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Engineer Out of Smoke

Engineer Out of Smoke · Andrei Popescu

I help early-stage startups turn messy data and manual work into reliable internal tools and automations.

Small, fixed-scope engineering packages. A clear deliverable, a clear price, shipped in weeks — not months.

Three ways to work together

Start small with an audit, or go straight to building. Every package has a fixed scope and a price you know before we start.

Concept builds

Demo projects that show what each package delivers in practice.

All projects

Concept buildData Audit

MetricsHub

One source of truth for a startup's investor metrics

Revenue, leads and costs pulled from three tools into one dashboard, so the monthly investor update takes minutes instead of days.

Python · PostgreSQL · SQL models · Metabase

Concept buildInternal App

OpsDesk

A customer-onboarding tool that replaces a shared spreadsheet

Every new customer gets a visible status, an owner and a checklist, and overdue steps are flagged automatically.

TypeScript · Next.js · PostgreSQL · Tailwind CSS

Concept buildAutomation

InvoiceFlow

Supplier invoices from inbox to accounting, without retyping

Invoices are read from email, turned into draft bills in the accounting tool and filed automatically; unclear cases go to a review queue.

Python · IMAP · PDF parsing · Accounting REST API · Scheduled jobs

How we work together

  1. 01

    Intro call

    A free 20-minute call. You describe the problem, I tell you honestly whether I'm the right person to solve it.

  2. 02

    Proposal

    Within two business days you get a written proposal with the scope, the deliverable, the timeline and the price.

  3. 03

    Build

    I build in small steps and show you a working demo every week, so there are no surprises at the end.

  4. 04

    Handover

    The code is in your repository, documented, and walked through with your team on a handover call.

Is a spreadsheet or a manual task eating your week?

Tell me about it in a 20-minute call. If I can't help, I'll say so.