Add principal technical leverage where the team needs it most
Some engineering priorities need more than an assessment but do not justify an immediate full-time principal-level hire. This engagement embeds architecture and developer experience expertise directly into the team to provide both technical direction and hands-on execution on current roadmaps or pre-planned initiatives.
We embed immediately into your team’s existing structure without the hiring lag you would face while looking for a principal-level engineer.
Audience
Teams needing experienced technical leadership and execution capacity without immediately hiring a full-time principal engineer.
Where I can contribute
The engagement can be shaped around the team’s highest-impact priorities, including:
- Architecture and platform initiatives
- Developer tooling and CI/CD improvements
- Complex engineering backlog
- Observability implementation
- Technical investigations and proposals
- Architecture decisions and documentation
- Engineer mentoring and knowledge transfer
Priorities are reviewed regularly so the work remains aligned with changing product and engineering needs.
What you can expect
Depending on the selected priorities, outcomes can include:
- Implemented engineering priorities
- Architecture and dependency diagrams
- Technical proposals and decision records
- Operational and developer documentation
- Progress, risk and recommendation summaries
- Knowledge transfer and handoff material
How the engagement works
I work within the team’s existing planning, communication and delivery practices while bringing principal-level attention to architecture and developer effectiveness. Work is made visible through agreed priorities, regular progress updates, documented decisions and clear escalation of risks.
I embed directly into your team’s infrastructure, sharing communication channels and working closely with your engineers to ensure the work is integrated into your existing practices.
The engagement can combine strategic guidance with implementation of complex poorly defined problems. That means recommendations can be tested against the real system and transferred to the team as maintainable working changes.
Investment
This embedded engagement is billed at $140 per hour. Expected availability, priorities, communication cadence and an initial review point are agreed before work begins.