Who you work with
The Lacanians is an independent software studio led by Abdul Hamid Achik — not a staffing layer between you and the work.
You work directly with the person shaping the architecture, reviewing every release, and translating product pressure into technical decisions. Based in Guadalajara and working worldwide in English and Spanish.
Meet the Founder
Founder & Lead Engineer
Full-stack developer with over a decade of experience in systems design, DevOps, and a wide range of programming languages including Python, Ruby, TypeScript, Go, and Elixir. Based in Mexico, building software for clients worldwide.
Before founding The Lacanians, Abdul spent years working across startups and established companies, wearing every hat from backend engineer to technical lead. That breadth of experience is what makes fractional CTO work a natural fit — he has been in the trenches and knows what decisions matter at each stage of a company's growth.
An early adopter of AI-assisted development, Abdul builds and maintains a growing collection of open-source developer tools — from MCP servers like tinyvault, vecgrep, veclite, and minerva, to terminal tools like teak, local-agent, and glyphrun, to native macOS apps like rosewood. The tools we use internally are the same ones we open-source for the community.
10+ years
Experience
EN · ES
Working model
Professional referral
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Daniel is a full-stack developer based in Guadalajara with more than seven years of experience building scalable applications. We are sharing his profile so teams looking for senior engineering talent can connect with him directly.
Our Expertise
Product delivery, AI systems, technical leadership, and rescue work stay connected instead of being handed across separate specialist silos.
TypeScript, Go, Vue 3, React, Nuxt, Next.js, Astro, NestJS. We build end-to-end applications using the right tool for each layer of the stack.
Claude API, MCP servers, custom agents, RAG pipelines, and AI-augmented development workflows. We build with AI and we build AI features.
Architecture reviews, technology roadmaps, team scaling strategies, and the kind of CTO guidance that non-technical founders need to make confident decisions.
Audit, refactor, and stabilize existing codebases. Especially those built with AI tools that need a human engineering eye to become reliable and maintainable.
The evidence loop
AI-native is not a marketing term for us. It describes how we actually work. Every project at The Lacanians uses AI-assisted development as a core part of the engineering process, not bolted on as an afterthought.
The result is not sloppy AI-generated code. It is carefully directed, human-reviewed, production-grade software that ships in a fraction of the time. We treat AI as a force multiplier for senior engineers, not a replacement for engineering judgment.
Tests · CI · Cairntrace · Hitspec · Monitoring · Runbooks
What We Value
We are not vendors. We are partners who care about your business outcomes as much as the code.
Ship software that works on day one and keeps working on day one thousand.
No black boxes. Clear communication, open processes, and honest timelines.
We take pride in clean architecture, thoughtful APIs, and code that reads like prose — a well-formed signifier in every module.
We write about what we learn. Our blog and open-source work are how we give back.
We would love to hear about your project. Whether it is a new build, a rescue mission, or strategic guidance, let's talk.
