Architectural Rigor & Engineering Mentorship.
At Nanok Consulting, I work alongside engineering teams and leaders as a systems architect, principal engineer, and engineering leadership mentor—solving critical scaling bottlenecks, leveling up technical craft, and implementing sensible, high-leverage AI practices across the SDLC.
Consulting Disciplines
Distributed Systems Architecture
Transforming monolithic bottlenecks into scalable, low-latency, and cost-efficient cloud services across AWS, GCP, and Cloudflare. Designing for multi-region resilience, observability, and zero single points of failure.
- • Microservices, event-driven pipelines & data partitioning
- • High-availability, multi-region DR & latency profiling
- • Technical debt triage & modernization roadmaps
Principal Engineer Guidance
High-leverage technical direction on mission-critical initiatives. Leading architecture RFC and design doc reviews, unblocking complex distributed systems challenges, and establishing engineering standards that raise the team's technical ceiling.
- • Architecture RFC authoring & design doc reviews
- • Prototyping critical-path components & proofs of concept
- • Elevating code review hygiene, test automation & rigor
Engineering Leadership Mentorship
Practical, 1-on-1 mentorship for new and growing engineering managers and technical leads. Translating technical expertise into people leadership, navigating 1-on-1s, performance calibration, sprint delivery cadence, and building high-trust, high-output engineering cultures.
- • Transitioning smoothly from senior IC to high-impact engineering leader
- • 1-on-1 frameworks, performance management & delegation
- • Engineering velocity, sprint hygiene & team topologies
Sensible AI & Modern SDLC Velocity
Integrating pragmatic, high-leverage AI workflows across the software development lifecycle without accumulating technical debt. Establishing verification gates, code ownership, and automated review standards.
- • High-leverage AI integration for testing & scaffolding
- • Architectural guardrails & code ownership hygiene
- • CI/CD pipeline automation & cycle-time benchmarking
Erik Webb
Systems Architect & Engineering Mentor
Richmond, VA • Georgia Tech
I am a distributed systems architect, principal engineer, and engineering mentor with over 15 years of experience building, scaling, and advising high-performance engineering teams at industry leaders including Google, Meta, and Pantheon.
Rather than abstract executive overhead, I focus on working directly alongside engineers and managers: diagnosing complex scaling bottlenecks, authoring architectural RFCs, mentoring newer engineering leaders into confident managers, and raising the engineering bar.
I partner with engineering teams through embedded principal advisory retainers, targeted architectural audit sprints, and 1-on-1 engineering leadership coaching tracks.
Engagement Structures
Embedded Principal Retainer
Dedicated weekly allocation embedded with your technical leads and engineering teams—leading architecture reviews, unblocking critical path initiatives, and setting engineering standards.
Architecture Audit Sprint
A 2–4 week intensive evaluation of your cloud infrastructure, reliability bottlenecks, technical debt, and delivery velocity with actionable recommendations.
Engineering Leadership Coaching
Bi-weekly or monthly 1-on-1 coaching for engineering managers and technical leads navigating team dynamics, 1-on-1s, hiring calibration, delegation, and delivery cadence.
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