The team

Fewer, better people. Built around the architecture.

Mach5 is a senior-only technical consultancy. Every team is assembled around the architecture it delivers - self-sufficient, proven as a unit, and held to one standard by an architect who still practises.

Self-sufficient delivery teams. Senior-only by design.

Every person on the Mach5 team was selected against a single question: can they lead delivery in their domain, independently, from day one?

10+
Years avg. experience
4
Core disciplines
15+
Enterprise re-platforms delivered
20+
Years founding architect experience
AI & automation
AI engineers who build for production, not for demos.
Specialists in agentic AI, tool orchestration, and Model Context Protocol. They design agent architectures that automate operations inside your enterprise - with governance and observability built in from the start.
MCPLLM integrationAgent orchestrationAgent frameworks
Architecture & distributed systems
Microservices, DDD, and event-driven systems at enterprise scale.
Enterprise and software architects with deep experience in microservices, domain-driven design, and event-driven systems. Backend engineers who build distributed platforms that scale without becoming fragile.
MicroservicesDDDEvent-drivenAPI design
Composable commerce
Platform specialists with proven migration experience.
Commerce platform engineers and frontend specialists who build on commercetools, Contentful, and modern headless stacks. They've led re-platforms from SFCC, Magento, and Shopify - they know where the risk hides.
commercetoolsContentfulReactHeadless
Platform engineering & quality
Cloud-native infrastructure and testing discipline that holds up under pressure.
Infrastructure engineers and QA specialists who build the foundations everything else runs on. Cloud-native, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD - and the testing discipline that keeps it all honest.
TerraformGitOpsCloud-nativeTest engineering

AI isn't an add-on. It's how the team works.

Every Mach5 specialist works with AI as a core engineering discipline. Code generation, agent-assisted workflows, automated testing, intelligent tooling. It's built into how the team operates day to day.

But fluency without discipline is a liability. Mach5 engineers pair AI capability with enterprise-grade governance: policy-governed tooling, auditable agent behaviour, data boundaries that hold up under scrutiny. They know the difference between what AI can do and what it should do inside a regulated environment.

This isn't a capability we upsell. It's a hiring standard. Every specialist demonstrates fluency in AI-augmented engineering - and the judgment to apply it responsibly.

AI in practice, not in pitch decks
Code generation & review
AI-assisted development with human oversight at every stage. Faster delivery, same rigour.
Agent tooling & orchestration
Production-grade AI agents built on MCP, governed by policy, observable by default.
Automated workflows
Operational processes augmented with AI - reducing manual effort without reducing accountability.
Governance built in
Data boundaries, audit trails, and policy guardrails as first-class concerns - not afterthoughts.

Beliefs that shape every engagement.

Architecture serves the business.
Not the other way around. Every technical decision is measured against the business outcome it enables. If an elegant solution doesn't serve the goal, it doesn't belong in the architecture.
The best architecture is easy to change.
Platforms outlive the assumptions they were built on. We optimise for change-tolerance over perfection - because the business will evolve, and the architecture needs to evolve with it.
Honesty over polish.
If something is wrong, we say so. If a plan won't work, we flag it early. Clients don't need a partner who agrees with everything - they need one who tells the truth and has the credibility to back it up.
Stay through delivery.
Architecture decisions compound. We don't hand over a target-state deck and disappear. We stay through delivery and into run - because that's where the real value of good architecture shows up.
Fewer, better people.
The most effective delivery teams we've built have been small and senior. Fifteen years and dozens of enterprise engagements have reinforced this. Every hiring decision at Mach5 follows from it.
Earn the scope.
Mach5 doesn't pitch for large engagements upfront. We start with delivery, prove the work, and take on more as the trust builds. Every expansion is earned, not sold.

An architect who still builds.

Konstantin Konstantinov has spent over two decades at the intersection of business strategy and software architecture - and still writes code every week. He maintains the TypeScript SDK for the Model Context Protocol, reviews pull requests, and debugs integration failures alongside the teams he leads. The architecture advice is grounded because the architect still feels the consequences of his decisions in production.

At LiveArea (later acquired by Merkle), he led a 55-person engineering organisation delivering enterprise commerce programmes for Pandora, La Prairie, Birkenstock, Mizuno, and Daily Mail. As CTO of SpinUp Digital, he ran a 45-person team delivering platforms for Le Creuset and Air Malta - from discovery through launch and into ongoing support.

That period also marked a shift. He moved beyond eCommerce into event-driven architectures, large microservice estates, and AI agent integration. His work on agentic AI moved from theory into practice, and it set the direction for everything Mach5 delivers today.

The best delivery comes from senior teams built around the architecture itself - not borrowed capacity.

Several of the teams he's assembled are still with their clients years later. That pattern became Mach5.

At a glance
20+ years in enterprise software architecture
MCP TypeScript SDK maintainer - open-source community
Former CTO - SpinUp Digital, 45-person team
Former Head of Development - LiveArea/Merkle, 55 engineers
Enterprise clients - Pandora, La Prairie, Birkenstock, Le Creuset, Mizuno, Daily Mail
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