Advisory
Platform decisions, owned end to end.
I take on a small number of engagements with teams facing high-stakes platform and database decisions — the kind where getting it wrong is expensive. You get two decades of judgment on which approach holds up in production, and a method your team keeps using on its own.
Where I help
- Migrations & modernization — database and platform migrations, legacy-to-cloud moves, and consolidation, with a safe path to roll back if needed.
- Cost & performance — Graviton/ARM64 evaluation, rightsizing, and cost optimization, backed by real benchmarks.
- Operations & architecture — setting up on-call, incident, and reliability practices, and reviewing high-stakes decisions before they reach production.
How engagements work
Start with a short assessment, deliver a clear decision or a proven method, and leave behind a standard the team owns. Fractional or project-based, whatever fits the problem.
For examples of the kind of work behind this, see About.