Software consulting

Senior engineering, hands-on

A small consultancy. We help startups and growing companies make sound technical decisions, and we write the code to back them up.

Get in touch What we do
How we work
Senior people only

The people you talk to are the people doing the work.

Small client list

A few engagements at a time, so each one gets attention.

Broad experience

Cloud infrastructure, data systems, security, and product engineering.

Services

What we help with

A few areas where our experience tends to be most useful.

Architecture and cloud

System design, infrastructure planning, and AWS work. Helping you make the right call before it gets expensive.

AWSIaCCloud-native

Technical leadership

Acting as the senior technical voice on a team — driving decisions, helping with hiring, and translating between product and engineering.

StrategyHiring

Data engineering

Pipelines, integrations, and data infrastructure. Designed to be reliable and easy to maintain.

ETL / ELTAirflow

Product builds

Taking an idea to working software. We scope, design, and build — and your team owns what we ship.

MVPGo / Python

Security and compliance

Auth, access controls, and infrastructure for regulated environments. SOC 2 and PCI work, built in from the start.

SOC 2PCI DSS

Technical due diligence

An honest read on a codebase, vendor, or technical decision. Written in plain language for whoever needs to read it.

Code reviewVendor eval

A sample of past work

A look at the kinds of problems we've worked on — across industries, scales, and stacks.

Agriculture

Drone flight planning

Software for planning and managing autonomous drones for crop monitoring and management.

IoT / Hardware

Commercial lighting controls

End-to-end design for a wireless lighting platform — backend, frontend, mobile, and protocol layer.

Startup

MVP mobile applications

Early-stage builds for social, location-based, and e-commerce startups.

Financial Services

Enterprise data pipelines

Pipeline design and technical architecture for multiple large financial services firms.

Energy

Solar monitoring access controls

Access control architecture for a solar power monitoring platform for commercial real estate.

Marketplace

Automotive parts marketplace

Two-sided marketplace connecting buyers and sellers in an automotive vertical.

Retail

Retail tire services modernization

Digital transformation for a national tire services chain — vendor integrations and in-store applications.

Enterprise / Real Estate

Workplace utilization reporting

Data pipeline and reporting on real estate usage and occupancy across a global corporation.

Founder / Solo

VirtualPosterSession.org

Built and ran a research collaboration platform that handled live events for thousands of users.

What an engagement looks like

Most engagements move through some version of the following. Timelines and scope vary.

  • 01

    An initial conversation

    A call to talk through what you're working on. We'll be candid about whether we're the right fit, and what kind of engagement would actually help.

    No charge · 30–60 min
  • 02

    Discovery

    We spend time learning your context — reading code, talking to your team, looking at the systems. The goal is to understand the situation well enough to give real advice, not surface-level reactions.

    Typically 1–2 weeks
  • 03

    Recommendations and scope

    A written summary of what we found, what we'd do, and why. If it makes sense to move forward, we propose a scope that fits. If it doesn't, we say that too.

    Delivered as a document and a call
  • 04

    Doing the work

    Implementation, advisory, embedded — whatever the engagement calls for. Regular check-ins, working software shipped along the way, and your team in the loop the whole time.

    Weeks to months
  • 05

    Handover

    We make sure your team can run with what we built. No proprietary tooling, no abstractions only we understand, no ongoing dependency on us.

    Built in from the start

Founders who need a technical partner before their first engineering hire.

Small engineering teams that want senior input on a hard problem.

Non-technical decision-makers looking at vendors, build-vs-buy, or systems they've inherited.

Research groups that need software built to production standards.

A note on how we work

We use modern tools — including AI — where they help us move faster or catch things we'd miss. They don't replace the judgment that comes from having actually built and run systems in production.

You're working with people who've been through the trade-offs before, who can read between the lines of what you're describing, and who'll push back when something doesn't add up.

Contact

Get in touch

No intake form, no sales call. Send an email and we'll have a real conversation.

info@stridatum.com