Selected work
Real projects under real load. Built and delivered. No theory, no slides, just code running in production and systems that scale.
Two grown AWS accounts for production and staging cost around €15,000 a month. Over twelve months I reduced that to around €2,500 with the same feature set: clean up and measure first, then optimize architecture and capacity, and make commitments last.
Outcome
Stack:FinOpsAWSCURAthenaRightsizingSavings Plans
Read the case studyRelated service: Reducing AWS costs
Greenfield build of a central, multi-tenant gRPC service in Go. A manual process spread across several departments, replaced by highly available infrastructure in the EU and the US, with a layered cache architecture delivering under 10 ms per request.
Outcome
Stack:GolanggRPCAWSDynamoDBValkeyTerraform
Read the case studyRelated service: Process Automation for Grown Systems
A payment API for millions of users that had stopped scaling. Every load spike was a risk, every new payment provider integration weeks of work. I stabilized the existing backend, built a microservice architecture in Go alongside it, and integrated both cleanly over gRPC without interrupting live payments.
Outcome
Stack:GolangMicroservicesK8sgRPCAWSPayment APIs
Read the case studyRelated service: Go services alongside PHP
A newly formed team inherited grown legacy code running revenue reporting for a global AdTech platform with nine-figure turnover. The brief: modernize it and migrate it into a scalable AWS environment while it kept running. Timeline: 12 months.
Outcome
Stack:PHP 8SymfonyAWSTerraformGolangPHPUnit
Read the case studyRelated service: Improving AWS resilience
A pending PHP 8 upgrade was the trigger for modernizing a publishing platform grown over more than 20 years. PHP 8 migration, a new search architecture on Manticore Search, a move to Kubernetes and technical SEO work, all while the editorial team kept publishing, without a single day of downtime.
Outcome
Stack:PHP 8K8sManticore SearchSEO
Read the case studyRelated service: PHP upgrade & migration
A digital catalogue written in Perl, with no real e-commerce behind it, replaced by a full in-house online shop. Deeply integrated with inventory management and point of sale, with ML-driven product recommendations and an international rollout.
Outcome
Stack:ElasticsearchML
Read the case studyRelated service: Building online shops
