whoami
About
I'm Elmer Botha. I've spent 22 years building and running production software — backend systems, cloud architecture, and the delivery infrastructure underneath both.
definitionOfDone.dev is deliberately one person. Not a stepping stone to an agency — an alternative to one. Agency pricing carries account management, coordination layers, bench time and premises. On a defined, well-specified build, that overhead buys you very little and costs you most of the invoice.
I take one engagement at a time, at a defined weekly capacity, and I turn down work that doesn't fit that shape. If your project needs a team, you should hire a team — and I'll tell you so.
skills.tstype-checked
const strong = [
"legacy modernisation & dependency migration",
"AWS serverless architecture",
"event-driven systems",
"infrastructure as code",
"CI/CD",
];
const notMe = [
"visual design",
"security auditing",
"network architecture",
"native mobile",
]; // I build to a design file; I don't originate one.
// for the rest, you want a specialist — I'll say so rather than take the work.