Senior DevOps, on a contract basis.
Short engagements for startups and small teams that need a senior platform engineer without making the hire yet. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and the tooling that holds it together.
What I can build for you.
AWS architecture and cost
A greenfield account set up properly, or an audit of the one you have. Multi-account organisations, networking, IAM, and cost cuts that survive the next quarter.Terraform and infrastructure as code
Move click-ops into Terraform, with module and state structure a small team can operate safely. Plan on pull request, apply on merge.CI/CD pipelines
CircleCI or GitHub Actions tuned for deploys that are fast and boring. Blue/green, canary, and ephemeral environments per pull request. I can pick up a Jenkins estate too, though I would rather help you leave it.Kubernetes and containers
EKS and GKE clusters with the Helm and Argo plumbing around them. Workloads that scale and recover without paging anyone at 3am.Reliability and security
Observability in Datadog, an on-call rotation people can live with, an incident process, and a security baseline you can defend in an audit.Internal tooling
The small Next.js and Node services, dashboards and bots that unblock your team. The ops tools nobody has time to build.
What changed on the last two platforms I ran.
- 30+ hours of manual ops work a month removed with Bash and Python automation.
- AWS spend down 20% at Blue Apron by moving cross-account infrastructure to Terraform.
- Mean time to detect cut in half with Datadog monitoring and alerting.
- A custom CircleCI Orb replaced a paid third-party deploy product across the org.
40%
faster deploys after rebuilding the CI/CD pipelines for ECS services at Agero
85%
fewer critical vulnerabilities after hardening images and dependencies
99.997%
platform availability, with shift-left QA and test automation
How I work.
The parts people usually find out too late.
Async first
A weekly written update and a shared channel. It works across time zones and leaves a paper trail you can read later.Remote, English or Spanish
US East hours by default, from Charlotte, NC. Bilingual, so a Spanish-speaking team is no friction.You get me, not a bench
I do the work myself. Nobody junior gets handed the keys to your production account halfway through.
How an engagement runs.
Intro call
Thirty minutes. You describe the problem, I tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it. No charge.Written scope
One page: deliverables, timeline, and price, hourly or fixed. You know what you are buying before anything starts.The work
Async, in a shared channel, with a written update every week and a demo when a demo helps more than a paragraph.Handoff
Docs, runbooks, and a walkthrough, so your team owns it after I am gone. No lock-in to me.
Need a hand with platform work?
The button opens an email draft with the questions I would ask anyway: company, scope, timeline, stack. Five minutes to send.