Platform Engineering

Nika builds the backbone of high-load platforms — the systems that have to stay fast and correct while traffic multiplies. We design for the spike, not the average, so a 10x surge is a Tuesday, not an incident.

We don’t bolt scalability on at the end. We engineer for it from the first diagram.

What we do

Architecture & system design

• High-concurrency platform architecture

• Event-driven and microservice design

• Stateless services with horizontal autoscaling

• Capacity modelling and load forecasting

• Multi-region and active-active topologies

Performance engineering

• Latency budgeting down to the p99

• Connection and session fan-out (WebSocket, SSE, long-poll)

• In-memory state, caching, and data locality

• Backpressure, rate limiting, and graceful degradation

Build & delivery

• Greenfield platform builds

• Service decomposition of legacy monoliths

• CI/CD pipelines and progressive delivery

• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi)

Operate at scale

• SLOs, error budgets, and on-call design

• Autoscaling and cost-aware capacity

• Chaos testing and game-day exercises

• 24/7 reliability support

How we engage

Most engagements start with a short architecture review — we map your load profile, find the bottlenecks, and agree on targets. From there we either embed with your team or own a workstream end to end. Either way, you keep the system, the documentation, and the knowledge.