40
applications migrated to cloud-native platforms
Billions
of telemetry events processed per day, at 99.9% uptime
3
clouds run in production: AWS, Azure, Oracle — plus bare-metal GPU
80%
faster deployments on a pharma platform we still operate
15+
years in production platform engineering, per lead engineer
Services — what we build and run
Three surfaces, one thesis: infrastructure that has to actually work.
Cloud and platform engineering, real-time industrial data, and AI infrastructure. They reinforce each other — AI needs data, data needs cloud — so most engagements start in one and grow into the next.
Selected work
Shipped — and still up.
Pfizer
Infrastructure Management & Tracking System for Manufacturing Process Visualization
Environment provisioning
days
→
under 1 hour
John Snow Labs
Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Management for AI Applications
GPU model training time
previous pipeline
→
60% faster training
ISEATEC
Scalable IoT Sensor Data Platform on AWS with Real-Time Analytics
Telemetry throughput
single-site batch
→
billions of events/day at 99.9%
Who does the work
Senior engineers, on your problem — not a pyramid with one architect on top.
The most expensive thing an agency can do to you is sell a senior and staff a junior. Every engagement here is staffed to the same floor, and the people who scope the work are the people who deliver it.
12+
years in production, minimum, for every engineer on an engagement
5–6
senior engineers available per engagement
0
work packages handed off to juniors
EU
timezone and GDPR jurisdiction — no offshore night shift
Whoever scopes it, builds it
The engineer who sizes the work is on the delivery team. There is no handover from the person who understood the problem to the people who write the code.
Senior only, on the critical path
We do not staff a project with one architect and a bench of juniors billed at senior rates. Everyone assigned has run production systems of comparable scale.
Named engineers, not headcount
You get specific people whose work you can look at before they start, and they stay on the engagement. Rotation happens only when you ask for it.
The team that builds it, operates it
Where we run what we build, the on-call rota is staffed by the same engineers. It is the fastest way to make sure the thing was built to be operated.
Two minutes, no email required
How production-ready is your platform?
Eight questions we ask on every architecture review. No email, no signup — you get the score and the fixes immediately. We record the answers anonymously to sharpen the questions; nothing here identifies you.
Infrastructure as code
01 / 08
If your production environment vanished tonight, how would you rebuild it?
Filling in as you answer
Infrastructure as code
0/3
Deployment
0/3
Observability
0/3
Cost control
0/3
Recovery
0/3
Access & security
0/3
Capacity
0/3
Ownership
0/3
How we compare
Why a senior-led team
Small enough to own your platform. Able to scale when the roadmap needs it.
Criterion
AFI OPS (senior-led team)
Large agency
Freelancers
Hire a platform team
Time to start
Days
Weeks — after the sales cycle
Days
3–6 months to hire
Who does the work
A senior architect leads; vetted senior engineers scale behind them
Mixed; juniors on the keyboard
One person, variable depth
Depends on who you can attract
Scaling up
Weeks — from a vetted senior bench, led by the same architect
Yes — usually with juniors
No
Months per hire
Continuity
Same lead, build → run
Rotations and hand-offs
Availability risk
Attrition risk
Accountability for production
Yes — we run it, on-call included
Rarely
No
Yes
Cost profile
Fixed-scope or monthly, sized to the roadmap
High overhead
Low, but you manage the risk
Salaries + recruiting + ramp-up
Time to start
AFI OPS (senior-led team)
Days
Large agency
Weeks — after the sales cycle
Freelancers
Days
Hire a platform team
3–6 months to hire
Who does the work
AFI OPS (senior-led team)
A senior architect leads; vetted senior engineers scale behind them
Large agency
Mixed; juniors on the keyboard
Freelancers
One person, variable depth
Hire a platform team
Depends on who you can attract
Scaling up
AFI OPS (senior-led team)
Weeks — from a vetted senior bench, led by the same architect
Large agency
Yes — usually with juniors
Freelancers
No
Hire a platform team
Months per hire
Continuity
AFI OPS (senior-led team)
Same lead, build → run
Large agency
Rotations and hand-offs
Freelancers
Availability risk
Hire a platform team
Attrition risk
Accountability for production
AFI OPS (senior-led team)
Yes — we run it, on-call included
Large agency
Rarely
Freelancers
No
Hire a platform team
Yes
Cost profile
AFI OPS (senior-led team)
Fixed-scope or monthly, sized to the roadmap
Large agency
High overhead
Freelancers
Low, but you manage the risk
Hire a platform team
Salaries + recruiting + ramp-up
How to start
Start small. Start this week.
Cloud Readiness Audit
1 week · fixed scope
Cost, reliability, security, and delivery-maturity review
Prioritized action list with effort estimates
Written report + walkthrough call
Fixed price — ask on the call
Details →
AI Readiness Assessment
2 weeks · fixed scope
Data, infrastructure, and use-case pipeline audit
Top 3 initiatives with cost and effort
Reference architecture + written roadmap
Fixed price — ask on the call
Details →