Automation Pipelines
The slow, repetitive work in your week is the easy stuff to automate. I build the pipelines that make it disappear, with retries, alerting, and a status dashboard so you trust them.
What you get
- Production pipeline running in your environment or my managed VPS
- Status dashboard with run history, errors, and retry button
- Alerting to email or Slack when something fails twice in a row
- Runbook covering deploy, rollback, and common incidents
- Source code in your GitHub from day one
Transparent pricing
Hosting on my VPS is free for the first 3 months. After that, $15 a month covers infrastructure if you do not want to host it yourself. Prices vary by region to match local engineering market rates.
1 to 2 step automation. Example: GitHub PR opened triggers a Slack summary.
- 1 workflow
- Up to 3 integrations
- Error alerts to email
- Runbook
- 1 week post-launch support
End-to-end workflow across 3 to 5 services with retries and monitoring.
- Up to 3 chained workflows
- 3 to 5 integrations
- Retries and dead-letter queue
- Status dashboard
- 2 weeks post-launch support
Cron-style background jobs with full observability and a custom status page.
- Cron scheduling layer
- 5+ jobs
- Postgres-backed run history
- Custom status page
- 4 weeks post-launch support
Why I charge this
- Most teams pay an engineer for a week to wire up Zapier-style flows that break in 4 months. I build something that is observable, version-controlled, and easy to extend.
- You get a real Git repository, not a black-box no-code config. The next engineer can pick it up in an hour, not a week.
- Failure handling is included by default. Retries, dead-letter queues, and alerting are not add-ons; they are how every pipeline I build is shaped.
Why work with me
- I run my own infrastructure on a VPS for paisareality.com, value.codes, devpilotx.com, and a private quant bot. The same operational hygiene goes into your pipeline.
- You see every run in the dashboard. If something breaks at 2am, you know about it before I do.
- No vendor lock-in. Plain Node.js, Python, and Postgres. Move it to your own infra any time.
- I never put credentials in code or in chat. Secrets are stored in environment variables or a secret manager you control.
How an engagement runs
- Step 01
Map your workflow
Free 30 minute call where we whiteboard your current flow and what the automated version should look like.
- Step 02
Written scope
One-page scope with steps, integrations, fixed price, and timeline.
- Step 03
Build
I build in small commits. You get a preview link or a Notion update each working day.
- Step 04
Soft launch
We run the pipeline alongside the manual process for a few days to catch edge cases.
- Step 05
Cut over
Manual process retired. Dashboard hands off. Support window starts.
Ideal for
- Teams whose Ops or Engineering hours are burning on the same 3 to 5 repeat tasks every week
- Founders running a business on Notion or Airtable who need it to talk to invoicing, email, or Slack
- Companies that outgrew Zapier or n8n and need something more reliable
Not the right fit if
- A one-off script that only runs once. You can probably do that yourself in an afternoon.
- Workflows that depend on tools without an API or webhook. We will hit a wall fast.
Common questions
Where will it run?
Three options: your own cloud (Railway, Render, AWS), a Hostinger VPS I help you set up, or a managed VPS I already operate. We pick during scoping.
What if an integration changes its API?
I write the integration layer so external changes break in one place, not everywhere. Maintenance is straightforward and well-documented.
Do you support self-hosting?
Yes. Every pipeline I build can be self-hosted with a single environment file and a Docker container or pm2 process.
Will it work with our existing tools?
If your tools have an API, webhooks, or even an email-in endpoint, almost always yes. We confirm on the discovery call.
Ready to scope this?
Free 30 minute call. By the end of it you have a written scope, a price, and a timeline. No pressure to proceed.