Engineering capacity is hard to forecast. Budgets get set at the start of the year, but reality rarely cooperates. Scope changes. Someone goes on leave. A critical team member moves on. An unforeseen technical challenge lands on your desk.
The traditional fix is contractors. But contractors are expensive, slow to ramp up, and often become permanent fixtures by accident. You end up paying a premium for someone who spends their first month learning your systems.
Baarsjes provides engineering capacity that scales with your actual needs. Buy availability when you need it, pay nothing when you don’t.
This isn’t staff augmentation with a different name. The difference is context: before you ever need to burn those hours, onboarding has already happened. Systems, architecture, working practices. When your lead engineer is suddenly unavailable for six weeks, or the board approves a project that needs to ship in Q2, or a production issue needs senior ownership, the capacity is there, ready to deploy.
Access to Staff and Principal-level engineering expertise. The kind that understands how engineering decisions map to business outcomes. Not just how to implement a solution, but whether it’s the right solution for your constraints, your timeline, your budget.
Two decades of experience across seed-stage startups to global financial infrastructure. Platform architecture, observability, cloud transformation, operational leadership. Solving business problems with technology, pragmatically.
Engagements are flexible by design: blocks of days valid for 90 days, monthly retainers with rollover, or scoped consulting work. Everything comes from operational budget, not headcount allocation. No long-term commitment required.
When you need the capacity, for whatever reason, there’s no ramp-up period.
Working primarily with clients in the Netherlands and across Europe, remotely or on-site as needed.