A senior second opinion, when it counts.
Kevadia provides technical advisory for founders and engineering leaders — architecture reviews, scaling audits, AI readiness assessments, and hiring support — from engineers with a decade at Meta and Amazon. Embedded short-term, or on call when decisions get expensive.
FIG. 05 — Technical AdvisoryThe expensive mistakes are the quiet ones.
An architecture that won't survive the next funding round. A hire that looked senior on paper. A build-vs-buy call made on a vendor's slide deck. These decisions compound for years, and most teams make them without anyone in the room who has seen how they play out at scale.
THE OPERATING SEQUENCE.
- Phase 01
Listen first
We start with your constraints — team, runway, deadlines, politics — because advice that ignores them is trivia. The goal is the best decision you can actually execute.
- Phase 02
Audit the reality
We read the code, the architecture, the incident history, and the cloud bill — not just the diagrams. Findings come from the system as it is, not as it's described.
- Phase 03
Recommend in writing
Every engagement produces a written assessment: what's solid, what's fragile, what to do in what order, and what it costs. Specific enough that any senior engineer could execute it.
- Phase 04
Stay on call
Decisions don't arrive on a schedule. Retainer clients get an engineer who already knows their system, available when the next expensive question shows up.
WHAT WE BUILD.
Advisory spans whatever you run — we've operated JVM, Python, Node, Go, and C++ systems on AWS, GCP, and bare metal, and we read code before we form opinions about it.
FREQUENTLY ASKED.
What does a technical advisory engagement look like?
Most start with a fixed-scope audit: one to three weeks reviewing your architecture, code, and operations, ending in a written assessment with prioritized recommendations. From there, teams either execute internally, retain us on call, or have us embed to lead the highest-risk piece.
Can you act as a fractional CTO?
Yes, for early-stage teams that need senior technical leadership before they can hire it full time. That typically means owning architecture decisions, running hiring loops, setting engineering process, and representing technology to investors — a few days a month, with clear boundaries.
Do you do technical due diligence for investors?
Yes. We assess the target's architecture, code quality, team, scaling risks, and AI claims, and deliver a written report in investor language: what's real, what's fragile, what it costs to fix. Typical turnaround is one to two weeks depending on access.
How is your advice different from a consulting firm's?
It comes from engineers who still build, not a practice that bills by the deck. Recommendations are grounded in reading your actual code and incident history, written so your team can execute them.