Cloud migration
Get onto AWS or GCP without a scary big-bang weekend. We move what's worth moving, skip what isn't, and keep everything running while we do it.
DevOps & Cloud ConsultingCut your cloud bill.
Cut your cloud bill.
Kill the 3am wake‑ups.
I make production fast, cheap, and boring — AWS, Kubernetes, and zero-downtime deploys that don't wake anyone up.
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- 10×faster first-request latency
- 30%lower infra spend with ARM & Karpenter
- 6+ yrsshipping production cloud infrastructure
- Cloud migration
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD & IaC
- Cost & reliability
What I do
Consulting that pays for itself
Kubernetes
Kubernetes — but only if you actually need it. Set up to grow when traffic spikes and shrink (with the bill) when it doesn't, minus the thousands of lines of YAML nobody understands.
Cost & reliability
Find the line items quietly draining your budget and cut them — then make deploys boring enough that nobody gets paged at 3am. Boring beats clever.
CI/CD & IaC
Make shipping a non-event: you push, it deploys, everyone moves on. The whole setup lives in Terraform — reviewed, versioned, and rebuildable from scratch.
Where this leads: infrastructure you can stop thinking about — so your team gets back to building the product, not babysitting servers.
Beyond ops, I also review architecture, audit AI-built apps, and take ideas to production.See all services →
How it works
From first call to production
- 01
Audit
A free call and a look at your stack. I find the quick wins and the real risks — no jargon, no upsell.
- 02
Plan
A clear, prioritized roadmap with effort, cost, and expected impact. You decide what gets done and when.
- 03
Ship
I implement alongside your team, document everything, and leave you able to run it without me.
On the side
When I'm not running infra, I'm building Chatter
Chatter is a privacy-first encrypted messenger I'm building on the side — one Rust client (Slint) that runs on Linux, Windows, and Android today, with iOS and macOS planned, on a Go backend with Signal Protocol end-to-end encryption. It's still in development, but it's how I stay hands-on across the whole stack, from cryptography to deployment.
1 codebaseGo backendRust clientSignal E2EIn development
Who you'd work with
Hi, I'm Alexandru
I'm a DevOps engineer with 6+ years shipping cloud infrastructure on AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform — that's the day job, and the main spin. On the side I build Chatter, an encrypted messenger, from one cross-platform codebase — which keeps me hands-on across the whole stack. So I can also review your architecture, de-risk an AI-built app, or help take an idea to shipped. Either way, I care about boring, reliable systems and explain the trade-offs in plain language, not buzzwords.
Questions
Before you book a call
What does a DevOps consultant actually do for my team?
I find what's slow, expensive, or fragile in your infrastructure and fix it — then set things up so your own team can run it after I leave. The goal is to make myself unnecessary, not to lock you into me.
Will migrating to the cloud cause downtime?
No scary big-bang weekend. We move one piece at a time, keep production running the whole way, and roll back the moment anything looks off. Most migrations finish without users noticing.
Do I actually need Kubernetes?
Honestly, often not. If a handful of containers or managed services do the job, that's what you get. Kubernetes only goes in when your scale or complexity actually earns the extra moving parts.
How do you charge?
It starts with a free call and a look at your stack. From there you get a fixed-scope proposal or a day rate — your choice. You approve the plan and the cost before any work begins.
How soon can we start, and do you work with my existing team?
Usually within a week or two. I work alongside your engineers rather than over them, document everything as I go, and hand it over so nothing depends on me being around.
Ready to cut your cloud bill?
Book a free 30-minute call. We'll find the quickest wins in your infrastructure — no commitment.
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