We've spent more than a decade building and running the software businesses can't afford to get wrong — payment processing, high-traffic APIs, the database under the money. Thousands of requests a second, four nines of uptime, hundreds of millions cleared a year.
We're not a body shop. The work behind Saucony is a decade-plus of building systems from the first commit to four-nines in production — and building the engineering teams that keep them there, from one person to organizations of fifty. We write code we have to live with, and it shows.
Most engagements cross more than one of these. The seams between building, advising, and architecting are where the real work is, so we don't pretend they're separate disciplines.
Production systems across the range — internal tools that quietly save your team hours, and consumer-facing platforms that take thousands of requests a second without flinching. Design, build, migrations, and on-call, until your team is ready to take the keys.
An outside read, with hands in the code. We've spent careers building engineering orgs from one person to fifty, so we can see what's actually slowing you down — and we stay to help fix it, not just hand you a deck.
Cloud systems sized for where you're going, not just where you are. We work in AWS and design for cost, reliability, and operability from day one — the way you have to when downtime is measured in dollars a minute.
Four short phases. Each one ends with something you can use, even if we stop there.
A week or two of reading the code, talking to the team, and finding what's load-bearing.
A written plan with options, tradeoffs, and a price. You can take it to anyone, including us.
We build in the open, in short loops, with code and demos you can poke at every week.
Docs, runbooks, and a few quiet weeks of support while your team takes over.
The best systems are the boring ones. They just keep working, the next engineer understands them in an afternoon, and they never wake anyone up at night.
A short note works fine. Where you are, what you are building, and what you would like to be true in six months.