Lars Barkman
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Independent consultant · Solopreneur

Hi, I'm Lars Barkman.

I help enterprises design, develop, and operate digital solutions they can rely on — and alongside that work, I build and write.

The consulting is the most direct of it: in the room with enterprises, designing solutions, clarifying ownership, and leaving teams able to deliver consistently long after I’ve gone. The ventures are where I stop describing problems and start solving them — building to close the gaps I keep running into in the market. The writings are where I think in the open — catching myself in the act of thinking, testing a position, or arriving at an understanding I only thought I had. Different ways of working on the same instinct: to understand how things really work, and to make them work better.

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Writings

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Notes on organizations, technology, and the full lifecycle of digital solutions — from tactical detail to strategic perspective.

  • Jul 23, 2026solopreneurship
    Choosing a Domain Name for My Trading Platform
    A structured, audience-first domain decision for a self-hosted retail trading platform — from ideal customer and TLD assessment through name candidates and availability to the final pick.
  • Jul 18, 2026solution-design
    I Rebuilt My Makefile in Task
    I rebuilt this site's Makefile in Task to judge the two properly. The trap is stacking the deck against a rotten Makefile — so I brought mine to its best first, then weighed Make against Task, round by round.
  • Jul 18, 2026larsbarkman.com
    How I Picked a Comment System
    Why I added comments, what I evaluated, and why I went with Hyvor Talk — on a static Astro site, DevOps overhead and vendor tracking are both non-starters.

Consulting

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Consulting engagements to help organizations design, develop, and operate digital solutions — working hands-on across solution architecture, operating models, and engineering leadership.

  • Solution Delivery Design
    I help enterprises get better at designing, developing, and operating digital solutions — clarifying ownership, defining process, and building the capability to deliver consistently without ongoing external support. Structure, process, and people: design how solutions get delivered, define how the work flows, then equip the people who make it happen.
  • Solution Design & Delivery
    Hands-on work on specific digital solutions — designing architectures, leading development, and establishing the operational practices that make a delivered solution something the enterprise can confidently own and run.

Ventures

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Things I'm building and exploring — applying my knowledge to new problems and areas beyond my consulting work.

  • Digital Solution Lifecycle Model
    An opinionated engineering model for digital solution lifecycle management, made operational through Unix-philosophy tooling that progressively automates the work machines can own.
  • Retail Systematic Trading Platform
    A self-hosted systematic trading platform for retail traders — data, strategy, execution, and risk as one coherent system you own and control, with no vendor lock-in.
© 2026 • Lars Barkman