# Mik Bry

> AI-Built audits · MVP Launch readiness · Fractional CTO. I help founders turn fast-built AI prototypes into reliable, secure, production-ready apps.

## Pages

- [About](https://mikbry.com/about.md): Meet Mik Bry, a fractional CTO and AI builder with 25+ years of experience helping founders launch reliable, secure, maintainable software.
- [Blog](https://mikbry.com/blog.md): Practical guidance for non-technical founders on AI-built apps, launch readiness, product risk, security, and working with a fractional CTO.
- [Hello, World of the AI Age](https://mikbry.com/hello-world.md): You've got an idea and you haven't started building yet. Join the waitlist for the free Idea Scan and Marabot Idea's staged rollout.
- [Mik Bry — Fractional CTO & AI Builder](https://mikbry.com/index.md): Fractional CTO and AI builder helping founders turn AI-built prototypes and MVPs into reliable, secure, production-ready applications.
- [Privacy](https://mikbry.com/privacy.md): Privacy at mikbry.com is simple: anonymous traffic counts, no cookies or ad tracking, short-lived server logs, and explicit consent before reports.
- [Projects](https://mikbry.com/projects.md): Explore AI products, SaaS, cybersecurity, and cryptography work delivered by Mik Bry as a hands-on fractional CTO and AI-assisted software builder.
- [À propos](https://mikbry.com/fr/about.md): Découvrez Mik Bry, CTO fractionné et bâtisseur IA avec plus de 25 ans d'expérience dans la création de logiciels fiables, sécurisés et durables.
- [Journal](https://mikbry.com/fr/blog.md): Conseils pratiques pour les fondateurs non techniques sur les apps IA, leur mise en production, la sécurité et les risques produit.
- [Hello, World de l'ère de l'IA](https://mikbry.com/fr/hello-world.md): Vous avez une idée sans avoir commencé ? Rejoignez la liste d'attente pour l'Idea Scan gratuit et le déploiement progressif de Marabot Idea.
- [Mik Bry — CTO à temps partagé & Bâtisseur IA](https://mikbry.com/fr.md): CTO fractionné et bâtisseur IA, j'aide les fondateurs à transformer leurs prototypes et MVP en applications fiables, sécurisées et prêtes à lancer.
- [Confidentialité](https://mikbry.com/fr/privacy.md): La confidentialité sur mikbry.com en clair : comptage anonyme, aucun cookie publicitaire, journaux courts et consentement explicite avant tout rapport.
- [Projets](https://mikbry.com/fr/projects.md): Découvrez les produits IA, SaaS, cybersécurité et cryptographie réalisés par Mik Bry comme CTO opérationnel et développeur assisté par IA.

## Projects

- **Kynto — Hands-on CTO** — For Kynto, I had three months to go from Figma files to a production recruitment platform. I used four coding agents in parallel, but kept auth, tenant isolation, payments, and the data lifecycle under human review. We shipped in three months — a real-time dashboard, hierarchical job validation, document management, AI-assisted job creation and CV matching, calendar sync, and a data lifecycle built to be GDPR-compliant from the start (export plus 24-month auto-deletion).
- **Ballpoint — Rust developer, SMB honeypot R&D** — Ballpoint needed to catch attackers targeting Windows file-sharing before they reached real data, so I built a honeypot that speaks the SMB protocol itself — zero-copy parsers for NetBIOS and protocol negotiation, not just a log watcher. Getting the protocol details right meant reading through the Samba source to map where the customization surface actually was. It logs and qualifies an attacker's behaviour in real time, with severity-tiered alerts so a security team knows exactly what it's facing.
- **PlanWork.ai — CTO** — PlanWork.ai helps homeowners plan, budget, and track a renovation, with an AI assistant doing a lot of the legwork. I started with the product itself: who it was for, what the first paid version actually needed, and what could wait. Then I built the SaaS infrastructure, connected the AI, and shipped the first Stripe plan.
- **iliadata — Tech lead** — I took iliadata from the specification to a running cryptography platform. The difficult part was protecting authentication, encryption, and storage without making the system impossible to operate. That meant a distributed architecture — a custom C cryptography library compiled to WebAssembly, talking to the backend over WebRTC and WebSocket.
- **Televista — CTO** — For Televista, I wrote the spec and the response to the public tender for a digital-signage SaaS, then built the MVP itself — video player and admin tools — that had to deliver on what the tender promised.
- **Dylaw — Hands-on CTO** — Dylaw had to ship quickly, but it handled lawyers, documents, messages, and payments, so a quick prototype wasn't enough. I built the first version in two to three months, instead of the usual six to eight, and treated auth, data, and payments as production work from the start.
- **Opla — Founder, principal developer** — I started Opla because I wanted local AI assistants that don't ship your data anywhere. The model runs on your own laptop, full stop.
- **Storyfox — Hands-on CTO** — At Storyfox I led the team, hired senior engineers, planned the roadmap, and kept security in the delivery work. My job was to turn business requests into things the team could ship.

## Posts

- [Best practices for publishing your npm package](https://mikbry.com/blog/javascript/npm/best-practices-npm-package.md): Learn how to publish a clean, compatible npm package with practical guidance on ESM, CommonJS, package contents, build output, and release checks.
- [From Jekyll website to Nextjs React+Tailwind Part 1: starter](https://mikbry.com/blog/nextjs/tailwind/typescript/starter/migrate-jekyll-to-modern-stack-starter-part1.md): Learn how to migrate Jekyll to Next.js with React, TypeScript, Tailwind, and shadcn/ui using this practical step-by-step starter guide.

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- [Full content](https://mikbry.com/llms-full.txt): every page and post concatenated into one document