Senior backend + infrastructure help for small teams
We reduce latency, incidents, and integration pain-without adding headcount.
Client-identifying details are removed from examples. Work is evidence-driven and designed to be low-risk.
A focused assessment, then a clean execution plan
Most engagements start with a 1-2 week Performance & Reliability Assessment that produces quick wins plus a 30/60-day plan.
Review production signals, top endpoints/queries, and incident history to find the real constraints.
Ship low-risk changes with rollbacks, then validate with before/after metrics and regression checks.
A prioritized findings list with evidence, remediation hints, and a practical 30/60-day roadmap.
Fix the bottleneck, not the symptoms
We focus on the path that determines whether your team can ship: hot queries, noisy incidents, brittle pipelines, and risky releases.
Find hot paths from real traffic, fix the critical queries, and validate improvements. Focus on p95/p99, saturation, and the cost of retries.
- Query plans & index strategy
- Latency + error budgets
- Safe rollouts with checks
Make incidents rarer and recovery faster. Add guardrails so shipping feels predictable again.
- Dashboards/alerts/SLIs
- Feature flags & smoke tests
- Runbooks + rollback steps
Stabilize ingest, schemas, and partner feeds. Make processing idempotent and replayable.
- Validation + reject reasons
- Schema drift monitoring
- Backfills without heroics
Evidence-driven, reversible, and production-friendly
No hero refactors. No risky surprise deploys. We improve what you have, with clear validation.
Baseline what matters (latency, errors, backlog, incidents) from real production signals.
Small, reversible changes. Guardrails, feature flags, and rollout checks for anything risky.
We confirm improvements with before/after evidence and leave behind repeatable checks.
Want to confirm fit?
Send a short note about what you're shipping and what's slowing you down. We'll reply with a recommended first step and what week 1 looks like.