I’m Vlad. I help companies make sense of complex requirements, choose a practical solution, and get it delivered.
Financial data, practical AI, cloud migrations, or a major software investment. I work alongside your team from the business case through implementation and handover.
Vlad LishafaiPrincipal Consultant · Personally involved
Experience across my career.
Personally involved. Accountable for delivery.
THE WORK, FROM END TO END
You know your business. I bring an independent perspective to validate concerns, examine options, and give your team the support to move forward.
A good agreement connects commercial ambition with what the team can deliver.
Validate the estimate, examine the tradeoffs, and put your concerns on a solid footing. I help you compare proposals and prepare for supplier conversations with evidence and clear priorities.
Proposal reviews, supplier evaluation, negotiation support.
I help software companies get from a promising conversation to a credible offer. Discovery, technical presales, estimates, and the case for a project or ongoing retainer.
A stronger proposal and a scope your team can stand behind.
I represent the client who engages me. We agree the role and address any conflicts before work starts.
Bring requirements, dependencies, and constraints into one practical plan. I work with your team on estimates, priorities, and milestones that support real delivery decisions.
Estimation & delivery planning
Work with the team you have, hire the engineer you need, or bring in a specialist. I help define roles, find and interview candidates, and make ownership clear.
Hiring & team formation
I stay involved through implementation, testing, and rollout. That includes building with AI agents and helping your team put AI to work in everyday processes. The measure of success is what the software does for your business.
Execution & technical leadership
Keep the software dependable as your business evolves. We can arrange application and server monitoring, bug fixes, maintenance, and a clear route for the next improvement.
Ongoing care, with agreed coverageWe can provide short-term involvement or help you to build a dedicated team around your goals.
Over the counter, in practice: direct conversations with your delivery team, a clear scope, and fewer layers between a decision and the work.
Landing pages, business websites, online stores and customer portals.
Integrations between your CRM, ERP, payments and data sources. Reporting, document workflows and operational automation.
Complex web applications, custom internal tools and cloud infrastructure, with maintenance and monitoring after launch.
We use AI extensively for discovery, specifications, agentic coding, testing and everyday automation. Frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google help us move faster. Our team owns the architecture, reviews the code and remains accountable for delivery.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Projects my team and I have delivered and products I have helped build. From financial systems and cloud migrations to IP licensing and orbital mission planning.
As a consultant to a software vendor, I led presales with its large US customer in the printing industry. I helped the customer’s leadership build the ROI case for headquarters, then took the project through planning and implementation.
The software integrates with the billing portal, automatically parses invoice PDFs and attachments, matches vendor service bills to internal sales invoices, attributes charges, and flags discrepancies for review. An audit log records every user action, while a dedicated Insights page highlights issues and opportunities.
Delivered faster than initially planned, the tool helps the customer investigate discrepancies and identify revenue opportunities in its own data. The project helped establish a new internal business unit and uncovered an opportunity for an additional $1 million in monthly profit.
We designed the target infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation and executed the move from WP Engine to AWS. The work covered infrastructure as code, encryption, caching, load testing, payments, and vendor integrations to meet the customer’s HIPAA-related requirements.
The migration was completed successfully. While reviewing the code, we’ve also identified and resolved a WooCommerce duplicate-payment defect that had persisted for more than two years, built a performance testing toolkit with Grafana K6, build dozens of new features and covered the customer with availability monitoring, vulnerabilities patching and automatic updates.
Rather than build a costly self-hosted data warehouse and reporting application, we designed and implemented a financial data warehouse connecting six intake systems and thirteen feed types to BigQuery datasets and Google Looker reporting. Agent-assisted implementation kept the work within a fraction of the initially planned budget.
The architecture combined BigQuery, PostgreSQL, and a custom application for entity mapping and import monitoring, designed to lower operating costs and preserve a history of data changes.
We supported a US railroad business through software acquisition, licensing, and technical validation, then led the successful move from Rackspace to AWS. The work covered software and data migration, stabilization, repository cleanup, and a structured handover.
After the migration, I was invited to advise the business during negotiations and presales with another vendor for a new AI document-recognition project. Our team identified gaps in the proposed approach and prepared our own proposal with a stronger solution architecture. We won the next engagement against much larger competitors.
A licensing platform connecting IP owners with online sellers on Etsy and other platforms. IP Rails brings offers, permissions, design approvals, sales reporting, and royalty invoicing into one workflow, reducing the manual work around each agreement.
I co-founded the business with a US intellectual property lawyer and experienced licensor. As CEO, I shaped the venture, attended major IP licensing conferences, and brought the CTO onto the founding team.
A workspace being built to make orbital delivery missions easier to understand and prepare. A reusable Mission Passport connects requirements, open questions and the steps from testing and integration to launch and deployment.
As solo founder and developer, I am building the product around guided mission preparation and direct cooperation with service providers. The pilot previews how mission details, documents and next steps can stay connected.
The first four projects were personally led through another company; client names are withheld for confidentiality. IP Rails and Orbitrails are separate founder-led ventures.
A SENSIBLE FIRST STEP
A focused review, a delivery plan, or ongoing leadership. Choose the support that fits the decision, the team, and the work ahead.
A FRESH PAIR OF EYES
$500
Paid upon completion.
A focused review before you sign, rebuild, migrate, or choose a supplier.
A PLAN YOU CAN USE
from $3,500
Work through the unknowns before they become expensive commitments.
SOMEONE IN YOUR CORNER
from $6,000 / month
Technical direction and delivery ownership alongside your team and suppliers.
USD reference prices. All meetings, preparation, and coordination count toward agreed capacity. Specialist engineering is scoped explicitly.
Implementation and ongoing application care are quoted around the actual work. Monitoring coverage, response expectations, maintenance, and bug-fix capacity are agreed before we start.
I shape the brief, coordinate a suitable specialist, and manage review and handover. Landing pages start at $1,000; websites of up to five pages start at $5,000. Starting prices assume supplied copy and brand assets. Hosting, licenses, and custom functionality are separate.
Role definition, sourcing, interviews, and coordinated technical assessment. The hiring fee is one month’s gross base salary, payable when the engineer starts. That’s annual base salary divided by 12. Specialist assessments are agreed separately.
THE PERSON YOU’LL WORK WITH
Vlad LishafaiPrincipal Advisor & Technical Delivery
Based in Spain. Working remotely.I’ve spent 15+ years in software, including 12 in IT outsourcing, serving more than 70 customers across my career. My work connects the commercial case, the technical decisions, and the people responsible for delivery.
I spent three years as a web developer, so I can read code and discuss the implementation behind a proposal. I work with engineers and managers who focus deeply on their specialties. Together, we cover the technical detail while I keep the wider project moving.
Having built startups and worked in ecommerce myself, I understand why unit economics, business metrics, and a clear definition of success belong in the conversation from day one.
Good delivery builds confidence in the company behind it. I help the businesses I work with earn their customers’ trust, strengthen their credibility, and create the basis for a lasting relationship.
I use agentic programming extensively, working with frontier AI models to build and improve software. I remain fully accountable for the delivered results, with clear specifications, testing, and technical review built into the work. I also help businesses integrate AI into everyday processes, from document handling and reporting to repeatable operational tasks.
You work directly with me. I can bring in specialist support, work with your existing team, or help you hire the people who will maintain and evolve your software.
On-site workshops or visits can be arranged. Travel time and expenses are agreed and paid separately.I speak English, Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian.
LET’S TALK ABOUT THE NEXT STEP
A project, a proposal, or a decision that would benefit from another perspective. Leave your details and we can talk through the next step.
Prefer email? vlad@otcsoft.com
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