Programming consulting · Cape Town & remote
Clarity before the next release train leaves the station
Vector Orbit runs structured architecture reviews and writes refactoring plans your engineers can execute in sprints—not slide decks that gather dust. We work from your repo, your incident history, and the constraints your product org already lives with.
Engagements teams book with us
Each engagement ends with written findings, ranked risks, and a sequence of changes tied to your release calendar.
Architecture review
Boundary decisions, coupling hotspots, and failure modes across services you already run in production.
Refactoring roadmap
Phased extraction plans with test gates, ownership notes, and what to defer until after peak season.
Dependency & module audit
Where circular imports, shared libraries, and stale packages are slowing every feature branch.
A fit when the codebase has outgrown informal decisions
Teams usually reach out after a painful deploy, a re-org that split ownership, or when a monolith fork is no longer hypothetical. We sit with tech leads and staff engineers, read ADRs if you have them, and trace how data actually moves—not how the diagram from 2019 claims it moves.
Reviews are fixed-scope. You receive a written report, a one-hour readout with Q&A, and optional follow-up office hours for implementers.
What clients mention after the readout
The review called out our payment reconciliation boundary—the place where two teams each thought the other owned retries. We had a named owner and a two-sprint cut line by Friday.
— Nomsa K., engineering manager, retail payments (Johannesburg)
Honest about what we should not refactor yet; that saved us from pausing a regulatory deadline. The roadmap still stung a little, which is probably why it was useful.
— Liam R., principal engineer, health records API