I help SaaS teams fix slow APIs and rising infra costs in 15 days.
Without rewriting your system.
Every month you wait, the bottleneck compounds — slower user experience, higher infrastructure spend, and a team that's debugging in circles with no clear answer in sight.
11+ years · Technical Lead · SaaS · FinTech · HealthTech · Government
The Invisible Bottleneck Trap
Slow APIs with no clear cause
Your profiling tools show nothing obvious. Users keep complaining. Your team investigates and comes back with nothing actionable.
Infrastructure costs keep climbing
The cloud bill grows every month but no single service is clearly responsible. You scale up, it helps briefly, then costs rise again.
Every debug session takes days
The team digs in, finds a possible cause, ships a fix — and the slowness returns a week later. The real problem stays hidden.
“What if the problem isn't your team's skill — it's that you're looking in the wrong place?”
Most performance problems are caused by lack of clarity — not lack of resources.
— The core principle behind every engagement
Performance Optimization Sprint
30 business days · Remote · Fixed scope
A structured 30-day engagement where I work directly with your team to identify, diagnose, and plan the fix for the bottlenecks slowing your system down — and costing you money every day they go unresolved.
Built for teams that are:
I take on 2 sprints per month. Slots are kept limited so every engagement gets my full focus.
How It Works
Four weeks. One clear objective each week.
- Week 1
Visibility
We map where your system actually spends its time. You'll see your performance landscape clearly — most teams are surprised by where the time is actually going.
You know where the slow is. - Week 2
Diagnosis
We trace bottlenecks to their root cause — not the symptoms your monitoring surfaces, but the actual source your team has been unable to pinpoint.
You know why it's slow. - Week 3
Strategy
We rank the fixes by business impact and build a roadmap your team can act on immediately — quick wins first, structural changes second.
You know what to fix first. - Week 4
Validation
We review the priority fixes together and confirm the improvements with before/after measurements. You leave with proof, not promises.
You have the numbers to show it worked.
What This Looks Like in Practice
In every case below, the bottleneck had gone unresolved for months — and was found within the first week once we knew where to look.
%
faster
Before
Auditors waited 14 seconds just to open a form — before they'd entered a single answer. Every session started with frustration.
After
Load time cut to 4 seconds. Auditors start work immediately, every time. The fix became the standard for every new form on the platform.
%
time saved
Before
5-hour data uploads were failing midway through. The only recovery was starting from zero — meaning a failure at hour 4 cost the team an entire day.
After
30-minute uploads. Failed steps retry automatically — no full restarts, no lost progress. The team stopped dreading upload day.
%
throughput gain
Before
Dispatchers couldn't do their jobs during peak hours — the screen froze for 3–5 seconds on every click. Rides were being missed.
After
Dashboard runs without interruption under full peak load. Operators dispatch confidently during the busiest windows of the day.
%
faster
Before
Every drag-and-drop froze the screen for 6 seconds. Editors had stopped using the tool on large documents — they were working around it.
After
Under 1 second. Editors work without interruption, even on the most complex government form templates in the system.
What You Walk Away With
Five concrete outputs. Yours to keep and act on immediately.
Performance Bottleneck Report
A clear map of every identified bottleneck, ranked by business impact. No guesswork — just a prioritised list of what's costing you.
Root Cause Analysis
A plain-language document explaining why each issue exists — written for your leadership team, not just your engineers.
Prioritised Optimisation Roadmap
A ranked action list your team can start executing the day the sprint ends. Ordered by impact-to-effort ratio.
Metrics Baseline & Targets
Before and after benchmarks so progress is objective and undeniable — to your team, your board, and your users.
Guided Fix Review Sessions
Live or async reviews as your team implements the changes. I stay on hand so nothing gets lost in translation.
Why Teams Trust Me
+
Years of engineering experience
Industries served
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Max performance improvement delivered
Sprint slots per month
“Reduced a compliance audit form from 14 seconds to 4. Auditors could finally start work immediately — across every form on the platform.”
“Eliminated 5-hour upload failures on a healthcare platform. A 90% time reduction that also removed the need for any manual recovery.”
“Cut a 6-second UI freeze to under 1 second for a government form builder — without changing a single line of existing infrastructure.”
Ready to stop guessing where your bottleneck is?
Book a free 30-minute call. No pitch. Just clarity on whether this sprint is the right fit for your team right now.
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The 10-Point API Performance Checklist — the exact questions I work through in Week 1 of every sprint. Free. Drop your email and I'll send it over.
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