Bring out your best and become a well rounded developer
With personalised 1:1 mentoring, coaching and technical training
By a developer with over 18 years of hands-on experience in the industry
Pricing
£150 £120 Per hour
Intro price until end Feb 2025
- Includes VAT.
- Free 25 min initial call to assess fit and identify areas of focus.
- A personalised plan to guide our calls, with regular reviews and adjustments.
- Flexible schedule to fit around your work and personal life, including evenings and weekends.
Benefits
Improve as a product engineer
Go beyond just code and tasks. Learn to think like a product engineer and deliver value as a well rounded developer.
Develop technical expertise
Cut through the messy world of web development and focus on the areas that matter to your career.
Work more iteratively and effectively
Don't get bogged down. Learn how to break work down into smaller, more manageable pieces and deliver value faster.
Learn to manage expectations and issues
Be more proactive. Learn to communicate better with your customers, team and stakeholders, and manage issues before they become big problems.
Get along better with people
It's not just about programming skills. The human element is crucial to success. Learn to work with people better and more collaboratively, and to accept different viewpoints and opinions. Become a better team player and leader.
Plan your longer term career
Always have a view to your longer term career. Maybe you want to build your own products? Or establish yourself in your current company? Think deeper about what you really want. Find ways to create win-win situations. I'll help you plan and develop the skills you need to get there.
Approach
Initial consultation (free) then calls on your schedule
We'll start with a free 25 min call to see if we're a good fit. I'll work with you to identify areas of improvement and we'll agree on a highly personalised plan to focus on. We'll arrange regular calls that fit your schedule, and review and adjust the plan as we go along.
Tailored to each individual's needs and styles
Everyone works and reacts differently. Some people like to think on the spot, some like to go away and process things before deciding. I bring out the best approaches in people, and help them work in their ideal ways.
Covering many areas
Product engineering skills, entrepreunership, technical expertise, agile and iterative development, communication, people skills, career development, and more.
Completely confidential
A trusted and safe space for folks to open up and process thoughts, issues and ideas.
Process
- Initial 25 min call
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Agree to move forward if it's a good fit for all involved
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Agree on a personalised plan
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Payment for the first batch of hours (no minimum commitment)
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Agree on a schedule for calls with flexibility to move these around as needed (with reasonable notice)
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Regular calls to work through the plan
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Offline chats and support as needed (on a best effort basis)
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Review and adjust the plan as we go along
About me
Hi, I'm Jits, a product focused full-stack developer with over 20 years of experience in multiple domains and industries.
I've led and worked on many projects from 0 to 1 — consumer products, tools for scientists, a PaaS, data registries, portals, internal tools, mobile game servers, etc. and have seen over two decades worth of web technologies and development practices come and go.
I've worked with a large range of technologies over the years: Ruby, Rails, Angular, VueJS, Nuxt, TypeScript, JavaScript, Scala, Java, Firebase, AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, MySQL, Linux, various CMSes, etc.
It's all about effectively and collaboratively combining product development, user experience (UX), and design with front-end engineering, lean software architectures, backend engineering, distributed systems, operations (aka DevOps) and agile processes.
I enjoy mentoring and coaching talented folks and bringing the best out of them. I believe in treating everyone as individuals, with their own ways of thinking and working, and helping them find their own paths to success.
You can read more about my career experience.