AWS cloud architecture and backend engineering, done by someone who answers their own inbox.
Independent consulting for engineering leaders who need a credible second opinion on architecture, a hands-on migration, or backend systems that hold up under real load — wherever your team is based.
- Regions served
- Global
- Core stack
- AWS
- Engagement model
- Fixed scope or fractional
What we take on
Four ways to bring in outside depth
Every engagement starts from the same intake, then gets scoped to one of these shapes based on what your system and team actually need.
Cloud architecture & migration
Well-Architected reviews, multi-account landing zones, and lift-and-shift or re-architecture migrations planned around your actual failure modes, not a slide template.
- Architecture review
- Migration plan
- IaC handoff
Backend systems & APIs
Design and build of services, event pipelines, and data layers in the languages your team already runs — with tests and docs a new engineer can actually follow.
- Service design
- API implementation
- Runbooks
Reliability & cost optimization
Observability gaps, on-call pain, and AWS bills that grew faster than the product. We find the few changes that move both metrics at once.
- Cost audit
- SLO baseline
- Prioritized fixes
Fractional / embedded engineering
Ongoing senior capacity for teams that need AWS and backend depth on tap without a full-time hire — scoped in weekly or monthly blocks.
- Weekly cadence
- Direct Slack access
- Monthly scope reset
How it runs
From brief to shipped, in a straight line
- STEP 01
Submit your project brief
A structured intake replaces the back-and-forth of an email thread — stack, scale, timeline, and budget, captured once.
- STEP 02
Technical read-back
You get a reply within one business day: either a scoping question or a proposed call, grounded in what you actually described.
- STEP 03
Scoped proposal
A short written proposal covering approach, timeline, and cost — fixed-scope or fractional, whichever fits the work.
- STEP 04
Delivery & handoff
Work happens in the open with regular check-ins, and every engagement ends with documentation your team can run without us.
Representative scenarios
The kind of problems this fits
These are illustrative sample scenarios written to show the shape of engagements we take on — not claims about specific past clients.
Series B fintech platform
Challenge
Single-AZ deployment with a manual failover runbook nobody trusted.
Outcome
Illustrative outcome: multi-AZ ECS architecture with automated failover, tested under simulated regional outage.
Logistics data pipeline
Challenge
Nightly batch jobs regularly missed SLA once order volume tripled.
Outcome
Illustrative outcome: event-driven re-architecture moved processing to near real time and cut compute spend.
Early-stage marketplace
Challenge
No dedicated infrastructure owner; AWS spend growing faster than revenue.
Outcome
Illustrative outcome: cost audit and right-sizing plan reduced monthly AWS spend without a rewrite.
Ready when you are
Describe the problem once. Get a real answer back.
No account required to submit a brief. Replies go straight to your inbox, from the person who will do the work.