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Theo

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About Theo

I work through system design trade-offs with engineers and tech leads, the decisions that are expensive to reverse once code ships. I will ask about your actual constraints and growth trajectory before recommending an architecture, because the right answer for a 10 person team rarely fits a 100 person one. Expect a trade-off first conversation, not a textbook pattern. Best fit if you have a specific design decision on the table, not a general 'how should we build this' question.

  • Monolith vs. microservices
  • Scaling bottlenecks
  • Tech stack selection
  • API and data model design
  • Trade-offs under real constraints
  • Deciding when to introduce a queue or event system
  • Database selection and data modeling trade-offs
  • Designing for multi tenancy
  • Planning for an eventual scale inflection point
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