Agree on the scope
Choose the application and questions to assess, the information needed, and the deliverables, milestones, and price before work begins.
04 / MODERNIZATION ASSESSMENTS
Know what to modernize, and where to start.
A rewrite is not always the right answer. Start with a focused assessment of your existing application, dependencies, integrations, and hosting. I explain the options and risks so you can choose a practical next step before investing in implementation.
Part-time remote consulting · Around 10–20 hours/week. Scope and meeting overlap agreed before work begins.
IS THIS A FIT?
When this helps most
- You need to understand the risks of an aging .NET application or frontend framework.
- You want to compare a targeted upgrade, incremental migration, and a larger rewrite.
- You need a technical roadmap to help plan scope, budget, and delivery with your team.
HOW I CAN HELP
What working together looks like
Review the current system
Examine platform versions, dependencies, architecture, data flows, hosting, and test coverage to identify constraints and upgrade risks.
Compare practical options
Explain what can be upgraded, refactored, retained, or migrated, with tradeoffs and assumptions made clear.
Roadmap and walkthrough
Receive written findings and prioritized recommendations, then review them together. Implementation can be scoped separately.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Done this before
Xing Tu (Cello) Liu brings more than 25 years of hands-on software engineering to every engagement.
Modernized the Boyd/Blacksmith application from .NET Core 3/5 to .NET 8/9 and from Angular 9 to Angular 19, alongside architecture and code refactoring.
Contributing to an Oracle-to-PostgreSQL modernization program spanning more than 400 legacy .NET Framework database systems.
MORE SERVICES
Other ways I can help
LET’S BUILD WHAT’S NEXT
Have a technology
challenge in mind?
Need an architecture review, a difficult bug resolved, system updates, or a modernization assessment? Tell me about your systems, timeline, and the support you need. I offer around 10–20 hours/week remotely and aim to reply within one business day.
Prefer email? Write to support@lxtsolutions.com.
BASED IN
North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Remote across Canada & the US, Pacific time