I advise early-stage SaaS teams on infrastructure costs, compliance-ready architecture, and the platform foundations that are expensive to retrofit later.
Finding the spend that isn't buying you anything — savings plans, storage tiering, and the orphaned resources nobody's watching.
Building for the audits you'll face later — before they turn into a rebuild you didn't budget for.
Code-defined infrastructure, multi-environment pipelines, and deployments your team actually owns.
Observability, incident response, and the runbooks that keep scaling from breaking things.
Client names withheld under NDA — the numbers are real.
A major launch months out and infrastructure that wasn't ready. Guided the architecture and stood up multi-environment pipelines, data infrastructure, observability, and automated deployments — all code-defined so the team could own it.
On-time launch and a team that didn't need me anymore.
After an acquisition, the platform had to move out of the parent's AWS accounts. Defined the strategy and led execution over three months — code-defined existing infrastructure, redesigned for portability, and cut over cleanly.
Zero-downtime cutover the new team could build on independently.
A fast-growing platform hitting the ceiling on Heroku. Designed the target architecture on EKS, guided containerization, and established the deployment pipelines and SRE practices to keep scaling without things falling over.
20× growth on infrastructure the team operates themselves.
I take on a small number of advisory engagements at a time and work alongside your team rather than around them. Everything is code-defined and documented, so what we build doesn't leave when I do — the goal is to make myself unnecessary.
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Occasionally available for advisory engagements. Reach out and let's see if it's a fit.
contact@fishsticklabs.com