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Cloud & Platform Engineering

Great products need a foundation that does not buckle.

We design, build, and harden the platforms your applications run on, across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and on-prem, so your team ships faster on infrastructure that stays up and stays affordable.

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The challenge

Why infrastructure gets expensive

Cloud environments grow by accretion. A few clicks here, a one-off resource there, and within a year nobody can reproduce production, costs creep with no owner, and every deploy is a held breath.

On-prem has its own squeeze. Since Broadcom moved VMware to subscription bundles with a 16-core-per-CPU licensing minimum, renewal quotes have climbed for many teams, and the math rewards consolidation and punishes sprawl. Whether the right answer is to stay and right-size or migrate to another hypervisor, it starts with knowing your real footprint, on-prem and across the major clouds alike.

What we do

Cloud and on-prem, end to end

Multi-Cloud Architecture

Design, build, and run across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, with Oracle Cloud and others where they fit. Portable patterns and FinOps cost control, so you are not locked to one provider or one bill.

On-Prem & Virtualization

Cost optimization for VMware vSphere and other on-prem stacks. We right-size editions, consolidate hosts, and prep renewals so you stop paying for cores and features you do not use, often without leaving VMware at all.

Hypervisor Migration

When leaving makes sense, we plan and run the move off VMware to the platform that fits your workloads: Proxmox VE, Nutanix AHV, Microsoft Hyper-V and Azure Local, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, or XCP-ng. Warm migration keeps VMs running through cutover to limit downtime.

Infrastructure-as-Code

Terraform and reproducible environments that kill configuration drift and give you a clear audit trail. Standardized, repeatable deployments that support your compliance work instead of fighting it.

Kubernetes & Containers

Cluster design, workload migration, and the guardrails (autoscaling, networking, secrets) that keep it boring in the best way.

CI/CD & Internal Developer Platforms

Pipelines, golden paths, and self-service tooling so product teams ship safely without filing a ticket for every deploy.

Why us

We run what we build

Operators, not architects-on-paper

We run the platforms we build. Our designs survive contact with production because we have been on call for them.

Vendor-neutral by design

We do not resell VMware, Broadcom, or any cloud. The recommendation you get is the one that fits your workloads and budget, not the one that pays us a margin.

Cloud, on-prem, and GovCloud

Hands-on familiarity across commercial AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, on-prem virtualization, and regulated GovCloud, where the constraints are real.

Who we help

Is this you?

  • Teams hit with a steep VMware renewal who want to right-size or move off it.
  • Teams whose cloud bill is climbing faster than usage.
  • Product teams blocked by slow, fragile, or manual deploys.
  • Companies adopting Kubernetes or infrastructure-as-code for the first time.
  • Organizations standing up regulated or GovCloud environments.
How we work

Fixed scope. No drift.

We start with an architecture and licensing review, then deliver in fixed-scope increments (a cost pass, a hardened pipeline, a migrated workload), each shippable on its own. We will tell you honestly whether to stay and optimize or migrate. You see value early, and nothing depends on a six-month big bang.

Let's pressure-test your platform

Start with an architecture and licensing review. We will map what you have, where it hurts, and the highest-leverage things to fix first, whether that is cloud, on-prem, or both.

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