Most AI startups are one traffic spike away from disaster. I help founders fix their infrastructure before it becomes the reason they lose users — fast deploys, zero downtime, and a stack that scales.
AI startups move fast and build for now. Then a launch goes viral, a tweet blows up, or you close a big deal — and suddenly the cracks appear.
You hit Product Hunt, land on the front page, and your servers go down. Users leave, investors screenshot the error page. The best moment of your company becomes a PR disaster.
No rollback strategy. No canary. One bad push and production is on fire. Shipping new features starts to feel more risky than not shipping — so velocity dies.
No observability means you learn about problems from users, not dashboards. By the time you know something's wrong, 10% of your users have already given up and left.
A structured process — no lengthy onboarding, no discovery theater. We start with what matters most and move fast.
Tell me about your stack, your traffic patterns, and what keeps you up at night. I'll tell you what I typically find at your stage and whether I can help — no pitch, no pressure.
No commitment requiredIn one week, I do a deep review of your entire infrastructure — cloud, containers, CI/CD, database, observability. You get a written report: what breaks at 10x traffic, and a prioritized fix list.
$750 · 1 week · Applies as creditWe tackle the highest-risk items immediately — the things that will break under real load. Quick wins first, then systematic hardening of the full stack.
Results in days, not monthsMost clients move to a monthly retainer — I become your fractional DevOps engineer, owning the infra so your team can focus on the product. Cancel anytime.
Month-to-month · No contractsI don't just advise — I build, deploy, and hand you something that works. Senior-level execution with no account managers between us.
Kubernetes setup designed to handle 10x your current traffic. Auto-scaling, load balancing, pod disruption budgets — built to survive the spike.
See problems before your users do. Complete metrics, logs, and distributed tracing — connected and making sense, not just running in the background.
Ship with confidence. Canary deployments, feature flags, instant rollbacks. Your team goes from dreading deploys to doing them multiple times a day.
Multi-AZ deployments, database failover, disaster recovery runbooks. A single failure — hardware, zone, or region — should never take you down.
Most AI startups at your stage are overpaying by 30–40%. I find the waste, right-size resources, and implement spending guardrails before the CFO asks.
Everything reproducible, version controlled, reviewable. No more "snowflake" servers, no undocumented configs, no "only Alex knows how this works."
Every engagement is measured by what changes in production — not deliverables, not hours, not recommendations.
The audit is designed to give you clarity in one week — no fluff, just a prioritized list of what to fix and why.
Start with the audit to find the gaps. Move to a retainer to fix them and stay ahead. No long-term contracts — ever.
All plans are month-to-month. Cancel anytime. No surprise fees.
I've built a startup from zero. That means I've also built the entire cloud infrastructure from scratch, made every cost tradeoff myself, and felt what it's like when something breaks at 2am with users waiting and investors watching.
I know the pressure. The speed. The "we'll fix it later" decisions that pile up until they explode on your best day. That's exactly why I built SurgeOps — because when your infra is on fire, you don't need a consultant who's never shipped anything. You need someone who's been in your seat.
On the engineering side: full VM-to-Kubernetes migrations, observability stacks built from scratch, CI/CD pipelines that let teams ship without fear, and SRE programs I've designed and taught to 20+ engineers — all in production, zero downtime.
Free 30-minute call. I'll ask about your stack, show you what I usually find at your stage, and we'll figure out if working together makes sense. No pitch, no pressure.
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