Richmond, VA · AWS & Azure

Your cloud, sorted.

Cloud architecture and AI engineering for teams that want it done right — pragmatic migrations, real cost savings, secure cloud-native systems, and LLM-powered products. Big-firm depth, minus the big-firm bloat.

Cloud-native architectureCost optimizationAI & LLM integrationSecure by design
Services

How I can help

Whether you need a second opinion on an architecture or a partner to build and ship the whole thing, the work is hands-on and senior from first call to hand-off.

Cloud Architecture

Distributed, cloud-native systems designed to be boring in the best way — resilient, observable, and easy to operate.

  • Event-driven & microservice design
  • Serverless and container workloads
  • Reference architectures & diagrams

Migration & Modernization

Move workloads to AWS or Azure without a big-bang rewrite. Incremental, low-drama, and reversible at every step.

  • On-prem → cloud, lift-and-shift to cloud-native
  • Legacy app & CMS modernization
  • Infrastructure-as-code from day one

Cost Optimization

Find the spend that isn't earning its keep. Right-size, schedule, and get alerted before a surprise bill — saving real money.

  • Right-sizing & idle-resource cleanup
  • Cost alerting & guardrails
  • Architecture changes that cut spend

Security & Architecture Reviews

A second set of senior eyes on your design — network isolation, identity, and the failure modes nobody enjoys discovering in production.

  • Cloud-readiness assessments
  • IAM, network & auth review
  • Pragmatic, prioritized findings

AI & LLM Integration

Put large language models to work in real products — orchestration, retrieval, and real-time interaction that actually ships.

  • LLM orchestration & RAG
  • Real-time / streaming UX (WebSockets)
  • GPU & multimedia pipelines

Full-Stack Delivery

When you need the whole thing built: APIs, data, and a polished frontend, delivered end to end by one senior engineer.

  • .NET, Node.js & TypeScript backends
  • React / Next.js frontends
  • PostgreSQL, SQL Server, NoSQL
Approach

A four-step engagement

No 80-slide decks. Just a clear path from where you are to where you want to be.

01

Assess

Understand the system, the goals, and the real constraints — before touching anything.

02

Architect

A pragmatic design and a clear diagram everyone can agree on, sized to the problem.

03

Build & Migrate

Ship in small, secure, reversible increments with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD.

04

Optimize & Hand Off

Tune cost and performance, then leave you with documentation your team can actually run with.

The stack

Deep on AWS and Azure

Two clouds, done properly — rather than a shallow tour of every provider under the sun. Modern application code to match, and no dogma about which tool wins.

AWS
  • Lambda
  • ECS / Fargate
  • CDK
  • SQS
  • DynamoDB
Azure
  • Functions
  • Service Bus
  • Cosmos DB
  • Key Vault
  • AKS
Build
  • .NET
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • React / Next.js
Data & Ops
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQL Server
  • Docker
  • CI/CD

Got a cloud problem worth solving?

Tell me what you’re building or wrestling with. First conversation is free, and you’ll leave with a clear next step either way.

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