AWS Cost Optimization & Cloud Engineering

Recover 20–40% of your AWS bill — without the disruption.

Most companies overpay for cloud by a fifth or more. I find the waste and eliminate it safely, via reviewable infrastructure-as-code, so the savings land straight on your margin. A senior engineer doing the actual work — not a bench of juniors.

A fit if you're already on AWS and the bill is climbing faster than revenue — or you're moving to AWS and want it built lean from day one.

What you get

Cloud that costs less and breaks less — without a bigger team.

01 · OPTIMIZE

Cut your AWS bill

Recover 20–40% of your cloud spend. Most environments carry that much waste — over-provisioning, idle resources, missing Savings Plan coverage. I find it and eliminate it safely via reviewable IaC, and the savings compound as you grow. It shows up as margin.

02 · MIGRATE

Move to AWS, built lean

Migrate off aging or on-prem infrastructure with zero downtime — and with cost discipline built in from day one, so you don't inherit a bloated bill. Production-grade, and yours to own.

03 · OPERATE

Build & run the platform

Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and AI on Amazon Bedrock — the engineering that keeps you fast and reliable without standing up a full in-house platform team.

How it works

No sales pitch. A clear picture and honest numbers.

1

Free assessment

A teardown of your current AWS bill showing exactly what's recoverable, in dollars — or a migration path if you're not there yet. No sales pitch, just the numbers.

2

Phased plan

Scoped in phases so nothing stops product delivery. Each phase ships working infrastructure — or realized savings you can measure.

3

Handoff with confidence

Documented, production-grade AWS infrastructure your team can own and operate. Not a black box.

Senior architect, every call IaC from day one Production experience, not demos Security & reliability by design HIPAA/BAA-aware where it applies

You work with the engineer, not a sales team.

No rotating bench of juniors. The person you talk to is the person writing the Terraform and cutting the bill.

Experience
15+ years building & operating production software and cloud systems
Education
B.S. Computer Science & EngineeringUniversity of California, Davis
Federal
U.S. federal agency · software developmentcontract engagement — agency confidential
Stack
AWS · Terraform · Amazon EKS · Amazon Bedrock
Model
One senior architect — every call, every commit
Selected work

Deep AWS engineering — not just dashboards.

Featured engagement · real client work

Active Directory auth on Linux — the dependency that traps enterprises on Windows, solved.

A client's legacy .NET APIs ran on always-on Windows servers, authenticating to legacy SQL Server through Active Directory — the exact dependency that normally forces teams to stay on Windows. I containerized the APIs to run on Linux and used AWS credentials-fetcher (gMSA on Linux) so they kept their Kerberos/Active Directory authentication to SQL Server, with no changes to the database or the directory. A strangler-pattern gateway moved traffic from the old APIs to the new ones one endpoint at a time — zero downtime, instant rollback — and the workloads now run on ephemeral, autoscaling Amazon ECS compute instead of idle, always-on servers.

Linux containerization gMSA · credentials-fetcher AD → SQL Server auth Strangler-pattern gateway Amazon ECS · ephemeral compute Zero-downtime cutover
// additional representative / composite examples — swap in named client stories, with permission, as your reference base grows
28%lower AWS spend
Healthtech SaaS · FinOps

Cut spend ~$400K/year without touching compliance.

A behavioral-health platform at ~$120K/month, cost climbing faster than users. We consolidated over-provisioned EKS, right-sized compute, and closed Savings Plan gaps — all via reviewable Terraform, with encryption, audit logging, and BAA scope preserved end to end. Plus a cost-per-customer metric finance now tracks.

35%lower infra cost
Regional e-commerce · Migration

Escaped rising colo costs and peak-season outages.

A growing retailer facing steep year-over-year VMware and colocation increases and brittle peak performance. We ran a phased, zero-downtime migration to AWS with autoscaling and IaC — cutting monthly infrastructure ~35% and eliminating the peak-sales outages that had cost them revenue.

days→mindeploy time
Fintech payments · Platform

A PCI-aligned EKS platform that ships fast.

A payments startup needed a hardened, auditable platform without slowing delivery. We built a PCI-aligned EKS environment with Terraform-driven CI/CD and least-privilege access — taking deploys from a multi-day manual process to minutes, and trimming ~20% of infra cost through rightsizing.

3× growthflat unit cost
B2B SaaS · Managed FinOps

Held cost-per-customer flat while the user base tripled.

Under an ongoing managed-FinOps engagement, a scaling B2B SaaS company kept infrastructure cost-per-customer flat through 3× growth — with monthly cost and unit-economics reporting, and anomaly detection that caught a runaway job before it hit the invoice.

Engagement models

Work with me the way that fits.

Architecture & strategy consulting Hands-on implementation — migration or cost optimization Platform audits & cost teardowns Ongoing managed FinOps & operational support

Start with a free 30-minute assessment.

A migration path, or an honest look at what's recoverable from your current AWS bill. I'll tell you plainly what I'd do and what it would cost — no obligation. Grab a time below.

support@cloudopsconsulting.io · Remote / Global