Elias Feijó· Structural Risk

Backend Production Risk Audits

Find and fix backend fragilities before they slow growth, delay launches, or cost investor confidence.

I run focused production risk audits for Seed and Series A startups under growth pressure — delivering a clear risk map and a prioritized action plan in 7 days.

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Limited to 2 audits per month to ensure depth and focus.

The reality

When startups grow, backend fragility gets expensive.

You may be seeing:

  • Slower deployments under pressure
  • Scaling uncertainty before a launch or fundraising
  • AWS costs rising without clear visibility
  • Monitoring that doesn't catch issues early
  • Architecture decisions made fast — but never revisited

Most of these are not urgent — until they are. And when they surface, they cost time, credibility, and momentum.

What this audit is

A focused production risk & scalability review.

This is not a code review.

This is not freelance development.

This is not a generic architecture consultation.

It is a structured risk assessment designed to answer:

"If traffic triples next quarter, what breaks first?"

Deliverables

Within 7 days, you receive:

01 — Risk Map

A structured overview of architectural fragilities:

  • Scalability bottlenecks
  • Single points of failure
  • Data consistency risks
  • Authorization/security exposure
  • Observability blind spots

02 — Failure Scenarios

Clear articulation of:

  • What is most likely to fail under load
  • What would be hardest to recover from
  • What would impact revenue or user trust

03 — 30–90 Day Action Plan

Not theoretical improvements. A ranked, practical roadmap based on:

  • Impact
  • Cost
  • Effort
  • Risk reduction value

Fit

Who this is for

This is for you if

  • You’re Seed or Series A
  • You have a small engineering team
  • Growth is accelerating
  • You’re preparing for fundraising
  • You want technical confidence before scaling further

This is not for

  • Pre-product teams
  • Enterprises with large platform teams
  • Founders looking for ongoing dev outsourcing

Why me

10+ years building and operating production systems

I’m a senior backend engineer with 10+ years across fintech-scale environments and startups. This audit is the synthesis of that experience — applied through a focused external lens.

  • Distributed systems under high transaction volume
  • Cloud-native infrastructure (AWS)
  • APIs and event-driven systems
  • Observability and reliability under real-world constraints

Sometimes what founders need isn’t more development capacity. It’s clarity.

Process

How it works

01

Diagnostic Call

We understand your architecture, risks, and goals.

  • Current architecture
  • Growth expectations
  • Recent incidents
  • Technical concerns

If there’s a clear fit, we proceed.

02

Focused Review (5–7 days)

We map structural risk and failure patterns.

  • Architecture overview
  • Stack details
  • Key system diagrams (if available)
  • Access to high-level documentation

No codebase deep dive required.

03

Risk Report + Walkthrough

You get a structured risk map and instant next steps.

  • Structured risk map
  • Prioritized action plan
  • 60-minute walkthrough session

You leave with clarity and next steps.

Pricing

An investment that pays for itself before your next launch.

Focused Audit

$1,500

Single-service backend with straightforward infrastructure. Ideal for early Seed-stage systems.

Comprehensive Audit

$3,000

Multi-service or event-driven architectures with higher complexity. Common for Series A systems under growth pressure.

Limited to 2 per month to maintain depth and focus.

Early-stage founder rate available for the first 3 engagements before standard pricing applies.

Free diagnostic tool

Not ready to book? Start with this.

Take the 5-minute Backend Risk Self-Assessment — the same framework I use to evaluate production systems. Surface the blind spots in your architecture before they become incidents.

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No signup required. Takes 5 minutes. Printable.

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Next step

Scaling pressure exposes structural weaknesses.

Better to find them before your users — or your investors — do.

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