Technical Mentor to Help Me Turn Prototypes Into Production (Full-Stack, Data, Deployment)

I build a lot. A marketer by trade, I conceptualise, design, and prototype quickly using AI-assisted and no-code tools, and I ship working things, not just mockups. Some for clients, some for myself. What I want is to stop duct-taping and start building properly: - real backends - clean data layers - deployment I can repeat and trust, and the underlying plumbing that turns a working prototype into a durable system. I am not hiring you to build it for me (although that is on the table occasionally, if desired). I'm hiring you to teach me to build it myself, to a standard I can stand behind, one layer at a time. What I'm actually working on - Front ends I've designed that need a proper backend behind them, built the right way rather than the fastest way. - Live, dynamic dashboards that feed off real client and product data instead of placeholder data. - Publishing and content systems using headless CMS, and the automation that keeps them fed. - Deployment and hosting I can reason about and repeat, rather than whatever happened to work the first time. - Marketing agents, scheduled tasks. These are fairly elementary and I'd like to make these more Across all of it, I want to better understand the why behind the architecture choices, so next time I make the call myself instead of asking again. How I imagine us working - Regular screen-share or pairing sessions, (once or twice per week - happy to work to a routine schedule) working through my real projects, never a generic tutorial. - You explain the reasoning, not just the keystrokes. - Light work between sessions, with honest review afterwards. - Some async availability for when I hit a wall mid-week. Who's potentially a fit - A senior full-stack engineer who genuinely enjoys teaching and is good at it. - Patient, plain-spoken, allergic to jargon used for its own sake. - Strong across backends, APIs, databases, auth, data pipelines, - hosting, and at least one solid approach to live dashboards. - Bonus if you've coached or taught people people before