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Technical Code Review
Before you spend another penny on it, find out exactly what you are sitting on. An independent read on the code, the security and whether it can carry the business.
Technical Code Review
Worried about code quality, security or performance?
Problem
Worried about code quality, security or performance?
Solution
Got a codebase from a cut-price offshore team that promised the world and delivered spaghetti? Let me give you honest feedback. No miscommunication, no faff, just a straight-up technical audit.
What you actually get
A straight verdict
What is solid, what is fragile, what is dangerous. In plain English, with the evidence to back it up.
Security findings, ranked
Exposed API keys, database tables with no access rules, authentication enforced only in the interface, missing backups, unvalidated input. Ordered by what would hurt you first.
A path forward with numbers
Salvage or rebuild, with honest costs for both and what each option leaves you paying every month. Not a sales pitch dressed as an audit.
Leverage
A written, independent review is a useful thing to have on the table when you are renegotiating with the team that built it.
How it works
Same principles, whatever the job.
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Access and context
Repository access and half an hour on what the software is meant to do. That is all I need to start.
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Deep review
Architecture, code quality, security, performance, dependencies and whether the thing can actually grow. No skimming.
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Report and plan
A written review in plain English, a call to walk through it, and a clear recommendation on what to do next.
Questions
Secure access before anything else: the domain registrar, the hosting account, the repository and the database. Ownership of those four is what decides how much leverage you have. If any of them are in someone else's name, that is the first thing to fix, and I will help you do it whether or not you go on to hire me.
Yes, that is the most common reason people book this. You get a written map of what the software does, which parts are load-bearing, what is dangerous, and what it would cost to keep it running versus replace it.
The recurring failures are consistent enough to check quickly: secrets shipped in client-side code, database tables with no row level security, authentication checked only in the interface rather than on the server, no backups, no error tracking, and user input passed straight into queries. Any one of those is a launch blocker, and none of them are visible from the outside.
Partly. I will find how they got in, which is almost always an outdated plugin, a weak admin password or a shared host, and tell you what it takes to clean and harden it. If the site has been compromised repeatedly, the honest answer is usually to rebuild on something with a smaller attack surface.
No. Plenty of reviews end with it is fixable, here is how. If a rebuild genuinely is the cheaper path I will show you the arithmetic, and you are free to take that plan to anyone.
Yes. Send me the quote and what it is meant to deliver. I will tell you whether the scope matches the price, what is missing, and what the proposed stack will cost you every month after the build is paid for.
Yes. Buying a business with software in it means buying its technical debt, its hosting bills and its security exposure. A review before you sign is considerably cheaper than finding out afterwards.
Repository access and half an hour of context. If it turns out you do not own your own code, which happens more than you would think, we sort that first.
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