Platform & cloud architecture
Pragmatic target architectures, migration paths, and engineering decisions for high-availability, event-driven, and data-intensive systems.
Dmytro Shapar · Principal Software & Solutions Architect
Systems that scale.
Teams that deliver.
I turn complex business goals into resilient platforms and clear delivery systems - from first discovery through architecture, launch, and organisational scale.
Krakow, Poland · Working globally
15+years building software
20 → 400+organisation scale
150+discovery engagements
99.9%real-time availability
01 / Practice
Architecture is only useful when it changes what happens next.
I work where technology, delivery, and organisational design meet.
Discovery & technical strategy
Fast clarity on product scope, delivery risk, cost, and organisational constraints - from first workshop to an executable roadmap.
Delivery recovery
Hands-on intervention for stalled programmes: simplify the launch path, restore flow, and reconnect technical work to business outcomes.
Engineering organisations
Architecture practices, competence systems, portfolio governance, and operating models that continue working as teams scale.
02 / Selected impact
Measured in outcomes, not architecture theatre.
01
Real-time gaming platform
Progressive values across 5.1K tables
Architecture for a jackpot platform operating across 30 countries and 70+ cruise ships, designed for a growing tier-1 operator footprint.02
Public-safety modernisation
Monolith to 30+ Azure microservices
A phased migration delivered across three sites with zero service outage, lifting availability and making releases substantially faster.03
Programme turnaround
A launch path measured in months, not years
Unblocked ten critical constraints in a long-running system rewrite and reset the operating model around decisions, flow, and CI/CD.04
Data protection
GDPR-scale document redaction
Sole architecture ownership for a green-field service serving Fortune 500 workflows with predictable throughput and latency.03 / Experience
From engineering depth to board-level decisions.
A career across product engineering, enterprise architecture, pre-sales, crisis programmes, and global delivery leadership.
Azure Solutions Architect ExpertGoogle Professional Cloud ArchitectSEI Software Architecture Professional
Plan A TechnologiesVP of Solutions & Global Resource Manager
SoftServeApplication Architect
AltexSoftSoftware Architect
CHI SoftwareCTO, .NET Department
EPAM SystemsLead Software Engineer
04 / Field notes
Short notes from the work.
AI debugging: from hypothesis to verified fix
The latest models make investigation and repair more capable. The real speed gain comes from shortening the evidence loop without weakening the definition of done.
Architecture begins where reversal becomes expensive
Treat architectural significance as a gradient: spend design effort where reversal, evidence, and accumulated coupling make change costly.
Architecture is a sequence of decisions
The useful output of architecture work is not a diagram. It is a set of decisions a team can act on, challenge, test, and revisit.
A difficult system, a stalled programme, or a decision that needs clarity?