Technical Consulting for business
- Fractional / Interim CTO / VP of Engineering role
- Architecture and code consulting & audit (monolith / microservices / event-driven)
- Support in technical decision-making
- Business scaling and market expansion support
- Crisis management consulting (frequent incidents, data loss, team burnout)
- High-load & performance audit
- Bottleneck identification
- Validaton of system readiness for traffic growth and business scaling
- Architecture risk assessment
- Pre-sales technical support
- Architecture concept and solution design
- IT department process audit
- Release process issues identification and Time-to-Market acceleration
- Infrastructure audit
- Support with roadmaps, processes, and team motivation
- Building and scaling IT hiring and recruitment processes
Architecture mentorship
Who I help to:
- Middle / Senior / Staff engineers, Team / Tech Leads / TPMs and above who want to deepen and broaden their technical expertise, expand their toolbox of approaches, and adopt a wider range of technologies
- Those preparing for a new role or upcoming interviews
- Engineers facing application refactoring challenges and looking for expert guidance
- Those who need help on system reliability, metrics design, observability, monitoring setup, and production operations
How I help:
- Teach from scratch or deep-dive into any topic related to backend architecture, high-load, and distributed systems based on your needs
- Help decompose a monolith into services and build a clear migration plan
- Identify knowledge gaps and help close them effectively
- Help design an application from scratch at the early stage
- Provide guidance on system reliability, metrics design, observability, and monitoring setup
- Help you navigate and choose the right technologies
- Teach proven approaches and best practices, answer open questions, and help untangle complex technologies
- Help prepare for system design interviews, including mock interviews
Management mentorship
Who I help to:
- Aspiring to move into a leadership role
- Already a Team Lead, Engineering manager, Cluster / Domain / Unit Lead, or PM
- Preparing for interviews
How I help:
- Review and analyze your real-world project and product management cases
- Support transition into a management track: IDPs, motivation, growth progress tracking, and goal management
- Help prepare for management interviews, including mock interviews
- Assist with estimating development cost and timelines
- Support in communication with business stakeholders, including defending the need for technical debt management and technical improvements
- Guide proper formulation of functional and non-functional requirements at project kickoff, including architecture and infrastructure selection
- Help managers identify knowledge gaps and resolve complex management challenges
- Support in resolving complex managerial cases
- Support your start and onboarding into a leadership role
- Define your leadership growth as a clear roadmap with curated learning materials
- Progress tracking and regular check-ins
- Help bring order to chaos and establish effective processes
- Teach effective communication with C-level executives and key stakeholders
- Teach how to scale yourself and your team
- Help organize and structure employee growth as technical professionals
- Help establish transparency and effective cross-team collaboration
- Help define team/department structure, KPIs, and areas of responsibility
- Conduct audits and analysis of strategy, processes, and architecture; identify mistakes, bottlenecks, issues, and risks
- Help build and improve hiring processes, modify IT recruitment workflows, and introduce KPIs
- Identify pain points and problems in the current management structure and leadership team, and create an actionable improvement plan
- Help prepare applications and teams for scaling