01 / ARCHITECTURE
Software Architecture Reviews
An outside read on whether the design will hold up.
Service boundaries, data flow, failure modes, scale ceilings. Written report with prioritized findings. Typically 2–4 weeks.
Done early enough that they hold up. The studio of Kristerpher Henderson. Pattern recognition across climate science, media, big tech, and critical infrastructure.
"Media taught me that at a certain size, architectural shortcuts don't hide — they show up as customer incidents, with names and ticket numbers."
Most teams skip
the early work.
Re-architecting under load.
Guardrails after the incident.
Do it early enough
that it holds up.
An outside read on whether the design will hold up.
Service boundaries, data flow, failure modes, scale ceilings. Written report with prioritized findings. Typically 2–4 weeks.
A risk-focused review, not a checklist.
Auth, authz, input handling, secrets, dependencies, logging. Real risk over checklist theater. Reproductions and remediation included.
Deployment, observability, and Splunk depth.
Cloud and on-prem: deployment topology, networking, observability, CI/CD, cost structure. Deep Splunk expertise is a frequent specialty.
Recurring 1:1 work with engineers and leads.
Technical decisions, career arc, leadership mechanics. Usually a recurring monthly engagement.
MooseQuest is a product studio as much as it is a consultancy — two kinds of work that sharpen each other. Here's what the studio ships and runs directly.
Three things to learn together, morning and night.
A daily-learning app for friend groups. Three sourced learnings arrive morning and night, the group votes on what's next, and a five-day streak unlocks proposing your own topics. On iPhone and the web.
Feature flags and status monitoring in one self-hostable binary.
A modular control plane for the apps you build: ship features behind feature flags and watch your services with status checks, from a single dashboard, JSON API, and CLI. Runs as one static Go binary with embedded SQLite — no dependencies.
A retail options-trading platform.
Backtest your options strategies and paper-trade them before you commit. Built for retail traders. In development — join the waitlist for early access.
"I measure my own success the same way. Most people count tasks completed. I count tasks that stopped needing to exist." — Kristerpher Henderson
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