Backend & Cloud Architecture Consulting
Practical architecture, backend engineering, and technical leadership for startups and growing engineering teams.
I help engineering teams solve difficult backend and architecture problems — from system design and modernization to performance, reliability, and production troubleshooting.
What I help with
Architecture & System Design
Service boundaries, event-driven and CQRS designs, distributed systems, modernization, and technical roadmap.
Backend Engineering
Java & Spring Boot, REST/GraphQL APIs, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, performance, and production troubleshooting.
Cloud & Platform
AWS architecture, ECS/Kubernetes, asynchronous messaging, cost optimization, and production readiness.
Data & Migration
Database migrations, CDC and replication, Spring Batch pipelines, data validation, and migration risk assessment.
Performance & Reliability
Bottleneck analysis, latency reduction, resilience, observability, production troubleshooting, and reliability improvements.
Services
Focused engagements that can start small and expand as needed.
Architecture Consultation
$250 · 90 minutes
A focused working session on a specific technical problem — bring a diagram, a design decision, or a performance issue and leave with concrete next steps.
- Architecture decisions
- System design questions
- Technology choices
- Scaling concerns
Architecture Review
$750 · Fixed scope
A structured assessment of an existing or proposed system with practical recommendations, key risks, tradeoffs, and a prioritized implementation roadmap.
- Architecture assessment
- Risk & tradeoff analysis
- Prioritized implementation roadmap
Fractional Engineering & Technical Leadership
$125 / hr
Hands-on senior backend engineering and technical leadership for teams that need added capacity without a full-time hire.
- Backend & architecture implementation
- Kafka / event-driven systems
- Migrations & code review
How it works
Start with the problem
Bring the architecture diagram, code, performance problem, migration plan, or technical decision you are wrestling with.
Work through the architecture
We will examine constraints, alternatives, tradeoffs, risks, and implementation considerations.
Leave with a plan
The goal is a concrete set of decisions and next steps — not another meeting that ends with "let us circle back."
Selected Work
Consulting work grounded in building and operating real production systems.
Architecting Next-Generation E911
Separating real-time location delivery from provisioning using a CQRS-style architecture, change data capture, Redis, and a controlled migration strategy.
AttendOnTime
Event registration, ticketing, and real-time check-in platform built on Spring Boot microservices, GraphQL Federation, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
Why work with me?
I approach problems from a system architecture perspective while staying close enough to the implementation to understand what will actually work in production. My experience spans distributed systems, event-driven architectures, cloud infrastructure, data migrations, and production operations — and I favor the simplest approach that satisfies the system's actual requirements over complexity for its own sake.
Who I work with
- Startup founders who need a senior technical sounding board
- Engineering teams facing difficult architecture decisions
- Growing companies preparing their backend for scale
- Teams modernizing legacy systems or planning major data migrations
- Companies needing temporary senior technical leadership
You do not need a large project to get started — a single difficult architecture decision is enough.
Have a backend or architecture problem?
Let us spend 90 minutes turning it into a concrete technical plan.
Book an Architecture Consultation
Or email consulting@attendontime.com with a brief description of the problem you are trying to solve.
Location: DFW / Remote — I work primarily with startups and engineering teams in the United States.