Work With Me

I help engineering teams run lean — cut cloud spend, get observability under control, and own the parts of the stack that are worth owning. Most of what I write about here, I've done in production at scale. I take on a small number of advisory engagements where that experience is useful.

What I help with

AWS cost optimization

Where the bill is actually going, and how to bring it down without breaking anything — right-sizing, commitments, storage lifecycle, data-transfer and architecture. Typically 20–40% with no performance loss.

Observability cost & architecture

Per-GB SaaS monitoring bills that scale against you, replaced with an architecture that scales with you. Datadog/CloudWatch → self-hosted LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir), or a saner version of what you already run.

How it works

A short call. You tell me what's hurting — the bill, the architecture, the on-call pain. I tell you honestly whether I can help.
A fixed scope. A defined piece of work with a clear deliverable — a cost audit with a savings roadmap, an architecture review, or hands-on implementation.
The deliverable. A written report and the numbers, or the change shipped — whichever the scope calls for. No open-ended retainers unless you want one.

Who it's for

Teams spending roughly $5K–$100K/month on cloud, growing faster than their visibility into it.
Companies without a dedicated platform or FinOps hire — where infrastructure is one engineer's third job.
Anyone whose observability bill is growing faster than their traffic.

Start with a free 15-min bill review

Tell me what you're dealing with and I'll come back within a day with an honest read on whether there's real, recoverable spend — or whether you're already lean. Prefer to grab a slot directly? Book the review.

Or just email me at [email protected].

Not sure yet? The blog is the long version of how I think about this — start with the $120K/month observability story or the AWS cost optimization guide.