Fintech
Payments, lending, and treasury surfaces with the audit posture and reliability the regulated side of the stack demands.
SOFNED — Independent Engineering Practice
I build production-grade platforms across six industries.
Thirteen years shipping fintech, education, automotive, health, travel, and HR platforms — delivered solo or as the technical lead alongside small, deliberate teams.
Selected work
A short list of recent platforms.
Each project below is a production system in active use — built end-to-end or led from architecture through ship.
Practice
Industries I build for.
Six domains where I have shipped production systems. The list is deliberately narrow — depth over breadth.
Education
Admissions, learning, and institutional platforms designed for long sessions, large catalogs, and durable user trust.
Automotive
Dealer management, AI shopping agents, and EV marketplace infrastructure — currently shipping across USA, UK, Canada, and the EU.
Health
Patient-facing tools and clinical workflow systems built around the consent, privacy, and accessibility floor health products require.
Travel & Tourism
Booking, itinerary, and experience platforms that hold up to high-conversion landing surfaces and operator backends alike.
HR & Recruitment
Applicant tracking, candidate screening, and recruiter workflow tools — full pipeline from posting to hire.
Capability stack
What I bring to the build.
Frontend
- Next.js (App Router)
- React 19
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Framer Motion
- Design systems
- Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)
Backend
- Node.js & TypeScript
- Laravel & PHP
- Postgres, MySQL, Cosmos DB
- REST and tRPC
- Auth, billing, multi-tenancy
- Background jobs & queues
- Webhooks & integrations
AI & Infrastructure
- OpenAI & Anthropic Claude
- Retrieval & embeddings
- Voice and chat agents
- Vercel, Azure, AWS
- CI/CD & previews
- Observability & logging
- Performance budgets
About
I write the code, ship the platform, and stay until it is in the hands of users.
I’m Philip — founder and technical lead of SOFNED. For the last thirteen years I’ve worked as an independent software engineer, often as the only engineer on a project, sometimes as the technical lead alongside small, deliberate teams.
The work spans six industries because the underlying craft transfers. What stays constant is the bias toward shipping — production systems, real users, measurable outcomes — over polished demos.
Engagements
Currently selecting engagements for 2026.
I work with a small number of clients at a time, typically as the technical lead on a single platform. If your team is building something with real stakes, I’d like to hear about it.