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.
"We had 3,000 signups waiting and our API was returning 503s for 40 minutes."
No rollback strategy. No canary. One bad push and production is on fire — so velocity dies.
"We had to wake up the CTO at 3am to manually roll back a deploy."
No observability means you learn about problems from users, not dashboards. By the time you know, users have already left.
"We found out our inference latency doubled from a user's tweet, not our monitoring."
A structured process — no lengthy onboarding, no discovery theater. We start with what matters most and move fast.
Understand the stack, identify the biggest risks, and determine what should be fixed first.
Free · No commitmentFor clearly scoped infrastructure work, start with a fixed-price project like the AWS + Terraform Foundation.
$1,500–$2,500 · FixedUse prepaid DevOps hours for improvements, troubleshooting, scaling, observability, CI/CD, Terraform, and other ongoing infrastructure work.
Flexible hoursIf the team starts needing consistent DevOps capacity, move to a custom fractional engagement.
Custom fractionalI don't just advise — I build, deploy, and hand you something that works. Senior-level execution with no account managers between us.
Clean AWS environments built for your actual stage — never over- or under-engineered. ECS/Fargate or EC2 for most startups, Kubernetes only when you truly need it.
Catch problems before your users do. Metrics, logs, and distributed tracing — connected and meaningful, not just running in the background.
Ship with confidence. Canary deployments, feature flags, and instant rollbacks turn dreaded deploys into a daily habit.
Multi-AZ deployments, database failover, and disaster recovery runbooks. No single hardware, zone, or region failure should take you down.
Most AI startups your stage overpay by 30–40%. I find the waste, right-size resources, and add spending guardrails before the CFO asks.
Everything reproducible, version-controlled, and reviewable. Every client gets a Terraform repo they own and can hand to any engineer.
Users are using it. Now you need the infra to match.
Terraform, proper networking, CI/CD — done right the first time.
Senior DevOps expertise without the $200k salary.
Better to fix your infra before the spike, not during.
No pitch. No pressure. I'll tell you what I'd fix first and whether I can help.
Find your biggest infrastructure risks — at no cost
Tell me about your stack, traffic, cloud setup, and deployment flow. I'll identify the highest-risk infrastructure gaps and recommend the best first step. No commitment, no agenda — just clarity.
Start free. Build a solid AWS foundation. Add flexible DevOps hours as you grow. No long-term contracts required.
For founders who aren't sure what's risky or what to fix first.
For startups that need a clean, reproducible AWS setup they can actually build on.
Get senior DevOps help without committing to a full-time hire. Use your hours wherever your infrastructure needs them most — AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, reliability, scaling, migrations, cost optimization, or production troubleshooting. Priorities change. Your DevOps support should be able to change with them.
For focused infrastructure work, troubleshooting, or a specific improvement.
For startups with multiple infrastructure priorities who need ongoing senior DevOps help without hiring full-time.
Senior DevOps capacity across infrastructure, reliability, deployment and scaling — without committing to a full-time hire.
For teams that consistently need significant DevOps capacity, custom fractional DevOps engagements are available.
Let's Talk →I've built a startup from zero. That means I've 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: 6+ years running production infrastructure at AI and SaaS companies. Full VM-to-Kubernetes migrations with zero downtime, observability stacks built from scratch, CI/CD pipelines that go from slow and scary to fast and safe — and SRE programs I've designed and taught to 20+ engineers at a venture-backed AI platform.
It's a free 30-minute call where you tell me about your stack, traffic, cloud setup, and deployment flow. I'll identify the 3–5 biggest infrastructure risks and recommend what to fix first. No commitment, no pitch — just a clear first step.
Free 30-minute infrastructure review. Tell me about your stack and I'll tell you what I'd fix first — and whether I can help. No pitch, no pressure.
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