Internal tools & dashboards
Capture, track, verify, export: faster than spreadsheets, sturdier than a generic SaaS, tuned to how your operators actually work.
Custom software development
Business software, built to last.
I design and build internal tools, automations, desktop apps, and dashboards for businesses that want clean, documented, handover-ready code. No hidden debt, no lock-in, no agency overhead.
Your message comes straight to me: a first reply within 48 hours, in French or English.
On the bench
- 8+ years in software
- 25+ years in visual craft
- FR · EN fully bilingual delivery
- Québec based, working across Canada
- Solo one developer, no agency layer
Is this for you?
A good fit shows early.
A few reliable signals (both ways) to tell quickly whether we should talk.
Does this sound like you?
- Your operations lean on fragile internal tools or manual steps that slow delivery down.
- Off-the-shelf SaaS is too limited, too costly, or a poor fit for how you actually work.
- Desktop apps or internal tools sit at the centre of your team's daily work.
- Documentation, bilingual handover, and maintainability matter as much as the delivery itself.
What this isn't
- One more generic SaaS subscription.
- An agency layer between you and the person writing the code.
- Outsourced junior code under a senior brand.
- A marketing funnel with a third-party CRM and automated follow-ups.
If your need is elsewhere, I'll tell you on the first call.
The reality on the ground
Where business software quietly costs you.
Four patterns I run into almost every time before a mandate starts.
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Slow tools, expensive seats
Off-the-shelf SaaS bills monthly forever, and breaks when the vendor pivots.
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Fragile internal scripts
A spreadsheet macro, a one-off Python script, a legacy Access form: unreadable to anyone but the original author.
- 03
UX that drains the team
Operators living inside the tool eight hours a day, fighting friction the original spec never accounted for.
- 04
Technical debt with no map
No tests, no docs, no handover.
Scope of work
What I build for clients.
Four kinds of mandates. All custom, all delivered with the same rigour. Each one directly answers one of the patterns above.
Automation & workflow scripts
Scripts, scheduled jobs, and pipelines turned into stable systems that run themselves, and log when they don't.
Business desktop apps (WPF)
Windows .NET apps: polished UI, real performance, a clear support cycle, bilingual resource files where it matters.
Data pipelines & reporting
Extract, transform, present: reports the next analyst can extend without rewriting.
Tech stack
Proven technologies, chosen to last.
A short, deliberate stack, proven in production in my own workflow tools.
Desktop & business
- C#
- WPF
- .NET 8
Scripts & data
- Python
- SQL
Web & cloud
- TypeScript
- Astro
- D1
- Cloudflare Workers
How I work
From project scope to handover.
The cost of a wrong assumption is paid in the prototype, not in production.
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Scope
A short scoping document replaces vague estimates.
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Prototype
Validate the key assumption early, not at the end.
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Build
Short, tested iterations; code that stays readable for whoever picks it up.
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Handover
Documented code, deployment and maintenance procedures: no artificial dependency on my desk.
The hybrid edge
A developer who has shipped under photographer pressure.
Sport and event coverage are deadline labs: the gallery ships on time, finished, whatever the conditions. The same discipline runs through every software mandate: measure twice, ship clean.
- Non-negotiable event deadlines predictable deliveries, no last-minute scramble
- Quality control on every image the same finish standard on every screen and every report
- A production workflow tuned for volume documented systems that outlive their author
My own tools, in production
The OLH Photographie workflow suite.
The tools that sort, name, back up, and deliver every gallery on this site are software I built, and use in production myself, day after day.
- Status
- In production
- Since
- 2018 · 8 years
- Delivery
- FR · EN
- Maintainer
- Olivier La Haye
Let's talk about your software project.
Describe the context in a few lines. You'll get a first response within 48 hours, in French or English.
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