IT STRATEGY & CONTRACT ENGINEERING

IT Solutions that are

WAYS OF WORKING

Two ways to work with us

We help small and mid-sized companies untangle their IT — as strategists who set the direction, and as senior engineers who build it with you.

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IT Strategy

We analyze your IT, define a strategy with your leadership, and implement it with your team — deep workshops and pairing sessions included. The full method, end to end.

Our methodology

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Contract Engineering

Need senior hands, not another deck? We embed as contract engineers — architecture, backend, infrastructure, security. Full- or part-time, remote, lean on process, and productive from week one.

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THE BASICS

Good to know

AVERAGE EXPERIENCE

16+ years

BASED IN

Hamburg

ENGAGEMENT

Full- or part-time

WORK MODE

Remote

CHALLENGES WE TACKLE

Sound familiar?

Service Interruptions and Bugs

Are frequent bugs, downtime, and scalability issues disrupting your operations?

  • You can’t tackle what you can’t see
  • A business continuity plan prepares you for failure
  • Align development and production environments

High Costs

Are IT infrastructure and operational costs putting pressure on your budget?

  • Provide transparency and budget planning
  • Design architecture for cost efficiency
  • Choose technologies based on cost and performance

Project Transparency

Do project planning, execution, and tracking feel chaotic and unstructured?

  • We delegate responsibility, not tasks
  • Regular, asynchronous project updates
  • Fewer meetings, more focus time

Overly Complex Software

Does onboarding new hires take too long, and does fear of breaking the system stall progress?

  • Reduce onboarding times
  • The fewer moving parts, the better
  • Remove knowledge silos

Slow Feature Development

Is time to market too slow for new features, and your team pushed to its limits?

  • Get the stack running in seconds
  • Reduce test-cycle times
  • Improve system observability

OUR METHODOLOGY

Analyze. Define. Implement.

A successful IT strategy needs a solid foundation. Our process gives you the insights and actions to align your IT with your business goals.

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Analyze

We audit your processes, infrastructure, and software.

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Define

We set the strategy and roadmap with your management and tech leads.

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Implement

We fix and build together with your team — workshops and pairing included.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

Senior by default

Led by Steven Koehnke and Maximilian Reichel, the team is all senior engineers — averaging 16+ years of production experience across roles, industries, and stacks. Seniority is the default, not an upsell.

Steven Koehnke

System Architect · Interim Management

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Maximilian Reichel

Software Architect · Security Engineer

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Samjessa Lewy

Staff Engineer · Frontend Architect

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Security-Focused

Most of the team has a security background. We build the threat model into the strategy — not bolt it on after.

Straight Talk

Transparency and integrity are at the heart of everything we do. We tell you not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear to succeed.

Lean by Default

Processes should adapt to the mission, not the other way around. We favor lean, agile ways of working — streamlined, never cumbersome.

THE TOOLBOX

What our engineers ship in

No partner badges — the stacks we build and run for clients, hands-on.

TypeScriptTypeScript
GoGo
PHPPHP
SymfonySymfony
JavaJava
SpringSpring
Node.jsNode.js
ReactReact
AngularAngular
VueVue
PythonPython
GraphQLGraphQL
Google CloudGoogle Cloud
AWSAWS
AzureAzure
KubernetesKubernetes
DockerDocker
TerraformTerraform
PulumiPulumi
AnsibleAnsible
HelmHelm
PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
RedisRedis
KafkaKafka
ElasticsearchElasticsearch
PrometheusPrometheus
GrafanaGrafana