About
Nixperts is a one-person IT consultancy for web development and the infrastructure under it — PayloadCMS as the deep specialism, AI-assisted delivery as the working method, and communication treated as part of the job.
Nixperts exists because those two halves are usually sold separately. Agencies build the application and hand over a deployment they would rather not be responsible for. Infrastructure shops run the machines and will not touch the code. Somebody then spends their Friday evenings in the gap between them.
Nixperts works in both layers on purpose.
What that means in practice
- Senior by default. The person doing the work is the person you talk to, not an account manager relaying questions.
- Small on purpose. Fewer projects at a time, which is what makes it possible to actually understand a system before changing it.
- Owned, not rented. A bias towards infrastructure and tooling a client controls. Managed services are a tool, not a default.
- Reproducible over clever. Configuration in code, environments that rebuild from scratch, and a way back to the last thing that worked.
Background
The deep specialism is PayloadCMS: over two years of professional work with it, across a range of products different enough to have hit most of its edges. Around that sits the usual product stack — TypeScript, Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui, with Figma files as the input and installable PWAs as an option rather than an afterthought.
Under the application: typed API boundaries with tRPC, gRPC across language boundaries, and enough attention to HTTP itself — caching, compression, negotiation, the request lifecycle — that performance work stays empirical. Under that again: Linux, self-hosting and NixOS, not as a hobby but as the layer deployments actually land on.
On AI, and what it makes valuable
The honest position: the future of web development looks more AI-driven than anything else, and pretending otherwise is a strange thing to sell. A large share of the first draft is written with AI assistance here, deliberately, because it raises both the quality of the output and the speed it arrives at.
What that changes is where the value sits. When producing code gets cheap, the scarce skills become the ones that decide whether the code was worth producing: critical thinking about what the system actually needs, the judgement to reject a plausible-looking answer, the organisation to keep a project legible, and the communication to say all of it early enough to matter. Those are the parts a client is really buying — and the parts worth being judged on.
Working with Nixperts
Remote by default, on site when it genuinely helps. Engagements start with a conversation rather than a questionnaire: describe what you are building and where it hurts, and an honest read on whether Nixperts is the right fit follows.