I started Helsh-js in 2019, after a few too many conversations with founders who had been burned by agencies. The pattern was always the same. A charismatic salesperson, an inspiring pitch deck, and a slow drift into "we'll have to circle back on that" while the actual code was being written by someone who had been hired three weeks earlier.

I thought I could do better by doing less. Helsh-js takes on one new engagement a quarter. The person on the call is the person writing the code. One person on purpose. Small enough that I know the state of every project every Friday afternoon.

I work across mobile, web, and infrastructure. Analysis, design, front-end, back-end, the unglamorous plumbing that makes it all run. The last few years have been deep in AI-augmented tooling, compliance-grade audit trails, and the kind of custom solution work that does not fit a template. Some of that work is public, including WTN App, my flagship product, and my ongoing contract with Eagl. Some of it is not, because some clients prefer it that way and I respect that.

I am based in Belgium and work on Belgium time (UTC+1 / UTC+2). I sign NDAs gladly. I charge fairly. I turn work down when I should, and that "should" is more often than is good for my quarterly numbers, which is the whole point.