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Scale Your Platform, Not Your Headcount

CI/CD excellence. Cultural transformation. Developer velocity. Fix the system, not the org chart.

Sound Familiar?

"We can't afford to pause feature development for 3-6 months"
"Our engineers are too busy to work on infrastructure"
"Leadership won't approve pulling people off product work"

We handle the transformation while your team keeps shipping.

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The Slipstream Difference

Most companies hire more people to manage broken systems. We fix the systems AND transform the culture so your existing team can thrive.

Data-Driven Approach

Every recommendation backed by metrics and ROI projections. No guesswork, no assumptions—just clear analysis of your actual bottlenecks and their business impact.

Automation-First

If humans are manually managing repetitive tasks, we're not done. Build self-service capabilities that scale with your team, not your headcount.

Cultural Transformation

Technology changes fail without culture change. Over 15+ years across defense, IoT, and live production environments, I've built high-performing teams through psychological safety, collaboration, and empathy—not just better tools.

Hands-Off Transformation

We handle the heavy lifting while your team stays focused on shipping. Then we transfer complete ownership through documentation and training—you get modern infrastructure & developer tools without the distraction.

Services

Four ways to transform your platform—from quick assessment to ongoing partnership.

Platform Health Assessment

Diagnostic & Roadmap • Understand the problem

Comprehensive analysis of your current infrastructure & developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, and developer experience. Receive a detailed roadmap with prioritized improvements and ROI projections for each initiative.

  • Infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline audit
  • Developer experience assessment and pain point mapping
  • Cost analysis and waste identification
  • 12-month roadmap with ROI projections
  • Executive and technical stakeholder presentations

Legacy Evolution

Full Transformation • Fix it completely

Hands-on implementation of GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and modern CI/CD practices. We handle the heavy lifting while your team stays focused on shipping—you get the benefits without the productivity hit.

  • Complete health assessment and strategic planning
  • GitOps and Infrastructure as Code implementation
  • CI/CD pipeline redesign and optimization
  • Developer self-service tooling and automation
  • Team training, documentation, and ongoing support

Fractional Platform Leadership

Ongoing Guidance • Guide it long-term

Ongoing strategic platform engineering leadership without the cost of a full-time VP of Engineering. Perfect for growing teams that need senior expertise to navigate complex infrastructure & developer tools decisions.

  • Strategic platform guidance and architecture review
  • Team mentorship and technical upskilling
  • Incident response strategy and on-call design
  • Vendor evaluation and tool selection guidance
  • Quarterly OKR setting and progress reviews

Startup Success Foundation

Build It Right • Start without debt

For early-stage startups (seed to Series A) building their first production infrastructure & developer tools.

Build the right infrastructure & developer tools from day one. Lean, effective CI/CD and engineering culture that lets your team ship fast today and scale smoothly tomorrow—without accumulating technical debt.

  • Right-sized CI/CD pipeline for your stage and team size
  • Cultural foundations: shipping rhythm, code review, testing
  • Developer experience optimization for velocity
  • Scalable architecture patterns that grow with you
  • Avoiding common startup infrastructure pitfalls

Proven Results

Real transformations. Real impact. Real teams that chose to fix their systems instead of expanding headcount.

Defense Contractor: Infrastructure Automation

Reduced cluster deployment time from 4 hours to 30 minutes through GitOps and Infrastructure as Code implementation. Eliminated the need to expand the DevOps team by automating manual deployment processes. Established blameless post-mortem culture and cross-team knowledge sharing that eliminated silos.

SaaS Startup: Developer Experience Overhaul

Reduced new engineer onboarding from 4 weeks to 1 week through automated environment provisioning and comprehensive documentation. Achieved 85% test coverage while maintaining development velocity.

IoT Platform: Build Infrastructure & Developer Tools Optimization

Implemented intelligent worker node architecture to handle large firmware builds, reducing cloud infrastructure costs by over $500k annually while improving build performance and reliability.

Experience & Expertise

15+ years building high-performing teams across defense, IoT, live production, and SaaS. Technical excellence gets you started. Cultural transformation makes it last.

High-Reliability Systems

Designed and deployed mission-critical infrastructure & developer tools for live production environments, defense applications, and IoT platforms where downtime isn't an option and failures have immediate business impact.

Regulated Environments

Deep experience with DoD/SOCOM compliance requirements, security-first architecture, and building CI/CD pipelines that meet strict governmental and enterprise security standards.

Scale & Performance

Built platforms managing millions of devices, optimized infrastructure & developer tools serving millions of concurrent users, and designed systems that scale efficiently without proportional cost increases.

Technical Foundation

Kubernetes (CKA Certified), AWS, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions), Microservices Architecture, Observability & Monitoring

Certifications: MIT DevOps & Digital Transformation, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), GitOps Mastery

15+
Years Building Teams
12+
Platform Transformations
0%
Turnover on Led Teams

Ready to Transform Your Platform?

Let's discuss your infrastructure & developer tools challenges and explore how we can help you achieve enterprise-grade velocity without enterprise-grade headcount.

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