New platform or major capability
Shape the target architecture, boundaries, workflows, data, security, integrations, NFRs and roadmap.
Explore architecture →Bring the complicated problem
Let us turn it into a solution people can understand and use.
Available for suitable solution architecture, systems integration, platform modernisation, technical discovery and senior engineering opportunities in Johannesburg and remote environments.
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A useful first message
What to include.
- What outcome must improve or become possible
- Who uses, approves or supports the current process
- Which systems, data or external services are involved
- What is currently failing, slow, manual or risky
- Any timing, compliance or operational constraints
- What evidence would prove a successful result
Project enquiry
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Engagement fitArchitecture Integration Modernisation Discovery Delivery assurance Senior engineering
Problems I am well positioned to help with.
Disconnected systems or unreliable hand-offs
Map the transaction, define ownership and create resilient API, webhook or messaging contracts.
Explore integration →Legacy platform risk
Recover current-state truth and choose a safe path to stabilise, refactor, encapsulate or replace.
Explore modernisation →Important problem with unclear scope
Frame the outcome, inspect the evidence, expose dependencies and define the next decisions.
See the method →Architecture and implementation are drifting apart
Reconnect contracts, decisions, risks, acceptance and release evidence across the delivery team.
See capabilities →Complex implementation requiring broad context
Hands-on engineering and technical leadership across web, APIs, workflows, data, infrastructure and support.
Open digital CV →Working relationship
What you can expect.
Directclear communication about risk and trade-offs
Practicaldesign grounded in implementation reality
Structuredexplicit scope, decisions and evidence
Protectivecare for operations, privacy and client IP
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Email the problem in plain language.
You do not need to select a technology or prepare a full specification before the first conversation.