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Independent software engineer · Monaco

I design and build websites in service of your business.

Software engineer. 10+ years of production systems.

10+ Years shipping software
2–3 Active clients at a time
Previously at
  • Government Digital Service (GOV.UK)
  • UK Ministry of Justice
  • UK Department for Education
What I believe

Every Monaco business deserves software designed around its operations, not the other way around.

— Laurent Curau

What I build

  • Websites
  • E-commerce stores
  • Apps
  • Internal tools

You stay in control.

I deliver tools you own and operate. You never become dependent.

Hands-on training

Every delivery includes a walkthrough with the people who will actually use the tool, plus a user guide written in plain language.

Full ownership transfer

Code, content, infrastructure, domain names: everything is yours from day one. No proprietary editor, no platform lock-in.

Documented source code

Plain-language README, architecture notes, deployment runbook. Any engineer can pick up where I left off.

Post-delivery warranty

Anything that breaks within the warranty window after launch, I fix at no extra cost. Defects are not change requests.

Laurent Curau
The engineer you'd actually work with

Laurent Curau

Software engineer · Monaco
MSc Software Engineering, University of Oxford

I've been writing production software for over ten years, primarily Ruby on Rails, plus everything that lives around it: Postgres, background jobs, integrations, deployment, on-call.

Monégasque national, resident in the Principality. I work with Monaco SMEs because I live here and I know the local pain: software priced for global enterprises, agencies that send junior staff after they win the pitch, freelancers who disappear between projects. I don't subcontract. I don't fixed-price work I haven't scoped. I won't pretend I have capacity when I don't.

— Laurent