Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS, Pub/Sub, and GKE. Most of my production infrastructure work runs on GCP — cost reduction, right-sizing, and architecture reviews for teams scaling on Google Cloud.
Cloud Architecture Consulting
Cloud architecture consulting for teams that need infrastructure to become simpler, safer, and easier to scale.
I work with teams running on GCP, DigitalOcean, and Cloudflare who need clearer infrastructure decisions: better reliability, better delivery pipelines, better observability, and a stronger connection between cloud architecture and database behavior.
Platforms I work with
DigitalOcean
Droplets, Managed Databases, Spaces, and App Platform. DigitalOcean is a common choice for teams that want simplicity — I help with architecture reviews, cost audits, and reliability improvements across DO stacks.
Cloudflare
Workers, R2, D1, WAF, and DNS. Cloudflare spend can grow quickly for high-traffic zones and heavy Worker usage. I review architecture, rate limiting, caching strategy, and cost across Cloudflare deployments.
Infrastructure audits
Review cloud topology, service boundaries, cost hotspots, failure paths, and delivery bottlenecks across your current stack. Delivered as a written report with prioritized changes.
Reliability systems
Design monitoring, alerts, dashboards, caching, and incident-reduction workflows that make your platform more predictable in production. Reduce the time between "something is wrong" and "we know what and why."
Delivery foundations
Improve CI/CD, release safety, environment consistency, and operational handoffs between application and infrastructure layers. Fewer broken deploys, fewer surprises in production.
What cloud architecture consulting actually looks like
Most teams reach out because cloud spend has grown faster than the product, a production incident exposed something fragile in the infrastructure, or the architecture that made sense at launch no longer fits the current traffic or team size. The work typically covers:
- Auditing GCP billing exports to identify idle, oversized, or redundant resources — Cloud Run instances left running, Cloud SQL tiers that no longer match the workload, GCS egress costs that grew silently
- Right-sizing compute across Cloud Run, Droplets, and containerized workloads to match actual traffic patterns, not launch-day estimates
- Redesigning service boundaries where a monolith or a tightly coupled set of services is creating deployment risk or scaling bottlenecks
- Adding Cloudflare caching and WAF rules to reduce origin load and improve response times for high-traffic endpoints
- Building CI/CD pipelines that include environment parity, rollback paths, and deployment gates — reducing the risk that a Friday deploy becomes a Saturday incident
- Connecting infrastructure observability to database behavior — slow queries often have cloud-cost consequences that are not obvious until you look at both together
Result
$27k/month to $14k/month — while the user base doubled.
Over 10 months, a production SaaS platform cut cloud spend nearly in half as traffic continued to grow. The work covered a full GCP billing audit, elimination of redundant services, compute right-sizing, and restructured data access patterns that reduced both database load and egress costs. No capacity was removed — the savings came entirely from architectural changes.
Where cloud architecture consulting is most valuable
- Cloud spend has grown faster than revenue and nobody has a clear picture of where it is going
- A recent incident exposed that your monitoring and alerting do not tell you what you need to know fast enough
- The infrastructure was set up quickly and has never been reviewed — it works, but it is fragile
- You are migrating between providers or consolidating a mixed GCP / DO / Cloudflare setup
- Deployment is riskier than it should be and rollbacks are manual or unreliable
Frequently asked questions
What cloud platforms do you work with?
GCP, DigitalOcean, and Cloudflare are my primary platforms. Most of my production infrastructure experience is on GCP — Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS, Pub/Sub. I also work on DigitalOcean (Droplets, Managed Databases, Spaces) and Cloudflare (Workers, R2, WAF, DNS). I do not specialize in AWS.
How much does a cloud architecture review cost?
A fixed-scope Cloud Cost Audit is $1,500 and takes one week — full billing breakdown, architecture review, and a prioritized savings report. A full Architecture Review is $2,500. Larger implementation or advisory engagements are scoped per project. See the full offer details.
How long does an infrastructure audit take?
Fixed-scope audits are delivered within one week of receiving access to billing exports and architecture details. Larger reviews that involve interviewing the team and reviewing live systems typically take one to two weeks depending on complexity.
Do you work with multi-cloud or mixed setups?
Yes. Many teams run GCP as their primary provider with Cloudflare in front and DigitalOcean for specific workloads. I can audit and review across providers in a single engagement.
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