You need a second technical opinion
You are choosing a technology, planning modernisation or reviewing a supplier’s proposal. We compare options, costs and risks. You receive a reasoned recommendation and a plan for the next steps.
IT consulting · Audit · Architecture
IT consulting and technical advice.
We help business owners and technical teams assess their systems, choose technologies and plan changes. We compare options, identify risks and recommend next steps, drawing on engineering experience and analysis of your system.
First conversation: 30 minutes, free of charge.
Users & integrations
Your system
Code · data · infrastructure
Performance
Where does latency come from?
Resilience
What happens during a failure?
Security
Who can access the data?
Example questions that guide our analysis.
Distributed systems
Telecommunications
Cryptography
Backend & integrations
Your starting point
What brings you here?
Choose the situation closest to yours. A description of the problem is enough to start.
Your system slows down or fails
Failures recur, latency grows or you are taking over someone else’s code. An audit helps identify risks and prioritise fixes. Your own team can implement the recommendations.
You are considering AI for a workflow
You want to spend less time on documents, search or data analysis. A prototype lets us test whether AI produces useful results and what it costs to run.
Expertise
Advice grounded in engineering experience.
TechRunes was founded by Piotr Olszewski, an engineer with over 15 years of experience. Our work in backend, distributed systems, telecommunications and cryptography informs our advice on implementation and maintenance.
Distributed systems
Data consistency, communication between services and fault tolerance.
Telecommunications
Network protocols, carrier-grade systems and low-level performance.
Cryptography
Implementation reviews, key management and protocol design.
Backend & integrations
Business logic, databases and information flow between systems.
Working together
How do we work together?
We start with a conversation about the problem. The proposal sets out what we will do, what it will cost and how you will know the work is complete.
See how we work-
Understanding
You describe the problem. We check whether we can help and what information we need for an estimate.
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Proposal
You receive the scope, schedule, pricing model and acceptance criteria.
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Work & validation
We discuss findings and show results. Scope changes are agreed with you.
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Handover
You receive the agreed deliverables and next steps for your team.