A senior advisory council for engineering leadership decisions spanning architecture, tech stack selection, build-vs-buy tradeoffs, team scaling, and technical debt management. The panel brings together a Software Architect for system design and technology selection, a TDD Engineer for code quality and testing strategy, a DevOps/SRE specialist for reliability and deployment pipelines, a Cybersecurity Expert for threat modeling and secure-by-design guidance, a Product Manager for business alignment and roadmap prioritization, and a Quality Assurance lead for release readiness and regression prevention.