Senior Software Engineer & Solution Architect · Australia
Senior software engineering for Australian businesses that need the work owned, not just quoted.
Build it. Modernise it. Scale it. Then keep improving it once real users arrive.
I help businesses build new products, modernise systems that still matter, and make slow software fast again across backend, frontend and cloud. You work directly with the engineer making the architecture decisions and taking responsibility for delivery.
Common project stack
Backend
Laravel · Node · Next.js
Frontend
React · Angular
Cloud
AWS · APIs · Databases
- Best fit
- SaaS, internal tools, APIs and legacy platforms
- Strength
- Backend architecture, full-stack delivery, cloud and AI
- Engagement
- One responsible owner across your stack, with offshore capacity when needed
Pratik Vanol
Senior Software Engineer & Solution Architect
Geelong, VIC · Working across Australia
Sixteen years hands-on, with a trusted offshore team available for larger backend, frontend and cloud builds.
- Years engineering software
- 16+Years engineering software
- Backend, frontend and cloud delivery
- Full-stackBackend, frontend and cloud delivery
- API performance recovered on a legacy platform
- Up to 80%API performance recovered on a legacy platform
- AI platform built, shipped and operated
- LiveAI platform built, shipped and operated
Selected companies and products worked with
- Squava
- Xplain
- HN Healthcare
- Emxcel Travel Solutions
- Gateway Technolabs
Where people usually start
Find the version of the problem you are living with
Most enquiries arrive as one of these. Pick the closest one and you will see what fixing it usually involves before you ever book a call.
You need something built
A web application, a SaaS product, an API or an internal tool — and you want one experienced person accountable for it working, not a team you never meet.
Your system is ageing badly
It still runs the business, but every change is slow and risky, and someone has quoted you for a full rewrite. There is usually a better answer than starting again.
It has become slow
What was fast when you launched is not fast now that the data has grown. The cause is usually queries and architecture, and it is usually fixable without larger servers.
You want to use AI properly
Not an AI strategy — one or two specific things done automatically that a person does today, plus an honest answer on which of your ideas are actually worth building.
Deploying makes you nervous
Releases are manual, environments differ, the cloud bill keeps climbing, and the person who set it all up has left the company.
Something else?
Most real problems do not arrive neatly categorised. Describe it in your own words and you will get a straight answer on whether it is something worth working on together.
Selected work
Proof that the work holds up after launch
Start here if you are deciding whether to keep reading. These are real systems, real constraints, and the reasoning behind the decisions.
Services
Clear ways to start, without turning this into agency theatre
From a focused audit to owning a product end to end. Each option points to a real engagement shape, not a vague capability list.
Pratik Vanol
Senior Software Engineer & Solution Architect
Sixteen years of building software across backend, frontend, cloud and architecture — and still close enough to the code to own the outcome.
Why work with me
Trust signals that matter before a first conversation
Sixteen years, still writing code
Long enough to have seen how decisions age, and still hands-on enough to implement them. Not a strategist who stopped building a decade ago, and not a developer who has only seen one way of doing things.
One point of accountability
You talk to the person doing the engineering. No account manager translating your problem into a ticket, and no gap between the person who understood the requirement and the person writing the code.
Depth where it matters
Backend architecture, databases and performance — the areas where a wrong decision is expensive and hard to reverse later. Plus the frontend, cloud and product work needed to actually finish a project.
Products that are live, not slides
PotatoAIHub is a real AI platform in production, built and operated end to end. The AI, architecture and cloud advice offered here is practised rather than researched.
An honest read on your problem
Including when the answer is that you do not need the thing you were about to buy. A project that should not have been built helps neither of us.
It can scale when the project does
Small work is delivered personally. Larger work is built by my offshore engineering team, while architecture, decisions and responsibility stay with me.
How delivery works
One responsible owner across your stack. Offshore capacity when the project needs it.
You work with me as the single responsible person for the outcome. I own requirements, architecture, technical decisions, review and delivery leadership, whether the project uses my usual stack, your existing technology, or a mix of both.
For bigger builds, I can bring in my offshore engineering team — people I have worked with and led for years. They add capacity across backend, frontend and delivery work while the technical direction and accountability stay with me.
That means you do not have to coordinate a remote team, translate requirements across layers, or wonder who is responsible when something needs a decision. You get the speed of a larger team with one senior person answerable for the result.
The stack is chosen around the project, not around one favourite tool. Laravel, Node, Next.js, React, Angular and AWS are common choices, but the work can also fit around the technology your business already has.
One contract, one owner
You contract with an Australian business, ABN registered here in Geelong, invoiced in AUD. The delivery arrangement behind it is mine to manage, and I stay responsible for the work.
A team when needed
For larger scopes, trusted offshore engineers can work under my direction across backend, frontend and implementation while I stay the point of accountability.
Stack-aware delivery
Laravel, Node, Next.js, React, Angular and AWS are common choices, but existing platforms and other technologies can be assessed, improved and extended when that is the right commercial path.
Cost that matches the scope
Senior architecture where a wrong decision is expensive to reverse, and cost-effective delivery capacity where the work needs more hands.
Insights
Writing about the work
Notes on modernisation, performance, cloud and AI — written from projects actually delivered rather than assembled from search terms.
Have a software problem, project or idea?
Tell me what you are trying to achieve and where it is currently going wrong. You will get an honest read on it from someone who has built this kind of thing before — including if the answer is that you do not need what you were about to buy.
Prefer to write instead? Send me a message
Working with businesses across Australia — Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra and regional Australia.