Business software
Software for work that's currently handled in spreadsheets, WhatsApp groups, email or paper.
- Internal systems for staff
- Customer portals
- Booking, order and membership systems
- Approvals, documents and dashboards
Software that helps your business work better.
I build and improve business software, automate repetitive work, connect systems, and help companies keep the applications they already have.
Independent consultant. You work directly with me.
Background
- Since 2015building and maintaining software for businesses
- 4 countriesMexico, Thailand, China and Laos
- Production systemsfor finance, property and online education
- Project leadcurrently managing software projects for a technology company
How I can help
Most of my work falls into one of these six areas. If your problem doesn't fit neatly, describe it anyway.
Fix and improve existing software
Already have software that's causing problems? I can take it over, fix it and make it easier to look after.
- Unfinished or abandoned projects
- Bugs, slow pages and crashes
- Code nobody wants to touch
- Hosting that is hard to deploy or costs too much
Connect your systems
If your staff copy information from one system to another, I can usually make the systems do it themselves.
- Payments and accounting
- CRMs and supplier systems
- Email, SMS and messaging
- Websites, mobile apps and internal tools
Automate repetitive work
Reports, imports and admin tasks that someone does by hand every week can often run on their own.
- Scheduled reports
- Imports and exports
- Documents generated from your data
- Notifications and reminders
AI where it actually helps
Use AI where it genuinely saves staff time. I'll also tell you when it won't.
- Summarise long documents
- Pull data out of PDFs and forms
- Sort and route incoming requests
- Draft replies for staff to check
Ongoing software support
I keep your software working and improving without you hiring a full-time developer.
- Bug fixes and small improvements
- Updates and security patches
- Backups and monitoring
- Help when something breaks
Need a business website as well? I can build one, on its own or alongside a larger system. Ask me about it
Real systems, explained plainly
A few projects that show how I work. Each one says what kind of project it was.
Client projectPM Real Estate, Vientiane · 2025
Property listings and sales system
- Listings were spread across Facebook posts and WhatsApp, and clients and deals were tracked in separate spreadsheets. Buyers couldn't browse everything in one place, and follow-ups were missed.
- I built a public listing site in English, Lao and Chinese, plus an admin area where staff manage properties, clients, deals and areas themselves. Staff sign in with Google, and the system installs on a phone like an app.
- The agency runs its listings and sales pipeline from one system, including from their phones, and buyers browse properties themselves.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- Google sign-in
“With the platform that Max made, I can now manage my Real Estate Business from my phone and the customers can see the properties by themselves and download the app.”
Client projectInOnOut, Laos · 2026
Online course platform with manual payment checks
- The client wanted an online course marketplace for Laos. Most course platforms assume card payments, but in Laos people usually pay by bank transfer and send a photo of the receipt.
- I built separate areas for students, teachers and admins, video hosting for lessons, and a payment step where an admin checks each transfer receipt before a student gets access. The client edits marketing pages in English and Lao without a developer.
- A working platform built around how people in Laos actually pay, with automated tests on the payment and permission rules, where a bug would do the most damage.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL (Supabase)
- Mux video
- Automated tests
Demo projectDemo system based on a real client request · 2026
Delivery orders sent straight into a restaurant's POS
- A client needed orders from delivery apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash to go straight into their point-of-sale system. Staff were retyping every order by hand, which is slow and causes mistakes.
- I wrote the proposal and planned the integration with the order provider. I then built OrderBridge as a standalone demo of the same idea: it receives orders, converts them to the POS format, sends them on with automatic retries, and shows everything on a live dashboard.
- In the demo, an order reaches the POS in under a second with no manual steps. Orders that fail are flagged for a person to review instead of disappearing.
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Webhooks
- OAuth 2.0
Already have software that's causing problems?
Maybe the original developer left, the project was never finished, or every change breaks something else. I can take it over, work out what's going on, and fix it step by step.
Sound familiar?
- The developer who built it is no longer available
- It works, but it's slow or crashes
- Nobody is sure how to deploy it safely
- Small changes take weeks or break other things
- Hosting bills keep going up
- It was never finished
How I usually start
Review
I look at the code, the hosting and how the software is used, then tell you plainly what state it's in.
Stabilise
Backups, access and the most urgent problems first, so nothing gets worse.
Improve
Then fixes and improvements, in order of what matters most to your business.
Need extra development capacity?
When your team has more client work than it can handle, I can take on part of it. I work inside your process and tools, and I'm used to picking up existing codebases.
Available for fixed pieces of work or ongoing part-time capacity. Comfortable working in English and Spanish, and across time zones from GMT+7.
Talk about a projectWork I usually take on
- Backend development and APIs
- Integrations with third-party services
- Databases and data migrations
- Laravel and PHP projects
- AWS, servers and deployment
- Maintenance and bug fixing
- Taking over troubled projects
Keep your software running without hiring a full-time developer
Most business software needs regular care after launch. I can look after yours on a monthly basis, whether I built it or not.
Fixes and small improvements
Bugs fixed and small changes made without starting a new project every time.
Updates and security
Frameworks, libraries and servers kept up to date and patched.
Backups and monitoring
Regular backups, and alerts when something goes wrong, often before your users notice.
Help when it breaks
A direct line to the person who knows your system, not a ticket queue.
Ask about ongoing support
Monthly arrangements are sized to how much help you need.
Who you'll be working with
I'm Maximiliano Brito Torres (or just Maxon). I've been building and maintaining software for businesses since 2015, in Mexico, Thailand, China and now Laos.
I've worked as a developer for software companies and a bank in Bangkok, taught web development at universities in China and Laos, and I currently manage software projects for a technology company in Vientiane. At the same time, I take on client work directly.
When you work with me, you deal with the person doing the work. I'll explain things in plain language, no jargon, no mumbo jumbo, I will tell you honestly what I think, and keep you updated without you having to chase me.
Some of the work behind that
- Built cloud based tools for a bank, including a face recognition applicaton (with AWS Rekognition).
- Built APIs and sped up older PHP systems.
- Now I plan and oversee software projects, and the developers working on them.
Technology I work with
You don't need to know what these are. They're here for the technical people on your side.
- PHP Laravel
- Python Django
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- Angular
- Vue
- Node.js
- AWS
- Linux
- Docker
- REST APIs
- GIT
Tell me what you need help with
Describe the problem in your own words. You don't need a technical specification. I read every message myself and will reply to say whether and how I can help.