New firm helps scaling companies break through the “architectural ceiling” that stalls delivery and crushes innovation
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The irony is brutal: the software systems that helped companies grow are now the very things choking their ability to innovate. As enterprises scale, their once-nimble codebases become tangled webs of legacy decisions, fragmented tools, and technical debt that can bring even the best engineering teams to their knees.
Enter Kisasa, a new kind of modernization firm founded by two software architects who’ve experienced this pain firsthand. “We were seeing the same thing, over and over again,” explains Wael Rabadi, Kisasa co-founder. “Brilliant engineering teams hitting what we call the ‘architectural ceiling’— that invisible barrier that makes every new feature a three-week ordeal, deployments terrifying, and everyone afraid to even touch the code that’s critical to running the business.”
The breaking point came prior to founding Kisasa, when Rabadi and co-founder David Dieruf, worked together on different modernization projects that spent millions on new tools while their core delivery problems remained unchanged. “We realized the issue wasn’t the technology—it was that nobody had a clear map of how to get from the tangled mess they had to the streamlined system they needed,” Dieruf recalls.
For Rabadi and Dieruf, this insight was an inspiration. And it became the foundation for Kisasa’s “Blueprint” – a methodology that combines business discovery with technical architecture to create “modernization minus the chaos.” Unlike traditional approaches that focus on tools and infrastructure, a Kisasa Blueprint maps business capabilities to system design, ensuring every technical decision serves an actual purpose.
The results speak volumes: one SaaS company reduced deployment time from weeks to days, while an enterprise client finally achieved alignment between product and engineering teams around a shared modernization vision, an elusive goal prior to engaging Kisasa.
“Legacy systems aren’t just technical problems—they’re business problems,” notes Rabadi. “When your architecture can’t keep up with your ambitions, everything suffers: customer experience, team morale, competitive advantage.”
For companies trapped between the systems that got them here and the agility they need for what’s next, Kisasa offers something rare: a clear path forward that actually works.
About Kisasa
Kisasa specializes in enterprise software modernization, helping organizations untangle complex legacy systems and build clear paths to modern delivery.
Learn more at kisasa.io or LinkedIn
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