I'm Michael Janzen — a senior data & AI engineer with 20+ years shipping production software. Hire me for exactly what you need, exactly when you need it: the firepower of a full-time engineer, without the salary, the overhead, or the long-term commitment.
All the capability of a senior technical hire — none of the headcount, ramp-up, or long-term burn. You add expertise, not overhead.
Skip the salary, benefits, recruiting, and ramp — and the risk of a wrong hire. You get senior delivery as a project cost you control, and it ends cleanly when the work does.
Full-stack and AI-native: I cover the data, the backend, the app, and the AI on top — work that used to take several people, owned end to end by one.
I design for the bill you'll pay a year from now, not just the demo that works today — I've cut running costs by orders of magnitude by building lean instead of over-buying. More capability, without watching the meter climb.
Fixed-scope engagements with clear deliverables and a price up front — no open-ended hourly drift. Prices in CAD, starting points; every project is quoted to fit.
A complete business website — designed, built, and launched, with everything it needs baked in.
Best for — businesses that need to look sharp and get found
A storefront that actually sells — catalog, cart, and secure checkout, built to run.
Best for — businesses ready to sell online
Full-stack apps built fast on modern tooling — internal tools, dashboards, portals.
Best for — the tool you keep saying you'll build
Put a real AI capability into your product or operations — not a demo that never ships.
Best for — teams who want AI in the actual workflow
Replace a manual, repetitive process with an AI-assisted one that runs itself.
Best for — ops, support, and data-entry drag
One clean source of truth your whole business — and your AI — can trust.
Best for — scattered, messy data and no data team
Senior engineering on tap — a few days a month, owning the hard parts.
Best for — ongoing needs without a full-time hire
Find what's fragile and what's overpriced — before it bites or bankrupts you.
Best for — rising cloud bills and unclear architecture
Predictable and low-drama. You always know what's happening, what it costs, and what you'll have at the end.
A call, then a fixed written proposal — scope, price, and timeline. No open-ended hours.
I ship in short cycles, with working software you can see and react to along the way.
You get it the way I'd want it: tested, documented, and genuinely yours to own.
It runs without me. I stay on retainer if you want me to — never because you're stuck.
A career of building systems other teams then depended on. A few that stand out.
“Caught bad data before it hurt the business” — I've built the validation and reconciliation tooling that surfaces where source and warehouse quietly diverge, before anyone makes a decision on wrong numbers.
Data quality & trustI co-built the framework that operationalised AI tooling across a whole engineering team — the patterns and standards they still build on.
Platform & multiplier workFull-stack data-quality app, backed by Postgres, that let non-engineers build their own validation pipelines — auto-deploying the jobs behind them.
End-to-end deliveryI spent my career building production systems at scale — six years of it as a senior data engineer on Google Cloud (BigQuery, Dataflow, Airflow, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI), and close to two decades of broader software engineering before that.
I've been fully remote since 2020 and AI-native for years — daily Claude Code use built into how I plan, build, review, and debug. It's not a novelty in how I work; it's the reason one person can now own what used to take a team.
I work best on the problems that sit between disciplines — where the data, the app, and the AI all have to line up. If that's the kind of thing keeping you stuck, we'll probably get along.
I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person to solve it — and if I'm not, who might be. First call is free and no-pressure.
Prefer email? michael.g.janzen@gmail.com
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