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name:
David Cusack
role:
engineering leader
location:
remote (proven across Europe & the Americas)
status:
shipping, open to the next hard problem

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to recruiters, founders, engineers, and the occasional coding agent when working with David Cusack.

Overview

David is an engineering leader who builds and runs fully remote software teams across Europe and the Americas. Most recently he led engineering for a global print-on-demand supply chain.

He has spent 12+ years shipping production software, the last 3+ of them running engineering teams. These days he is focused on agentic AI: putting tools like Claude Code to work across the whole development lifecycle, not just as autocomplete.

If you have a hard problem and a good team (or the budget for one), see CONTACT.md.

Quick start

bash
$ david --help

Usage: david <command>

Commands:
  lead       Run a fully remote engineering team across two continents
  architect  Design cloud-native systems that survive Black Friday
  automate   Apply agentic AI to anything done more than twice
  review     Thorough, kind, occasionally pedantic about naming
  ship       # default command, runs continuously
  hire       currently accepting proposals, see CONTACT.md

Current focus

  • Agentic AI workflows that actually reach production, not just demos
  • Distributed-team leadership across many time zones
  • Supply chain and e-commerce systems at global scale
  • The next hard problem. Could be yours: see CONTACT.md

In production

  • freshfsm.com: field service management SaaS. Scheduling, dispatch, quoting, invoicing, payments, and a mobile crew app for service businesses. Live since Nov 2025.
  • recordit.dev: screen recording with debug capture built in. Network requests, console logs, and errors travel with the video, so bug reports actually reproduce. Live since Jun 2025.

Both are real products with real users, built and operated end to end. Details in EXPERIENCE.md.

Tech stack

  • Languages: TypeScript, C#, Python
  • Frameworks: React, Node.js, React Native, .NET
  • Cloud & infra: Azure, AWS, DigitalOcean, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Data: PostgreSQL, MongoDB + Atlas Search, Cosmos DB, Redis, MSSQL
  • Messaging & workflow: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Temporal, n8n
  • AI tooling: Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, CodeRabbit, Swarmia

Working with David

  • Bring problems early. Half-formed is fine; a surprise at the deadline is not.
  • Default to async. If a thread passes ten replies, it becomes a call.
  • Strong opinions, weakly held. Data wins the argument, whoever brings it.
  • Feedback is direct, frequent, and flows in both directions.

Important notes

  • IMPORTANT: David is Irish. grand means good, not too bad at all means excellent, and we'll see means no.
  • YOU MUST NOT call it "just a CRUD app". Every supply chain looks simple until its first Black Friday.
  • Claude Code helped build this site. David reviewed the PR. Both parties claim credit.

See also