Technical Health Check
A thorough look at your architecture, codebase, and infrastructure. You get back a clear, prioritized report you can act on the same week.
Engineering Consultancy
Senior engineering for software that
can't afford to break
Fluxa Labs helps startups and growth-stage companies make the architecture, security, and scaling decisions that are expensive to get wrong — and builds the systems when you need them built.
Fintech & Digital Assets
Architecture Reviews
Fractional CTO
Engineering Delivery
We work in
Fintech Engineering · Digital Asset Systems · Trading Infrastructure · B2B SaaS Platforms · Architecture Reviews · Technical Due Diligence · Fractional CTO Advisory · Software Quality Audits
Our perspective
Most software problems start as a bad call,
not bad code.
A shaky codebase can ship features for years without anyone noticing. The cracks only show when something pushes on it — a big launch, a traffic spike, a security scare, a bad week in the market.
By the time that happens, every shortcut taken early has quietly turned into something slow and expensive to undo.
That's the gap we fill: someone senior to weigh in before a problem becomes a crisis, and the hands to fix it if it already has.
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Architecture that holds up
Built for what your business will actually throw at it, not just what it needs this quarter.
02
A straight answer
No product to upsell, no internal politics to manage. Just a senior read on what matters and where to go next.
03
We build to the same bar we set
When we write the code, we hold it to the standard we'd recommend to anyone else. No corners, no debt we knew we were leaving behind.
What we do
Two ways to work together
Need a second opinion or need it built? Same standard either way.
Service Line A
Technical Advisory
For founders and executives who want a senior technical read they can trust, without putting a full-time leader on payroll.
- Technical Health Check
- Architecture & Scalability Review
- Vendor & Team Audit
- Fractional CTO Advisory
Service Line B
Engineering & Delivery
For companies that need critical systems designed, fixed, or built right the first time, by people who've run them in production.
- Backend & Platform Architecture
- System Redesign & Modernization
- Rescue & Stabilization Sprint
- Build Sprint
Defined engagements
Fixed scope. Real prices.
Every engagement has a clear scope, deliverables you can point to, and a price we tell you up front. No open-ended retainers, no scope creep.
Architecture & Scalability Review
A deep look at how your system is put together, focused on whether it'll hold up as you grow. Find out what it can take before something forces the question.
Fractional CTO Advisory
A senior technical partner in the room for the big calls, without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.
Rescue & Stabilization Sprint
For when things are on fire. We triage fast, get it stable, and leave you with a plan for what comes next.
Build Sprint
Senior engineering in a fixed window. Scoped tight, built properly, ready for production.
Everything here is fixed-scope. For larger or ongoing work, we'll set something up that fits. Contact us to discuss.
Who we serve
We work where the software actually matters.
Our clients run from first-time founders to scaling engineering teams. What they have in common: when they get a technical decision wrong, it costs them.
Seed to Series B
Funded Startups
You've raised, and the clock is running. Your infrastructure needs to carry the growth ahead instead of becoming the thing that holds you back.
CEO & Founder
Non-Technical Founders
You're running a software business without a technical co-founder or CTO. You need honest, jargon-free answers so you can make good calls and tell whether your team is actually delivering.
Fintech · DeFi · Trading
Fintech & Digital Asset Teams
Money systems don't forgive shortcuts. Payments, trading, custody, compliance — you want someone who's felt the weight of getting these wrong.
Technical Due Diligence
Companies Reviewing Vendors or Teams
You've got a feeling your vendor or outsourced team isn't delivering what you're paying for. You want a straight read from someone with nothing to sell you.
Growth & Scale
Teams Scaling Beyond Their Architecture
The system that got you to product-market fit is now the thing slowing you down. You need to modernize or rebuild it without hitting pause on the roadmap.
Fractional CTO
Founders Who Need a Senior Technical Partner
You want someone in the room for the technical calls — architecture, hiring, tooling, the hard trade-offs — without hiring a full-time CTO.
Why Fluxa Labs
Different on purpose.
Not by accident.
Most companies don't fail for lack of developers. They fail because no one with enough scar tissue is making the calls that are hard to walk back.
We started Fluxa Labs to be that person in the room for the companies that need it most.
Learn more about usNot a generic agency
We don't take every project. We stick to a handful of things we can do to a senior standard every time. That's a choice, and it's the point.
You talk to the person doing the work
No junior handoff, no bait-and-switch. The assessments and advice come from someone who's actually run systems like yours when they were under load.
We advise and we build
Because we do both, our advice stays grounded in what's actually buildable. And when there's work to do, you don't have to go find a second team to do it.
Advice that fits your business
Good architecture advice can't ignore the business behind it. We factor in your stage, your constraints, and where you're headed, not just what's textbook-correct.
No agenda
When you're sizing up a vendor, a team, or a decision, you need someone with nothing to sell. We're not steering you toward a product or a follow-on contract. We just tell you what we see.
We think in systems, not features
Scaling, reliability, observability, security — these aren't things we bolt on at the end. They're part of how we look at a system from the first day.
Alan Panno
Founder & Principal Engineer
Who's behind Fluxa Labs
Fluxa Labs is led by Alan Panno, a tech lead and full-stack engineer with 17+ years shipping software where a failure costs real money: proprietary trading platforms, regulated Web3 systems, and enterprise infrastructure running at global scale.
17+ years in production Node.js TypeScript Python React AWS Solidity
Track record
17+
Years shipping production software
3
Platforms architected and shipped
3
Enterprise leaders delivered for
< 1 day
Response to every serious inquiry
Platforms shipped filmfund.io fxrk.com zalud.health
Senior engineering experience gained at Fujitsu, Nestlé and Accenture.
How we work
A clear method. No guessing.
Every engagement runs the same way, whether you're a solo founder or a team of fifty.
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Assess
Get the real picture
We start by figuring out where things actually stand — not where you think they stand, and not a quick skim. We dig into the architecture, the code, how you ship, and how the team works before we form an opinion.
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Clarify
Sort what matters from what doesn't
Not every issue is urgent, and not every fix is worth doing now. We tell you what actually deserves attention given your stage and your risk — not a generic best-practices checklist.
03
Prioritize
Lay out the order to do it in
You get a concrete plan: what to fix now, what can run alongside it, and what can wait. Something you'll actually use, not a deck that gets filed away.
04
Execute
Build it, and stand behind it
If we're building too, we hold our own work to the same bar we held yours to. Clear deliverables, steady communication, and code that's ready for production.
Ready to start?
A short conversation is usually enough to figure out the right place to begin.
Client Perspectives
What clients say.
The real test of our work is how things hold up after we've gone, not just while we're there.
Zalud brought in Fluxa Labs to design and build their patient health-records platform. Hear CEO Natalia Blanco talk about how it went.
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Natalia Blanco
CEO, Zalud
A real client, on the record — and live platforms you can verify for yourself.
Proof of work
Case studies & insights
Real platforms we've shipped, and how we think about the decisions behind them.
Case Study Web3
Case Study: Building FilmFund, a Compliant On-Chain Film Financing Platform
How Fluxa Labs shipped a tokenized film investment platform that ties real money to real movies — security tokens, a fan-powered promotion economy, and an AI writers' room, all on Base.
· 15 min read · Fluxa Labs
Case Study Healthtech
Case Study: Building Zalud, a Patient-Owned Health Records Platform
How Fluxa Labs designed and built Zalud from scratch — a privacy-first personal health-records platform — on Supabase, Vercel, and a React + Vite admin panel.
· 3 min read · Alan Panno
fractional cto startups
When a Startup Needs a Fractional CTO
Not every startup is ready for a full-time CTO. Here's how to spot when a fractional one creates more value than a permanent hire, and what to look for when you pick one.
· 5 min read · Fluxa Labs
Common Questions
Questions we hear a lot.
Don't see yours? Send us a message. We answer every serious one ourselves.
Ask us directlyIf you're not sure your codebase is keeping up with the business, you keep hitting the same performance problems, you're about to raise, or you're planning a big product push — an audit takes the guesswork out. You get a straight read on where things stand and what, if anything, needs attention. Not knowing usually costs more than finding out.
Yes, and it's some of the most useful work we do. Non-technical founders often need the clearest, most honest picture of all, minus the jargon and the vendor spin. We put the technical reality in plain terms so you can make the call with confidence, even if you're not the one writing the code.
Yes — that's exactly what the Vendor and Team Audit is for. We give you an independent read on what your team or vendor is really delivering: code quality, engineering discipline, how fast they ship, and where the risk sits. So you're not relying on the people you're trying to evaluate to grade themselves.
Both. Our Engineering and Delivery work covers critical software design, platform architecture, modernization, rescue sprints, and focused build projects. The catch is that we only take on work where we can hold it to the same standard we'd recommend to anyone else. We don't do commodity dev work.
Systems where reliability, performance, and getting it right actually matter: backend platforms, financial systems, data pipelines, trading infrastructure, APIs, and distributed systems. We've worked hands-on in fintech, digital assets, and high-throughput transactional environments where failure has a real price tag.
Yes. Fractional CTO Advisory gives you ongoing senior technical leadership without the full-time cost. We work directly with founders and leadership on the big technology calls — evaluating vendors and hires, shaping the architecture, and keeping your technical spend pointed at where the business is going.
Advisory work like the Technical Health Check or Architecture Review is fixed-scope and lands in five to fifteen business days. Fractional CTO advisory is a monthly arrangement with a three-month minimum. Engineering sprints run two to six weeks depending on scope. What we won't do is sell you an open-ended retainer with no clear end in sight.
Our deepest experience is in fintech, digital assets and trading infrastructure, B2B SaaS, and data-heavy platforms. We also work with growth-stage startups in other industries when the software needs to catch up to what the business is trying to do.
Get started
The best time to look at your system is before it breaks.
Thirty minutes is usually enough to tell whether we're the right people for what you're building.
Now booking new engagements — we take on a limited number each quarter.
No commitment, no sales script. Just a straight conversation.