01 — Independent engineer · est. 2016
Engineering,
elevated.
Systems, interfaces, and infrastructure — built with the rigor of an engineer and the eye of an editor. No noise. No excess. Only the essential, executed precisely.
01 — Independent engineer · est. 2016
Systems, interfaces, and infrastructure — built with the rigor of an engineer and the eye of an editor. No noise. No excess. Only the essential, executed precisely.
03 — The Practice
Halogen is a single-person engineering practice. Every line of code, every millisecond of load time, every pixel of interface — considered, measured, and defended. I work with a small number of clients each year so nothing ships that isn't exceptional.
04 — Services
Full-stack applications, from schema to interface — TypeScript, Rust, Go.
Design systems and front-ends with editorial precision and 60fps motion.
Audits, rewrites, and architecture that makes slow products fast — permanently.
Fractional leadership for teams that need a steady, senior hand.
05 — Process
Four phases. Fixed cadence. Weekly ships. You always know where the work stands — because the process is the product's first proof of quality.
Codebase, constraints, and ambition — mapped in the first week.
A written technical plan you can hold me to.
Weekly releases, real environments, no black boxes.
Performance passes, accessibility, and a clean handover.
06 — In their words
“Halogen rebuilt in eleven weeks what two agencies couldn't ship in a year — and it's the fastest product in our category.”
“The rare engineer who cares about the comma in the microcopy as much as the query plan.”
“Every deadline met. Every metric beaten. We stopped auditing the work after week two.”
