You need real engineering capacity for a migration or platform push — not a full-time hire, and not a rotating cast of contractors.

The situation

Your team is stretched, or the decision in front of you is bigger than your day-to-day work usually calls for. There’s a migration, a platform build, or a string of consequential decisions — a warehouse migration, a governance model, whether to adopt a lakehouse — that need dedicated engineering time and judgment, but not enough of it to justify a full-time hire. You need real capacity on tap, not on payroll.

What the retainer gives you

A standing relationship with someone who already knows your platform, so I’m not re-learning context every time something comes up — whether that’s hands-on migration work or a design review before something ships. Reserved hours each month mean you’re never stuck in a queue when something’s time-sensitive.

What it looks like month to month

• Hands-on engineering capacity for migrations and platform work when your team needs an extra, experienced set of hands.
• Design reviews before consequential changes ship, catching failure modes early.
• A trusted escalation path for your engineers on the calls that are genuinely hard to get right.