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.

WTS Studio — AI Storyboard Creator

2025
ReactMUIGolangPostgreSQLHTML CanvasThree.js

WTS Studio is a storyboard creation service for video production teams. I'm building it right now, and it's close to launch.

Storyboard table view
Storyboard table view

The idea

If you've ever worked on a commercial, a short film, or any video — you know storyboards are a pain. You need to sketch every frame, keep characters looking consistent, figure out poses, angles. Most people either draw stick figures or pay an artist and wait days. I wanted to kill that entire bottleneck.

What it does

The core is AI-powered storyboard generation. You describe a scene, and the system generates frames with consistent character appearances. That's the hard part — making sure your protagonist looks the same in frame 1 and frame 47. We handle that through a character consistency engine that locks in appearance details across the entire storyboard.

Character and location reference editor
Character and location reference editor

The 3D Mannequin

Sometimes AI-generated poses are garbage — arms bending the wrong way, weird angles. So I built a 3D "Mannequin" tool using Three.js. You pose a 3D figure exactly how you want, and the system uses that as a strict reference for generation. No more "creative interpretations" of a simple standing pose.

3D Mannequin pose tool
3D Mannequin pose tool

The editor

Everything happens in a visual editor built on HTML Canvas. Drag frames around, rearrange sequences, add notes. There's also a voiceover recording tool built right into the browser — record scratch audio for each frame without leaving the app.

Frame Wizard — sketch mode
Frame Wizard — sketch mode

Frame Wizard — AI-generated result
Frame Wizard — AI-generated result

When you're done, export the whole storyboard or share it via link. Currently wrapping up the last pieces before public launch.

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.
100%Job Success Score

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!