Engineering Leadership Consulting
A senior thinking partner you can call before every consequential technical decision — so you stop deciding alone.
Outcome of this engagement
A senior thinking partner you can call before every consequential technical decision — so you stop deciding alone.
What you receive
- Bi-weekly 1:1 sessions — 60-90 min, off the record, focused on whatever decision is actually consuming your week
- Async written advice — Slack / email channel for urgent calls between sessions, with a guaranteed response window
- Quarterly strategy review — full half-day to step back from operations and align on the next 90 days
- Decision-log document — we keep written notes of major calls, so 3 months from now you can re-read what you decided and why
- Confidentiality — all sessions are off the record; nothing leaves the room without your explicit permission
Is this service the right fit for you?
Book this if you…
- You're a first-time CTO or Head of Engineering and the gap between "the problems you're solving" and "the people you can talk to about them" is widening
- You're the only senior technical voice in your company and the loneliness is showing up in your decision quality
- You're facing a high-stakes recurring decision (migration, hire, stack switch) and need someone outside your reporting chain to argue it with
Don't book this if you…
- You want a coach — this is technical-strategy advisory, not executive coaching. Different skill set; if that's what you need, we'll refer you
- You expect us to make the decision FOR you — we don't. We argue with you so YOUR decision gets sharper. Accountability stays with you
- You're a Senior IC who isn't leading anyone yet — take the 1:1 Backend Architecture Review (course #14) instead; that's the right shape
Why This Service
Strong engineering leadership is critical to scaling teams and systems. We help leaders make better technical and organizational decisions under real business constraints.
Key Benefits
Better Technical Decisions
Support with architecture choices, trade-offs, and long-term system thinking.
Stronger Teams
Improve ownership, communication, and accountability across teams.
Delivery Predictability
Reduce chaos and improve delivery timelines through better planning and prioritization.
Leadership Growth
Develop leadership skills alongside technical expertise.
What This Service Includes
- 1:1 leadership advisory sessions
- Engineering process and org-structure review
- Decision-making and prioritization support
- Confidential leadership coaching
Who you'll be working with
Oleksii Anzhiiak
Software Architect, Senior .NET Engineer & Co-Founder
Currently leads architecture for ToyCRM.com — a multi-tenant CRM platform built on .NET by our team. The same patterns and design decisions used there appear directly in the courses: identity & auth, distributed services, code review culture. You learn from engineers actively shipping production code, not from a textbook.
Frequently Asked Questions
Want to build this skill in-house instead?
Companies with engineering bandwidth sometimes prefer to upskill the team rather than buy the engagement. If that's you, here are the courses that cover the same ground — taught by our senior engineers in the same voice as our consulting work:
Read alongside this engagement
OpenSpec in 2026: The Operating System for Spec-Driven Development
Six weeks ago I installed @fission-ai/openspec. Yesterday I shipped a 14-file change in 90 minutes from a 200-line spec, in a brownfield codebase three engineers have been editing for two years — no merge conflicts, no review escalation. This is the senior-architect deep-dive on why OpenSpec is the first SDD tool that doesn't collapse under production reality.
Evals in 2026: The Test Suite for Systems That Aren't Deterministic
Your AI feature worked yesterday and fails today. No code change, no prompt change, no model change. That's what life without evals looks like. This is the third leg of the spec → context → evals trinity — and the discipline most teams skip.
Spec-Driven Development: When Your Spec Becomes the Codebase
I haven't written a function by hand in two months — and the codebase has never been healthier. Here's how spec-driven development changed what 'engineering work' means in 2026, the rules that keep the discipline honest, and where it still falls apart.
What's Included
- Leadership support for tech leads and managers
- Decision-making and responsibility clarity
- Engineering culture and team alignment
- Technical debt and delivery balance
- Mentorship grounded in real production experience
- Sustainable leadership practices
What You'll Achieve
- More confident and effective engineering leaders
- Clearer technical and organizational decisions
- Healthier team dynamics and reduced burnout
- Improved delivery predictability
- Leadership that scales with team growth
Ready to Get Started?
Contact us today to learn more about how this service can help you