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Are Architectural Challenges Slowing You Down?

• Struggling to scale your applications to meet growing demand?
• Facing system instability, frequent outages, or high operational costs?
• Is technical debt hindering innovation and feature velocity?
• Should legacy systems be modernized to include cloud-native, microservices, or reactive patterns?
• Are you concerned your technology strategy isn't fully aligned with your business goals?
• Finding it challenging to improve developer experience and productivity?

You need more than just code.

You need strategic, battle-tested architectural leadership.

• Hands-on software architecture consulting.
• Rapid analysis of large code bases and documentation to quickly develop comprehensive plans with unbiased estimates.
• Translating complex business needs into robust, efficient, and scalable technical solutions.
• Offering a big-picture, time-tested, fresh perspective to mitigate rigidity and unblock what is getting in your way.
• Direct interaction with your engineers, product managers, and executives to adjust and realign plans, keep them on track, and transform your technology from a bottleneck to a strategic advantage.

Software Architecture Consulting Services

I am uniquely qualified to give you the expert guidance needed to overcome these hurdles. Based on over a decade of hands-on experience from B2B, B2C, B2B2C, FinTech, HealthTech, and AdTech/MarTech leaders, I can show you how to design and implement cloud-native systems that accelerate growth, enhance stability, and boost your DORA metrics.

Partnership for Success

Based on extensive experience leading teams and building critical systems, I offer expertise in:

• Cloud-Native Architecture Design: Crafting scalable, 12-factor, secure architectures on platforms like AWS using Kubernetes, serverless, and modern infrastructure-as-code.
• System Modernization & Migration: Strategically transitioning from monoliths to microservices, adopting reactive patterns, and migrating to the cloud with minimal disruption.
• Scalability & Performance Optimization: Diagnosing and resolving complex distributed systems bottlenecks, improving high-traffic application performance.
• Operational Excellence & Resilience: Improving system stability, implementing effective monitoring, enhancing on-call processes, and building anti-fragile systems.
• Technical Debt Management: Implementing systematic, non-combative strategies to identify, prioritize, and address technical debt, aligning engineering efforts with business impact.
• Bridging Business & Technology: Facilitating communication and alignment between engineering teams, product management, and executive leadership to ensure architecture supports strategic objectives.
• Developer Enablement & Mentorship: Improving developer productivity and retention through best practices education (SOLID, 12-Factor, DDD, TDD), tooling improvements, and fostering a positive developer experience.

Real-World Experience, Tangible Results

• Proven Leadership: Successfully led and mentored engineering teams (up to 11 engineers) and coordinated with all of engineering (hundreds), driving complex initiatives across multiple capability domains.
• Deep Technical Expertise: Hands-on experience across a vast technology landscape: Airflow, Akka, Angular, AWS, Bazel, C#, Cassandra, Clojure, Couchbase, Databricks, Datadog, Debezium, Docker, Dropwizard, Druid, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, GCP, Git, Github Actions, Gradle, GraphQL, GRPC, Haproxy, Hazelcast, Helm, Hive, Image Magick, Impala, Java, Javascript, Jenkins, JUnit, Kafka, Kong, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Lambda, Linux, Maven, Memcached, MongoDB, MySql, Neo4j, Newrelic, Nest.js, Nginx, Node.js, OAuth2, OIDC, PHP, Play, Postgres, Python, R, RabbitMQ, React, Redis, SBT, Scala, Solr, Sonarqube, Spark, Spinnaker, Splunk, Spring, SQS, Swagger, Temporal, Terraform, Tigase, Tomcat, Typescript, Vertx, XMPP, Zookeeper.
• Strategic Impact: Designed and delivered big rocks improvements to critical systems including: reducing tech debt in public-facing enrollment funnels, stabilizing coaching and health activity experiences under increasing load, platformification as a prelude to opening multiple revenue streams, specialized search services, and B2C profile photo system rewrite to improve scalability.
• Business Acumen: Proven ability to align technical solutions with business strategy, manage stakeholder expectations, and influence corporate environments of various sizes and cultures.
• Focus on Modern Principles: Deep understanding and practical application of 12-Factor Apps, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Cloud-Native patterns, Security best practices, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and DORA focused Operational Readiness.

Featured Achievements

• Increased operational readiness from 60% to 90% in the onboarding capability for a FinTech with almost 4 million users.
• Resolved significant data errors with a reactive anti-corruption layer at a HealthTech with 20 million users.
• Developed patented Backends-for-Frontends technology stack with consistent updates US 10,503,726 at a MarTech company.
• Presented tech debt management strategy at QCon 2021.
• Split monolith to 17 microservices at a B2C company with 40 million users.

Ready to Elevate Your Software Architecture?

Stop letting architectural limitations hold you back. Let's collaborate to build systems that are scalable, secure, efficient, and perfectly aligned with your business vision.

Schedule a complimentary, no-obligation consultation to discuss your specific challenges and how my expertise can help you achieve your goals.