Service
Cloud Engineering
Production cloud infra without the DevOps headcount. CI/CD, observability, secrets management, on-call.
Most early-stage SaaS doesn't need a DevOps hire. It needs someone who has set up production CI/CD, structured logging, secrets management, and on-call escalation enough times to get it right the first time. We build that foundation on Vercel, AWS, or GCP — whatever fits your stack and budget — then hand back a runbook so your engineers can ship without page duty becoming a full-time job.
What you get
Concrete deliverables.
Not a slide deck.
- CI/CD pipeline with preview deploys, test gating, and rollback on failure
- Observability: Sentry for errors, structured logs to a real human inbox, basic dashboards
- Secrets in a vault (1Password, Doppler, or AWS Secrets Manager), rotated and audited
- Runbook: what the on-call does at 2am, escalation paths, common failure recipes
Why us
The shape of the work matters.
- Production-first defaults — every config we ship has survived at least one real incident
- Stack-pragmatic — we don't push Kubernetes when Vercel Functions are the right answer
- Flat-price means we want to ship the simplest working thing, not the most billable thing
- Handover documents are written for your engineers, not for our retention
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Cloud Engineering in your city.
FAQ
Questions founders ask.
Do you do Kubernetes?
We can, but we usually don't. For 90 percent of early-stage SaaS, Vercel + a managed Postgres is faster, cheaper, and more reliable than running k8s. We only set up k8s when there's a real reason — multi-region failover, custom GPU workloads, or compliance with a hard requirement.
Can you migrate us off Heroku / DigitalOcean / Render?
Yes. Most migrations are 3–7 days depending on the database. We do the cutover with zero downtime, leaving the old stack warm for 72 hours in case we need to roll back.
Do you support our existing AWS account?
Yes — we work in your cloud, not ours. We add the minimum IAM permissions to do the work, and revoke them on handover.
What about SOC 2 / ISO?
We can prepare your infra for SOC 2 Type 1 (audit logs, encryption at rest, IAM hygiene). Full compliance program (policies, evidence collection) is out of scope — we'd refer you to Vanta or Drata.
Who owns the code?
You do, from commit one. The repository is created in your GitHub org. Infrastructure is provisioned in your cloud account. We don't host your stack on ours and we don't lock you in.
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