so this page stays at that level.
