Pavel Lazarev, portrait for the Studio page

Pavel Lazarev

Full-stack developer

Hello,

if you are here, something in your business has hit a wall on the web. Leads get lost along the way, the sales team does its maths in Excel, there is nothing to show a client, the site exists — and gives you nothing. Maybe it is time to automate the routine that eats half of your team’s day.

Either way, you need a business problem solved, not just a site built. Sometimes a site is the answer, sometimes it is not: you may need a service, a client portal or a system built around your processes. Working out what actually solves the problem is already part of the job — and that part is mine.

With me you work directly: no account manager in between and no conveyor belt where two dozen programmers mould something shapeless for a reasonable price. I dig into the task, propose a solution and carry it from the first line to production — that is why the project comes out whole, not stitched together from pieces.

About the author

I am Pavel Lazarev, a full-stack developer and IT troubleshooter from Novosibirsk. I started with websites, then moved on to internal software: CRMs, analytics, services that push thousands of leads through every day.
My clients come from eight countries: Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Armenia, Montenegro, the UAE.

A story of its own is someone else’s code, abandoned by a previous contractor. Taking apart an unfamiliar project and making it work again is something I can do and, honestly, enjoy.

8 countries

where my clients are

2017

started in the industry

Novosibirsk

permanent base

Astana, Dubai

where I work from time to time

Stages

Step 1

Work out what kind of site your business needs and what goals you want to reach.

Step 2

Look through my work and write to me — the links are at the top of the page.

Step 3

Talk your project over with me. Together we will pin down the needs and the goals more precisely, and agree on the next steps.

Step 4

I put together a proposal for you and we get to work!

Common questions:

As a rule, I prefer to stick to this stack:

Web applications — Laravel for the backend and React for the frontend. Websites — WordPress: for most tasks it covers everything that is needed, and the main thing is that afterwards you can run the site yourself.

If a project already has a stack of its own and there is no point rewriting it, I can step away from mine and work with what is there.

An hour of my work costs $40. I name the project budget after we have talked it through. The estimate is given in hours, broken down by stage.

It depends on the scope. A project showcase on a ready set of blocks took me two days. A property developer’s website — with design, three languages and a connection to the sales system — took three weeks.

A product such as a reporting system or a development platform lives for years and gets improved along the way.

Preferably yes, if that suits the client. The contract fixes the scope of work, the acceptance criteria and the deadlines.

I can walk the whole way — from the start of a project to the final build and handover — on my own, because I own the full development cycle. At the same time, if a project has special requirements or I am loaded, I may bring in specialists I have vetted personally.

Either way you will know about it in advance, because this is discussed before the contract is signed.

I provide support and follow-up work if you need it.

If you do not, you still get every tool to manage the site and edit the content.

Yes, I have done it more than once. But first I need to assess what is going on inside such a project.

Sometimes rewriting works out cheaper than fixing someone else’s code — but the decision is yours, and I will explain what it is made of.

You do. The source code, the accesses and the domain are registered in your name.