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. 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.

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: 10+ years of continuous development. Agent-ready backend for MongoDB, adopted in production by startups and Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

All selected work →