Collaboration
I work alongside specialists who complement how I show up for clients—whether that is deep Rails upgrades, hands-on delivery, product leadership, platform strategy, seasoned engineering leadership, production-ready AWS foundations, or organisational transformation and executive advisory. Here are people and teams I am glad to recommend and often collaborate with.
Manuel Gass · Product leadership & platform strategy
Manuel brings a decade of experience building platforms that scale—from fintech to developer-first companies. He offers interim and fractional product leadership alongside platform and developer-experience strategy: API-first thinking, shared capabilities, and turning platform teams into real force multipliers when product and engineering need to align on something bigger than a single roadmap.
Rails upgrades & maintenance
They keep Ruby on Rails applications secure, modern, and fast—specialising in stabilising and upgrading legacy Rails so teams do not have to gamble on big-bang rewrites. Senior engineers focus on dependency chains, breaking changes, security hardening, and performance: the messy work that gets you to current Ruby and Rails with clarity and testing.
Ruby on Rails development & web consulting
A small, experienced team focused on Rails and modern JavaScript—building new applications, hardening existing ones, and offering practical web consulting. They cover custom Rails work, APIs, database design, upgrades and maintenance, performance tuning, and quality practices, with direct communication and flexible engagement rather than layers of account management.
Engineering leadership & management
Zef has led engineering organisations for over 15 years—from startups and scale-ups to larger multinationals—in roles from engineering manager through CTO, while staying close to the craft with decades of hands-on programming and a Ph.D. in computer science. He writes alt.management for engineering leaders and brings clarity, rigour, and honest feedback when teams need senior technical direction.
AWS platform & CDK
Rocketleap helps teams grow on AWS with pre-built infrastructure—landing zones, CDK building blocks, and reference applications—so your developers can ship faster without hiring a bench of cloud specialists. Security controls, cost guardrails, and best-practice patterns are baked in; they also offer quick assessments and hands-on help when you need to tame bills, complexity, or compliance gaps.
Organisation transformation & executive advisory
João works as an independent consultant bridging strategic ambition and effective organisations—advising on organisational design, alternative funding models, and how technology is used so teams can thrive in complexity. He engages as interim or fractional CTO or as a consultant, with workshops and programmes spanning DevOps-style change, scaling AI, and humane operating models when leadership needs an experienced partner from strategy to execution.