Architecture-led engineering
Systems that hold when the load arrives.
We design and build high-throughput software for companies whose systems have to scale: architecture, fractional CTO work, product engineering and team training. Founder-led, 19 years in production.
FIG. 01Edge, services, state. Load arrives on a cycle, one writer owns the base, the structure holds. Point at a floor.
- designing distributed systems in production
- median latency improvement on a legacy pricing engine
- sustained authorisation throughput, federal reliability
- faster settlement after an event-driven rebuild
What we do
Four practices, one standard.
Find the real constraint. Change the boundary that causes it. Leave the team able to run the system without us.
Systems architecture
Event-driven and distributed platforms that keep their guarantees under load. Monoliths taken apart without a big-bang cutover.
- Event-driven architecture
- Domain-driven decomposition
- Monolith to microservices
- Performance and latency
Fractional CTO
Executive technical ownership one or two days a week: strategy, roadmap, the case to the board, and the team to deliver it.
- Technology roadmapping
- Technical due diligence
- Engineering org design
- Board and investor communication
Cloud, platform & AI
Cloud infrastructure as reviewable code, deployments with cheap rollback, and AI automation where it pays for itself.
- AWS and Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as code and CI/CD
- Observability and SLOs
- AI-driven process automation
Product engineering
Apps and storefronts on Shopify, Meta and Android, with backends built to outlast the app.
- Meta platform apps
- Shopify apps and storefronts
- Android applications
- Backends built to outlive the app
- Metrics
- Published as measured. Never rounded up or borrowed.
- Decisions
- Written down as ADRs and runbooks, so the reasoning outlives us.
- Delivery
- Each step is useful on its own and can be rolled back.
- This site
- 0 KB of JavaScript and a 90 KB page budget, enforced in CI.
Selected work
Numbers, with the reasoning attached.
Clients are described, not named. Every engagement was under contract. The metrics are as measured.
Exactly-once settlement at financial scale
An event-driven microservices platform for high-value settlement, where a duplicated or dropped message is a financial loss rather than a retry.
A transport management system built from zero
End-to-end technical strategy and cloud architecture for a greenfield TMS: smart route planning, live tracking telemetry and freight automation.
Six-fold latency reduction by decomposition
A legacy monolithic pricing engine taken apart into twelve services, cutting median latency six-fold and maintenance cost by well over half.
Corporate training
Taught by people who were accountable for the result.
Seven programmes for engineering teams, on-site or remote. Each one comes from an engagement on the work page, taught with the material that was used.
- Distributed Systems & Event-Driven Architecture
- Domain-Driven Design in Practice
- Cloud-Native on AWS & Kubernetes
- TDD, BDD & Test Automation
- Performance Engineering & Latency Reduction
- AI & Automation for Engineering Teams
- Architecture for Senior ICs
The founder
Led by the person who does the work.
Suraj ChavdaFounder, CEO & CTO
SoftArchium is founded and run by Suraj Chavda. He has spent 19 years designing high-throughput distributed systems, at Avaya and Amazon Alexa before starting the firm in 2021, and he still does the architecture on every engagement.
He is not tied to a stack. The judgment is the product: what to decouple, what to keep simple, what will break first. A bench of long-trusted specialists in security, QA and delivery joins by name when a job needs them.
- Based
- Pune, India · EU, US and Australia hours
- Depth
- Distributed systems, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design
- Education
- Caltech CTME, PG programme in AI & ML (2024)
- Bench
- Security, QA, delivery and operations, engaged per engagement