One contact, not a chain
No handover between backend, frontend and ops. I deliver the whole thing.
Available immediately
One engineer for your whole stack.
Backend, frontend, mobile app and the infrastructure underneath. From someone who sees what a decision costs further down the chain.
Kay Smits · Software Engineer · Software Consultant · Solutions Architect
- 0+
- years in software
- 0
- apps live in production
- 0
- working day response time
What you get
Why clients hire me
AI that saves hours
Models built into your workflow, plus straight advice on where it earns nothing.
Still runs after handover
Hardened servers, CI/CD and monitoring that speaks up before your client calls.
Stack
What I work with
Everything below I have used in production myself.
- Laravel Backend
- PHP Backend
- MySQL Backend
- Filament Backend
- Statamic Backend
- Node.js Backend
- .NET Backend
- C# C# Backend
- TypeScript Frontend
- JavaScript Frontend
- Vue Frontend
- React Frontend
- Inertia Frontend
- Tailwind Frontend
- Vite Frontend
- Astro Frontend
- Flutter Mobile
- Dart Mobile
- iOS Mobile
- Android Mobile
- App Store Mobile
- Claude AI
- Anthropic AI
- MCP MCP AI
- RAG RAG AI
- Agents Agents AI
- Embeddings Embeddings AI
- Docker Infra
- Ansible Infra
- Coolify Coolify Infra
- Traefik Infra
- Nginx Infra
- Linux Infra
- AWS AWS Infra
- DNS DNS Infra
- Git Integrations
- Bitbucket Integrations
- Jira Integrations
- Grafana Integrations
- Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 Integrations
- Mollie Mollie Integrations
- OAuth OAuth Integrations
- Webhooks Webhooks Integrations
Timeline
Where I come from
- 2025 - present
Owner
Lich Software
My own company: freelance engagements and product development. Available for new work, remote or hybrid, rate on request.
- 2022 - present
DevOps Engineer
CBYTE digital
First full-time engineer. Grew with the company from 3 to 11 people: infrastructure, deployments, full-stack client work and the internal AI tooling.
- 2021 - 2022
Web developer
Imagro
Web development on client projects, to fixed agency deadlines.
Contact
What is on your plate?
Send me a short note about what you are dealing with. I usually reply the same working day, and I will tell you honestly if I am not the right fit.
- Availability
- Immediately
- Location
- Remote or hybrid
- Rate
- On request