Meet Claude Code Expert — Kishan

Contract / freelance only at the moment. I run Panth Infotech and a 12-module mage2kishan SEO suite alongside client work, so a full-time W-2 / FTE seat doesn’t make sense for either side.

What I can offer that is “close to full-time”: a 30-hr/week dedicated retainer (4-month minimum) where I’m embedded in your team’s Slack and stand-ups, attend your sprint planning, and cap external work to keep your roadmap unblocked. Several CTOs have used that as a bridge while they hire a permanent senior dev.

Yes — standard practice. I sign your NDA template before any commercial discussion or repo access. I also have a short mutual NDA template (PandaDoc, takes ~2 minutes to sign) if you don’t have one drafted.

For larger engagements ($25k+) I’ll also sign a separate data processing addendum if your store handles PCI / GDPR / HIPAA-adjacent data — happy to use yours or supply mine.

Standard rates:

• Hourly retainer (10+ hrs/week): $65/hr
• Ad-hoc hourly: $85/hr
• Emergency / fire-fighting: $95/hr
• Consulting / advisory call: $150/hr (90-min minimum)
• AI-paired-dev workshop (your team, half-day): $1,500 flat

Most clients prefer fixed-price projects ($499 – $50k+) where I commit to an outcome rather than billing time. Quotes always include the scope, deliverables, and milestones in writing — you don’t pay until we both sign the SoW.

Based in Ahmedabad, India (IST, UTC+5:30). Core hours are 9 AM – 7 PM IST, but I shift 2–4 hrs/day for clients in EU / UK / US timezones. Calls scheduled in your timezone, never mine.

Practical overlap: UK 4–6 hrs/day, EU 4–6 hrs/day, US East 2–3 hrs/day, US West 1–2 hrs/day, Australia 5–6 hrs/day. For US-only async work I lean on Loom + written briefs — works better than 6 AM standups.

Yes — this is a growing part of what I do. Three formats:

• Half-day workshop ($1,500 flat): live Zoom, 4 hours, your team brings their actual Magento / Hyvä codebase. We set up CLAUDE.md, MCP servers, slash-commands, hooks. Recorded.
• 4-week embedded coaching ($6,000 flat): I’m in your Slack, review every Claude-Code-built PR, do weekly 60-min sessions, leave behind a written playbook.
• Async written playbook ($499 flat): custom CLAUDE.md, slash-commands, MCP config, written runbook delivered as a PR to your repo. No live time.

Generally no, but case-by-case. I’ve done two equity-only builds in 10 years — both were for friends with strong product-market fit and existing revenue. Default answer for a cold inbound is "cash up front."

What I will consider: 50/50 cash + equity for a series-A or series-B startup with a credible CTO already in seat, where I’m a temporary specialist plug-in (e.g. Hyvä migration, Claude Code rollout). Vesting cliff and acceleration clauses apply.

Yes — two ways:

• 30-min discovery call (free): book a free Zoom and I’ll screen-share my actual setup — CLAUDE.md, slash-commands, MCP servers, hooks, sub-agents — and answer questions about your project.
• $150 paid pilot: 90-min consulting call where I run Claude Code live against a sample of your codebase, output a written report on what would and wouldn’t work for your project.

Also see the public prompts library for the same configs I use on client work.

Honest answer: AI is replacing the type of work juniors used to do (boilerplate, scaffolding, glue code) faster than companies are training juniors to do harder work. That gap is going to bite.

What I tell clients: don’t fire your juniors, retrain them. Pair every junior with Claude Code, change their KPI from "lines of code" to "PR review quality + system understanding," and they outpace mid-levels who refuse the tooling within 6 months. The ones who can’t adapt get replaced — but that was true of every previous tooling shift (IDE, compiler, ORM, framework). My workshops focus on the retraining angle, not the replacement angle.

You do. 100%, no exceptions. Every line of code I write under contract — whether typed by me or generated by Claude Code on my prompts — is your property. Full IP transfer in the SoW. You get the GitHub repo, deploy keys, documentation, database, CI/CD config.

The specific question on AI-generated code: I follow Anthropic’s commercial-use terms (output is yours), I never paste your proprietary code into a third-party LLM other than Anthropic’s API, and I keep audit logs of every Claude Code session for the duration of the engagement. If you have a specific clause you need (e.g. "no AI-generated code in this module"), I’ll respect it — just put it in the SoW.

Three-step path that minimises wasted time on both sides:

1. Send a brief through the form on this page (or email kishansavaliyakb@gmail.com). 6–10 lines is enough — what you need, by when, rough budget if you have one.
2. 30-min free discovery call (Zoom). I read your brief beforehand and come with questions. By the end of the call you’ll know whether I’m the right fit and whether Claude-Code-paired-dev makes sense for your project.
3. Written quote & SoW within 48 hours of the call. Scope, deliverables, milestones, payment schedule, IP terms, NDA. Sign digitally, 30% deposit, we start.

Average time from first email to first commit: 5–10 business days.