Something important is not working properly, and you would like a straight answer about it.

You have a problem, and nobody can tell you how bad it is.

An integration fails intermittently and you hear about it from a customer. A month-end process depends on one spreadsheet and one person. I diagnose before I prescribe, in writing, and you own the findings whether or not you commission the work.

Real work: I moved a compliance pipeline off an always-on host onto consumption compute. Same reports collected, archived and alerted on; running cost went from £26.83 in its last full month to a rate under £3 a month. Azure Cost Management actuals, and the new rate covers nine days rather than a settled month.

You know what needs doing. You need someone to deliver it without becoming another dependency.

A broken integration, a backend change nobody has time for, an Azure setup that made sense to whoever left. For clearly bounded work I normally quote a fixed price against a written scope, so you know the cost before the work starts.

Real work: a daily digest pulling inbox counts, site analytics, ad spend and email security posture into one branded email. It replaced about half an hour of clicking through portals, twice every weekday. That figure is my own estimate of the round it replaced, and I have written down exactly how it was calculated.

You need to know if I fit the role, and you need to know quickly.

Senior C#/.NET and Azure, fifteen years, operational systems and integrations. UK-based, fully remote, outside IR35 preferred, engaged through my own limited company. If it is a fit I will say so within 1–2 working days. If it is not, I will say that too.

Real work: the API layer behind this site was rewritten from Node.js to .NET 10 as a shared services library, with 521 unit tests written before the port, shipped through the same pipeline as everything else. You can hand that to a technical stakeholder as a work sample.