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Architecture Consulting & Leadership Services
Every engagement starts with understanding where you are. From there, we define where you need to go and help you get there.
North Star Architecture
A strategic blueprint that defines your organization's ideal future-state technology landscape. It acts as a guiding beacon for every technology decision, aligning engineering teams with business goals.
Discovery Assessment
2-4 weeks
A comprehensive assessment of your current architecture, team dynamics, and technical health. The foundation for everything that follows.
- Stakeholder surveys across 4 groups
- 6-8 stakeholder interviews
- Automated codebase & architecture analysis
- Architecture health scorecard
- Discovery Report with prioritized findings
Full North Star Architecture
6-12 weeks
Everything in Discovery, plus a complete future-state architecture blueprint with migration roadmap and decision framework.
- Everything in Discovery Assessment
- North Star Architecture Blueprint
- Migration roadmap (phased, 12-18 months)
- Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
- Technology stack recommendations
- Success metrics & KPI framework
- Stakeholder alignment workshops
Architecture + Advisory
Ongoing
Everything in Full Architecture, plus ongoing advisory support as your teams execute the transformation.
- Everything in Full Architecture
- Ongoing architecture review
- Weekly advisory sessions
- PR and design doc review
- Migration guidance & decisions
- Monthly progress reporting
- Staff+ engineer coaching
Staff+ Technical Leadership Development
Your senior engineers are technically excellent. But staff+ impact requires more than technical skill — it requires influence, communication, strategic thinking, and the ability to multiply the impact of everyone around them.
The Staff+ Competency Model
Technical Vision & Strategy
Articulating long-term direction and making technology choices that align with business strategy.
Cross-Team Influence
Driving alignment and resolving technical disagreements across organizational boundaries.
Technical Communication
Writing compelling RFCs, presenting to leadership, and translating between business and technical language.
Mentorship & Force Multiplication
Growing other engineers' capabilities and building team strengths that outlast your direct involvement.
Execution at Scale
Breaking down ambiguous, large-scale problems and delivering consistently on high-stakes initiatives.
Organizational Impact
Identifying systemic problems and improving engineering processes, tools, and culture.
Assessment & Development Plan
Skills assessment survey, 1:1 calibration interviews, and personalized development roadmaps for each engineer.
Get in touch for details →Full Leadership Program (3-6 months)
Everything in Assessment, plus group workshops, bi-weekly coaching, real-world project assignments, and progress tracking.
Get in touch for details →Technical Writing & Speaking
As a LeadDev featured author and conference speaker, I bring deep technical expertise and clear communication to every piece of content. Whether you need a single article or an ongoing content partnership, I deliver practitioner-grade thought leadership.
One-Time Article
A single, in-depth technical article on architecture, engineering leadership, scalability, migration strategies, or related topics. Fully researched, publication-ready.
Discuss a topic →Recurring Content Partnership
An ongoing content relationship — for example, 5 articles per year on agreed-upon topics. Ideal for publications, engineering blogs, or content programs that need consistent, high-quality technical writing.
Explore a partnership →Conference Speaking
Keynotes, conference talks, and panel appearances on architecture strategy, technical leadership, engineering culture, and lessons learned from building systems at Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix, and Amazon.
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