Productionize Your System by Andrew Steffey

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Productionize Your System

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Andrew Steffey

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About this service

Summary

I help companies productionize their systems — making them faster, more reliable, and more cost-effective. At Amazon Prime Video, I optimized tier-1 services handling 200M+ users at massive scale — cutting costs 76%, improving uptime to 99.9999%, and increasing throughput 3X.

Common work includes production-readiness assessments, cost optimization, reliability improvements, performance tuning, actionable monitoring with dashboards and runbooks, and improving code maintainability through meaningful tests, CI/CD, and clean architecture practices. You get hands-on fixes with measured results — not just recommendations.

Who this is for:

Companies preparing for launch or rapid growth

Teams dealing with rising infrastructure costs

Organizations experiencing reliability or performance issues

Businesses needing production readiness before scale

My approach:

Deep technical investigation to identify root causes

Prototype and test improvements to validate results before rolling out production changes

Deliver working code with proper documentation

Measured results — not guesswork

Everything is tailored to your actual needs and constraints — we only implement what meaningfully improves reliability, performance, and cost

Technology: Java/Kotlin/JVM primary, but can also work across different tech stacks (Python, Node, React, etc.)

What's included

System Assessment Report
A comprehensive analysis identifying performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, cost optimization opportunities, and production-readiness gaps — with prioritized, actionable recommendations based on your real scale and business needs.
Hands-On Implementation
Working code fixes for critical issues including proper error handling, optimized resource usage, performance tuning, and reliability hardening — implemented safely and tailored to your system.
Load Testing & Validation
Performance and scale testing with before/after metrics to demonstrate real-world improvements in speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Observability, Monitoring & Incident Readiness
Implementation of meaningful logging, metrics, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks so your team can detect issues early and troubleshoot quickly.
Technical Documentation & Handoff
Clear documentation of changes, architecture decisions, operational guidance, and on-call procedures, plus knowledge-transfer sessions to ensure your team is fully equipped going forward.

Example projects

Performance Optimization at Scale for Amazon Prime Video

Technical Lead on Prime Video API Team

Skills and tools

Backend Engineer

Software Architect

Software Engineer

AWS

Java

Kotlin

Python

TypeScript

Industries

Computer Software