Turning business vision into working systems
It’s Simpler Than You Think.
Need a solution but don’t know where to start?
Begin by sending an Email to me, Russ Ferriday.
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I’ve contributed to hundreds of systems—commercial and open source, startup to enterprise. I’ve seen what works, what fails, and why.
With today’s tools, I work rapidly and effectively with a network of top-tier collaborators to deliver tailored, high-quality solutions fast.
Here’s how we get started...
The Discovery Package
- Fixed scope
- Fixed timeline (usually 1–2 weeks)
- Fixed investment
Deliverables
- A working prototype
- A design document
- A delivery roadmap
Let’s talk.
Let’s build.
Let’s deliver.
Topia met us where we were!
Example : Critical Microservice Apps
Maturity and Flexibility
We consulted to a UK government department on a critical microservices-based application responsible for collecting over £6 billion in annual tax revenue. When development and testing were blocked by delays in provisioning traditional environments (AWS pets), we proposed and implemented the department’s first Kubernetes-based deployment platform.
This modernised approach dramatically accelerated delivery—enabling teams to spin up dev, test, and staging environments in minutes instead of weeks. Developers gained rapid feedback cycles, QA teams unlocked end-to-end test automation, and the service was able to go-live sooner and more cost-effectively than the original trajectory.
Our success helped establish Kubernetes as a foundational deployment standard across UK government projects.
Example : Rapid Product Prototyping
On schedule & to budget
We developed a content-scraping application for a business-intelligence customer. Clever use of Google's Cloud Platform, rapid development of Dockerized components, and experience in careful web-scraping for a range of applications allowed us to deliver a big-data solution in a week, meeting the client's tight budget and schedule needs.
We creatively employ affordable modern cloud services, APIs, and Open-Source tools.
Example: Tool sharing
A little generosity goes a long way
Like many, we use Kubernetes for deployment. It's a very powerful system that can be used by bigger teams. Occasionally there are clashes during deployment due to mismanaged expectations.
This was a problem I wanted to solve for our own use, to reduce time to deployment. At the same time, there are many teams in the same position. I took the opportunity to build this as an Open Source tool, under the Apache 2.0 license. Now it can be used by anyone to keep their K8s system reliable. We like to Open Source work when we can, since so much of what we do is built on free code provided by the FOSS ecosystem.