IT consulting for small businesses, from someone who still writes the code.
Vankinda is the independent practice of Oscar Padron. Twenty years of building business-critical software, now applied to integrations, migrations, and the workflows that quietly slow small teams down.
Technology is the medium, not the goal. That's been the constant across two decades of designing and building business-critical software, from stakeholder conversation through to production, most recently as a tech lead in enterprise finance.
Vankinda is where that same care gets applied to smaller businesses: the ones who need a system connected, a platform migrated, or a manual process turned into something that runs itself, without hiring a whole department to do it.
No account managers, no hand-offs. You work directly with the person who does the work.
A few of the areas I focus on
Practical, hands-on IT consulting aimed at the problems that actually slow small businesses down.
Systems integration
Connecting the tools your business already runs on, so data moves between them automatically instead of being copied by hand.
Platform & cloud migration
Moving legacy or on-premise systems to modern, cloud-based infrastructure without disrupting the business while it happens.
Process & performance optimization
Finding the slow, fragile, or manual parts of a system and making them fast, stable, and easy to maintain going forward.
Workflow automation
Replacing repetitive manual work with automated pipelines, so your team spends time on the business, not the busywork.
Where the experience comes from
A quick look at the roles behind the practice.
Lead Software Engineer, Euroclear
Technical lead across a 20-person engineering team, driving cloud migration and platform modernization in a highly regulated financial environment.
Senior Software Engineer, Euroclear
Redesigned core processes for performance, including cutting a 26 hour reporting job down to 3 minutes.
Lead Engineer & Product Owner, NewHotel Software
Owned a flagship product end to end, leading integrations and international deployments across hotel chains in Scotland, Brazil, and the Netherlands.
Independent Consultant, Vankinda
Freelance practice delivering custom systems for small businesses, several still in daily use more than a decade later.
Have a system that needs connecting, moving, or fixing?
Tell me what you're working with and what's slowing you down. I'll tell you honestly whether I can help.