Meling Consulting
I help teams design, build, review, and improve reliable software systems.
Through Meling Consulting, I take on hands-on development and technical reviews, with a focus on Go, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and distributed systems. I enjoy working with existing codebases, solving concurrency and performance problems, and collaborating with engineering teams.
Services
Multi-week or multi-month projects, from API design and implementation to improving an existing Go service.
Ongoing collaboration with your team, combining implementation work with focused reviews of code and architecture.
Industry sabbaticals
I am interested in paid industry sabbaticals, typically a one-year contract with hands-on engineering responsibilities. This is an opportunity to join a team for a sustained period and work on technically challenging systems.
A placement could lead to continued part-time collaboration or full-time employment. I am happy to discuss the project, timing, and scope with teams interested in a longer engagement.
Discuss an industry placementSelected engineering work
Alongside my academic work, I develop and maintain open-source systems in Go and follow the language and its ecosystem closely.
Hein Meling · Professor · University of Stavanger · Research and academic profile
Architect and lead maintainer
A Go framework for building quorum-based distributed systems with gRPC and Protocol Buffers. Includes a code generator and abstractions for ordered, fault-aware RPCs.
gRPC, Protocol Buffers, code generation, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Designer and developer
A high-performance minimal perfect hash implementation in Go focused on low memory use.
Algorithms, memory efficiency, and Go performance engineering.
Initiator, architect, project manager, and contributor
Automated feedback and course-management infrastructure for programming exercises, developed through several generations of student and staff collaboration.
Backend services, application architecture, and long-term software maintenance.
Get in touch
Tell me about your system, the problem you want to solve, and the kind of collaboration you have in mind. A brief outline of the scope and timing is a good starting point.