Built by an engineer.

The track record

Ryan is a software engineer with experience across Wall Street trading infrastructure and large-scale capital projects worth £2.7B+ in combined value.

Most relevantly to the work Worstpart takes: he worked on Northern Ireland’s C2k programme — the £632M government ICT infrastructure serving every grant-aided school in NI — writing the deployment and fix automations behind a fleet of 1,200+ servers and 120,000+ end-user devices. A slight bug in an automation could break 1% of the fleet — that’s 1,200 machines — so a rigorous testing mentality was needed.

Worstpart applies the same care to small businesses that need one or two of these things, not 120,000.

Why this practice exists

Most small businesses run on a mess of tools they wired together themselves: a Google Sheet that drives a Zapier flow that triggers a Stripe webhook that updates a Notion page that someone manually copies into Xero on a Sunday night.

That kind of work isn’t worth a software engineer’s annual salary, so it doesn’t get done. It also isn’t worth a Big Four consultant’s quote, so it doesn’t get done. Worstpart exists to fill that gap: proper engineering, applied to small problems, at small-business prices.

What we won’t do

• Build things you can’t maintain, replace, or take elsewhere — you own the code we write.
• Sell you a subscription you can’t cancel, or a retainer you don’t need.
• Pretend automations are one-and-done. They need upkeep. We quote that up front.
• Lock you into a single vendor. If Zapier fits, we use Zapier; if a script fits, we write a script.
• Take work we don’t think will pay for itself. If your worst part isn’t a fit, we’ll say so in the first reply.

The brand is new

Worstpart launched in 2026. We don’t have a folder of client logos to show you yet — that takes time. The engineer behind the practice isn’t new. The methodology isn’t new. The pricing is honest. That’s what we’re asking you to judge us on.