SocialSync
How Eric reduced SocialSync’s webhook database load by 80%
SocialSync was drowning in webhook processing. Eric identified redundant database writes and implemented a batched queue system that cut database load dramatically.
Eric Scott · Software Performance Consultant
Your software should be 60% faster. I’ll prove it.
I embed with engineering teams to find and fix the performance bottlenecks that nobody has time to chase — cutting cloud costs, taming LLM spend, and shipping measurable improvements every week.
If this sounds familiar, we should talk.
- API response times are creeping up and nobody has time to investigate.
- Cloud and LLM bills grow every quarter, but your traffic hasn’t doubled.
- Your team is shipping features — performance always falls to “next sprint.”
- You’ve fixed the obvious stuff. The real bottlenecks need deeper instrumentation to find.
Your engineers should be building product.
Performance engineering requires dedicated focus, specialised tooling, and pattern recognition that comes from doing this across dozens of codebases — from database bottlenecks to runaway LLM token spend. Your team is busy building product — that's exactly what they should be doing.
I've seen the same bottleneck patterns dozens of times. What takes an internal team weeks of investigation, I can often diagnose in hours.
The cost of doing it in-house
- Senior performance engineer salary
- £100k+/year
- Plus recruitment, benefits, onboarding
- 3–6 months
- Working with me
- £5,000/month
Same expertise. Zero recruitment overhead. I can start next week. Commit to three months, extend month-to-month after that — and when the work is done, you stop paying.
A clear process, measurable results.
Every engagement follows the same proven methodology. No surprises.
01
Instrument
- I audit your existing observability setup — or build one from scratch. By the end of week one, we have real production data to work with.
02
Analyse
- I dig into the data, identify the highest-impact bottlenecks, and prioritise them by business value. You’ll know exactly what’s costing you the most.
03
Fix & improve
- I implement optimizations, validate every fix with production metrics, and move to the next bottleneck. Measurable results, not guesswork.
Results from teams like yours.
Eric identified a memory leak that had been plaguing us for months. Within two weeks, our API response times dropped by 60%.
Alex Morgan
CTO, Orbital
The ROI was immediate. Eric's optimization work cut our cloud bill by 40% in the first month alone.
Jordan Riley
VP Engineering, Axiom
Having Eric embedded with our team changed how we think about performance. Not just fixes — a lasting culture shift.
Sam Taylor
Engineering Director, Relay
Transparent pricing. No surprises.
One plan. One price. Everything you need to make your software measurably faster.
Monthly retainer
£5,000
Per month · 3-month minimum contract, extend as long as you need.
- Production profiling & instrumentation setup
- Root-cause analysis & prioritised fix roadmap
- Hands-on implementation of optimizations
- LLM usage auditing & cost optimization
- Performance regression monitoring
- Weekly progress reports
- Team mentoring on performance practices
Real results, real teams.
A few examples of what dedicated performance work looks like in practice.
CloudBase
How Eric cut CloudBase’s API latency from 1.2s to 180ms
CloudBase’s dashboard API was painfully slow. Production profiling traced the bottleneck to N+1 queries and an unoptimised aggregation pipeline.
DataForge
How Eric saved DataForge £40k/year in cloud infrastructure
DataForge was over-provisioned across the board. An infrastructure audit identified idle resources and right-sized their compute, cutting £40k from their annual cloud bill.
Your software should be faster.
Book a free 20-minute call to discuss your performance challenges. No obligation, no pitch deck — just an honest conversation about what's possible.