MONKCODE · Gregory Deseck — Freelance developer, Ghent, Belgium
I'm Gregory Deseck — a senior frontend developer with 10+ years building large-scale applications. As a freelancer I bring that same discipline to small missions: websites, web apps, and practical AI automation for businesses like yours.
Open for small missions
Fast, findable, and easy to update yourself — no developer needed for a text change. Hosting, your domain, email and analytics are all included, and I keep the whole thing running afterwards. I built exactly this for a group practice and an independent dietitian; both update their own sites today.
What "everything included" means →Senior Vue.js and TypeScript work: a new feature, a performance rescue, a codebase audit, or extra capacity your team can trust. Well-scoped missions with a clear start and finish.
Your team already ships with AI, and review quietly became the bottleneck. I build the guardrails, the automated review and the loop that turn that around — then hand it over so your own people can extend it.
How I set this up for teams →The same discipline, pointed at the rest of your business instead of at a codebase. Tell me what eats your week and I will tell you honestly whether it can be automated — and whether it is worth it.
What that looks like for a small business →AI has changed how quickly software can be built. It hasn't changed what good software is. My workflow uses AI for speed and engineering discipline for trust:
I build with AI tooling wired into a strict workflow: automated code review, validation hooks, and tests that catch mistakes before they ship. The speed is real; so are the guardrails.
Because the routine work goes faster, a small mission costs fewer billable hours than it would the traditional way. You get a fixed, honest quote up front.
Every feature is backed by tests. That's what makes the speed sustainable — and what makes handovers painless.
I deliberately take on one or two missions at a time, next to my day job as a frontend engineer at an energy scale-up. Small scope, full attention, done means done.
Small business
Website for a group practice for dietetics and therapy. The team manages its own content, pricing, and staff pages, entirely without a developer.
Small business
Personal website for an independent dietitian, with a content editor she updates herself and automated visual tests guarding every change.
Enterprise
Cloud collaboration platform for the construction industry: real-time document workflows and 3D model viewing at enterprise scale.
Enterprise
Energy-management platform for smart batteries and energy trading. It's my current day job, and where I built the team's AI-assisted development workflow.
Side project: Stoic Companion, an offline-first web app for daily Stoic practice.
I'm Gregory Deseck, a frontend developer from Ghent. I studied history before I found code, and I've spent the past decade building frontends, from a collaboration platform for the construction industry to an energy management system. The name MONKCODE is a nod to Thelonious Monk: tight structure and idiosyncratic improvisation, which is how I like to build software too. Outside work: piano, Nassim Taleb books, and the occasional Dark Souls defeat.
Tell me what you’re trying to build — in plain language, no technical brief required. I’ll reply within two working days with honest advice, even if that advice is “you don’t need a developer for this.”
Based in Ghent · working across Belgium, remote-friendly