Business and Technology Scaling for Founders and Leaders

Unlocking Growth

Cloud platforms and data science to help you flourish.

Palefire works with founders, boards and major consultancies who need a senior engineering partner. We remove the obstacles to growth and make the alignments to achieve massive scaling.

  • Cloud-native architectures
  • AI and data science strategy
  • Culture and processes

Finance · Media · Education · Sport · 25 years in production

Case study · Project Mars

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What we do

Three ways to work together, all of them hands-on.

Fractional CTO & Advisory

Senior technical leadership without the full-time overhead. Partner with your CEO and board on architecture decisions, engineering budgets, roadmap, and the trade-offs that will still matter in five years.

  • Architecture strategy
  • Board & investor comms
  • Engineering team leadership
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Platform Architecture

From event-driven backends to multi-tenant SaaS, designed for scale from the first whiteboard session, built hands-on through to production handover. AWS-native, serverless where it matters.

  • AWS cloud architecture
  • Serverless & event-driven
  • Multi-tenant SaaS
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AI & Data Engineering

Real-time analytics, AI/NLP services, and large-scale data pipelines built and operated in production, not proof-of-concept. Grounded in formal training and applied across live, high-stakes environments.

  • AI/NLP monitoring
  • Real-time data pipelines
  • ML implementation
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