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.

Andrey Surzhikov

The world has changed.ClaudeClaude &CodexCodex write code now.So why hire an engineer?

01

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.

02

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.

03

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.

04

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

or

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.

Litemetrix — Google Analytics for Your Life

Litemetrix — Google Analytics for Your Life

2014
PHPJqueryBootstrap

Back in 2016, I was obsessed with the idea of self-tracking. Not just fitness — everything. How does your mood depend on sleep? How does your fuel consumption change month to month? Are you actually doing more push-ups than last week, or does it just feel that way? Litemetrix (originally called EasyMeter) was my answer to that.

The concept

Think of it as Google Analytics, but for your daily life. You create custom metrics — anything you want to track — and log values over time. The app organizes them into categories: Health, Sport, Finances, Relationships, or whatever you come up with. Each metric gets a chart that shows your progress.

Tracking push-ups — table and chart over time
Tracking push-ups — table and chart over time

Flexible metrics

The cool part was that you could track literally anything. Push-ups, blood pressure, fuel expenses, rent payments, how many books you read this month. Each metric had a customizable type (number, checkbox, text), its own icon, color, and sorting order.

Creating a new custom metric
Creating a new custom metric

Categories

Metrics were grouped into categories with their own icons and colors. You could use the built-in ones or create your own. The "Add" button gave you four options: pick from a library of pre-made metrics, create one from scratch, clone an existing one, or add a new category.

Finance category with custom metrics
Finance category with custom metrics

Adding a new category with icon search
Adding a new category with icon search

What I learned

This was a classic side project that taught me a lot about building flexible data models. The challenge was making the system generic enough to track anything — from integers to booleans to free text — while still keeping the UI clean and intuitive. It never became a commercial hit, but I used it myself for months and it genuinely helped me see patterns I wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

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

Upwork

Check out my Upwork profile — lots of reviews there

Andrey S.
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Let's Talk

Have a project in mind? Reach out — I'll respond within a day.

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