Agentic AI engineering
Agents running fronts in parallel — code, tests, review, documentation — under my specification and my review. The volume that used to need a team became orchestration.

Donizeti Ferreira · software engineer
I'm Donizeti Ferreira. For a flat monthly fee I take over your company's engineering: I build what's missing, automate what's manual, keep what already runs from breaking, and own the day-to-day. Not an agency, not project freelancing — one person, under contract, inside your operation.
How this is possible
The honest answer isn't that I work like ten people. It's that the part which took ten became machine — and what's left is exactly the part no machine does.
Agents running fronts in parallel — code, tests, review, documentation — under my specification and my review. The volume that used to need a team became orchestration.
Automated tests, continuous integration and delivery, a staging environment and rollback ready. Ship several times a week without taking down what was standing.
There's no product owner, agile master or account manager in the way. What an agency spends on alignment meetings is execution time here.
Judgement: what to build, what isn't worth it, where the process will break, and when the right answer is not to do it. No machine decides that — which is why there's still a person here.
Every change goes through the same pipeline before it reaches your customer. That's what makes it safe to ship several times a week without breaking what already worked.
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The bind
Salary, payroll taxes, benefits and the risk of hiring wrong — for demand that swings from month to month.
You pay for a product owner, an agile master and an account manager just to reach the developer. And every new request reopens the negotiation.
The "when there's time" list grows every month. With nobody accountable for it, it doesn't move — it just ages along with the system.
What stays with me
Six fronts, one standard: understand the process as it actually happens, solve it so it runs unattended, and make failure visible when it comes.
How the price is set
A proposal is a document a vendor writes to justify a price they already picked. Here it works the other way around.
On WhatsApp, however it comes out. No finished scope or document required: describing the problem is enough for me to size it.
What your company can invest per month. Saying the number first doesn't make you pay more: it makes the conversation take a day instead of three weeks.
Which fronts I cover at that level, at what pace, and what stays out. If nothing worthwhile fits, I say so right away — at no cost.
How it starts
A trial month, no penalty and no lock-in. If it doesn't make sense, it ends.
How it ends
30 days' notice, from either side. Nothing is held hostage by a contract.
What's yours
All code in your repository and credentials in your vault, from day one.
Exclusivity
I take few contracts at a time. That's what makes fast replies possible.
One-off projects with a fixed scope are possible too — but for recurring demand they usually cost more, because you pay to reopen the negotiation on every request. There's a floor for the contract to pay for itself.
Compared with the alternatives
| Criterion | Hiring in-house | Agency or squad | With me · monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | Hiring in-houseSalary + taxes + benefits | Agency or squadHours × heads, with margin on top | With me · monthlyFlat fee, set from your budget |
| Who does the work | Hiring in-houseThe person you interviewed | Agency or squadWhoever is free on the bench | With me · monthlyMe — the same person from the first call |
| Time to start | Hiring in-houseWeeks of hiring process | Agency or squadProposal, approval and kickoff | With me · monthlyThe first week already produces |
| If demand drops | Hiring in-houseYou pay the same, with idle time | Agency or squadYou don't call and the system ages | With me · monthlyThe month turns into maintenance and improvement |
| Maintenance after | Hiring in-houseCovered, while the person stays | Agency or squadA separate support contract | With me · monthlyInside the contract, always |
| If it goes wrong | Hiring in-houseTermination, cost and rehiring | Agency or squadA project delivered half-done | With me · monthly30 days' notice and the code is yours |
An honest comparison: hiring in-house makes sense when the demand fills someone's week, every week. An agency makes sense when the volume needs several people in parallel. Between those two is where I'm the cheaper answer.
A typical month
No week is only meetings, and none is only code. Keeping what already exists alive is inside the contract — the part one-off projects leave orphaned.
Proof
In a continuous contract the question isn't whether I deliver — it's whether what I deliver stays up on its own. No client is named here, because none agreed to be a showcase. What's below is what anyone can verify without taking my word for it.
HERO4,86across 22 client reviews on WorkanaConsistency
253 of 369 dayswith code shipped, over the last 12 months
Measured on 2026-09-03
Public code
github.com/donizetiferr →
An open profile, with daily activity and a published open-source project. You can audit how I write before hiring me.
Own product
Praxis Index Trend →
An algorithm published on MQL5, with an open demo. Evidence that what I build runs on its own and holds up to audit.
Kinds of work in production today
Before working for myself
Worth calling me if
Not worth it if
How it starts
No step here is a meeting to schedule a meeting. If at any point it's clear it isn't worth it, I'll say so — and the conversation ends at no cost.
You tell me what the company needs. No sales deck, no slides.
I look at what already exists and tell you what can be solved, in what order.
We set the monthly fee from your budget, and what it covers.
It starts. If it doesn't make sense, it ends with no penalty.
Before you decide
A small team's work, yes — and that's exactly why I limit how many contracts I take. What changed is the proportion: today most of the effort in a project is deciding, specifying and reviewing, and that part was always one person's job. If your demand needs several people in parallel from the start, I'll say so in the first conversation.
Both, and I answer for the result. I use agents to produce volume, but nothing reaches production without passing automated tests and my review. If it breaks, the problem is mine — not the tool's.
Because a proposal is a document that exists to justify a price already chosen, and it costs two weeks for both of us. I'd rather know your budget and tell you straight away what fits inside it. You save time and I don't spend mine assembling a PDF.
There is a level from which the contract sustains itself, because I absorb the infrastructure and AI tooling costs behind that pace. I'll tell you the figure in the first message, before you invest any time — and if your budget is below it, I'd rather say so than deliver badly.
No. Counting hours makes you think twice before calling me, which is the opposite of what a continuous contract should produce. What we agree on is the month's priority; whatever doesn't fit opens the next month.
The month turns into maintenance, improvements and the "when there's time" queue that never moves. A continuous contract rarely has an empty month — it has months where the work is less visible.
Usually more, not less. In-house teams spend their days firefighting and the project queue doesn't move. I come in as extra capacity on specific fronts, without competing for space with whoever is already there.
You do, from day one: your repository, credentials in your vault, operational documentation included. If the contract ends, nothing stops working and nobody is held hostage.
In the first conversation I'll tell you whether a monthly contract pays for itself in your case — and when it doesn't, I'll say that too. No proposal, no sales deck, no runaround.
