Principal Architect · 20+ Years

I build systems that stay up under pressure.

Software architect building since 2004. High-traffic platforms, live migrations and AI integrations for teams that cannot afford a bad night.

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Available · Q4 engagements

Case · PREP 2024

A country watched the count. It never went down.

The national electoral preliminary results system served millions of concurrent citizens on election night, with custom cryptographic validation and no second attempt.

100% Uptime on election night

Case · Techtástico

Viral peaks are a normal Tuesday.

A headless publishing platform served from the edge. Pages load in under a second for more than four million visits a month.

4M+

Monthly visits served

Page load
under 1 s
Architecture
Headless · Next.js
Delivery
Global edge CDN

Four phases, no surprises.

Always in this order. Each one ends with a decision you sign off before the next begins.

  1. Discovery

    An audit of your current systems and the business goals they need to serve.

    Output Architecture brief and risk register.

  2. AI Strategy

    Finding where AI actually pays off, and how to measure it.

    Output Capability map and evaluation plan.

  3. Engineering

    Building the system to your fault-tolerance, security and performance requirements.

    Output Production system and decision log.

  4. Scale

    Getting to production ready for real load, with monitoring and runbooks.

    Output Load-tested release and runbooks.

Ways to work together

  • Turnkey project

    Design and build of the full system, with your team or without it.

  • Fractional architect

    An embedded architect on retainer, in your planning and your reviews.

  • Audit

    Architecture, performance or security review with a prioritized plan.

  • AI integration

    LLMs and predictive pipelines added to systems already in production.

Tell me what you're building.

Architecture reviews, migrations, AI integrations or performance problems. I reply to every message personally.

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