Unblocked a 6‑month roadmap in 4 weeks
Re‑architected a flaky payments pipeline, added tracing, and enabled safe canaries. Conversion +12%, incidents −80%.
TODU.Dev, an ESS ENN Associates venture, is the go‑to solution for Silicon Valley startups battling to scale engineering and product. We deliver elite, problem‑obsessed engineers who ship game‑changing features, crush tech debt, and scale systems for hypergrowth.
Unlike generic platforms, we don’t churn resumes. Our engineer‑scouts spot rare talent in the wild and polish raw potential through an in‑house pipeline into battle‑ready TODU Devs. We also coach founders on building high‑autonomy, high‑impact environments where these unicorns thrive.
Active scouting • Deep work trials • Signal‑rich references.
Demo features shipped, tech‑debt burned, incidents prevented.
Scale systems, reduce toil, raise engineering bar.
Org design for autonomy • outcomes > hours • ruthless prioritization.
Rapid audit of product, roadmap, incidents, and velocity to locate leverage.
We shortlist unicorns who thrive on your exact class of problems.
Ship one needle‑moving feature or nuke a critical tech‑debt cluster.
Extend, grow a pod, or transition to full‑time. We stay on the hook for success.
Thinks in systems and constraints, not tickets. Pulls context, then executes.
Ships small, often, safely. Uses guardrails, tests, and progressive delivery.
Turns snarled codebases into paved roads without slowing feature velocity.
Infra to frontend, data to ML. Knows when to build vs buy.
Owns incidents, restores service, writes the postmortem, fixes the cause.
Raises team bar via reviews, pairing, and strong patterns—no heroics needed.
Distributed systems • APIs • Datastores • Observability • SRE.
React/Next • Web perf • Design systems • iOS/Android • Flutter.
Data platforms • ML Ops • GenAI apps • Retrieval/RAG • Analytics.
Threat modeling • AppSec • Zero‑trust • Resilience engineering.
Rapid prototyping • PM partnership • Outcomes over output.
IC10s • Staff+ • Fractional CTO • Pods that scale with you.
Re‑architected a flaky payments pipeline, added tracing, and enabled safe canaries. Conversion +12%, incidents −80%.
Incremental strangler‑fig refactor. CI minutes −60%, deploys/day ×3, lead time −55%.
Best fit for seed to Series‑B startups with a real product in market, clear bottlenecks, and leaders ready to empower high‑autonomy teams. If you need resume piles, we’re not it.
Tell us where it hurts—incidents, debt, velocity—and we’ll propose an impact trial tailored to your constraints.
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