Backend & Platform Architecture
Backend Architecture Consulting for Growing SaaS Teams
When your backend still works but every new feature increases risk, I help identify the architectural constraints, prioritize the right changes, and create a practical path forward.
Where this applies
- Architecture audit of an existing system
- Authentication and session redesign
- Multi-tenancy models and tenant isolation
- API boundaries and service decomposition
- Database and data-model review
- Queues, events and asynchronous workflows
- Cloud cost and reliability review
- Migration roadmap for a system you cannot stop shipping
What you get
- A current-state map of the system as it actually is
- A risk register, ordered by what will hurt first
- Prioritized findings with the reasoning behind each
- A recommended target architecture
- A staged roadmap that survives contact with a delivery schedule
- A review session to walk the team through all of it
Good fit when
- Your SaaS has grown beyond the architecture it started with
- A rewrite is tempting, but stopping feature delivery is not realistic
- Authentication, tenancy, data ownership or API boundaries are becoming risky
- Senior engineers disagree on direction and need an outside read
- The CTO is spending too much time resolving design decisions
Scoped as a short fixed engagement: system discovery, asynchronous review of existing material and code where appropriate, findings, target-state recommendations, and a walkthrough with the team.
Not a slide-deck architecture exercise. Recommendations have to survive your current team, your delivery schedule and the system you already have.