Founder
Ahmed Hassan Yaseen
Engineering & strategy
Sets the engineering bar. Runs every audit personally and signs off on every migration plan before it leaves the door.
LinkedInWyoming, USA
About Stacksmesh
An engineering partner. Not a sales funnel.
We're a small, senior-only team. We do the audit, we do the build, we do the handover. The people writing your code are the people you talk to.
Why we exist
The 80% that doesn't ship itself.
In 2023 we watched a wave of AI builders ship the first version of any product idea in a weekend. Base44, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Bubble — the prototype-to-something-clickable problem went from a month to an afternoon.
The harder problem stayed exactly where it was. The next 80% of shipping — real auth at scale, real payments, real observability, compliance, ownership of the keys and the bill — is still engineering work, and the platforms aren't built for it.
We started Stacksmesh to do that work. Take the prototype that proved there was a product. Migrate it onto infrastructure the team actually owns. Hand over a codebase someone else could pick up. Leave.
We genuinely build things you can take and run with. The mark of a good engagement is that you don't need us again — and if you do, it's because you chose to, not because you're stuck.
How we operate
Six principles. All non-negotiable.
None of these are aspirational. They're the rules we'll fire ourselves from a project to keep.
01
Senior-only on the work
Senior engineers on every engagement. If two seniors aren't on a call, it's not Stacksmesh.
02
Fixed scope, fixed price
Every engagement is line-item quoted. Hourly is how scope creeps — we'd rather lose money on a project than be incentivized to slow down.
03
You own everything
Code in your repo. Cloud in your accounts. Keys in your secrets manager. Documentation written so your next engineer can ship on day one.
04
Audit before opinion
We don't pitch architecture before we've seen your prototype. The $499 audit exists so we earn the right to recommend anything at all.
05
Weekly demos, weekly invoices
You see the work running every week. You're billed for the week you saw. If we're behind, you find out the same week we do.
06
We will tell you no
If your scope is wrong, your timeline is wrong, or you'd be better off with another firm — we'll say so. Comfort isn't the same as honesty.
The team
Three leaders. Thirteen builders. One team.
We deliberately stay small. Three people lead the work; thirteen more actually do it. The senior team that quotes the work ships it.
Co-founder
Hamza Yasin
Infrastructure & AI
Leads AI and DevOps craft — agentic flows, evals, AWS posture, observability. The one who reads logs at 2am so you don't have to.
LinkedInLahore, Pakistan
VP, Sales
Jessica McDonalds
Client engagement
Owns the front door. Scopes audits, runs discovery calls, and is the reason proposals read like a plan instead of a deck.
LinkedInToronto, Canada
The build team
13specialists
Every project gets the discipline mix it needs from the same thirteen people. The ones who quoted the work also ship it.
3
Expert full-stack developers
Senior-only. Next.js, Remix, Postgres, queues, distributed patterns.
2
Sr. DevOps engineers
AWS, Cloudflare, CI/CD, observability, security posture, on-call.
1
AI engineer
Agentic flows, RAG, model routing, evals, voice & messaging stacks.
4
Expert UI/UX designers
Product UX, design systems, marketing surfaces, motion, brand kits.
2
Marketing & campaigns
Google Ads, Meta, paid social — strategy, creative, performance ops.
1
Expert copywriter
Site copy, ad copy, long-form essays, landing pages — the voice of the brand.
Where we workWyoming, USALahore, PakistanToronto, Canada
Want to work with us?
The audit is the front door. Five business days, fixed price, and you walk away with a real plan — whether you hire us next or not.