Senior engineering from
architecture through delivery.
I work with companies whose systems can't keep up and founders who need to build something that will. Every engagement starts with understanding the problem. Every deliverable is something your team can use, maintain, and build on. All engagements are remote-friendly.
From first call to working software.
Discovery
We talk through your situation: the system, the constraints, what's blocking you, and what success looks like. Thirty minutes, no commitment, no deliverable. Just a clear picture of the problem.
Architecture and Proposal
Straightforward projects move directly to a written proposal that lays out scope, timeline, and cost. Complex projects start with a one-week paid Discovery and Scoping that produces the architecture and the SOW. Either path puts a clear plan in your hands before delivery begins.
Delivery
I architect and implement. The same person who designed the solution builds it. Engagements end with working software, documentation, and a handoff your team can actually use.
Cloud Platforms and Modernization
Cloud platforms and backend systems are the foundation everything else runs on. The work covers greenfield Azure builds, cloud migrations from on-prem, the architectural judgment about when a monolith should stay whole and when it should split, and the test coverage that proves nothing broke in the process.
The goal is infrastructure your team can extend without having to bring me back in: documented, tested, and built to carry the next set of requirements.
Situations this fits
- On-prem infrastructure that needs to move to Azure
- A monolith blocking your team from shipping independently
- A backend platform that has to carry a web or mobile product
- New Azure infrastructure designed and built from the ground up
Web and Mobile Development
Some companies need a product built from scratch. Others proved the idea with an MVP and now need it rebuilt for the customer who actually showed up. Both call for senior full-stack delivery across web and mobile.
Cross-platform mobile with Flutter, responsive web, and the APIs that tie them together. Designed to scale as the product finds more customers, and built to be maintained by the team that inherits it.
Situations this fits
- A startup with proven product-market fit that needs a real foundation
- An MVP that outgrew its original design
- A product idea that needs full-stack delivery from the ground up
- A mobile app or web platform that has to scale past its next milestone
Architecture and Strategy
Some of the most valuable work happens before any code gets written. The approach on the whiteboard needs pressure-testing, the real risks need naming, and the critical decisions deserve an independent look before anyone commits to a direction.
Scoped advisory work produces artifacts your team can actually use: architecture diagrams, decision records, a technical roadmap, or an independent review of a plan already in motion.
For teams that want this kind of judgment available on an ongoing basis, the same work takes the shape of a fractional architect engagement: senior input on the technical decisions that matter, without a permanent commitment.
Situations this fits
- A build-vs-buy decision where both paths cost real money
- A security architecture that needs an independent review
- A roadmap or migration plan that has to hold up in a board review
- Technical due diligence ahead of a funding round or acquisition
- Ongoing architectural judgment as a fractional engagement
Delivery, compressed.
AI accelerates my engineering work. The judgment, the review, and the accountability stay fully mine. Every line of code is still understood, tested, and reviewed by a senior engineer. What changes is the pace.
Proof, not pitch
Before founding Pelican, an extraction that would have taken six weeks took eight days: 14 production endpoints, full test coverage, validated API contracts. Documented results, not a marketing claim.
What this means for your project
- Faster iteration without trading quality
- More test coverage in less time
- Compressed timelines that translate directly to cost
- A case study with attributed numbers, not marketing promises
Two ways to work together.
The three services above can be scoped as a defined project or structured as an ongoing arrangement, depending on what your team actually needs.
Project Engagement
A project comes with a fixed scope, a defined timeline, and a clear deliverable. The right shape when you know what needs to be built and want a senior practitioner accountable for the design and the outcome. Each project ends with working software, documentation, and a handoff your team can use without bringing me back in.
When the work is well-defined, a project starts from a written proposal. When the shape needs more thought, a one-week paid Discovery and Scoping produces the architecture and the SOW before delivery begins.
Good fit when
- A defined initiative needs to ship on a timeline
- An MVP, modernization, or migration has a clear endpoint
- You want a senior practitioner accountable for the outcome
- The scope is ready, or one paid week of Discovery and Scoping can land it
Ongoing Partnership
A standing technical partnership for teams that want senior architecture and principal-engineer judgment on a regular cadence. Architecture review, code review, roadmap advising, and a set number of implementation hours each month, all from the same senior practitioner. The right shape when a finished project needs ongoing stewardship, or when a team ships continuously and wants senior judgment built into the rhythm.
Good fit when
- A completed project needs ongoing stewardship
- Your team ships continuously and wants senior architecture review built in
- You want architecture guidance available before committing to a direction
- You need a fractional architect on call without a full-time hire
Not sure which service fits?
That's what discovery is for.
Thirty minutes. I'll listen to your situation, ask the right questions, and tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit, and what a scoped engagement would actually look like.