Farouk Umar
Engineering consultant — scaling systems, teams, and the discipline that holds them together.
I help engineering organisations scale without losing discipline — architecture, data platforms, delivery rhythm, and the operating model that keeps teams shipping as they grow. Seven years leading engineering at Sony Music, from hands-on build to organisation-wide delivery. Available now for consulting engagements.
How I can help
- Vibe Code Auditing An honest review of AI-generated or rapidly-built codebases — what's solid, what's fragile, and what to fix before it ships.
- Fractional CTO Senior engineering leadership, part-time — strategy, architecture, hiring, and delivery, without a full-time hire.
- Forward Deployed Embedded with your team to build and ship the hard thing hands-on, then hand it over running.
Services
- Agentic workflows
- Engineering & data platform architecture at scale
- Organisational design, delivery rhythm & engineering culture
- Cost optimisation, infrastructure consolidation & governance