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Independent Technology Consulting

Practical technology consulting for the work that needs to get done.

I help growing businesses modernize neglected workflows, establish dependable AI-assisted engineering foundations, and bring senior technical leadership to critical initiatives.

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Independent consulting for focused projects, hands-on delivery, and fractional engagements.

18+ years
Across engineering, architecture, and technical leadership.
AWS, Azure & Google Cloud
Hands-on experience across all three major cloud platforms.
Operational workflows to high-availability platforms
Comfortable across the full range of technical work, big and small.

Services

Three ways to bring in senior technical help

Engagements range from a focused advisory conversation to hands-on delivery and ongoing fractional support — shaped around the problem in front of you.

01

Workflow & Data Modernization

Critical work is running on manual processes, fragile spreadsheets, and integrations nobody wants to touch.

Replace fragile, repetitive processes with dependable systems your team can understand and operate. I take on the neglected but business-critical technical work that internal teams rarely have time to address.

  • File-based integrations and recurring data feeds
  • Spreadsheet-heavy and manual workflow redesign
  • Data cleanup, validation, and reconciliation
  • Legacy application and system integration
  • ETL/ELT pipelines and data movement
  • Reporting and analytics foundations

Best for: operations and IT teams whose critical processes have outgrown ad hoc solutions.

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02

Agentic Engineering Foundations

You want to build with AI coding agents, but you don't have the engineering structure to keep the result maintainable.

Give AI coding agents the structure, context, and guardrails they need to produce software you can actually build on. AI agents can accelerate development, but they still need architecture, testing, and delivery discipline — this work helps you validate ideas and build a stronger MVP while delaying premature hiring.

  • Repository and application structure
  • Development standards and agent instructions
  • Automated testing and quality checks
  • CI/CD pipelines and preview environments
  • Observability, error tracking, and secrets management
  • Documentation and human review guardrails

Best for: non-technical founders and product leaders who want to move fast without losing control of the codebase.

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03

Fractional Engineering & Development

You need senior technical judgment and hands-on delivery, but not another full-time hire.

Add senior technical judgment and hands-on execution exactly where your team needs it. Engagements range from a short discovery and roadmap to ongoing fractional leadership and direct implementation.

  • Fractional technical leadership
  • Solution and systems architecture
  • Technical discovery and roadmaps
  • Architecture and code reviews
  • Hands-on backend and platform development
  • Mentoring and unblocking small engineering teams

Best for: teams that need experienced direction and execution for a defined period, without a permanent hire.

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Is this you?

Does any of this sound familiar?

These are the kinds of problems I help turn into clear, maintainable systems.

Approach

A pragmatic, proportionate way of working

No heavyweight consulting theatre — just a clear process, sized to the problem you actually have.

  1. Understand

    Clarify the business problem, constraints, risks, and desired outcome.

  2. Shape

    Define the smallest sensible solution and a practical delivery plan.

  3. Build

    Implement, integrate, document, and validate the solution.

  4. Enable

    Leave the team with maintainable systems, useful documentation, and a clear next step.

Experience

Range, from strategy to implementation

Over more than 18 years, I have worked from frontline IT support and hands-on software development through backend engineering leadership and enterprise solution architecture. My experience includes high-traffic digital platforms, event-driven systems, cloud migrations, data integration, analytics platforms, and engineering teams operating across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

That range allows me to move between executive conversations, architecture decisions, delivery planning, and implementation without losing sight of the operational details.

Among that work: architecting a high-traffic platform designed for 99.99% uptime.

  • Backend and distributed systems
  • Data architecture and integration
  • Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric
  • ETL/ELT and analytics enablement
  • AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
  • CI/CD and engineering enablement
  • Technical leadership and stakeholder communication
  • AI agents and workflow automation

Let’s make the next technical step clear.

Bring a stubborn workflow, an early product idea, or a delivery challenge. In a free 30-minute consultation, we’ll clarify the problem, explore practical options, and determine whether I’m the right person to help.

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Prefer email? dipaula.leandro@gmail.com