AWS architecture that holds up under audit, load and cost review.
Independent AWS consulting for fintech, regulated SaaS, e-commerce and data-heavy teams in the EU and UK. Led by an architect with ten years on AWS, independent since 2022. Architecture reviews, cost audits, AI and document-processing pipelines, disaster recovery — as fixed-scope engagements or a fractional architect seat. No rate card here: every engagement is scoped and quoted after a first conversation.
Typical starting points
- Your AWS bill grew faster than the business and nobody can say why.
- A regulator, an auditor or a big customer just asked how fast you could recover — and you don't like your answer.
- You have millions of documents and a deadline; the manual plan takes years.
- You're about to re-platform, go multi-region or go serverless and want someone who has done it to check the design first.
- You need a senior architect two days a week, not another hire you can't fill.
Engagements
Architecture review
A written assessment of one system or the whole estate — security posture, resilience, scalability, operability and cost — with a prioritised fix list your team can start on next sprint. Fixed scope, read-only access, one to three weeks.
AWS cost audit
Where the bill goes, what is waste, what is a design choice, and a plan to bring it down without taking a risk the business hasn't priced. Fixed scope, one to two weeks. We do not promise a percentage before we have looked.
AI & intelligent document processing
Design — or a POC-to-production plan — for ingesting, classifying and extracting from documents at scale on Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker and serverless building blocks: throughput, cost per document, human review, data residency. The same pattern that, in a client engagement, classified 70M+ financial documents in two weeks against an estimated seven-year manual timeline.
Disaster recovery & regulatory readiness
Recovery objectives you can defend, a DR pattern chosen for the actual risk (pilot light, warm standby, active-active), runbooks, a tested failover — and the ICT-resilience evidence your regulator and auditors ask for.
Fractional cloud architect
A senior architect a few days a month: design reviews, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code standards, security guardrails, and coaching your engineers so the capability stays with you when the engagement ends.
Engagements are scoped and quoted individually after a first conversation. Fixed-scope work is quoted as a whole; ongoing work by the day.
Track record
- Serverless intelligent-document-processing pipeline (Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, SQS), in a client engagement: 70M+ financial documents processed and classified in two weeks, against an estimated seven-year manual timeline.
- Pilot-light disaster recovery with cross-region replication for an EU neobank: recovery time cut from weeks to hours, designed to the recovery objectives its regulator expects.
- Payment-analytics pipeline, in a client engagement: 15× throughput (~15K → ~250K records/second) by moving from a relational database to DynamoDB and redesigning the parallelisation.
- Architecture reviews, cost analysis and technical design for AI projects in regulated financial services — compliance automation and AI-augmented advisory systems.
- CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code standards and automated testing set up across several EU fintech clients.
Client engagements are confidential; results are as delivered to those clients and as stated by the consultant.
Who you work with
FORMIGACROBATA - UNIPESSOAL LDA's consulting practice is led by its founder, who earned the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification (now lapsed — Credly record), with ten years on AWS and one on GCP, independent since 2022 with clients across the UK and EU. Before that: Chief Data Pipeline Architect at Zonos (2021–22), Product Chief Software Architect at Trilogy (2018–21) — re-architecting SaaS products for high availability and 10× user growth — and engineering roles at Bridg, AKQA and Samsung R&D (2012–18). BSc Computer Science, Kyiv National Aviation University.
Works with: Security: IAM, VPC, WAF, Security Hub, GuardDuty, Control Tower · Compute: ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, Lambda, auto scaling · DevOps: CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK, CI/CD · Data: S3, Athena, Glue, EMR, Kinesis, Spark, Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB · Java, Python, TypeScript.
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Guides
Practical write-ups on AWS cost, resilience and e-invoicing. Free to read, no sign-up. All guides.
- Independent AWS architecture consulting
- Four AWS line items that look like waste
- Your RTO and RPO are guesses
- The tags are on the resources
- France requires an e-invoicing code the EU list no longer contains