tumbric

• 12+ years as an early engineer in fast-growing startups, from teams of three to 3,000+.
• Previously director-level IC at Monzo working across product, payments infra & operations.
• Now building and advising on AI-heavy products, developer tools and magical apps.

• Turning ambiguous product ideas into shipped software.
• Designing day-0 codebases, infrastructure and engineering workflows.
• Building polished consumer apps, B2B products and internal tools.
• Improving AI product quality, latency and cost.
• Helping founders make great technical choices that pay over years.

• Early product builds and customer-validation prototypes.
• AI product implementation, evaluation and post-training.
• Developer tools, internal platforms and infrastructure.
• Performance work across LLM inference, training and product latency.

• Zero-to-one product and engineering strategy.
• Team structure, hiring and onboarding for early technical teams.
• Turning business goals into concrete product and engineering plans.
• Helping founders increase shipping pace without lowering quality.

• Delivery contracts with clear outcomes and, where appropriate, outcome-based pricing.
• Discovery sprints for high-ambiguity projects before a go/no-go decision.
• Advisory retainers from $5,000 (+ UK VAT where applicable).
• Delivery contracts from $50,000 (+ UK VAT where applicable).

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fred@tumbric.com