Work With Me

Who I Work With

I work best with founders, designers, and small teams who need serious engineering on meaningful projects:

• Founders building serious digital products
• Designers who need a strong technical partner
• Small teams building or rebuilding software systems
• Companies needing architecture, performance, or AI integration help

What I Build

• Full product builds from architecture to launch
• AI-enabled applications with real integration
• Complex web applications and content platforms
• Performance-sensitive and security-focused systems
• Architecture redesigns for poorly structured systems

Where I Add the Most Value

My strongest work happens on projects where engineering quality directly impacts the outcome — where the architecture needs to be right, where performance matters, where AI integration needs to be thoughtful, or where a designer's vision needs careful technical execution.

What Working Together Looks Like

I stay deeply involved in every project I take on. I am not a resource you assign tasks to — I am a technical partner who helps design, build, and deliver the system.

That means I take on a limited number of projects at a time to ensure each one gets the attention it deserves.

Get in Touch

If you are building something serious — a system that has to hold together over time, a product where the architecture matters, or an AI integration that needs to be more than a wrapper around a model — I would like to hear about it.

The simplest way to start is a short email to hello@danjohnson.dev. Tell me what you are building, why it matters, what kind of help you are looking for, and roughly when you are hoping to start. The more specific, the better — vague briefs and vague projects rarely produce great work, and I would rather understand what you actually need than guess.