// Faster & More Direct
Zero account managers, regional directors, or administrative gatekeepers. You work and communicate directly with the senior engineers writing your architecture and core code.
Software systems & applied AI engineering
SaaS and applied AI. Architected. Engineered. Shipped.
Auxil is a specialized software engineering consultancy and independent product factory, designing, prototyping, building, and rescuing mission-critical SaaS platforms, secure cloud infrastructures, and robust AI pipelines.
// The approach
Senior execution, zero bloat.
Software should be clean and correct, fit-for-purpose and performant. I eschew the procedural overhead that routinely stalls delivery in organizations large and small.
I de-risk by right-sizing architectural patterns to your current and near-future constraints, delivering the complexity required, no more, no less.
I'm Tim Farland, a veteran software architect-engineer and recent startup CTO. Over twenty years I have delivered high-stakes systems across San Francisco, London, Berlin, and New Zealand, in high-velocity VC-backed startups and large corporate platforms alike. That range is where the balance comes from: speed to market without sacrificing the structural integrity that keeps a system maintainable and flexible for years.
For larger engagements I draw on a trusted peer network of senior specialists, so capacity scales without diluting seniority and no project rests on a single pair of hands.
20+ years experience
1 AI startup exit
100% pragmatism
// Why partner with Auxil over Big Consulting?
// No Junior Training on Your Budget
Traditional consulting firms routinely land contracts with senior partners and staff them with junior graduates who learn on your project. With Auxil, you pay strictly for vetted, senior execution.
// Superior Commercial Value
Auxil's lean, remote-first setup means your budget goes directly toward technical deliverables, working software artifacts, and production outcomes. Not corporate organizational bloat.
// Hands-on Battle-Tested Depth
Auxil doesn't deliver generic consulting decks. I have actually built, shipped, secured, and supported real AI products through startups, scale-ups, enterprise, and IP acquisition.
// Core capabilities
Software systems engineered for high stakes
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Ground-up product builds
Secure, scalable platforms built from scratch for startups and enterprises alike, engineered to meet the data governance, isolation, and compliance demands of high-stakes sectors.
- › Cloud-agnostic, no vendor lock-in
- › 3-layer security & tenant data isolation
- › Enterprise identity & single sign-on
- › Architected to scale from launch to enterprise
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Applied AI you can trust
AI that does real work in regulated environments. I build retrieval and knowledge systems grounded in your own data, with the guardrails and evaluation needed to rely on them in production.
- › Retrieval (RAG) & knowledge engineering
- › Runs on your data, in your environment
- › Responsible AI: guardrails & evaluation
- › Security and compliance built in
03
Prototyping & deep tech research
De-risking ambitious ideas before you commit capital. High-fidelity prototypes, due-diligence code audits, and custom algorithms and agent systems that go beyond what off-the-shelf models do out of the box.
- › Custom algorithms beyond off-the-shelf models
- › Bespoke agent systems & workflows
- › High-fidelity product MVPs
- › Architectural & code audits for due diligence
// The laboratory
A consultancy and an active product factory.
Auxil is not an advisory shell. I spend my non-consulting time researching, validating, and shipping proprietary developer tools, SaaS utilities, and AI pipelines.
This dual focus keeps me close to the metal. Every architectural framework I design or implement for you is refined by the day-to-day realities of building, scaling, and maintaining my own commercial software products.
// Active R&D projects
Eidontic: Event capture engine
An event capture engine with emergent typed ontology extraction.
Plastic: Generative UI layout engine
A neurosymbolic generative UI layout engine bridging LLMs and deterministic solvers.
Radic: SaaS chassis
A B2B/B2C SaaS product base written in OCaml.
// Track record
Proven execution
// IP acquisition Oct 2025 - Jun 2026
Aether AI platform buyout
Brought in as CTO to take an AI presentation prototype to a secure production platform, directly enabling the acquisition of its IP by Ideally in 2026. Re-architected an AWS-only lambdalith into a cloud-agnostic, hexagonal system with 3-layer tenant isolation, and evolved the generation engine in two areas: from one-shot to iterative document updates, and a new natural-language-to-SQL query engine.
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Board of Directors, Aether
// Enterprise modernization Nov 2023 - Sep 2025
Datacom AI Labs architecture
Designed and built Datapay's Payroll Assistant, a RAG-backed expert system that cross-queries personal, internal org, and public NZ legislation knowledge bases to accurately resolve complex payroll and HR questions. Reference architecture for agentic systems across the wider platform rebuild, and the first piece to market.
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Enterprise Architecture Director, Datacom
// Selected Historical Engagements (Contract, Advisory & FTE)
Ports of Auckland (eMPX)
Container Ship Passage Planner
One of two senior contractors who brought a mission-critical passage planner in-house from a local agency. Built the features and integrations that unlocked major sales, and cleared inherited defects. The product exited to Trelleborg.
ReactNodeTypeScriptPWA
Altered State Machine
AI & Gaming Infrastructure
Senior full-stack contractor delivering production features across an ambitious stack connecting AI and gaming.
ReactTypeScriptAWS ServerlessTerraformGraphQL
Aeroqual
IoT SaaS Frontend Modernization
Moved a backend (.NET) team at an air-quality IoT SaaS into modern frontend delivery, pairing hands-on development and stack strategy with a reusable design system that sped up their UI work.
ReactTypeScriptStorybook
Rocos
Robot Telemetry Playback
Solved two architectural and performance bottlenecks blocking high-fidelity, concurrent playback and recording of high-volume live robot telemetry.
AngularTypeScriptIndexedDBRxJS
Devoli
Virtual ISP Platform
Got a stalled, critical project over the line for a virtual ISP, then delivered a system audit and transformation plan to stand up their new in-house software team.
Lokal
Mall Companion App
Took a mall companion app from concept to market quickly, introducing two European agency teams (Estonia and Norway) to React Native.
React NativeTypeScript
Arizto
React Native Code Audit
Audited a React Native app and delivered a prioritized improvement plan with worked, expository code the team could act on.
React Native
Th2 Mighway
Tourism Mobile App
Senior developer on the React Native team, shipping key features in a demanding environment, fixing critical codebase issues, and upskilling the team. Acquired by Camplify.
React Native
Ipso e-care
Video Counselling Platform
Built the bulk of a video counselling platform serving people in war-torn regions, subcontracting to a Berlin studio.
ReactNode.js
AskNicely
CX Feedback Platform
Senior engineer on a customer-experience feedback SaaS, building core admin screens and authoring the custom interpreter modules behind its feedback automation.
Sprongo
Sports Video Analysis
Senior engineer on a sports video-analysis platform, building custom analytical overlays that drew performance metrics directly onto raw browser video frames.
// Field notes
Technical and product strategy
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// Applied AI & R&D
On Messy Data
The pitch is that AI can shoulder most of the data cleanup, leaving structure as the real problem. The reality is that AI carries one layer of a stack of six, and the rest stays slow, contextual, and human. What AI fixes, what it cannot, and what to build instead.
// Applied AI & R&D
The Confused Deputy Problem in Agent Systems
Prompt injection is the confused-deputy bug in modern dress. The architectural fix is older than the problem: authority travels with the request, narrowed at every hop, and decided by deterministic policy, not by the model.
// System architecture
The Batting Stance: a 3-layer architecture for software products that expect to pivot
Three layers (SaaS chassis, engine, vertical) and two pivot points between them. The strategy that keeps the cost of swinging again bounded, for founders still in the search problem.
// Patterns & practice
On Doing Nothing
The case for unstructured idleness as a working discipline. Why boredom is the input most software, startup, and product work is starved of, and why blocks of it are a necessity rather than a luxury.