01Platform architecture & build
For funded startups and established businesses launching a mission-critical platform: relational schema design, resilient backend services, end-to-end automated tests and zero-downtime production deploys.
- Go, Python and TypeScript services
- Relational schema and data model design
- Tests and a runbook on handover
From $9,500 · scoped milestone build
Talk this through02Cloud infrastructure & CI/CD
No more manual Friday-night deploys or surprise cloud bills. AWS and Cloudflare environments codified in Terraform, with hardened IAM, managed secrets, automated database backups and actionable alerting.
- Terraform and GitHub Actions pipelines
- Build, release and rollback steps
- Latency and error alerting
From $3,600 · infrastructure rollout
Talk this through03Performance & security audit
Before a launch, an enterprise security review or a diligence round: five business days inside your repository, query plans and authentication flows, ending in a ranked written report and a live walkthrough.
- Slow-query and execution-plan review
- Auth, secrets and OWASP exposure
- Findings ranked by risk
$2,200 · flat-fee technical audit
Talk this through04APIs & backend modernisation
Fragile integrations and monolith bottlenecks untangled without halting daily operations: versioned OpenAPI specs, idempotent webhook and queue processing, rate limiting and structured logging.
- REST and GraphQL API design
- Payment, ERP and logistics integrations
- Integration tests and observability
From $4,800 · per integration or service
Talk this through05Fractional principal engineer
Principal-level technical judgement for non-technical founders and lean teams, without a full-time executive salary: weekly architecture sessions, critical pull-request reviews and build-versus-buy calls.
- Weekly architecture working sessions
- Pull-request review and mentorship
- Hiring screen calibration
$3,400 / month · retained advisory
Talk this through06Discovery sprint & blueprint
Feasibility checked and hidden scope traps removed before thousands of lines get written, ending in an estimate we will hold to. You keep the blueprint whether you build with us or hand it to another team.
- Architecture Decision Record packet
- Data diagrams and API constraint checks
- Week-by-week engineering roadmap
$1,650 · two-week discovery sprint
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