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.
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Scaling
Slow APIs, databases under pressure, infrastructure that requires heroics to keep running.
Team
Decisions that stall, technical debt that nobody owns, engineers firefighting instead of building.
New build
You're starting something new and want to get the architecture right from the beginning.
Co-founder of SoftInstigate and creator of RESTHeart, an open-source backend platform for MongoDB used in production worldwide. Former lead architect at Sun Microsystems and technical architect at AKQA Berlin. I take on fractional CTO and advisory engagements where the combination of judgment and hands-on experience matters. Full background →
What I do
Architecture reviews, fractional CTO, and technical leadership for products that need to move fast.
A recurring part of my work sits between business and IT, translating business requirements into technical decisions and technical constraints into language that product and leadership can act on. That translation layer is often where projects stall, and where I tend to be most useful.
AI-augmented development is part of how I work, treated as an infrastructure problem built on top of existing data, processes, and systems. It shifts what's feasible with small, senior engineering groups.
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.
Environmental compliance
Architectural assessment of a national waste tracking platform: 1M+ users, 7M API calls/hr, p95 < 300ms. 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.
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