Independent engineering consultancy

Thoughtful engineering for systems, software, and the web.

Good Engineering Co. helps organizations improve observability, strengthen platforms, automate operational work, and build dependable websites and custom software.

Observability Platform Software

Areas of work

Engineering help where systems, operations, and software meet.

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Platform engineering

Practical improvements to infrastructure, developer workflows, operational systems, and the foundations teams rely on.

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Automation

Tools and workflows that remove repetitive work, connect systems, improve reliability, and make operational knowledge easier to use.

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Custom software & web

Purpose-built applications and websites for businesses and organizations, with clear scope and maintainable technology.

A focused starting point

Datadog Account Health Review

A bounded two-week review for teams that want clearer priorities for Datadog cost, coverage, alerting, architecture, or governance.

  • Evidence-based assessment of one Datadog organization
  • Written report with prioritized findings
  • Practical 30/60/90-day plan and walkthrough
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Direct senior engineering

Work with the person doing the work.

Good Engineering Co. is the independent practice of Roman Sheydvasser, a principal engineer with experience across observability, systems, platforms, and software.

Roman spent nearly six years at Datadog and later worked directly with clients on observability architecture, implementation, monitoring strategy, incident-response practices, and technical advising.

Working principles

  • Understand the problem and its context first.
  • Keep scope and tradeoffs explicit.
  • Communicate directly and clearly.
  • Leave clients with maintainable systems.

Selected engineering work

Tools built from practical needs.

Open source

GDMS

Two-way synchronization between Google Docs and Markdown, designed to make documents useful in both human and developer workflows.

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Have a system to improve, a workflow to automate, or a website or application to build?

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