01
Cloud Cost & Capacity Control
Find the spend you can safely cut
A baseline of your AWS/EKS usage and cost, then right-sizing, Karpenter/spot strategy, non-prod scale-down, and idle-resource cleanup — with reliability held as an explicit constraint, not traded away. You leave with a prioritised, owned savings plan — and I can ship the Terraform/Helm PRs that realise it, not just hand you a roadmap. If the baseline surfaces nothing worth acting on, there’s no fee.
- Deliverables
- A cost baseline, a prioritised savings plan you own, and the Terraform/Helm PRs to realise it.
- Typical duration
- 2–4 weeks, fixed scope.
- Not this
- Not a discount hunt — reliability floors are never traded for savings.
02
Kubernetes & Platform Reliability
Make rollouts boring again
Architecture and failure-path review: workload requests/limits/probes, node lifecycle and autoscaling, deployment verification and rollback, observability and incident-readiness gaps — delivered as a risk register you can act on, or an ongoing reliability retainer.
- Deliverables
- An architecture and failure-path review as a prioritised risk register; optional ongoing retainer.
- Typical duration
- 2–3 week review, or a monthly retainer.
- Not this
- Not a rewrite, and not 24/7 on-call unless it’s a retainer.
03
Cloud & Delivery-System Migrations
Migrate without the downtime
GitLab→Gitea, data-centre→cloud, VMs→Kubernetes, DMS/RDS database moves. I map the dependencies and blast radius first, cut over in reversible waves, and leave reusable IaC — a repository migration is a delivery-system migration. 700+ repos migrated to date.
- Deliverables
- A dependency and blast-radius map, a reversible cut-over plan, and reusable IaC left behind.
- Typical duration
- Fixed-price project, scoped per migration.
- Not this
- No big-bang cutovers, no lift-and-shift without a plan.
04
Fractional Platform Lead
Senior platform leadership, part-time
Embedded one to two days a week: golden paths, CI/CD and a GitOps operating model, cloud architecture, and coaching your engineers so the platform stops being one person’s tribal knowledge.
- Deliverables
- Golden paths, a GitOps operating model, and coaching so the platform isn’t one person’s tribal knowledge.
- Typical duration
- 1–2 days a week, ongoing.
- Not this
- Not a full-time hire and not staff-augmentation.