One single point of contact, from concept to publication. 12 years of experience. 15+ apps delivered.
In short: I build iOS and Android apps for clients in Toronto (2,794,356 residents) and across Ontario. One single point of contact, 12 years of experience, delivery from concept to publication in 8 to 16 weeks.
Publishing an app is 30% of the work. Maintaining it is the remaining 70%.
Most businesses in Toronto celebrate their app launch on the stores.
And then? Nothing.
The code slowly rots. Nobody watches the crash reports. Nobody anticipates when a new version of iOS or Android changes the rules.
The app that was supposed to scale your business becomes a massive liability.
Let's look at reality.
You just bought a brand new car. If you never change the oil, the engine will seize in two years. For a mobile application, it is exactly the same concept.
The hidden cost of inaction is invisible at first, but it hits hard. Users hate broken software.
To truly understand maintenance, let's look at exactly what happens when you decide not to invest in it for your app in Toronto.
Months 1 to 3: Everything seems perfect. The app is live on the App Store and downloads are coming in. You think you saved money by skipping a maintenance plan. Nobody is complaining.
Months 4 to 6: Android releases a major system update. Suddenly, your account creation screen freezes on newer phones. Users do not email you, but the first 1-star reviews appear. Your rating in Toronto drops from 4.8 to 4.1. You are losing future downloads every single day.
Months 7 to 12: A critical security vulnerability is found in an open-source library you use for handling payments. Without a developer to apply the patch, you are fully exposed to a customer data breach. You risk massive GDPR fines. Your crash rate climbs, and the rating drops to a toxic 3.2 stars.
Month 12 and beyond: Apple and Google change their compliance rules. You get an automated warning email. Without a compliance update within 30 days, your app is removed from the stores. Your entire initial development investment equals zero.
Let's think.
Are you having problems with your current app? Plummeting ratings? Unexplained slowdowns? They click. They quit. They forget.
It's the worst-case scenario. And that's exactly where I step in. Backed by 12 years of experience, I help businesses from Bordeaux rescue failing iOS and Android projects. I run the diagnosis, we identify the roadblocks, and we fix them to finally offer a smooth experience to your users.
In short: don't let a bad start ruin your idea. Let's correct the course together.
You are launching your project in Toronto.
And you are probably wondering who to work with to build your mobile app.
It is the first major decision you have to make. Some people think that to succeed, you absolutely need a big agency right around the corner. Others believe they should outsource to the cheapest team they can find overseas.
Both options come with serious tradeoffs.
A big agency will assign your project to a junior developer you have never met. An offshore team will deliver code you cannot read, three weeks behind schedule, with zero accountability.
The most important factor in the success of an app is not just the code. It is communication.
When you work with me, you get one dedicated expert with 12 years of experience and over 15 delivered projects. Not an account manager. Not a rotating team. One person who knows your project inside out.
Toronto is the one Canadian market where you will be compared against agencies with account managers before anyone looks at the work. That changes the conversation: the question stops being whether it can be built and becomes who you will actually be talking to. With me it is the person writing the code, which on a first product is worth several weeks.
The reason it is worth weeks is loss of signal. In an agency, what you say in a meeting is restated by an account manager, passed to a technical lead, and cut into tickets for developers who have never heard you speak. Each step loses a little intent. When you explain why a screen has to behave a certain way, the person who will write it is listening, and can tell you in the same breath that it will cost three extra days or that it will fight the platform.
The honest limit is the other side of that. One person is not a team of thirty. I will not take a project that needs four developers in parallel to hit a fixed date, I do not do interface design at the level of a specialist studio, and if the product has to launch on iOS, Android, web and a connected TV at once, you need something other than me. I say that in the first conversation rather than the third month.
Practically, Toronto is six hours behind me, so your morning is my afternoon and we get about three hours of real overlap a day. That is enough to answer a blocking question the same day and to hold a weekly call, and it is not enough for a project that needs continuous discussion. Ontario also has its own privacy rules, and if your users include health information the requirements tighten considerably — worth settling at the start, because it determines where the data is allowed to live.
Invent Better starts by removing, not adding. An app that does one thing properly ships in two months; one that does five things halfway never ships at all. Given that 80% of features planned in advance are never actually used (Pendo, 2025), the useful question is not whether a feature would be nice, but whether anyone still uses the app without it.
Modern maintenance is not just about fixing what is broken. The ultimate goal is to prevent things from breaking before the update reaches your users in Toronto.
Here is the technical arsenal I deploy:
The most common scenario in Toronto is code takeover. You had an application built by another developer or agency, and today, you are left alone with an unstable product.
I do not judge the past; I secure the future. Here is the takeover methodology:
The Audit: It is like a doctor examining a patient for the very first time. I comb through the code, verify the architecture, analyze the crash data, and read the store reviews.
The Triage: We do not rewrite everything immediately. We prioritize. Security flaws and major crashes come first. Then performance bottlenecks. Finally, the minor interface glitches.
The Stabilization Sprint (2 to 4 weeks): This is the emergency surgery room. I fix the top 10 most critical issues. I install monitoring probes. I add automated tests to the most fragile parts of your application for your customers in Ontario.
Cruising Altitude: Once stabilized, the app enters a standard monthly rhythm. You finally stop stressing out every time your phone rings because of a complaining customer.
That morning, Apple pushed a major iOS system update. It is the exact event that unprepared developers fear the most.
For a highly active e-commerce client in Toronto, the punishment was immediate: the application's checkout flow broke completely. Not a single purchase could go through. Mobile revenue dropped to zero in a matter of minutes.
Fortunately, we had an active maintenance contract with real-time monitoring in place.
Just two hours after the issue began, Crashlytics sent me a red alert. I was able to identify the precise root cause within minutes: Apple had abruptly deprecated an older form validation API without providing full backward compatibility.
I built the fix, tested the solution thoroughly on the staging environment, and submitted the critical update to Apple, utilizing their expedited review channel for major bugs.
I do not quote maintenance without looking at the app first, because technical debt and traffic differ in every case. So I work in levels. The essential level covers monitoring, critical bug fixes, and keeping the app compatible with each new iOS and Android release. Higher levels add feature work on a predictable monthly basis.
I do not provide cookie-cutter quotes without seeing the patient first. Every app in Toronto is unique, has different technical debt, and handles different traffic volumes. But here is how I structure my service levels.
The Essential level: This is life support. I provide 24/7 monitoring, fix critical blocking bugs, and ensure ongoing compatibility with new iOS and Android versions. Your app stays alive, functional, and compliant with store rules. It is your basic insurance policy.
Every industry has its own technical emergencies. Maintaining an e-commerce app requires completely different reflexes than maintaining a medical platform in Toronto.
There is absolutely no room for error. GDPR and HIPAA compliance audits must be constantly anticipated. Patient data security requires regular penetration testing to ensure the backend architecture remains bulletproof. I also actively maintain vital features like offline modes, which are essential for rural practitioners traveling across Ontario.
The rhythm is highly seasonal. The goal is to have a flawless, stress-tested application ready right before the summer or winter peaks in Toronto. Maintenance focuses heavily on offline mode reliability (for foreign tourists without cellular data) and the real-time synchronization of booking databases. A crashing app in the middle of August is disastrous.
This is my daily reality. 80% of my clients come to me with legacy code. I do not judge the past work; I audit it, document it, and stabilize it. It is a surgical operation to get your business project back on track.
Yes, 100% of my operations are handled remotely with clients across the country. The code lives in the cloud, and so do the monitoring tools. We sync via video calls, which is far more efficient than physical meetings.
For clients on the Premium SLA tier, Crashlytics alerts reach my phone directly 24/7. If there is a revenue-blocking crash, I log in and deploy an emergency hotfix immediately, regardless of the day.
Directly and without middlemen. There is no account manager blocking access. You get full visibility on a shared tracking board (Trello/Jira), and we hold a strategic monthly review. The communication is brutally clear and jargon-free.
The key advantage: I guarantee absolute transparency. You get direct admin access to all monitoring tools. If a regression bug is ever caused by one of my code updates, I fix it immediately at my own expense.
Software security requires commitment, but I do not hold clients hostage. We generally operate on annual agreements with quarterly check-ins, allowing us to adjust the hourly volume to the real needs of your market in Ontario.
I look strictly at raw data: cold startup time, database query response latency, and the crash-free user rate (which must remain steadily above 99%). It is pure, indisputable mathematics.
I am an expert in Native (Swift/Kotlin) and Flutter. For Flutter, it is a resounding yes. For React Native or older web-hybrid technologies (Ionic, Cordova), I will transparently refer you to specialized colleagues to ensure top quality.
A deep codebase audit takes between 3 to 5 business days, depending on app complexity. I deliver a detailed written report categorizing issues into three buckets: red (security/crashes), orange (performance), and green (UI/UX details).
We anticipate aggressively. If you run e-commerce before Black Friday, we run server load tests in early November. We optimize database queries and implement a feature freeze to guarantee 100% stability during the peak rush.
Ready to launch your app in Toronto?
You have the idea. You know your market in Ontario. Now, it is time to take action.
But not just in any random way. The key advantage of working together is absolute clarity. I will not sell you useless features. I will not make empty promises that I cannot keep.
In 30 minutes, you will know exactly where to start.
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Book a free call →Most of my projects run remotely, and in practice that changes very little. We talk over video whenever you need to, not only at major milestones, and you can reach me with questions at any point during the project — I always answer.
Once we are working together, travelling to meet you on site can absolutely be arranged if your project calls for it. Travel costs are quoted separately, upfront and with no surprises.