Senior judgment, no headcount
Big consultancies sell hours. I sell outcomes - and the work is done by one engineer who's actually written code this week, not by a pyramid of juniors under a slide deck.
Midnight Labs is a one-person consultancy. That's the whole point: when you hire me, you get the person doing the work - in the code, in the architecture calls, and in the room when the hard decisions get made.
For fifteen-plus years I've built software for early-stage startups and growing companies - sometimes as the founding engineer, sometimes as a senior IC, sometimes as the person quietly making the call that the whole roadmap depends on.
I started Midnight Labs because the best work I've done has always been the same shape: a small number of people, a real problem, and the freedom to ship something useful before the slide deck dries. The name? The best ideas tend to show up well after midnight.
- Nick Shawnley, founder
Nick Shawnley
Founder · Principal Engineer
A network, not a headcount
Midnight Labs is intentionally a team of one. When a build genuinely needs more hands, I bring in a small, vetted bench of senior specialists I've worked with for years - so you scale up without ever scaling down on quality.
The stack I reach for
Not exhaustive - but a good sense of where I've gone deep. I'll learn your stack if it makes sense; I won't pretend to love yours if it doesn't.
Let's talk.
Tell me about the problem. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit - and if I'm not, I'll point you to someone who is.