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Forja Force

Legacy isn't failure — it's what success leaves behind. We help you tame it.

An elite party of senior engineers who tame legacy systems — the tech debt, brittle integrations, and scaling pains every fast-moving team accumulates.

  • For CTOs
  • VPs of Engineering
  • Heads of Engineering

A Wild Legacy Appeared

Every company that ships fast eventually accrues legacy — it's the tax of momentum, not a failure. Maybe growth outpaced the architecture. Maybe an MVP quietly became production. Maybe AI wrote half of it. Either way, the interest is now due — and that's where we come in.

You don't need a slide deck. You need senior engineers who can read the diff, find the rot, and fix it — without halting the roadmap. That's the whole job.

Shipped fast to win — now it won't scale
Velocity has cratered under tech debt
A monolith only one person dares to touch
p99 latency creeping, cloud bill climbing
No tests, no types, no confidence
On-call is a horror game

Choose Your Party

Six specialists. 20+ years each. Full coverage across the stack — no juniors, no hand-offs to people who've never run prod.

Warrior — Forja Force party member
Paladin — Forja Force party member
Mage — Forja Force party member
Ranger — Forja Force party member
Sorcerer — Forja Force party member
Summoner — Forja Force party member
FE22 YRS

The Frontend Warrior

Frontend & UX Engineering

Slays runaway re-renders, tames 9MB bundles, and resurrects 60fps. Turns spaghetti component trees into a maintainable design system.

  • Render Optimization
  • Design Systems
  • State Untangling
  • Bundle Slimming
A11Y20 YRS

The Accessibility Ranger

Accessibility & Inclusive UX

Restores access for every player. WCAG 2.2 AA, screen-reader flows, keyboard nav, and focus management — so your product is usable and legally safe.

  • WCAG 2.2 AA
  • Screen Reader Audits
  • Keyboard Nav
  • ARIA Mastery
BE24 YRS

The Backend Paladin

Backend & Systems Architecture

Decomposes the cursed monolith, draws clean domain boundaries, and hardens APIs that buckle under load. Event-driven, idempotent, and boring (in a good way).

  • Domain Modeling
  • API Hardening
  • Event-Driven
  • Monolith Decoupling
PERF21 YRS

The Performance Mage

Backend & Runtime Optimization

Casts profiling spells on p99 latency. Hunts N+1 queries, memory leaks, and hot paths until your throughput doubles and your cloud bill halves.

  • Latency Hunting
  • Profiling
  • Caching Strategy
  • Load Testing
DB23 YRS

The Database Druid

Data & Query Optimization

Reads execution plans like ancient runes. Fixes missing indexes, deadlocks, and runaway migrations — restoring order to schemas grown wild.

  • Index Tuning
  • Query Plans
  • Schema Design
  • Safe Migrations
INFRA22 YRS

The Infra Summoner

Infrastructure & Networking

Summons clusters, networks, and environments on demand — reliable, observable, reproducible platforms conjured with IaC instead of click-ops prayers. Tames Kubernetes and keeps the 3am pagers silent.

  • Kubernetes
  • Networking & DNS
  • IaC
  • Observability

Party Stats

Codebase Triage99/99
Refactor Power97/99
Performance Magic95/99
System Reliability96/99
Years on the Clock99/99
Drama Generated4/99

Special Moves

Bug Slaying

We triage your most expensive, hardest-to-reproduce bugs and ship verified fixes — with the regression tests you wish existed.

Refactor & Rescue

AI-generated or junior-written code that shipped fast and now blocks the roadmap? We refactor it into something your team can extend safely.

Performance Tuning

End-to-end audits across frontend, backend, and database. We find the bottlenecks and cut latency, cost, and on-call pain.

Architecture Rescue

Strangling a monolith or untangling a distributed mess? We design pragmatic boundaries and a migration path that ships incrementally.

Accessibility Audits

WCAG conformance reviews with prioritized, code-level remediation — reducing legal risk and widening your market.

Reliability & Infra

Tame flaky deploys and mystery outages. We bring IaC, observability, and guardrails so 3am pages become rare.

The Quest

  1. Recon

    We audit the codebase, architecture, and metrics. You get a clear-eyed map of where the bodies are buried.

  2. Triage

    We rank issues by business impact and risk, then agree on a battle plan with measurable objectives.

  3. Cleanup

    We execute in small, reviewable PRs — fixing, refactoring, and optimizing without freezing your roadmap.

  4. Hardening

    Tests, CI guardrails, and observability so the same boss never respawns after we leave.

  5. Handoff

    Docs, runbooks, and pairing with your team — we level up your engineers, not just your code.

Ready to Continue?

Send us your scariest repo. We'll tell you exactly what's wrong — and what it takes to fix it.

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