Do we need Kubernetes?

Almost certainly not. Most products I see would be better served by a managed platform for years longer than their team assumes. Kubernetes solves problems you should be able to name before adopting it.

How long does this take to set up?

A working pipeline with preview environments and rollback is typically one to two weeks for an existing application. Most of that is discovering the undocumented differences between environments.

Can you do this without disrupting the current process?

Yes. The new pipeline runs alongside the existing one until it is demonstrably more reliable, then becomes the default.

Infrastructure and deployment

All services

Shipping should be boring.

The strongest signal about a team is how they feel on release day. If shipping requires a person, a checklist and a held breath, the deploy pipeline is costing far more than it appears to.

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Why people get in touch

Deploys are events

Releases happen on Thursdays because Friday is too risky. The batch grows, and each release gets more dangerous, which makes them rarer still.

It works locally

Environments differ in ways nobody has written down, so bugs appear only in production and cannot be reproduced.

No way back

When something breaks, the only path is forward through a hotfix, under pressure, by whoever is awake.

What the work includes

CI that actually gates

Typecheck, lint, tests and build on every pull request — failing before merge, not after.

Reproducible environments

Preview, staging and production that differ only in data and scale.

Instant rollback

A previous release restorable in one action, without a rebuild.

Observability

Errors, logs and traces you can actually search when it matters.

Runbooks

Written so the person on call is not required to be me.

Typical stack

Hosting

Vercel
AWS
Fly.io
Docker

CI/CD

GitHub Actions
Preview deploys
Migration gates

Observability

Sentry
Structured logging
Uptime checks

Data

Automated backups
Restore drills
Zero-downtime migrations

Work like this

Jobs CopilotFinding the roles that never reach a job board, and applying while you sleep.

Appraiser AssistantTurning a vehicle appraisal from an afternoon of tab-juggling into four steps.

How it goes

A call, not a pitch

Thirty minutes on what you are actually trying to ship. If I am not the right person, I will say so and usually know who is.

A written scope

Before any money moves, you get the outcome, the approach, the price, and what is explicitly out of scope. No hourly surprises.

Work in the open

Branches you can read, demos over status reports, and a written update every day. You always know where things stand.

A clean handover

Documentation, tests, and a walkthrough with your team. The goal is that you do not need me afterwards.

Questions

Not sure if this is what you need?

Thirty minutes, no pitch. If it turns out you need something else — or someone else — I’ll say so.

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