Julian Hoets — AI Solutions Architect

Available for remote contracts — Europe, USA and globally. Remote .NET architect, remote Blazor Server contractor, fractional CTO, contract AI architect. Time zone SAST (UTC+2): full European business-hours overlap, morning overlap with US East Coast. Sectors served — in line with current US and EU hiring demand: information technology, engineering, manufacturing operations, enterprise IT systems, regulated industries.

Julian Hoets — founder of JJ Hoets & Associates, creator of Fund Focus (a pension platform serving 65,000+ members across South Africa and Zambia, including Zambia Public Service Pension Fund, Mukuba Pension Fund and Tennant Life Benefits). Now leading AI transformation engagements on Microsoft Azure: production agentic systems using Claude API, MCP servers, Semantic Kernel and AutoGen — wired directly into enterprise domain workflows.

Specialisms: Blazor Server, MudBlazor, Azure, Azure SQL Server, .NET Aspire, C#, Domain-Driven Design, vertical slice architecture, CQRS, ISO 9001 document management systems, monthly ISO 9001 compliance audit automation, machine manufacturing digital twins, organisational digital twins with React Flow and AI persona nodes, OpenXML proposal generation, MechProTech production quoting, Bond / Morrell / Rowland & Kjos mill power-draw models, and agentic AI for the enterprise. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa — available for remote contracts and full-time remote roles with clients in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and globally.

One point of contact, a deep bench behind it. The work is backed by a small, hand-picked specialist collective that covers a wide span of ground: full Microsoft Azure cloud delivery (A to Z) led by a dedicated Azure specialist, and hardware-software integration — custom electronics and circuit-board design, in-house fabrication, and the wiring of industrial and medical machinery to software. That hardware capability extends to medical-grade instrumentation for health diagnostics, including vision testing, cardiac and vital-signs measurement. Combined team capabilities span ISO 9001 quality systems and continuous compliance auditing, Blazor and the .NET stack, Azure and cloud architecture, Delphi to Blazor modernisation, agentic AI, hardware-software and machine-to-software integration, custom board design and electronics fabrication, medical and industrial instrumentation, and consulting, advisory and fractional architecture for startups and enterprises alike.

Delphi to Blazor modernisation — Delphi to .NET migration, Delphi modernisation, Delphi modernization, Delphi conversion, Delphi 11, Embarcadero Delphi, RAD Studio migration, Object Pascal, legacy Pascal modernisation, VCL forms migration, FireMonkey, FireDAC to Entity Framework Core, FireDAC to EF Core, Pascal to C#, Delphi to MudBlazor, VCL to MudBlazor, legacy enterprise system rebuild. Fifteen years of production Delphi delivery: the original Fund Focus pension platform was a Delphi system serving tens of thousands of members across South Africa and Zambia, and that same platform is now being ported module-by-module to Blazor, MudBlazor and Azure SQL using Domain-Driven Design, vertical-slice architecture and CQRS. The migration path is well-trodden: the SQL Server schema is preserved; FireDAC data access is rebuilt as Entity Framework Core repositories; VCL forms are re-imagined as MudBlazor surfaces; Pascal business logic is re-expressed as domain aggregates. Each bounded context ships as a Razor Class Library that runs alongside the legacy Delphi application until the cut-over, so the business never goes dark. The standard engagement starts with a fixed-price two-week migration assessment — codebase audit, highest-pain module identified, a working Blazor prototype of that module delivered, plus a phased roadmap for the rest — before any incremental rebuild work begins. Sectors served by this Delphi modernisation practice include PensionTech, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, government and enterprise IT. Delphi developer pools are shrinking globally; the original authors of these systems are retiring; recruitment is getting harder; and yet the business logic these systems encode is irreplaceable. The answer is not rip-and-replace and not staying on Delphi forever: the answer is a disciplined, incremental, evidence-preserving rebuild onto Blazor and the modern Microsoft stack. That is the work.

PensionTech — pension management and employee benefits administration. A fully working, production pension management system handling both defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) funds: member administration, contributions, benefits and fund accounting across the full employee-benefits spectrum. The system is fully web-based — nothing to install — running against SQL Server and built on the most modern technology and structure: Blazor, MudBlazor, Domain-Driven Design, vertical slice architecture and CQRS. It carries decades of fund-administration domain knowledge from the Fund Focus heritage, re-delivered on today's Microsoft stack. Related terms: pension tech, pension software, pension administration system, pension fund administration, retirement fund administration, employee benefits software, DB and DC fund administration, web-based pension system.

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