Services
Engineering leadership, architecture, and delivery built for resilience.
XRiley's work is organized into four verticals—Forge, Armature, Alloy, and Rivet. Together they cover the full lifecycle of high‑impact engineering: from architecture and strategy to integration and delivery. These are the disciplines that make complex systems reliable, scalable, and predictable.
Armature · Strategy & technical leadership
Fractional CTO partnership and senior engineering leadership for teams that need clarity and direction.
- Architecture and technical roadmap alignment.
- Hiring, leveling, and organizational structure support.
- Staff‑plus coaching for engineers stepping into leadership.
Foundry · Bespoke software & product builds
From concept to production—greenfield builds, prototypes, and custom platforms engineered with precision.
- New product and platform development.
- Rapid prototyping with production‑ready foundations.
- Full‑stack builds across Go, Ruby, Python, and Next.js.
Forge · Systems architecture & platform
Architectures for distributed systems, data flows, and cloud platforms built to withstand real load.
- Service and platform architecture reviews.
- Design of new systems and modernization paths.
- Failure‑mode analysis and observability strategy.
Rivet · Delivery, modernization & refactors
Execution where it matters: migrations, replatforms, and delivery into production without surprises.
- Modernization of legacy backends and services.
- Incremental, low‑risk migration sequencing.
- Delivery practices that protect production stability.
Alloy · Infrastructure, cloud engineering & DevOps
Infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud architecture that keep systems stable as they grow.
- API design, governance, and compatibility strategy.
- Integration reliability, backpressure, and queueing.
- Developer experience and internal platform design.
Engagements are shaped around risk, not headcount.
XRiley focuses on the systems that carry real operational weight—the parts of your stack where failure is expensive and recovery must be immediate. The goal is not maximizing hours but strengthening the architecture, clarity, and operational safety of the systems your business relies on. Work is scoped to reduce risk, increase predictability, and give your team room to move.