Principal Consulting

Infrastructure built
for the long run

Every engagement begins with your business requirements, not a predetermined stack. We design and deliver cloud-native architecture, high-throughput APIs, and data lakehouse systems engineered to enterprise standards — backed by decades of deep, domain-specific expertise at the leading edge of the infrastructure stack.

Clients range from Fortune 500 enterprises to high-growth SaaS companies and early-stage startups.
Secure

Secure by architecture, not by patching — whole classes of failure designed out at the route level. WAF, zero-trust ingress, and least-privilege access baked in from the start, not bolted on after.

Scalable

Designed to grow with your business. HA clustering, horizontal scaling, and event-driven architectures that don't require a rewrite when load doubles.

Production-Ready

No deep magic — configuration you can see, systems you can reason about. Async-first APIs, optimised query paths, and observability to prove it under real load.

Vendor-Neutral

Teach, don't trap. Open standards over proprietary lock-in — Apache Iceberg, Trino, Kubernetes. Architecture you can read, extend, and take with you.

Deep expertise across the full stack

From data pipeline to production edge — every decision grounded in real workloads, not theory.

data-lakehouse

Data Lakehouse & AI Pipelines

Apache Iceberg, Polaris catalog, Trino, Spark. Open lakehouse architecture engineered for ML/AI workloads — queryable at interactive speed, portable across clouds, free of vendor lock-in.

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streaming

Data Engineering & Streaming

Apache Kafka, Redpanda, NiFi, dbt. Real-time CDC pipelines and batch ETL connecting operational systems to your lakehouse — reliable, schema-aware, built for sustained throughput.

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api

API & Backend Engineering

High-throughput async Python with FastAPI. WebSockets, message queues, and event-driven backends built for production from the first commit — not retrofitted for scale.

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security

API Security & Zero-Trust

BOLA prevention, mTLS service identity, secrets management, and OWASP-aligned hardening. Security testing automated into every CI/CD build so every deploy is a verified one.

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data

Databases & Distributed Storage

PostgreSQL with Citus, MariaDB/Galera, and clear sharding strategy. When to scale vertically versus horizontally — and how to get there without a maintenance window.

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devops

Cloud-Native & Platform Engineering

Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Ansible. Infrastructure as code and automated pipelines across AWS, GCP, and Azure — reproducible, auditable, and safe to ship.

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observability

Observability & SRE

Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Datadog. Full-stack visibility from container metrics to distributed traces — know what's happening before your users do.

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ingress

Ingress & Traffic Management

HAProxy, NGINX, Kong, Traefik, Envoy. Layer 4/7 load balancing, WAF integration, adaptive rate limiting — precision traffic control at the edge.

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ai · strategy

AI Tool Strategy & Integration

Living contracts for AI tools — shaped to your project's ethos, decisions, and constraints. RAG-backed assistant design, prompt engineering, and model evaluation for production systems.

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Which sounds like you?

If one of these sounds like where you are, start there — Lumo will meet you in it.

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Let's talk it through.

Bring whatever you're working on — an early idea, or a problem you're in the middle of — and we'll work through it together.

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