Service

Strategic technical guidance without the hiring overhead

Partner with a hands-on lead who can untangle legacy systems, align stakeholders, and chart a path your team can follow.

Objective insights

Unbiased assessments grounded in real-world delivery, not vendor quotas or one-size-fits-all playbooks.

Execution ready

Recommendations come with implementation plans, staffing considerations, and risk mitigation strategies.

Team enablement

Workshops, documentation, and tooling help your engineers internalize improvements long after the engagement concludes.

Core capabilities

  • Architecture reviews with actionable remediation plans
  • Technology stack comparisons tailored to budget and timelines
  • Codebase audits covering quality, security, and maintainability
  • Process design for async collaboration, sprint cadence, and QA
  • Roadmapping for product-market milestones and technical debt
  • Due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, and investor reporting
  • Team skills assessment and upskilling initiatives
  • Vendor and tool selection with ROI modelling

How we’ll work together

01

Discovery & alignment

Interview stakeholders, review artifacts, and surface the goals and constraints shaping your technology decisions.

02

Analysis & recommendations

Deliver a prioritized plan covering architecture, tooling, process, and people, calibrated to your organisation’s reality.

03

Enable & support

Run working sessions, pair with teams, and monitor adoption so the strategy translates into sustainable practice.

What you’ll walk away with

  • Executive-ready briefing distilling risks, options, and trade-offs
  • Detailed implementation roadmap with sequencing and owners
  • Decision logs and design docs stored in your knowledge base
  • Playbooks and checklists for recurring processes and ceremonies
  • Follow-up checkpoints to keep accountability and momentum

Tooling & stack

Architecture modelling (C4, ADRs)AWS, GCP & Azure solution designConfluence & Notion knowledge hubsLinear, Jira, and Shortcut workflowsGitHub Actions & CircleCITerraform & PulumiSonarQube & Snyk scanningMiro & FigJam facilitation

Need a sounding board for your next technical leap?

Book a consultation and I’ll help you evaluate options, align stakeholders, and plot a confident path forward.

Karthik Nishanth

Product-minded software engineer crafting resilient experiences across web and mobile. I partner with founders and teams to move fast without compromising on craft.

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