FCTRZ — independent software engineer

Sketch it.I’ll ship it.

Web apps, data pipelines and AI features — designed, built and deployed by one engineer. Bring a rough idea; leave with working software.

  • Full-stack
  • Data engineering
  • AI / LLM
  • Replies within 24h
your ideaa rough sketchlive!

Tools and technologies: Python, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Spark, Kafka, ETL pipelines, LLM apps, RAG, Docker, AWS, GCP, CI/CD

01/What I build

One person.
The whole stack.

Most projects need a frontend, a backend, a database and somewhere to put the data — usually from three different vendors. I do all of it, so nothing gets lost between the gaps.

Full-stack01
MVP in weeks

Web apps & SaaS

From login screen to billing to admin panel. A real product your users can sign up for — not a demo that falls over.

  • Frontend + backend + database
  • Auth, payments, dashboards
  • Deployed with CI/CD
Data engineering02
one source of truth

Pipelines that don’t leak

Pull data from every tool you use, clean it, and land it somewhere you can trust. Then put a dashboard on top.

  • Batch & streaming ingestion
  • Warehouse modelling
  • Reporting & alerts
AI / LLM03
useful, not a gimmick

AI that does a job

Chat over your documents, automated triage, extraction from messy files. Practical features measured on real results.

  • RAG over your own data
  • Agents & tool use
  • Evaluation & cost control
Rescue & scale04
calm hands

Inherited a mess?

Slow pages, flaky deploys, a codebase nobody wants to touch. I’ll find what’s broken, fix it, and leave notes behind.

  • Code & architecture review
  • Performance fixes
  • Cloud cost clean-up

02/How we work

No spec?
No problem.

You don’t need a requirements document. You need someone who asks the right questions — and shows you something real, fast.

The first 10 hours are free.

No contract · no card

  1. A

    Tell me the idea

    Two fields: your email and a few sentences. Messy is fine.

  2. B

    See a prototype in 48h

    A clickable prototype you can poke at — not a slide deck.

  3. C

    30-minute call

    Only after you’ve seen the work. We agree scope together.

  4. D

    Build & ship weekly

    Working software every week, deployed where you can test it.

03/About

One engineer.
Zero hand-offs.

I’m Rajesh — I’ve spent 15 years building production software: SaaS products, data platforms and, lately, a lot of AI.

When you work with FCTRZ you talk to the person writing the code. No account managers, no juniors learning on your budget, no telephone game.

Rajesh Manikka

Founder & engineer, FCTRZ

  • 15 years in production
  • Top Rated Plus on Upwork
  • Full-stack + data
  • 01

    Direct line

    Your messages reach the engineer, not a project manager.

  • 02

    Front to back

    UI, APIs, databases, pipelines and cloud — one head holds it all.

  • 03

    Battle-tested

    15 years of shipping means the expensive mistakes are already made.

04/Contact

Start with a sketch.

Describe what you want to build in a few sentences. I’ll reply within 24 hours with questions or a prototype plan.

Reply within 24h