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![Consulting Technical Stack and Speciality: Scala, Akka, Apache Spark, Kafka, Apache Nifi, and Nix / NixOS](/img/techstack.png)
# Services
I am a software engineer and leader with over 20 years experience, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California (USA). You can read more about my experience by looking at my [Resume]({{< ref "/resume" >}} "Resume").
### Software Development
I am happy to help build software for you. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Building new software for your business from inception
- Enhancing and adding new features to your existing custom software
- Joining your existing engineering team for short term and long term projects, helping to increase your teams capacity and capability
### Open source maintenance and Support
Many companies leverage open source software to save costs. As an active contributor and user of open source software I can help with:
- Providing support and Training
- Adding enhancments and new features to open source projects that you need
- If you have open sourced some of your work, I can help with maintenance and supporting its community of users
### Training
I provide expert training and mentorship. Happy to provide this on a one to one basis or as a workshop to a group.
All training and workshops I do are custom to your needs, so that it can focus on the areas most guidance is needed.
### Technical Review
Do you need an external experienced engineer to review your architecture and code and provide impartial feedback, with advice on improvements and evolving your work? I can provide this.
Thinking of acquiring a software company? Do you need its assets audited and reviewed to know and understand what you are getting? I can help!
### Hiring Help
I am available to help you with hiring engineers. I can help with:
- Defining your interview process and how to measure a candidate for a role
- Interview candidates of all levels on your behalf
- Train technical interviewers at your company
### Consulting
Having worked in the software engineering industry for over 20 years across the USA and Europe, I am happy to share any knowledge I have gathered, providing any advice I can help with. Also, where possible I can help with making the business and technical connections to help you succeed.
### Business Insights and Analytics
Do you want better insights and reporting on your business and competitors?
I can help with your data, creating data pipelines to generate insights and reports that can help with your business strategy and give you a competitive edge leveraging all the modern tools in data engineering and data science.
### Monitoring and Fault Detection Audit and Improvements
Does your software platform have quality of service issues? Are you failing to meet your customers SLA and reliability expectations?
I can help by assessing how you monitor and detect problems on your platform, providing advice on what needs to be done to have the best and most reliable service. I am also available to implement the changes needed adding the monitoring you need.
This includes, but is not limited to setting up:
- Better error logging leveraging technologies such as Kibana
- Better system monitoring leveraging Grafana or Datadog
- Improvements to compliance and audit logging
- Engineering process improvements to react to and eliminate recurring problems on your platform
# Book a Consultation
Want to get together to discuss how I can help you and find out more about my services? Book a consultation with me by submitting the form below and I will be in touch to move forward.
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