Cloud
Infrastructure your team can operate at three in the morning
Cloud spend is usually the second largest engineering line item and the least examined. We build infrastructure that is defined in code, reproducible from an empty account, observable when it misbehaves and priced deliberately rather than by accident.
Scope
What this covers
Infrastructure as code
Terraform and Pulumi modules with environment parity, so staging is a real rehearsal for production and a new region is a variable change rather than a project.
Kubernetes and container platforms
Cluster design, autoscaling, network policy, secrets handling and GitOps delivery. We also tell you honestly when managed services would serve you better than a cluster.
CI/CD and developer experience
Pipelines that build, test, scan and deploy in under fifteen minutes, with preview environments per pull request so review happens against a running system.
Observability
Structured logs, metrics, distributed tracing and alerts tied to user facing symptoms instead of CPU graphs nobody acts on.
Cloud cost engineering
Right sizing, commitment planning, storage lifecycle policy and per team cost attribution. On most first audits we find between thirty and sixty percent of spend that is not doing work.
Stack
What we build it with
Tools are chosen per project and justified in an architecture decision record. This is what we reach for most often in this practice.
Deliverables
What you actually receive
- Entire environment reproducible from code in a clean account
- Runbooks for the ten most likely failure modes
- Alerting tied to service level objectives you agreed to
- Documented cost baseline and monthly attribution
- Disaster recovery plan that has actually been tested
Related case studies
Where we have done this
Cutting clinical documentation time by 43 percent for a multi-site provider group
Physicians were spending over two and a half hours a day on documentation. We rebuilt the note workflow around structured capture and model-assisted drafting with mandatory clinician review, inside HIPAA aligned infrastructure.
Ingesting 2.1 million vehicle events an hour at 42 percent of the previous cost
Eleven thousand vehicles emitting telemetry every two seconds had outgrown a design that stored everything at full resolution forever. We changed what gets kept rather than buying more storage.
Holding 180,000 concurrent students through a national examination window
The load is not the hard part. Doing it on five-year-old Android tablets over congested school networks, with WCAG AA conformance and no lost answers, is the hard part.
Questions
What clients ask first
Can you reduce our cloud bill?
Do we need Kubernetes?
Will our team be able to maintain this?
Services
Practices that pair with this one
Product engineering
SaaS platforms and web products built to carry real load
Mobile engineering
iOS and Android apps that hold up outside the demo
Agentic and generative AI
AI features that pass review, not just demo well
Data engineering and analytics
Numbers your leadership team actually trusts
Technology consulting
Straight answers before you spend the budget
Need cloud and platform engineering?
Send a short brief and a senior engineer will read it. You get a written response with our honest read on scope, risk and cost within one business day. No discovery call required to get a real answer.
- A senior engineer reads every brief
- NDA signed before you share anything sensitive
- No sales sequence, no automated follow ups