Mike Paulus

Apps, websites, campaign systems.

I'm Mike Paulus. I build them from scratch in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Before this I did twelve years in hospitality, training programs and P&Ls, then moved into tech sales. Every sales job I've had turned into a building job. I kept making the tools I wanted instead of waiting for someone to hand them to me: referral engines, ROI calculators, upsell automations, lead enrichment.

I'm a GTM Engineer at Prefect now, which acquired Dagster Labs, where I started. Recent work there: a conference campaign toolkit (11 routes, 2 APIs, built solo in 3 days) and a revenue intelligence platform the sales org adopted in its first week. I handled everything on both, from figuring out what to build through running it in production.

Custom code, deliberate design, no more complexity than the problem needs. I take a few projects at a time and start each one by understanding the problem before writing code.

Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Tailwind on the front end. Postgres or SQLite with Drizzle behind it. I deploy to DigitalOcean with PM2 and Caddy. For AI features I use the Claude API, with Twilio, Deepgram, and ElevenLabs when the product needs a voice.

I also build n8n automations and connect to the tools sales teams already live in: Salesforce, Snowflake, HubSpot.

I'm taking consulting projects. If you have something worth building, let's talk.