Infrastructure advisory for teams making decisions that are hard to unwind.
I help engineering teams review cloud architecture, Terraform/OpenTofu structure, CI/CD workflows, platform engineering direction, reliability practices, and AI-driven operational risk before those decisions turn into expensive production problems.
Outside perspective, not staff augmentation.
This is strategic review and guidance for engineering teams that need senior technical judgment, not another set of hands writing tickets.
I am not coming in to become your ticket queue or to write every Terraform module. I'm here to help your team see risks earlier, reason through tradeoffs, and make better decisions in the rooms where those decisions actually get made.
The work is structured, bounded, and documented. You walk away with clarity, prioritized recommendations, and shared language inside your team — not a dependency on me.
Grounding in migrations, Kafka, and governance.
Illustrative scope from prior roles — not an endorsement of any vendor or employer.
The kinds of pain this work resolves.
If two or three of these sound familiar, advisory is probably the right wedge.
Terraform or Terragrunt has grown messy and nobody trusts the structure anymore.
CI/CD workflows are powerful but increasingly hard to govern, audit, or change safely.
Platform engineering is becoming a support queue instead of a product with adoption.
AI tools and agents are entering engineering workflows without clear permission boundaries.
Cloud cost, reliability, and ownership are getting tangled together — and decisions slow down.
Teams are preparing for a migration, redesign, or scaling phase and need an outside read first.
Engineering leadership needs a clear, technical outside read on infrastructure risk.
Pick the shape that fits the problem.
In 2026, most engagements still start with a fixed-scope review. Retainers come after trust — but they're available day one when the problem is clear.
Infrastructure Strategy Review
A fixed-scope review of your architecture, workflows, risks, and operating model. Bounded engagement, written deliverable, prioritized next steps.
AI-Era Infrastructure Risk Review
A focused review of where AI-assisted delivery, CI/CD, automation, secrets, permissions, and SaaS integrations create operational blast radius.
Advisory Retainer
Ongoing access to a senior infrastructure advisor for recurring architecture, platform, reliability, and AI-risk decisions. Async + scheduled sessions.
Terraform Architecture Review
A fixed-scope review of your Terraform/OpenTofu structure, state boundaries, module design, promotion paths, and review workflows — before the mess becomes the operating model.
Platform Engineering Advisory
Outside guidance on paved roads, adoption, support boundaries, and platform maturity — so your platform team builds a product teams choose, not a portal nobody uses.
DevOps Advisory for SaaS Teams
Strategic DevOps and SRE guidance for SaaS engineering orgs navigating multi-tenant risk, release velocity, compliance pressure, and infrastructure decisions that are hard to unwind.
GitHub Actions Security Review
A focused review of GitHub Actions, self-hosted runners, secrets, permissions, and workflow blast radius — treating your developer toolchain as the production control plane it has become.
Kubernetes Reliability Review
A bounded review of how your clusters are operated day-two: observability, autoscaling, upgrades, failure modes, and the gap between the getting-started guide and production reality.
Explore each engagement.
Each engagement has its own page with what it covers, what you walk away with, who it’s for, and how to start.
A fixed-scope review of your architecture, workflows, risks, and operating model. Bounded engagement, written deliverable, prioritized next steps.
Explore this service →A focused review of where AI-assisted delivery, CI/CD, automation, secrets, permissions, and SaaS integrations create operational blast radius.
Explore this service →Ongoing access to a senior infrastructure advisor for recurring architecture, platform, reliability, and AI-risk decisions. Async + scheduled sessions.
Explore this service →A fixed-scope review of your Terraform/OpenTofu structure, state boundaries, module design, promotion paths, and review workflows — before the mess becomes the operating model.
Explore this service →Outside guidance on paved roads, adoption, support boundaries, and platform maturity — so your platform team builds a product teams choose, not a portal nobody uses.
Explore this service →Strategic DevOps and SRE guidance for SaaS engineering orgs navigating multi-tenant risk, release velocity, compliance pressure, and infrastructure decisions that are hard to unwind.
Explore this service →A focused review of GitHub Actions, self-hosted runners, secrets, permissions, and workflow blast radius — treating your developer toolchain as the production control plane it has become.
Explore this service →A bounded review of how your clusters are operated day-two: observability, autoscaling, upgrades, failure modes, and the gap between the getting-started guide and production reality.
Explore this service →The shape of the deliverable.
Bounded, structured, and useful — designed to leave behind clarity, not dependency.
What this isn't.
Honest scope so the wrong buyers self-select out.
Advisory doesn't include:
- Day-to-day ticket execution
- Emergency break/fix production support
- Writing all your Terraform for you
- Replacing your internal DevOps team
- Vendor implementation disguised as strategy
- Long-term staff-augmentation contracts
Get senior infrastructure judgment in the room.
Most engagements start with a quick intake call to confirm fit, scope, and timing. No long sales cycle.