Hey, I'm Andrey Surzh — software engineer.
The era of solo developers has arrived. — Hire freelance full-stack developer, Go, React, AI-assisted MVP development, Cyprus
While agencies assemble 15-person teams and schedule their third alignment meeting — I've already shipped your MVP. Got an idea or a spec for a product? Send it over, let's talk.
The world has changed.
Claude &
Codex write code now.So why hire an engineer?
Accountability
AI is a powerful, fast, but irresponsible workforce. I use AI as a tool, but I own everything it produces as if I wrote it myself. My responsibility is that the software works and does what your business needs.
Architecture Is Still Not an AI Task
Claude generates functions and modules brilliantly. But decisions about service boundaries, data structure, scaling, and future bottlenecks require a full understanding of the system. That context can't be passed in a prompt. Architecture remains an engineering task.
AI Does Exactly What You Ask
It'll write thousands of lines of code in minutes. But it amplifies the quality of the task you give it. Well-defined task → great system. Poorly defined task → a problem built at speed. An engineer is needed to point AI's power in the right direction.
Software Needs Maintenance and Evolution
A system has to survive months and years of change. New requirements, integrations, load, edge cases. Code needs to evolve without the system turning into chaos. An engineer builds it so it can grow — not get rewritten every six months.
Two Modes I Work In
Custom Software for Your Business
Web applications that solve your company's specific problem. Not Salesforce you'll spend six months configuring — a system that works exactly the way you need it to.
CRM for forensic expertise · Affiliate marketing tracking · Custom accounting systems
Technical Co-founder for Your Startup
I've launched startups — and some of them took off. I'll own the entire technical side: architecture, development, deployment, scaling.
Famed — medical clinic platform, ×4 monthly growth · Skladno.pro — storage unit booking · Splice.me — SaaS for telecom design
Projects I Can Show
Unfortunately, many great projects are hidden behind NDAs. But here are the ones I can talk about.
WTS Studio — AI Storyboard Creator
2025
OpenEventor 4 — Open Source Sports Timing
2025
RTB Server — Real-Time Bidding PoC in 3 Days
2025
EGRUL Database — 22M+ Russian Companies
2017EGRUL is the official Russian registry of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs. I built a service that hosts the entire database — over 22 million records — with full-text search, a visual query builder, API access, and scheduled data exports via webhooks.
The query builder
The killer feature is the query constructor. You build filters visually: pick a field (OKVED code, entity type, status, city), choose an operator (equals, contains, like), set a value, and stack as many conditions as you want with AND/OR logic. Hit "Execute query" and get a table of matching companies. It's basically a no-code interface for writing SQL against the EGRUL database.
Scheduled exports
Found a useful query? Save it and schedule automatic delivery. The planner lets you pick a saved query, set the action (send CSV to email), choose the time and days of the week. Every Monday at noon, you get a fresh list of, say, all active construction companies in Moscow. Sales teams loved this.
Pricing and API
The platform runs on a tiered pricing model. Each tier defines monthly and daily limits for simple and complex queries, and whether webhooks are allowed. There's also a raw API for developers who want to integrate EGRUL data directly into their own systems.
We kept the database in sync with the official Federal Tax Service source, updating it regularly. At peak, we had hundreds of active users — mostly B2B sales teams, legal firms, and fintech companies doing due diligence.
What Clients Say
“Andrey S. has been instrumental in the success of our "FaMed" project over 1.5 years. As a Systems Architect and Developer, his expertise, especially with the DICOM medical file fo...”
Dmitry R.
CEO of FaMed LLC
“Fantastic person and developer. High level of work quality. Always looking to add value. If he was still available we would definitely still be working together!”
SunMapper Client
Full stack help & support on SunMapper tool
“Absolutely amazing web developer! I've worked with dozens of web developers over the years, but Andrey is one of the most advanced and was able to handle an extremely complex proje...”
Personalized Videos Client
Automated marketing video generation
Check out my Upwork profile — lots of reviews there
Let's Talk
Have a project in mind? Reach out — I'll respond within a day.