discovery rules & guardrails ai architecture ai migration ai implementation ai integration ai build staging release & monitoring code reviews testing refactoring me ai does the manual work i decide & review

25+ years of experience · remote
C# / .NET · Node.js · React · Next.js · Angular · and more

I build front to back. Alone.

Twenty-five years building websites that public institutions and real businesses actually depend on. Today I pair that with AI agents I build myself and keep on a short leash — so one developer covers what used to take a whole team.

ivana --mode senior --scope full-stack --ai supervised --agents leashed

Selected clients: Logan Airport, Tyler Technologies, Czech Tourism, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Xperience by Kentico, Fuseideas, Anthropic, OpenAI

25+ years of development
2000 my first line of code
3 continents, clients served remotely
1 person accountable — me
01 — track record

Where I’ve been.

Long engagements, public systems, real traffic. I’m strongest in modular, extensible solutions — the kind a different team can still pick up and work in five years' time.

2020–present

Independent contractor & consultant

Clients from small businesses to large corporations and government agencies — CzechTourism, Tyler Technologies, StoraEnso, Leverage.it and others. ASP.NET Core and Angular, plus integration work across Anthropic, OpenAI, Dialogflow, Alexa and others.

Self-employed
2007–2020

Lead, back-end and front-end developer

Thirteen years across many sites, including the public web for Boston Logan International Airport. Commercial CMS work on SharePoint, Ektron and Kentico.

Fuseideas
2004–2007

In-house CMS, 10+ language services

Built and maintained the content platform behind one of the world’s best-known news broadcasters, used daily across a dozen languages.

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
02 — me + ai

The code answers
to me.

I don’t hand a codebase to a chatbot and hope. I build narrow agents for specific features, set their rules up front, and read what comes back line by line. The judgement, the architecture and the responsibility stay with me — only the typing doesn’t.

~/stack — what I reach for
import { csharp, aspnet, nodejs } from 'backend';
import { nextjs, react, angular } from 'frontend';
import { web, mobile } from 'platforms';
import * as whateverElse from 'the-project'; // 25 years in, a new framework is a weekend, not a career change
 
const ivana = new Developer({ experience: 25, vibe: 'seen it all' });
const ai = new Intern({ experience: 3, vibe: 'know it all' });
 
function assignTask(task) {
  if (task.repetitive || task.mechanical)
    return ai.handle(task, { supervisedBy: ivana });
 
  return ivana.handle(task); // planning, review, judgement
}
01

Narrow agents

Each agent gets one feature and a tightly drawn scope. Nothing is ever pointed at the whole repository and told to be creative.

02

Rules first

Modularity, extensibility, one source of truth, the project’s own conventions — written down before the first line is generated.

03

I read every line

Generated code goes through review like a junior’s pull request: checked, refactored, tested — and rejected when it’s wrong.

04

One senior, team output

Backend, front end, integrations, migrations — scope that used to be split between four people, delivered by one who handles the direction, the planning and the review on all of it.

Where the hours used to go

This is the part AI actually removes: repetitive, mechanical work that never needed twenty-five years of judgement. What it doesn’t remove is the deciding.

the manual labour is gone — not the expertise

boilerplate & CRUD scaffolding−80%
data migrations & plumbing−70%
test scaffolding & fixtures−65%
integration glue & API clients−55%
debugging & troubleshooting−25%
direction, planning & reviewunchanged — mine

And that’s why it costs you less

The hours that used to disappear into boilerplate, migrations, test scaffolding and repetitive plumbing are largely gone. You pay for the thinking — the planning, the decisions, the review — not for the typing. Same quality, far fewer billed hours, and no agency overhead layered on top.

03 — services

What you can hire me for.

S/01

Team-replacement builds

A whole product, end to end, by one senior developer with a supervised AI toolchain. The kind of scope that used to require a squad and a project manager.

S/02

Fixed-scope projects & MVPs

Clear brief, agreed scope, delivered. Good when you know what you want and need it built properly the first time.

S/03

Rescue & legacy work

Inherited a codebase nobody wants to touch? I’ve spent two decades untangling systems exactly like that. First I stabilise it, then I make it extensible.

S/04

Consulting & architecture review

A second experienced pair of eyes on your structure, your modules and your AI workflow — before it gets expensive.

S/05

Long-term contract

Embedded in your team for the long run, the way I’ve worked with clients for years. Remote, senior, low-drama.

Not sure which?

Describe the problem in three sentences. I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right person.

Write to me
A puffin on a cliffside in the Faroe Islands
04 — the darkroom

I also photograph.

Unpaid, entirely voluntary, and somehow important. Every photograph on this site is mine.

A hobby, not a second business. Photo expeditions when I can make the time — Mongolia, Namibia, Uganda, Myanmar — and in between, flowers, dogs and the street outside. This is where I solve nothing.

Photo exposure details: Mongolia · Nikon D810 · 70-200mm f/2.8, Namibia · Sony NEX-7 · 16mm f/2.8, Uganda · Nikon D810 · 70-200mm f/2.8, Myanmar · Nikon D90 · 70-200mm f/2.8, Czech Republic · Fujifilm X-T2 · 50-140mm f/2.8, Norway · Fujifilm X-T2 · 18-55mm f/2.8

05 — contact

Tell me what
you’re building.

Tell me what you’re building, what’s not working, or what your team hasn’t got time for. I answer every message myself, usually within a day — and if I’m not the right fit, I’ll say so.

contact@ivanatacikova.com

remote · English & Czech · currently taking on new work

Ivana Tačíková outdoors with her dog