AI & SaaS startups · seed–Series B
I work with founders whose cloud bill grows faster than revenue, whose systems nobody can predict at 10x, and whose customers report the outage before the alerts do. 20 years of infrastructure, applied a day or two a week.
DM me on LinkedInIf any of these are true, that’s exactly the work I do.
The cloud bill grows faster than revenue.
Find where the money actually goes, cut what isn’t earning its keep, and leave you a bill that scales with the business instead of ahead of it.
Nobody knows what breaks first at 10x.
Load-test the assumptions, remove the bottleneck before your biggest customer finds it, and make growth an infrastructure non-event.
Customers report the outage before the alerts do.
Instrument what matters, page on what’s real, and turn incidents from firefights into fifteen-minute fixes.
1–2 days a week inside your team — the staff infrastructure engineer you’re not ready to hire full-time.
Your AWS environment assessed against all six pillars of the Well-Architected Framework, with audit tooling I built for the job. Findings with dollar figures and a prioritized fix list — fixing them is phase two.
When the microservices multiplied or the AI pipeline got away from you: consolidate, simplify, ship.
Gap assessment, remediation, and walking you into the auditor’s room. I’ve taken startups through SOC 2 twice — plus HIPAA and a top-tier-bank security review.
I look at the real system: bills, architecture, pipelines, alerts.
You get a findings list with dollar figures and risk, ranked.
We execute the top of the list together, or I do it fractional.
Runbooks and docs so your team owns it after I leave.
$1.5M/yr
Cut 40% of OpEx from a consumer social platform’s AWS and observability bills — with 26% faster media delivery.
250 → 3
Core engineer on collapsing 250 microservices into a modular monolith at a healthcare-AI startup, HIPAA intact.
#1
Built a serverless ML platform from zero — thousands of concurrent trainings, ranked first by Gartner, Fortune-500 in-VPC deploys.
330K+ users
Built and scaled a fintech-messaging startup’s infrastructure from zero, supporting 330,000+ users globally at top financial institutions.