For over two decades, I’ve worked at the intersection of emerging web standards, resilient platform architecture, and engineering leadership. I’ve designed and guided systems ranging from high-throughput enterprise platforms and complex web applications to foundational open-source toolkits used by millions of developers worldwide.

Today, my consulting and advisory practice operates through Palatino Consulting, working directly with founders, CTOs, executive boards, and engineering organizations navigating critical transitions.

Where I Focus

• Fractional & Interim Technology Leadership (CTO / VP Engineering): Seasoned executive leadership during periods of rapid scale, structural turnaround, post-acquisition integration, or organizational transition.
• Systems Architecture & Technical Debt Modernization: Untangling fragile legacy infrastructure and architectural bottlenecks. Moving teams away from brittle patchwork fixes toward maintainable, cloud-native systems designed for Day 2 operations.
• Engineering Governance & Delivery Discipline: Establishing high-integrity development lifecycles, pragmatic CI/CD automation, and transparent metrics that help distributed engineering teams ship faster without sacrificing production stability.
• AI Architecture & Code Governance: Helping teams safely integrate generative AI and agentic workflows into production—establishing verification boundaries, schemas, and review standards (like the Assumptions & Constraints Manifest) that prevent invisible technical debt from reaching main.

Looking to collaborate?

Whether you need an architectural sounding board for a complex migration, an audit of your engineering practices, or experienced executive guidance to steady an engineering organization, let’s talk.

Explore recent work at palatinoconsulting.com or get in touch directly via email at rob.larsen@palatinoconsulting.com.