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.

SpliceMe — Fiber Optic Network Documentation

2021
PHPLaravelVue.jsPostgreSQLRedisHTML Canvas

SpliceMe is a documentation service for fiber optic networks. The main challenge was building a reliable visual editor for creating fiber optic network passports — the technical diagrams that document every splice, every fiber, every connection point in a cable network.

Projects dashboard
Projects dashboard

The editor problem

Sounds simple until you realize the editor has to work not just on a new MacBook Pro but also on ancient laptops with 4 GB of RAM that field engineers actually carry. These guys are standing at a splice closure somewhere on a highway, documenting what they just spliced. The app can't lag.

Building a vector editor from scratch

I built a basic vector editor from scratch in the browser using HTML Canvas. No heavy frameworks, no bloated libraries. Engineers can create fiber optic network diagrams, add splice points, document individual fibers, attach text info. The whole thing supports bulk operations — because when you're documenting a 96-fiber cable, you don't want to click 96 times.

Fiber optic splice diagram editor
Fiber optic splice diagram editor

Optimization rabbit hole

A lot of time went into optimization. Lazy rendering, viewport culling, efficient DOM updates. The kind of stuff where you spend a week shaving off 50ms, and then the field engineer doesn't even notice — they just know the app "feels fast." Worth it though. When something works on a 4 GB laptop without stuttering, it flies on everything else.

The result

Engineers can quickly create and maintain documentation, build network diagrams, and export everything to SVG and PDF. The service already has major telecom industry clients using it daily.

Project sheets overview
Project sheets overview

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.
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!