Service

Platform and API engineering

For teams whose product depends on payments, integrations or data moving reliably between systems.

Discuss your project

From £10,500 per month

What's included

  • API design reviews and OpenAPI specifications
  • Event-driven and queue-based architectures
  • Database design, migrations and query tuning
  • Observability: tracing, metrics and useful alerts
  • Infrastructure as code for repeatable environments
  • Load and failure testing before launch

Ideal for: Products with growing traffic, third-party integrations or financial data.

How it runs

  1. 1

    Map

    Trace how data flows today, including the failure modes nobody wrote down.

  2. 2

    Design

    A short design document reviewed with your team before code is written.

  3. 3

    Build

    Incremental delivery, often in shadow mode next to the existing system.

  4. 4

    Operate

    Dashboards, alerts and runbooks so on-call is calm rather than heroic.

Common questions

Can you work inside our existing team?

Yes. Most platform work happens in your repositories, with your reviews and your on-call rotation.

Do you handle cloud infrastructure?

I write Terraform for AWS and Google Cloud and keep infrastructure changes in pull requests like any other code.

In practice

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Have a project in mind?

Tell me what you're building and where you're stuck. I'll reply within two working days with honest next steps, even if I'm not the right fit.