Software architecture and technical leadership for products that need to move fast.
I take on fractional CTO and advisory engagements where the combination of judgment and hands-on experience matters.
What I do
Fractional CTO
Ongoing technical leadership, embedded in your team or available on call. Guiding decisions, translating business requirements into technical direction.
Architecture review
System design reviews, performance and security optimization, cloud migration planning. Fixed scope, clear objectives.
Technical due diligence
Independent technical evaluation on your side. Verifying a vendor's delivery, writing requirements for a tender, assessing production readiness.
Co-founder of SoftInstigate and creator of RESTHeart, an open-source backend platform for MongoDB used in production worldwide. I build products and own the full delivery chain, from architecture to infrastructure automation. Former SOA architect at Sun Microsystems and technical architect at AKQA Berlin. Full background →
Selected work
Retail, backend modernization
Technical lead for modernization of a high-volume production backend: 2,600+ stores, 9,500+ terminals, 141M+ documents, 1TB+ data. Throughput target exceeded by 79%, query time reduced 216x.
Public sector
Architectural assessment of a public-facing compliance platform: over a million users, millions of requests per hour, sub-second response times. Performance analysis and strategic roadmap.
Open source platform
RESTHeart: 2M+ open-source downloads, 10+ years in production. Agent-ready backend for MongoDB, adopted by Fortune 500 companies including Unisys, Northrop Grumman, and Crownpeak.
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