Shipping code is the easy part. Keeping it alive at 3am when the database locks, traffic triples, and your only alert is an angry customer tweet — that's the hard part. I've spent 25 years making sure that doesn't happen.
Your app crashed at 2am. You found out at 9am — from an angry Slack message. Six hours of downtime. Zero alerts.
You got on the front page of HN. The single $20 droplet melted. By the time you SSH'd in, the moment was gone.
Your Dockerfile runs as root, your secrets are in .env committed to git, and your "CI/CD" is you running npm run build over SSH. It works — until it doesn't.
Your cloud, properly set up and watched around the clock. I've been doing this since before "DevOps" was a word — when we just called it "keeping things running."
Something's on fire and you don't know why. I've been the person getting paged at 3am for most of my career. Send me the problem, I'll find the root cause and fix it — no retainer, no onboarding, just hands on keyboard.
I can't watch every server myself. So I'm building something that can. Sentinel learns your infrastructure's normal behavior, catches anomalies, and fixes what it can before you even notice.
Memory at 70% on Tuesdays is fine. Memory at 70% on Saturday morning isn't. Sentinel learns your patterns — not just thresholds — so it knows the difference.
Connection pool leaking? Sentinel drains stale connections. Disk filling up? It rotates logs and clears temp files. You get a Slack message in the morning, not a 3am phone call.
Some problems need a human. When that happens, Sentinel pages me with a full timeline — what broke, what it already tried, and where it got stuck. I start with context, not questions.
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I set up the alarms. When something breaks, you know in seconds — not hours.
The whole stack, handled. CI/CD, scaling, security, backups — I treat it like my own.
It's 3am, everything is down, and you don't know why. Call me. I've seen this before.
Migrating off a monolith? Redesigning for scale? Doing due diligence on an acquisition's tech stack? That's not a monthly plan — that's a project. Here's how I work:
I dig into your codebase, infra, and deploy process. You get a brutally honest written report — what's working, what's a ticking time bomb, and what I'd do about it.
If there's a project worth doing, I'll scope it with a fixed price and timeline. No hourly billing surprise. You know what you're paying before we start.
I do the work. Not a junior dev reading my notes — me, hands on your codebase. Migrations, refactors, new infra. You get commits, not slide decks.
I started in infrastructure before AWS existed. Spent most of my career in banking — the kind of systems where "it went down for 5 minutes" makes the evening news. Built three digital banks from bare metal to production. Now I lead architecture at a US bank and help founders avoid the mistakes I've already made.
Most of what I do can't be prompted.