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.
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.
Most engagements 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.
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.