Tech Consulting
Independent senior technical judgement, on tap — for the decisions that are expensive to get wrong and awkward to reverse.
Software engineering & architecture consultancy
Technology that earns its keep.
We help startups and SMEs turn ambitious ideas into systems that hold up — under real load, real money and real scrutiny. Twenty-five years of doing it, mostly in places where getting it wrong was expensive.
Deep domain experience in Financial Services, Digital Assets, Proptech and eCommerce.
- 25+Years designing and shipping production systems
- 3Continents delivered across — AU, UK, UAE
- 18Largest engineering team led directly
- 30+Legacy systems decommissioned in one consolidation
What we do
Eight ways we tend to be useful
Some clients need a decision made well once. Others need a system built, a fire put out, or a team levelled up. Most engagements start as one of these and grow into another.
Capability Building
Senior engineering capacity that leaves your team permanently more capable — not permanently dependent on us.
Architecture
Systems designed for the load, the money and the audit you will face in three years — and then actually built, not just diagrammed.
Cloud & Cost
Move to the cloud without carrying your problems across with you — and stop paying for capacity you never use.
Business Efficiency
Find the manual, repetitive and error-prone work quietly taxing your business, and engineer it out.
Troubleshooting
The problem nobody on the team can crack. Fresh eyes, deep experience, and a strong bias toward root cause over workaround.
Performance
Latency, throughput and infrastructure cost are the same conversation. We measure first, then fix what actually matters.
Process Engineering
Shorten the distance between an idea and it running safely in production — so releases become routine instead of events.
Where we go deep
A consultancy that claims every sector knows none of them
We can work in most domains. But there are four where we have spent long enough to know the failure modes, the regulators' expectations and the shortcuts that come back to bite.
Financial Services
Trading, order and portfolio management, market data, risk, reconciliation and regulatory reporting for global asset managers and brokers.
Digital Assets
Regulated exchanges, custody and wallet infrastructure, blockchain integration, and converged crypto/fiat transaction processing.
Proptech
Data ingestion and enrichment pipelines, CRM integration, propensity modelling and analytics platforms.
eCommerce & Digital
Payment gateways, high-traffic storefronts, checkout and funding flows, and the platform work that keeps conversion healthy.
How we operate
Three things we will not trade away
Integrity
Straight answers, including the unwelcome ones. If a project is the wrong idea, or you need less of us than you thought, we will tell you.
Collaboration
We work inside your team, not adjacent to it. Your engineers should finish the engagement more capable than they started it.
Excellence
Pragmatic, not precious. We build the simplest thing that survives contact with real load, real money and real auditors.
Engagement models
Start small. Scale it up if it is working.
We would rather earn a longer engagement than lock you into one. Most relationships begin with a short, fixed-scope piece of work so you can judge us on output instead of on a pitch.
1–2 weeks
Technical review
A fixed-scope assessment of your architecture, cloud spend, delivery process or a specific problem area. You get a written findings document, a prioritised list of recommendations, and a walkthrough with your team.
Best when you need clarity or an independent opinion fast.
1–6 months
Embedded engineering
Hands-on design and implementation alongside your team. We take real tickets, write real code, and hand over documented systems your engineers own afterwards.
Best when you have a build to get done and need senior capacity.
Ongoing
Fractional architect / CTO
A recurring commitment — typically 1–3 days a week — covering architecture decisions, technical governance, hiring, vendor selection and roadmap.
Best when you need senior technical leadership but not a full-time hire.
Who you will work with
You get the principal, not a graduate with a template
Let Them Eat Code is deliberately small. The person who scopes your work is the person who does it — Matt Wood, a solution architect with 25+ years designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems.
That background is mostly in environments with low tolerance for failure: real-time trading and portfolio management, regulated digital-asset exchanges and custody, multi-lateral trading facilities, payment processing and high-traffic consumer platforms. Systems where reliability, security, low latency and fault tolerance were requirements rather than aspirations.
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Got something that needs an experienced pair of eyes?
A first conversation is free, thirty minutes, and has no deck. Tell us what you are wrestling with and we will tell you honestly whether we can help — and if we cannot, who might.