SOA Solutions & Fractional CTO Advisory

Service-Oriented Architecture & Solutions

Partner with a Principal Solution Architect for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) migrations, domain decomposition, PostgreSQL HA clustering, GitOps automation, and cloud cost reduction.

99.99%
Target Database Uptime
35% - 55%
Avg. FinOps Cloud Savings
< 10 Sec
Failover RTO Window
8+ Years
Industry Experience
Enterprise Governance & Contracting Assurance

Frictionless Enterprise Compliance & Security

Every advisory and SRE retainer is structured with bilateral non-disclosure agreements, 100% intellectual property ownership transfer, and adherence to cloud security benchmarks.

Bilateral NDA Ready
Clean IP Assignment
100% Ready

Mutual NDA & IP Ownership

Standard bilateral NDA execution prior to discovery. Complete client IP ownership with zero external license contamination.

Certified

AWS Well-Architected Certified

Adherence to the 6 pillars of Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

Hardened

Zero-Trust & Secure Cloud Networks

Least-privilege IAM policies, automated secret rotation, encrypted multi-region networks, and hardened container baselines.

Enterprise Standard

SRE SLA & On-Call Governance

Strict incident command runbooks, automated chaos testing, and blameless post-mortem culture with <5 min target MTTR.

Value-Driven Architecture Tiers

Strategic Advisory & SRE Tiers

Targeted architectural solutions designed for founders, CTOs, and engineering teams requiring 99.99% reliability, cloud cost containment, and strategic technical leadership.

Enterprise Architecture

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) & Solutions

✨ Decoupled domain services, event-driven orchestration & high throughput

Transform brittle monolithic backends into resilient, loosely-coupled Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). We design Domain-Driven service boundaries, high-performance API Gateways, asynchronous event messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ), gRPC/REST service contracts, and distributed transaction workflows.

Core Deliverables & Measurable Outcomes

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) & Service Boundary Decomposition
High-throughput API Gateway & Service Mesh Orchestration (Kong/Traefik)
Event-driven asynchronous messaging pipelines (Kafka / RabbitMQ / SQS)
Strict contract-first API design & gRPC / Protocol Buffers integration
Ideal ForHigh-Growth Scale-ups & Enterprises outgrowing monolithic systems
Engagement ModelArchitecture Blueprint or Fractional Advisory
Executive Leadership

Fractional CTO & Strategic Advisory

✨ Strategic scale without full-time executive overhead

Embedded executive leadership for scaling startups and established tech firms. We establish technology roadmaps, streamline engineering culture, manage vendor contracts, and align architecture with revenue goals.

Core Deliverables & Measurable Outcomes

Technology & Infrastructure Strategy Roadmaps
Engineering Team Hiring, Mentorship & Culture Alignment
System Scalability Audits & Architecture Reviews
Multi-Region Architecture & Vendor Governance
Ideal ForStartups, Scale-ups & Growing Tech Firms
Engagement ModelMonthly Retainer / 10-20 hrs per week
Enterprise Reliability

Mission-Critical PostgreSQL & HA Clustering

✨ 99.99% Uptime with Sub-10s Automated Failover

End-to-end relational database clustering architecture. Implementation of Patroni consensus failover, Etcd consensus, pgBackRest S3 backups, PgBouncer pooling, and zero-data-loss disaster recovery.

Core Deliverables & Measurable Outcomes

Patroni + Etcd automated failover cluster implementation
pgBackRest point-in-time recovery (PITR) with cloud storage
PgBouncer high-concurrency pooling & lock contention triage
Grafana/Prometheus deep PostgreSQL replication telemetry
Ideal ForFintech, E-commerce & High-Concurrency Data Platforms
Engagement ModelProject Blueprint or Dedicated SRE Retainer
Infrastructure Scale

Enterprise SRE & Kubernetes Modernization

✨ Friction-free releases & <5m Incident MTTR

Modernize monolithic or legacy infrastructure into declarative, self-healing Kubernetes clusters. Complete GitOps CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD/Helm), multi-cloud Terraform IaC, and full-stack observability.

Core Deliverables & Measurable Outcomes

Kubernetes production cluster setup & automated GitOps
Infrastructure as Code via modular Terraform & Ansible
Full-stack telemetry with Prometheus, Grafana & OpenTelemetry
Automated disaster recovery & on-call runbook development
Ideal ForCompanies scaling beyond legacy single-server setups
Engagement ModelFixed-Scope Migration or SRE Retainer
High ROI Optimization

Cloud FinOps & Cost Optimization

✨ Immediate cloud savings & latency reduction

Deep diagnostic audits on cloud spend, latency bottlenecks, and runaway infrastructure bills. We optimize instance sizing, network egress, query latency, and unblock critical production bottlenecks.

Core Deliverables & Measurable Outcomes

Comprehensive Cloud Cost & FinOps Waste Audit
Query & API response time bottleneck remediation
Resource rightsizing & reserved instance optimization
Emergency post-mortem & system hardening
Ideal ForEnterprises with high AWS/GCP bills or recurring performance issues
Engagement ModelRapid 2-Week Sprint or Value-Share Audit
Migration & Modernization

Cloud Migration & Modernization (Multi-Cloud / On-Prem)

✨ Seamless cross-cloud, on-prem to cloud & modern stack re-platforming

End-to-end strategic migration and architectural re-platforming. Whether transitioning from legacy on-premises datacenters to cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), executing cross-cloud portability migrations, or re-architecting your technology stack, we guarantee zero data loss, minimal downtime, and optimized target topologies.

Core Deliverables & Measurable Outcomes

On-premise to Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) lift, shift & re-architect roadmap
Cross-cloud migration & multi-cloud hybrid topology design
Zero-downtime database & live data synchronization pipelines
Legacy stack containerization, IaC re-platforming & security compliance
Ideal ForEnterprises moving from bare-metal/on-prem or re-platforming between clouds
Engagement ModelFixed-Scope Migration Project or Architectural Advisory
Engagement Model

How Advisory Engagements Work

A frictionless, 4-phase methodology designed for rapid impact, cost efficiency, and enterprise reliability.

01Days 1 - 3
Discovery & Diagnostics

Deep-Dive Architectural Audit

Thorough inspection of current database topologies, cloud billing footprints, Kubernetes manifests, CI/CD bottlenecks, and telemetry blind spots.

Key Deliverables:
  • Infrastructure vulnerability & latency hot-spot audit
  • Cloud spend breakdown & immediate cost-reduction targets
  • Executive technical assessment report with prioritized fixes
02Week 1
System Design

Strategic Blueprint & Architecture Plan

Crafting a production-grade blueprint for High Availability, GitOps automation, database replication, and zero-downtime migration pathways.

Key Deliverables:
  • PostgreSQL HA cluster architecture specs (Patroni/PgBouncer)
  • Terraform & Kubernetes declarative infrastructure blueprints
  • Risk mitigation & business continuity operational runbook
03Weeks 2 - 4
Hands-on Engineering

Implementation & Production Execution

Active implementation of automated pipelines, database clustering, metrics/tracing dashboards, and resilience load testing.

Key Deliverables:
  • Multi-node Patroni PostgreSQL cluster setup & verification
  • Automated CI/CD deployment pipelines & GitOps workflows
  • Prometheus/Grafana observability dashboards & alerting rules
04Ongoing Advisory
Executive Fractional CTO

Governance, Upskilling & SLAs

Long-term architectural governance, engineering team mentorship, sprint roadmap alignment, and 99.99% uptime SLA maintenance.

Key Deliverables:
  • Quarterly infrastructure capacity & performance reviews
  • Senior engineering mentorship & hiring interview support
  • 24/7 disaster recovery procedures and executive advisory

Zero Vendor Lock-In

All IaC (Terraform) and database tooling (PostgreSQL, Patroni) are 100% open-source and belong to your organization.

Measurable ROI & FinOps

Guaranteed cloud infrastructure cost reductions and quantifiable latency improvements.

Production Uptime Guarantee

Architected around strict 99.99% SLA availability standards and automated failover topologies.

Direct Principal Engagement

Ready to Upgrade Your Architecture?

Schedule a direct 30-minute introductory architecture triage with Sandip to analyze bottlenecks, cloud expenditures, and scaling requirements.

Interactive Scope Diagnostic

System Triage & ROI Diagnostic

Select your primary technical priority to preview the prescriptive strategy and verified business ROI.

SOA & Solutions Strategy Blueprint

Loosely-Coupled Services, Event Streaming & API Gateways

Identified Risk / Bottleneck

Monolithic bottlenecks, tight code coupling, slow deploy cycles, single-point cascading outages, and team coordination overhead.

Prescribed Technical Intervention
Domain-Driven Design (DDD) service boundary decomposition
Asynchronous event messaging with Kafka / RabbitMQ pipelines
Enterprise API Gateway & Service Mesh (Kong/Traefik/gRPC)
Distributed transaction resilience (Saga & Outbox patterns)
Expected Business & SLA Impact

10x Engineering Velocity • Isolated Failure Domains • Independent Deployments

Target Timeline4-10 Weeks Phased Blueprint & Delivery
EngagementPrincipal SRE
Primary Deliverable

Enterprise SOA Architecture Blueprint + Service Contracts + Event Schemas

Book Diagnostic Consultation
Executive Endorsements & Peer Reviews

Trusted by Founders & Engineering Leaders

Delivering zero-downtime reliability, decoupled architectural speed, and high-impact technical governance across enterprise platforms.

Accelerated Velocity & Reliability

“Sandip's architectural depth and disciplined approach to scalable cloud systems made an immediate impact. He has a rare ability to untangle complex infrastructure challenges, optimize performance, and empower engineering teams to ship with confidence.”

Jonas Hess
Co-Founder & CPO
Deskbird
Scalable Cloud Architecture

“Working with Sandip gave us tremendous clarity on our system architecture. From decoupling core services to streamlining database reliability, his solutions eliminated critical bottlenecks and significantly accelerated our engineering velocity.”

Arnav Vohra
Founder & CEO
Nibbl
Zero-Downtime Reliability

“Sandip is a trusted technical partner who brings executive-level vision and hands-on execution. His guidance on infrastructure resilience, zero-downtime reliability, and clean systems design has been invaluable to our digital growth.”

Krishna Gurung
Founder & Director
AuraHimalaya
Executive Engagement Channels

Schedule Strategic Advisory Session

Direct collaboration for Founders, CTOs, and VPs of Engineering needing principal architectural guidance, high-availability clustering, or FinOps cost containment.

30-Min Executive BriefingRapid Architecture TriageNDA Protected

Executive Strategy & Architecture Briefing ☕

Planning a transition from monolith to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)? Facing database bottlenecks under peak load, or need zero-downtime database governance? Let's conduct a confidential 30-minute architectural assessment.

•⚡ 30-min Executive Architectural Assessment
•🧩 Domain-Driven Service Decomposition Blueprint
•🛡️ Zero-Data-Loss Failover & High Availability Plan
•📊 Concrete Cloud FinOps & Cost Reduction Tactics
Executive Office

Direct Contact Touchpoints

For confidential board advisory, high-availability database contracts, or cloud architecture retainers.

Executive Email
contact@sandipbasnet.com.np
Base Location
Kathmandu, Nepal 🇳🇵 • Retainer & Advisory Worldwide
Advisory inquiries prioritized within 12-24 hours.
Professional Networks

Direct Written Inquiry

Strategic advisory, architecture audits & retainer proposals

Priority Channel