Fractional CTOs & Platform Engineering for startups that have outgrown their infrastructure but haven't outgrown their budget.
We don't build slide decks. We build systems that survive contact with real traffic, real users, and real on-call rotations.
Technical leadership without the $400K salary. We embed with your team, set architecture direction, run hiring, and make sure your engineers are building on solid ground.
From bare metal to managed EKS. We design, deploy, and harden Kubernetes clusters that your team can actually operate. GitOps with ArgoCD, not YAML-by-hand.
Not chatbot wrappers. Real AI infrastructure — model deployment on GPU clusters, RAG pipelines, autonomous agents, and LLM-powered monitoring that actually catches problems.
CI/CD that developers don't fight. Observability stacks that prevent 3 AM pages. Internal developer platforms that make your team 10x faster without 10x the headcount.
Break-glass account architecture, SIEM deployment and tuning, penetration testing, and incident response planning. Plus the fundamentals — RBAC audits, secrets management with Bitwarden/Vault, network policies, and supply chain security.
Event-driven architectures with Kafka and NATS, workflow orchestration with Airflow and Argo Workflows, and data warehouse management. We build the pipelines that turn raw data into business decisions.
We've spent 20+ years in the trenches of production infrastructure — not managing Jira boards, but actually building and operating the systems that keep businesses running.
We run our own production Kubernetes clusters. We built Kestrel, a Christian search and news platform with new product launches coming this year. We've built platforms and projects that have gone on to be successfully acquired by IBM and Meta. We deploy GPU workloads for LLM inference and operate GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD across multiple environments.
The difference between us and most consultants: we're still active engineers. We write code, we debug production incidents, we read RFCs. When we tell you something won't scale, it's because we've watched it fail at 3 AM.
30-minute call. You tell us what's broken, what's scaling, and what keeps your CTO up at night. No sales pitch.
We dig into your stack — architecture, deployment pipelines, observability gaps, security posture. You get a written report with priorities.
We embed with your team and start shipping. Weekly or ongoing engagement. We build it, document it, and make sure your team can own it.
We take on 2-3 clients at a time to maintain quality. If your infrastructure needs serious attention, let's talk.