Consulting & coaching.
13+ years of backend architecture experience, packaged two ways — team consulting for companies, and 1:1 coaching for engineers targeting senior roles abroad.
Consulting engagements.
Best for: You’re about to scale, re-platform, or ship something load-bearing.
- Deep dive into your current architecture (code, infra, data)
- Written report with findings + prioritised recommendations
- 60–90 min readout call with your engineering leadership
- 30 days of async follow-up for clarifications
Best for: Your system is breaking under growth — latency, cost, or reliability.
- Hands-on backend and infrastructure work
- Rate limiting, caching, circuit breakers, observability rollouts
- Database / query optimisation and capacity planning
- Weekly async updates + 2 live sessions per week
- Knowledge transfer so your team owns it after I leave
Best for: You need production-grade infra, CI/CD, or a cloud migration done right.
- AWS / GCP architecture design, review, or migration
- Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform — set up or audit
- CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and secrets hygiene
- Observability stack — Datadog, NewRelic, ELK, PagerDuty
- Cost optimisation + right-sizing across environments
Best for: You need a senior-most engineer without a full-time hire.
- Architecture ownership across 1–3 critical systems
- Interview + mentorship support for your engineers
- Design reviews, RFCs, and delivery unblocking
- Direct line to me during business hours
- Custom scope & pricing available for retainer or equity-adjusted deals
Career grooming & system design mentoring.
Priced for individuals, not companies. I ran 15+ technical interviews at Bolt and mentored engineers from mid to senior — now I do the same 1:1. Honest feedback, no gatekeeping.
Best for: You’re an engineer targeting €150K–€200K roles in Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, or Toronto.
- CV + LinkedIn review tuned for European / Canadian recruiters
- Visa & relocation reality check (Blue Card, Global Talent, Express Entry)
- Honest salary benchmarking by city, company tier, and YoE
- Outreach playbook — where to apply, who to message, what to say
- Mock behavioural round with written feedback
Best for: You’re preparing for FAANG-level system design rounds or levelling up at work.
- Live system-design round on a real problem (rate limiter, feed, payments, chat, etc.)
- Whiteboard with me — no slide decks, just boxes and arrows
- Trade-off coaching: CAP, consistency, caching, sharding, queues
- Written feedback + follow-up reading list tailored to your gaps
- Session recording + notes shared after every call
How an engagement actually runs.
30 minutes. You tell me where it hurts. I tell you honestly whether I can help.
A one-page SOW with deliverables, timeline, and price. No surprises.
Access, context, first outputs. You’ll know within 10 days if the engagement is working.
Written async updates. Live sessions only where they add value.
Have a system that needs to scale — or stop breaking?
I work with a small number of teams each month on architecture reviews, scaling, and hands-on backend engineering. If that sounds like you, let's talk.