Consulting
I help engineering teams design, troubleshoot and scale distributed systems, event-driven platforms and data-intensive applications. Also help teams to modernize legacy technology and identify analytics opportunities.
What I help with
Distributed systems
Architecture, scalability, reliability and production troubleshooting.
Kafka and event streaming
Partitioning, consumer lag, event processing, delivery semantics and reliability.
Cassandra
Data modelling, query patterns, read and write performance, tombstones and data lifecycle.
Data platforms
Spark and PySpark, ETL, data processing and migrating off approaches that do not scale.
Architecture reviews
Independent technical review of an existing or proposed architecture, before or after significant investment.
Performance investigations
Identifying the real bottleneck when it crosses the application, messaging and database layers rather than sitting in the component reporting the symptom.
Technical prototypes
Focused proof-of-concepts to validate an architectural approach before committing to it.
Modernize Legacy Technology
Review current tech stack and identify practical analytics opportunities acros engineering and operations.
Initial offer: architecture and troubleshooting session
Have a distributed-system performance or scalability problem you cannot pin down? I offer a focused technical review session to help identify the bottleneck and determine practical next steps.
- 60–90 minute technical session
- Review of the architecture, the problem and available evidence
- Discussion of relevant logs, code and design
- Identification of the likely bottleneck and its contributing factors
- Written findings
- Prioritized recommendations and follow-up Q&A
Initial rate: ₹5,000
This is only a diagnosis and review engagement.
Ongoing engagements
Longer-term work covering architecture ownership, design reviews, performance work and mentoring is possible once there is a shared working history. Get in touch to discuss what the problem actually needs.