Scale your startup
without expensive
backend rewrites
I help Seed → Series A teams ship fast & securely, while keeping the infra costs in check.
In Node.js & AWS *, with systems built to survive growth instead of collapsing at the next inflection point.
"Heeth quickly understood our codebase, delivered high-quality prototypes, and was meticulous in every PR."
What I Do
Backend Architecture, System Design
Designing the foundation: Database schema, System design, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines. The decisions that determine whether your codebase survives the next few years.
- •Database schema & data modeling
- •System architecture & design
- •AWS infrastructure setup
- •CI/CD pipelines & deployment
Scalable Backend Development
Building the actual systems: Backend server / serverless functions, queues, caching layers, background jobs. Production-grade code with proper error handling and monitoring.
- •Backend server / serverless functions
- •Message queues & background jobs
- •Caching layers & performance
- •Error handling & monitoring
Backend Rescue, Optimization
Existing system hitting limits? I audit, identify bottlenecks, and fix them. Query optimization, architecture refactoring, cost reduction on AWS.
- •Performance audits & bottleneck identification
- •Query & database optimization
- •Architecture refactoring
- •AWS cost reduction
Reliability Baseline in Every Engagement
Not premium add-ons. These are the production standards included in every engagement so your team isn't firefighting avoidable failures six months later.
Request-level tracing and structured logs
Alerting with actionable thresholds
Safe data lifecycle patterns (retention + deletion)
Queue-first handling for bursty/retry-prone workflows
API and job-level error handling standards
Handoff-ready documentation in every delivery cycle
The Cost of Waiting
Ignoring backend architecture issues now usually turns into
slower shipping, higher costs, and painful rewrites later.
Slower shipping every sprint
Backend shortcuts compound silently. Feature lead time expands, regression risk rises, and roadmap promises become harder to keep.
Rewrite risk near fundraising
Growth exposes weak architecture at the worst possible time. Teams end up burning months on rewrites when investor and customer pressure is highest.
Higher infra and ops load
Inefficient data paths and weak reliability hygiene create rising AWS bills, pager noise, and engineering drag that steals focus from product work.
How it works?
Architecture audit call + context gathering
Risk map and implementation plan
Weekly shipping with async progress updates
Production hardening while features ship
Handoff docs and optional ongoing ownership
Featured Case Studies
Decision-heavy work where architecture trade-offs materially changed performance, reliability, or operational cost.
Metrics endpoint latency reduced from ~8s to ~2s
ClickHouse Query Decomposition
ClickHouse Query Decomposition
Reworked a heavy production query into a pragmatic two-step plan that outperformed the cleaner single-query option in real workload conditions.
Read Case StudyProtected delivery path while preserving analytics
Cost-Aware Hybrid Data Layer
Cost-Aware Hybrid Data Layer
Separated delivery-critical reads from analytics writes to keep webhook forwarding reliable and fast during incidents without compromising cost-awareness.
Read Case StudyDecoupled analytics without slowing hot path
SQS to Lambda Batch Writes
SQS to Lambda Batch Writes
Used batch buffering to keep forwarding latency predictable while still landing near-real-time analytics in PostgreSQL for business and support visibility.
Read Case StudyTestimonials
Ramkumar Venkataraman
Founder, CTO - Sei (YC W22)
Heeth joined us when were building the MVP of our product and quickly understood what we were building and our codebase.
He was meticulous in every PR and ensured proper documentation was done alongside.
Heeth was also quick to pick new tools in our stack and come with fast and high quality prototypes. His strengths are neat coding practices, quick to learn what is needed and deliver.
The Team
It's just me (Heeth)
You get direct communication, faster decisions, and clear ownership without account-manager overhead.
I have been coding since I was 14 and genuinely enjoy software development & building stuff.
I have worked with early-stage startups remotely and think in terms of failure modes, trade-offs, and maintainability, not framework trends.
For you, that means clear technical ownership, fast iteration in ambiguous environments, no middlemen, and backend systems that hold up through your next growth stage.