Performance Consulting
Infrastructure and web performance that shows up in the numbers.
Overview
How I approach this work
I run a portfolio of branded sites on infrastructure I operate myself, so performance work on my end is operational practice, not theory — Core Web Vitals, server capacity planning, caching strategy, bundle size, database query design, and monitoring all live together in the same system.
Performance engagements usually start wherever the pain is loudest: bad LCP on a landing page, a database query that is choking a dashboard, or a CI pipeline that is shipping regressions into production. I do the specific work — image pipeline, font loading, render-blocking resources, query plans, index strategy, caching headers — but the more useful part of the engagement is usually the infrastructure side: what should be on the CDN, what should be behind a cache, what should be in the database, and what belongs somewhere else entirely. I have built CI/CD pipelines, Docker-based deployment stacks, and monitoring for production systems with real uptime constraints, and I bring that to client work.
Deliverables
What a typical engagement produces
Concrete artifacts from this kind of work.
- Core Web Vitals pass
- LCP, INP, and CLS measured against real field data with specific fixes applied and regression tests wired into CI to catch future slippage.
- Infrastructure review
- Written assessment of hosting, caching, CDN, database, and deployment pipelines with prioritized recommendations — favoring what can be fixed inside the existing stack over recommending rewrites.
- Monitoring and alerting
- Observability and alerting configured for the metrics that matter — response times, error rates, queue depth — so regressions are caught by instrumentation instead of users.
- Infrastructure work
- Capacity, caching, monitoring
- Deployment
- Docker, CI/CD pipelines
- Database work
- Query design, indexing, tuning
Related areas
Other parts of my practice that overlap with this one.
Security Consulting
Web application and infrastructure hardening grounded in operational practice.