Paul Bădărău

Day rates for sustained product work, quoted in your currency, against your local market. Tell me the scope and where you are, and I will come back with a number.

2 to 3 days per week, from August 2026 · Remote worldwide

EU B2B under reverse charge.

End-to-end ownership, Scoping and sequencing, Shipping to the App Store

Ruby on Rails, Node, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Background jobs and queues, API design and integration

React, Hotwire, Turbo and Stimulus, Server-rendered UI, Admin and operations dashboards

Native iOS with SwiftUI, React Native and Expo, Web-view hybrid apps, WidgetKit

Linux administration, Self-managed servers, Cloudflare Workers, D1, Queues and R2, Object storage and media at scale, Edge deployment

Testing and CI, Observability and incident response, Data migration and verification, AI-assisted development with verification

Senior full-stack and product engineering, social-impact sector

Rails and mobile platforms serving five-figure user bases. End-to-end ownership from architecture through production operation.

Founding engineer, marketplace product

Built the Rails and PostgreSQL MVP that secured seed funding.

Independent developer

Custom software and automation in Python and Ruby.

Rebuilt an operations platform for a UK property inventory agency, now holding over 25,000 properties, more than 60,000 inspections and over 17 million file attachments across more than 4 TB of media.

SkyCheck · Romanian UAV airspace, built on live official ROMATSA data.

Food & Fit · Calorie tracking that parses what you ate from plain language.

Contigo · A private travel journal and memory map.

ClearCut · On-device background removal in one tap.

NoiseCheck · A real-time decibel meter that records nothing.

MyKiddos · A child illness and symptom log, with a home-screen widget.

FirmeAzi · A daily feed of newly registered Romanian companies, built on public ANAF data with scheduled ingestion, segmentation and priority scoring over 4M+ records.

MERN full-stack development → Ruby on Rails → product engineering across web, mobile and infrastructure.

paul@badarau.net

github.com/abpaul

I feed the stray cats around my neighbourhood most evenings. It is the only part of my day with a fixed schedule.