Darren Williams

I've been building software professionally for over a decade, mostly in and around SaaS products — from early-stage startups that needed to ship fast, to established products that needed someone to come in and make them reliable. I started Studio 17 Designs because I kept seeing the same pattern: founders with real products and real customers, stuck because they didn't have the right engineering support at the right time.

The vibe code rescue work came out of noticing a shift in how products get built. Founders and small teams are shipping genuinely useful things with AI coding tools — things that would have taken a funded startup six months three years ago. But AI doesn't know about Stripe's idempotency keys, or why you need row-level security when you have multi-tenant data, or how to set up a deployment pipeline that won't terrify you every time you push. That's where I come in. I'm not here to judge how the code was written — I'm here to make it production-grade.

I work with a small number of clients at a time so I can give each product the attention it deserves. Based in Australia, working with founders across APAC and beyond.