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.

QR-Pass — Visitor Management for Business Centers

QR-Pass — Visitor Management for Business Centers

2018
PHPLaravelFlutter

You show up for a meeting at a business center. There's a line at the reception desk. You wait, show your passport, they write down your details, call your contact person, hand you a paper pass. QR-Pass fixes this: the host issues a digital pass in advance, you get a QR code on your phone, the security guard scans it — done, you're in.

The admin panel

The web panel is where building administrators manage everything. Each business center is a card with a photo and address. Inside, you manage companies, checkpoint staff, passes, and access logs. The admin can see every pass ever issued, who activated it, and when the visitor actually walked through the door.

Login screen with character illustration
Login screen with character illustration

Business center selection — cards with photos and addresses
Business center selection — cards with photos and addresses

Pass details

Each pass shows the visitor's name, photo, company they're visiting, time window, and the host's contact info. The guard at the checkpoint sees this on their screen and can activate the pass with one click. There's a full event log for every pass — when it was requested, activated, and used.

Pass details — visitor info, status, activation actions
Pass details — visitor info, status, activation actions

Business center management — address, companies, checkpoints
Business center management — address, companies, checkpoints

Why it matters

For business centers with hundreds of visitors a day, this eliminates the bottleneck at reception. No more handwritten logbooks, no more calling upstairs to confirm. The host sends a link, the visitor shows a QR code, security scans it, everyone's happy. We built it in 2018 and it actually saw real use in several Moscow business centers.

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.

Cyprus, PaphosIf you're in Cyprus too, we can meet in person!